Adios Amigos…
This blog has run out of space and I’ve sold my rando bike so I can use the $$ to buy a new 650B MTB and so I can focus my bikey energies on mountain biking & dirt touring. It seemed like an appropriate time to let the Lazy Randonneur ride off into the sunset.
Unless WordPress gets mean this blog should continue to exist as a reference for you and me. You can still access my old Lazy Rando Blog over at Blogger if you want to go way back to 2006.
I figure 7yrs and ~2500 posts of the Lazy Randonneur has been a great run. Thanks for reading! 🙂
Bye!
I’ve got some other feeds that are still rolling along, but at a slower speed. The links are below. Don’t expect regular updates though – they’ll happen sporadically.
- The KLR650 Blog – Kawasaki dualsport motorcycling
- Kitesurf-SUP Blog – my H20 pursuits
- Vancouver Island Bikepacking – info about the dirt touring route I am working on
- Vikapproved Blog – gear reviews and ride reports [~weekly updates]
- Vikapproved Flickr – as always I’ll keep posting photos to Flickr
- Vikapproved on Twitter – I’m not sure what will happen with this account???
Where did the trail go?
One practical note – I’m going to keep updating the links on this blog. It’s got a ton of good ones and I don’t see any reason to move them to a new site.
The Lazy Rando Blog... 
It’s been great following you. enjoy your next adventures
Such a sad day for bike nerd blog readers. We’ve enjoyed all of your posts Vik! We hope you have some great adventures in your future 🙂
Happy trails!
It’s always better to ride than to blog anyway.
I enjoyed the ride.
Thx..
All the best Vik, definitely going to miss your posts. Did ya buy the bronson?
Thanks folks for the kind words.
@Mike – no I’m still waiting to see what Knolly is going to do for a 650B bike. I want to buy a nice one so there will likely still be some savings/selling going on until I have the amount I need.
Wanted to offer a sincere mahalo for all the info and guidance you’ve given me as a biker and wannabe explorer on this blog. It will be sorely missed! Checking in for updates is part of my morning ritual. I’ve just added your vicapproved site to my reading list, and look forward to continuing to learn from you there!
Aloha!
Shit man.. I’ve been following you since the early days of your original blog when I first started bike touring and got your link from Bike Forums. Real bummer cause I always like to check in to see what your rolling on and the gear you recommend.
Thanks for all the great posts over the years and enjoy the ride !
Vik, I’ve enjoyed reading your blog over the years. You’ve inspired me to try out my first bikepacking adventure later this fall. For those of us stuck in some boring parts of the midwest, I was always interested in your latest adventure. Thanks for the entertainment. Best of luck for your future plans.
Thanks Vic, I’ve been following your blog for years and it’s been great! good luck with everything and I hope you keep having all those adventures.
Cheers
Ha! enjoy the ride as much as you can… you’ll never know, but one day, like me, you’ll feel a little older, and if you come back to being a true Rondo, we’ll all be the better for it. Best of luck Vic, and thanks for the years of great and inspiring posts. One of the best blogs I’ve bookmarked. Cheers!
I’ve really appreciated your posts. This year I joined the fat-bike brethren and found the insight here invaluable.
Your voice will be sorely missed. It feels like losing the best DJ on a local pirate radio station, a voice in the wilderness. If you ever come back on the air, know you’ll have an audience.
Had Hard Harry been the pirate DJ of the biking world, we’d probably hear him say “Ride hard!”
Best of luck, Vik.
Wow, all good things have to come to an end, eh. This blog has been a true inspiration to me as I’m sure that it has been for others. I’ve been checking in weekly for years now. It’s amazing that now, a guy in France rolling on a Tikit, a Big Dummy and a 29er, has been in no small part influenced by some Canadian named Vic. Keep on trucking and, I guess I’ll have to follow you elsewhere.
Thanks for all the great posts over the past years! Really enjoyed reading all of them and i appreciated your views… I’ll be checking your other blogs for sure…. Keep enjoying all of your outdoor adventures!!
Cheers, Gerco.
Let me add to the chorus. So often I found great information on your blog. be it recumbents, cameras, kayaks, and who knows maybe one day I will use that SUP knowledge you shared. I will definitely check out the Vic approved blog.
Thanks very much. Dean
Thanks for all the useful advice and for sharing your world with us, Vik. I’ll keep my eyes on your flicker site for photo ops
Vik, thanx’s for all the inspiration to get out there and “try” whatever. You’ve taken us from recumbents to folders to fat bikes, from Mexico to the Canadian Rockies, to the ocean to the fire roads and singletracks. Your efforts have brought inspiration to countless others through your words and pictures and for that we owe you so much.
Have a great ride, have a cold one on me, catch you on your other channels…..
Before I bought my Bike Friday tikit, I did my online research and found your blog. So I’m not giving up on you; I’ll follow vikapproved.com. And, knowing me, probably buy something to make up for the loss.
All the best Vik!
cheers & beers!
Ian
Not an end, just a new chapter. I enjoy the bikepacking tales more, and will link to your new blog.
Many, many more thanks from me. It started for me with a search for a folder and finding Vik – someone from Calgary giving a year-round thumbs up to the Tikit -played a big part in my getting my own. I progressed into true fandom by following up with a Big Dummy and a BF Tandem (triple in my case) – and various other bits like Ortleib panniers from the Touring Store. It’s been great to have a trusted source of information and insight.
Thank you for the inspiration and for the advice. You Are Great. Ciao.
Zanna
aw man! hope you do return to riding again. You’ve kept a quality blog no doubt. It will be missed.
Hey Vik, best of luck with all your future endeavours, and stay in touch.
Vik, it must be possible to delete the oldest posts to make more space 🙂 I can understand one may run out of time or inspiration. Have fun MTB. My tikit is also sending best wishes.
@Michael – why would I want to delete older posts? It took a lot of time to create them.
I could just start a new Lazy Rando Blog on WP with fresh storage if that was the only issue.
The Lazy Rando is over. It’s just time to move on.
Well, crumb. Thanks, Lazy, for the many enjoyable posts.
I hate to see the blog go, but I can empathize. I will have to continue to internet stalk you and Scott on your gear report blog and flickr. 😉 Keep the rubber side down. 🙂
Shoe Goo stock is down 14 points in today’s trading 😦
Have enjoyed your blog Vik. I will keep checking in on things over at Vikapproved. You have infected me with the Fat Bike Fever some how I will get one and will bike pack the north east coast of Haida Gwaii. Keep on riding.
Thanks for a great blog Vik, I’ve been following since you were building up your Thorn Nomad. Enjoy your mountain biking and bike packing, you’ve got some amazing countryside over there to explore.
Your style & ease at the keyboard has kept me entertained for several years. We love your bikes. You need to start a Like page or group page on facebook.
Thanks again for the kind words.
I’m hopeful that http://www.vikapproved.com/ will end up continuing the best parts of TLR. Perhaps with more focus it will turn out to be a better blog.
I’ve enjoyed reading your blog for a number of years. I’m sorry to see the end. Thank you.
Cheers,
Gary
Thanks for all the blogging Vik – look forward to continuing to follow
I’m sad to see this blog coming to an end, Vik – thanks for all the posts, especially the ones about bikes and gear;) I’ll be following you on vikapproved from now on.
Thanks for sharing the ride with us.
Thanks for your time Vik. All the best, Mark
Take care, Vic. I will check you out later.
Paz 🙂
Sad for your fans… Thank you for all these posts.
Ride well !
Thanks for all your posts on building up Pugsleys, I will use that info when I build mine up. I plan for an Alfine 11 speed with Rolling Darryls and maybe Lou’s.
Interesting, because The Oil Drum just announced that it will pack it in after 8 years. Seems we’re at Peak Oil so what’s the point of continuing the analysis predicting when it will happen? Are we now at Peak Blogging?
Hey, I don’t know if you might be interested, but this winter my friends from California and I are thinking of going down a wilderness 40 km long palm canyon in Baja that spits out north of Bahia de Los Angeles. Only a few people have gone down it, mostly hikers, or people who bring quads over by boat and go up from the beach. We want to go down from the canyon head, then maybe packraft down the coastline back to civilization or get picked up via GPS, not sure yet (we’ll have campfire-powered desalinators so we don’t die). 50 years ago some guys did it on motorbikes with a huge support crew. This time it will be a fat bike mission, maybe you want to come. Still figuring it out, I have more info and previous trip accounts if you want. We scoped it out last month when we went to the salt lake that is near the entrance to the canyon (40 degrees in summer…)
Happy trails!
Always interested in your blog – not really a biker myself – more a sunday (sunny day) – rider. Must be your style, very good tech info, always into (testing) new stuff, nice pictures and your ‘adventurous’ life. Many thanks – great archive – All the best from Jan (Belgium)
Thanks for the great ride, Vik. I learned a lot here and appreciate the efforts you took to produce this blog. Look forward to your future efforts.
Keep the rubber side down!
-Pete
Thanks for keeping the blog going for so long Vik, a fantastic piece of journalism! I first became aware of yourself and your blog through the Thorn forum and have been a regular reader since then. I hope you carry on enjoying the fantastic countryside in your part of the world – i’m not in the least bit envious! All the best to you.
wow! there’s a limit on WordPress??? is there one on Blogspot? i hope not! Been great reading your stuff, have personally bookmarked a few posts of yours for future reference, eg, Alfine Service… etc.
@Swtchbckr – yes you get a limited amount of space – mostly the issue is high res photos. I have a lot of them on my blog hence running out of room. You can pay for more storage space, you can delete old posts or you can use lower res photos.
Hey Vik
Thanks so much for all the posts, used to live in calgary and been following you ever since. If you are ever over Scotland way give me a shout.
Keep your wheels turnin’
John
Thanks for sharing sharing your rides Vik! Your blend of humour, knowledge and adventurousness will be missed 😦
Love your work Vik! You have provided so much inspiration and detailed info over the years. I’ll be visiting back to your site as a reference for some time to come and checking out VikApproved. All the best buddy!
PS I have a chance to buy a bike before I have to leave Canada (visa is running out). For an all round bike that can use on lots of shorter bikepacking trips around Tasmania: should I go for the Ogre (already bought a second hand frame) or the ECR (there is one at my LBS!)? It has to be the ECR right for the extra terrain it might open up?
Ya I’d get the ECR. You can always run the same wheels and tires as the Ogre.
Vik,
Gonna miss ya here. Bon chance wherever ye goes.
Vik, I have just finished my 6th year at Lovethefold. And just happen to pop into your blog to read this!!!! Yes, 7 years is indeed a long time and if that is the case, I have one more year to go.
Will certainly miss all your adventure articles and the bicycle blog world wont be the same without you.
But as they say, if you gotta go, you gotta go. Take care and God be with you wherever you are, and whatever yo do. Your blog has touched many! Mine included Bro.
@Al – I am still blogging. Just at a reduced pace and with more focused content over at http://www.vikapproved.com