I’ll never forget the first time I saw him, February 28, 1978…it was a Tuesday evening, and even for an imaginative ten year-old boy he was bazaar and seemed radically out of place, yet I was mesmerized. When Robin Williams showed up as Mork from Ork on “Happy Days”, I couldn’t get enough. I...
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Robin Williams: Laughter, Cycling, Depression
A Cyclists First Time Doing the Boulder Boulder 10K

Have you ever sat back and thought about your firsts? At the time they occurred they were game changers weren’t they? Remember the first time you rode a bicycle without any help or training wheels, or how about your first kiss, the first time you fell in love, the first time your heart was...
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Change….Begins With You

It begins with you… I started to respond to the “Please Stop Killing Cyclists” post, and after a couple hours of writing I realized this might be a better blog. Whenever I read a story about anyone losing a life in an accident it tears me up, life is so, so valuable and to have...
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Is Stress Just Make Believe?

Stress – constraining force or influence: as a : a force exerted when one body or body part presses on, pulls on, pushes against, or tends to compress or twist another body or body part; especially : the intensity of this mutual force commonly expressed in pounds per square inch b : the deformation caused in a body by such a force...
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The Continental Contrast of a Rain Ride
Sometime I lose touch with how awesome it is to live in the metro-Denver area and be loving the bike. The extensive trail system and bike lanes make the entire city a haven for cyclists of all abilities, from training wheels to titanium wheels, the Denver area is an extraordinary place to ride. I was...
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Joel’s I Have a Dream Speach
Many people pray and hope for world peace and the end to human suffering, what would that world look like to you? Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was able to articulate what a world might look like without racial discrimination when he delivered his, “I have a dream” speech in Washington DC on August...
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Common-Unity: Imagine
Community…I like to break it down to common-unity. The way I see it, as a human being, my community is made up of about 7 billion people. I am a firm believer in the “Butterfly Effect”, and off the bicycle the single most transforming event in my life was when I got that I...
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The Hero Blog
Hero Blog By Joel Phillips Hero…quite a magnificent four-letter word isn’t it? The very mention of the word evokes feelings of inspiration, and who doesn’t like a story about a hero. Growing up in Cheyenne (Wyoming), one of the many places I would ride my bike was City News, a local mom & pop...
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