All I Want to Do

Hey folks, I have a confession to make. I use Strava. Ok, ok, take it easy…put the pitchforks away and call off your dogs. I know I have, in the past, talked a good amount of shit on the typical Strava user. And as a self-proclaimed “retro grouch” it goes against my old school ways […]

Thanks Dad.

I’m not sure what time of year it was, my mind instantly thinks Summer but that’s probably just me and my nostalgia romancing the whole memory up. Or it could be that as a child growing up in sunny Southern California every day in my childhood memory bank seems to be a beautiful summer day. […]

Shit Gets Real…Simple

So, here we go. I have been racking my brain for the last few days trying to come up with something to write about on this here blog. Trying to come up with something clever, something fresh, you know…something that you would like to read. And then it hit me like a tube sock filled […]

You Are What You Ride

This is going to take a while, and there is a high possibility of me rambling on. So you best hunker down and get comfy. I feel the need to express this again. Sorry, I don’t know why, but here it goes. As some of you may already know, I love the bicycle in all […]

Boneheads, Training Rides and Shared Trails

OK. Let me preface this with the fact that I am a self-proclaimed Retro-grouch. I know it and I accept it. I don’t adapt well to change for the sake of change. Change to really improve…well that is something different. For instance: I don’t like/ride plastic bikes. I prefer to pull actual cable to shift. […]

Ride. Your. Bike.

Just ride. I find myself saying that phrase a lot. I say it out loud to other people and I say it in my head to other people. Shit, I say it out loud and yell it in my head to myself sometimes. I just think it needs to be said on occasion…seems more so […]

Bike Geek For Life…

Hi all. This is the first post for Declaration of Free Wheel. This is going to be the place to go for all things bicycle, and bicycle culture. It will have its fair share of my personal/honest/offensive bicycle related opinions of course. But it will also have helpful insight on some shit from how to […]