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"Lord Love a Duck!" The incomparable Dick Rick.
Ever since hearing the news of Dick Ring’s passing I was reminded of this little story I wanted to share. I also believe a drawing was...
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billcassdesign
Dec 21, 20232 min read
Nymbol's Secret Santa. Book one of a Series.
Please "Click" on the image to go right to the story. A Free Download further down. Many Years ago Nymbol was invited to The Whidbey...
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Apr 29, 20234 min read
More than a jersey. East Portland Youth Cycling.
I have known James Newman since one of my first Team Oregon bike rides when Sam and I moved to Portland back in 1994. We hit it off...
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Mar 29, 20239 min read
The McCormack Brothers.
If you compete in any sport for a length of time there will be some random day when you cross paths with an athlete that instantly...
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Mar 18, 20236 min read
An Epic Day with Dave Geissert. Martha's Vineyard 1987
On a Saturday in mid September of 1987 I drove in a sliver of dawn the 40 or so miles from my Dad’s house to the Ferry Launch for...
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Mar 12, 20233 min read
Scarborough Criterium Series 2023.
One thing I have always loved about bike racing is that it is not always the strongest rider who wins the race. If that were the case I...
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Feb 27, 202310 min read
TONY DOYLE. "Don't try this at home."
When the whistle blurted out and pierced the air I can’t say I was surprised. Now to find out whether I was about to be D’Q’d or given a...
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Feb 14, 20236 min read
Gamache's Cyclery, 65 Laurel Street, Fitchburg, Massachusetts
I am weirdly nostalgic about many things. Even when I was young I saw greater meaning in objects or events than most kids my age. This...
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Jan 27, 20237 min read
1899 World Professional Sprint Champion Major Taylor
In the spring of 1981, I rolled up to the house of my soon-to-be life long friend Alan Cote. We had met at the Fitchburg Cycling Clubs’...
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Jan 15, 20236 min read
The One and Only BB
“Have you ever heard of Beryl Burton?” interjected my TeamO captain Jonathan Walpole during a chat around the table a few years ago. I...
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Jan 11, 20234 min read
Once upon a Velodrome.
I loved track racing before I had ever ridden a single lap on a banked oval. My cycling teammate and friend Alan Cote's dad had a...
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Dec 30, 20222 min read
The Tale of Two Sisters (Part 2)
After Finishing my previous "Megan the Vanquisher" image Nathan said he would like me to do a drawing of his younger sister Amie. Nathan...
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Dec 29, 20223 min read
The Tale of Two Sisters (Part 1)
I spent a couple hours doing a sketch for one of my illustrations and then somehow lost it. It was an image of two teenagers hiking out...
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Dec 26, 20221 min read
Just an Ordinary Guy
Steven Payne is absolutely the opposite of Ordinary. Steven is a friend of Lex Rudd who is an acquaintance we made thru some of our...
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Dec 26, 20226 min read
All for One.
SCOTT MACEACHERN’s name appeared on my phone in bold letters and I dove for it. 99% of the time if Scott called it was going to be...
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Dec 11, 20222 min read
My Monster Truck.
A friend from our time in Michigan came to me with an intriguing image challenge. Alan has a son named Rhys. At times Rhys regales Alan...
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Nov 26, 20228 min read
The Story of Nymbol
and why that name means something to our family. In 2008 I was toiling away at my desk, working on a new 3D program for footwear design,...
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Nov 23, 20226 min read
Lance part one.
The Get Well Card Many years ago I was sitting at my desk when Scott MacEachern, the director of Nike sports marketing for cycling came...
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Nov 21, 20224 min read
Bumbles Don't Bounce
Well that didn't go as expected 22 years and 11 months ago was that last time my wife Sam and I rode on Porcupine Rim Trail in Moab. We...
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Nov 21, 202213 min read
Electric Dreams
"What do you think about an electric bike?" “Go F(bleeeeeeep)k Yourself!” Sam said and then followed those words with another ...
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