Ryan Meader
@ryanmeader.bsky.social
Father, scifi and Dune nerd/Sietchposter, disabled athlete, MTB and gravel rider. 20 years with Reactive Arthritis that has progressed into far more than just arthritis.
The horrors persist, but so does the beauty.
November 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
The horrors persist, but so does the beauty.
Family caught something that’s negative for covid and flu (suspect RSV based on a bunch of unique things about it) and I’m sick for only the third time since 2019.
The reactive arthritis flare is brutal. My dirt season off-ramp has become a very steep garbage chute.
Am I okay? Yes, and also no. 🤷♂️
The reactive arthritis flare is brutal. My dirt season off-ramp has become a very steep garbage chute.
Am I okay? Yes, and also no. 🤷♂️
November 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Family caught something that’s negative for covid and flu (suspect RSV based on a bunch of unique things about it) and I’m sick for only the third time since 2019.
The reactive arthritis flare is brutal. My dirt season off-ramp has become a very steep garbage chute.
Am I okay? Yes, and also no. 🤷♂️
The reactive arthritis flare is brutal. My dirt season off-ramp has become a very steep garbage chute.
Am I okay? Yes, and also no. 🤷♂️
Fine Young Tyrants
November 9, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Fine Young Tyrants
✔️ Last chair
✔️ Red lightsaber ♦️♦️
✔️ Many abilities some consider to be unnatural
✔️ Red lightsaber ♦️♦️
✔️ Many abilities some consider to be unnatural
November 7, 2025 at 4:31 AM
✔️ Last chair
✔️ Red lightsaber ♦️♦️
✔️ Many abilities some consider to be unnatural
✔️ Red lightsaber ♦️♦️
✔️ Many abilities some consider to be unnatural
Not unlike this year, it was truly brutal behind this thin veneer of social media positivity, and at any given time I was far more the first word in Disabled Athlete than the second.
Pain, fatigue and bodily functions failing at a dire level were — and are — constant companions.
Pain, fatigue and bodily functions failing at a dire level were — and are — constant companions.
November 3, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Not unlike this year, it was truly brutal behind this thin veneer of social media positivity, and at any given time I was far more the first word in Disabled Athlete than the second.
Pain, fatigue and bodily functions failing at a dire level were — and are — constant companions.
Pain, fatigue and bodily functions failing at a dire level were — and are — constant companions.
5 years ago today in 2020 when we lived at the foot of Sugarloaf Mountain in Carrabassett Valley while our home was being gutted for mold removal in southern Maine.
Those months living with a proper trail network out the door changed my life and set a tone that’s gotten me through the years since.
Those months living with a proper trail network out the door changed my life and set a tone that’s gotten me through the years since.
November 3, 2025 at 11:49 PM
5 years ago today in 2020 when we lived at the foot of Sugarloaf Mountain in Carrabassett Valley while our home was being gutted for mold removal in southern Maine.
Those months living with a proper trail network out the door changed my life and set a tone that’s gotten me through the years since.
Those months living with a proper trail network out the door changed my life and set a tone that’s gotten me through the years since.
I need more party people in my life.
November 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I need more party people in my life.
The sprit of Freeride isn’t dead.
Even — or perhaps especially — where most bikes never go.
Even — or perhaps especially — where most bikes never go.
November 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The sprit of Freeride isn’t dead.
Even — or perhaps especially — where most bikes never go.
Even — or perhaps especially — where most bikes never go.
Hobbes was always the smart one.
October 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Hobbes was always the smart one.
Sugarloaf Bike Park year one closing day was all time. With the ski resorts changing gears it’s down to Highland.
Tomorrow marks 6mo since my Highland season opener and if that’s the finale…for all its challenges, it made me a better rider than ever and confident that the best is still yet to come.
Tomorrow marks 6mo since my Highland season opener and if that’s the finale…for all its challenges, it made me a better rider than ever and confident that the best is still yet to come.
October 24, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Sugarloaf Bike Park year one closing day was all time. With the ski resorts changing gears it’s down to Highland.
Tomorrow marks 6mo since my Highland season opener and if that’s the finale…for all its challenges, it made me a better rider than ever and confident that the best is still yet to come.
Tomorrow marks 6mo since my Highland season opener and if that’s the finale…for all its challenges, it made me a better rider than ever and confident that the best is still yet to come.
I feel like the switch already got flipped halfway and stuck between positions because Discover hasn’t been working for me all morning.
October 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I feel like the switch already got flipped halfway and stuck between positions because Discover hasn’t been working for me all morning.
Top of the Loon Mountain bike park on Friday
September 29, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Top of the Loon Mountain bike park on Friday
More of this, less of *gestures broadly* all that fucking bullshit.
September 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
More of this, less of *gestures broadly* all that fucking bullshit.
It’s pretty damned wild that 2020 now qualifies as “simpler times.”
September 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
It’s pretty damned wild that 2020 now qualifies as “simpler times.”
The rivers run low, summer’s heat fades; there’s pain ahead and pain behind. But the fire still burns bright.
September 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The rivers run low, summer’s heat fades; there’s pain ahead and pain behind. But the fire still burns bright.
On this week’s episode of How Does He Do That When He Can Barely Stand…
September 20, 2025 at 2:23 AM
On this week’s episode of How Does He Do That When He Can Barely Stand…
For the cause.
I feel like you might identify with this one a little more than the rest of us.
I feel like you might identify with this one a little more than the rest of us.
September 14, 2025 at 2:20 AM
For the cause.
I feel like you might identify with this one a little more than the rest of us.
I feel like you might identify with this one a little more than the rest of us.
Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr
September 7, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr
