"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Adventures, Dumpster Diving, Photo entries, biking on Aug 26th, 2010
Melissa and I were out riding around the other evening and I am so glad my friends are patient with me. “Dude, we’ve gotta stop,” I hollered out. U-turn was pulled, trash was picked. Someone down in Columbus Park was getting rid of some luggage. Most of it was lackluster and grubby, but not this [...]
Posted in Adventures, biking on Jun 9th, 2010
This year, I psyched myself out of riding the Dirty Kanza, but since I already had the vacation time approved and I enjoy the whole Dirty Kanza scene, I decided to go along this year as a volunteer and make myself helpful in some way or another. When we got to Emporia, things were already [...]
Posted in Other Bike Stuff, You have got to be kidding me!, biking, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, meta on May 31st, 2010
This is written partly in response to Jacquie Phelan’s recent musings about where women fit into the cycling industry, and partly because I sometimes kick ideas around about my own “place” in the two-wheeled underground. I think part of the problem(s) that both Jacquie and Bike Hugger were addressing (1) (2) (3) stem from how [...]
Posted in You have got to be kidding me!, bike commuting, biking, dumb things I have done, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching on Jan 16th, 2010
I tell you there’s nothing like a group of cyclists to whip up a tempest in a teapot. The most recent fuss and bother that finally penetrated my protective carapace of “not-giving-a-fuck” is a Facebook kerfuffle centered around a group of disgruntled motorists who just can’t stand sharing the road with cyclists and have therefore [...]
Posted in Hercules, Other Bike Stuff, Photo entries, biking, huffy on Dec 31st, 2009
A few years ago, I acquired this old English 3-speed from Brian Chasm. I think I gave him some homebrew for it. He’d picked it up at a yard sale, but for whatever reason he and Hercules didn’t ultimately get along. He said he’d just as soon as I had Hercules so long as I [...]
Posted in Adventures, Party, Photo entries, Utter Silliness, biking, dumb things I have done on Nov 15th, 2009
Half of a grocery cart, laden with a passenger, being towed behind a bicycle makes a pretty distinctive sound. A grinding, rattling, metallic rumble, sometimes accented with whoops, yelps, shrieks, and cursing. Like this, basically. We’d convened on Friday night as planned in Korruption, a fine and choice dive bar in the West Bottoms. It’s [...]
Posted in Adventures, Party, biking on Nov 7th, 2009
Christi just got a frisbee that has a little LED light thingy in the middle of it. What this means is that this frisbee can be lit up at night and the more die-hard (and nutty) Friz enthusiasts can now play Friz even after the Daylight Saving time change. We tested this theory this evening [...]
Posted in Food & Snacks, biking on Oct 7th, 2009
I have a long and colorful history of substituting recipe ingredients. Because of a combination of poor planning and poverty, I frequently find myself looking at a recipe and lacking at least one key ingredient. Today’s foray into the making of home-made power bars was typical, typical, typical. Below, anything you see italicized, is something [...]
Posted in Adventures, Party, Well I'll Be Darned, biking on Jul 17th, 2009
So yesterday evening, Joel was off to Kung Fu class, and I was considering my options of leftovers from the fridge, maybe re-watching one of our DVDs, and finishing up cutting out this suit jacket I’ll be working on one of these days. As I was just about to have a rummage around the fridge, [...]
Posted in Adventures, Playing With Weather, Redline Monocog 29er, biking, dumb things I have done on Jun 1st, 2009
In the immortal words of Daft Punk: Once again, I tried, tried again, and failed, failed again, but oddly, this year I don’t feel nearly so bad about my personal defeat as I did last year. Possibly because I was among a very large majority that bailed this year. Of 89 starters, only 17 finished [...]
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