by Bill Plock | Jan 4, 2022 | Community, Dirt Journal, Road Racing
By Rob Quinn, Dirt Journal Dateline 1736. Twenty miles south of the Mexican border. Rancher Bernardo de Urrea, a Mexican of Basque heritage knew all too well what a full moon meant. It meant a higher-than-average chance of raiding Apaches who routinely swept through...
by Bill Plock | Nov 30, 2021 | Mountain Biking
By Robb Quinn (Dirt Journal) Dateline 1680: Santa Fe, New Mexico. Spanish Conquistadores lead by Juan de Onate were attempting to colonize northern New Mexico, and it was he who first identified these native peoples to the north and south of the Rio Grande...
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by Bill Plock | Jul 9, 2021 | Dirt Journal, Mountain Biking
By Rob Quinn 3-2-1….. Happy New Year! The champagne corks pop and there we were, sitting on a mountain in East Mesa at my brothers-in-law’s comfortable hacienda conveniently located around the incredible Hawes trails system( www.mtbproject.com ) . A familiar routine...
by Bill Plock | Apr 8, 2021 | Dirt Journal, Featured, Mountain Biking
By Rob Quinn Tried to Amend my carnivorous habit, Made it nearly 70 days Losing weight without speed, eating sunflower seeds Drinking lots of carrot juice and soaking up rays. -Jimmy Buffet A Cheeseburger in Paradise Who can forget the ode to the American signature...
by Bill Plock | Feb 16, 2021 | Dirt Journal, Featured, Mountain Biking
By Rob Quinn I was talking to my accountant, Gary, he’s been doing my taxes for 30 years. I said, “Here we are again”. Gary remarked, “Only two sure things in life, death and taxes. That’s why I’m an accountant”. Last we heard from Rob he had just had a beer in...
by Bill Plock | Jan 5, 2021 | Community, Dirt Journal, Mountain Biking
By Rob Quinn, Some folks like to get away…..Take a holiday from the neighborhood…. Drive the SUV to Crested Butte…. Or to Glenwood… Me? I’m driving a pickup… Down that I-25 South line…I’m in a Castle Rock state of mind. When...
by Bill Plock | Nov 23, 2020 | Community, Dirt Journal, Mountain Biking, Product Review
By Rob Quinn The word guerrilla (the diminutive of Spanish Guerra, “war”) stems from the duke of Wellington’s campaigns during the Peninsular war (1808-14) in which Spanish and Portuguese irregulars of guerrilleros, helped drive the French from the Iberian...
by Bill Plock | Nov 16, 2020 | Dirt Journal, Featured, Mountain Biking
By Rob Quinn (Dirt Journal) Editors note: Like the Farmer’s Insurance Commercial, “We know a thing or two because we know a thing or two”, Rob has been an ardent supporter of high school cycling and its way of helping kids, well, be kids, and aspire...
by Bill Plock | Oct 1, 2020 | Dirt Journal, Featured, Mountain Biking
“Money don’t talk. It swears” -Bob Dylan. Dateline. Sometime in August. Telluride, CO If you buy-in to that classic Dylan quote. They are swearing like a Sailor in the port in Telluride. In the past 25 years I’ve seen that box canyon change from an outlaw...
by Bill Plock | Sep 4, 2020 | Community, Dirt Journal, Featured, Mountain Biking
I was gambling in Havana. I took a little risk. Send lawyers, guns, and money, Dad, get me out of this. –Warren Zevon By Rob Quinn, Dateline: Sometime in July Poncha Springs. Monday AM. I slept in my truck last night—we’ll get to that. I checked my phone,...
