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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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’...

“Have you ever heard of Beryl Burton?” interjected my TeamO captain Jonathan Walpole during a chat around the table a few years ago. I...

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...

After Finishing my previous "Megan the Vanquisher" image Nathan said he would like me to do a drawing of his younger sister Amie. Nathan...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

"What do you think about an electric bike?" “Go F(bleeeeeeep)k Yourself!” Sam said and then followed those words with another ...