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May 2026
Two wheels on four wheels Now that Ally and I are cycling more we started to get a little bored of always hitting our local trails and wanted to make some trips this summer to explore more of BC. I spent a few months pitching the idea of a roof bike rack, this would also open us up to getting a roofbox for some additional storage for the occassional trips we made by car, something we needed more of now that we have Bao and also need to pack for him. Ally was pretty against a roof rack though since for her smaller frame it would be a lot more effort getting a bike up there and knowing how absent minded I am I’d eventually forget I had my bikes up there and crash into a garage. Since I have a carbon frame I wanted to make sure that our rack supported our bikes by their wheels so I wouldn’t end up cracking my frame and ended up settling on the Thule T2 Pro XTR with the help of a discount code from Estelle. With the rack on the way all that was left was to find a shop that could install a hitch onto our Impreza. I decided to spring extra for a hidden hitch that would come out of the bumper, instead of hanging below, in order to also save some ground clearence. After shopping around it turns out U-Haul was our cheapest option. ...
Building My Blog
Welcome to the new cowsgomwoo blog Last month, after chatting with my friend Rickey, I was convinced to host my own blog instead of using SubStack. While it was nice to have a all in one built in solution I had one issue which was gating access. Wanting to keep this blog semi private I set my substack to private which required my readers to make an account, send a subscription request and then have me approve them before they can begin reading. Usually when I drop my blog link to my friends I lose them at the make an account step so while I have my loyal friends and family reading I haven’t quite gotten the reach on substack that was meant to replace Instagram. When I dropped my blog link to Rickey he said “argh account creation what a pain” and told me to try using the tools he used for his own blog. ...