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WAIF WANDERINGS & BURDENS LIFTED

If you’ve ever ridden with me, you’ll immediately discover two things: I dread climbing and I wear a pack that weighs a metric shit ton on every ride.

You can learn a lot about a person by what they carry in their pack. A peek inside mine will reveal a collection of moderately organized tools half covered in exploded energy gel. But somewhere in that sticky pile of tools, parts of parts and a hodgepodge of whatnot are snapshots of all my best rides gone wrong—and if you look deeper still, you’ll see both the

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