"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in bike commuting, biking, dumb things I have done, Imports from old blogs on Jun 26th, 2006
When you realize, halfway to work, that you’re wearing two different shoes and you’ve forgotten your I.D. badge, what do you do? In my case, I soldiered on, knowing I’d look like an utter doofus and have my bag searched at the building entrance. I figured I’d rather be on time and look like a […]
Posted in biking, Imports from old blogs, Schwinn Suburban on Jun 24th, 2006
It’s raining. Which means no trail riding for Michelle tonight. Fie! Woe! Crapitty-creap-crap-crap. And maybe I’ll do the brakes on the Schwinn in the interim, and go ride that around a bit tomorrow. I thought it might actually be easier to pick stuff up off the ground from that bike, since it basically doesn’t have […]
Posted in Adventures, Art Projects & Making Things, biking, Imports from old blogs, Lists, Mountain Biking on Jun 23rd, 2006
So in lieu of any kind of coherent, sensible, serious, and meaty writng, I’m going to give you a brain-dump of snipppets. 1. My hair remains challenging and defiant. I have a tendency to shower or bathe in the evening, before I go to bed, because I have a vast aversion to going to bed […]
Posted in biking, Distractions, Imports from old blogs on Jun 20th, 2006
For the first year I lived in Kansas City, I hardly knew anyone. Just a couple buddies from college we moved down here to be nearer to, and I knew some people from at work. Our social life was pretty slow. We were broke. I hated my job. Todd was out of work. We lived […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Imports from old blogs, Utter Silliness on Jun 20th, 2006
I’ve taken up with the hobby of Friz as of yesterday. I gotta tell ya, that shit’s addictive. As improbable as the feat of a bunch of bike-riders pitching around a frizbee while on the wheel sounds, it’s mad fun. I can’t pick the frisbee up from the ground just yet, but I’m practising. I […]
Posted in biking, Burley, Imports from old blogs, Trek 800, videos on Jun 16th, 2006
Last night, on my way back home from the Blue Moose ride, I had a hell of a stiff neck. I rode in the drops most of the way down to Prairie Village and most of the way through the group ride, because I can brake WAY better in that position, but in the interest […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Burley, Imports from old blogs, Photo entries on Jun 11th, 2006
I went riding on this organized around-town tour todaywith a couple of friends. Instead of tediously HTML-ing all of the pictures over here to LJ, I’m just going to point you to the photo gallery I created for this occasion. The photos are all pretty well narrarated, and anyone can leave comments either there or […]
Posted in biking, Imports from old blogs on Jun 10th, 2006
I helped place a ghost bike today. Yesterday, around 4:00 p.m. a cyclist whose identity has yet to be released, was killed at the southwest corner of the intersection of 12th and Grand. He was waiting at the intersection for the light to change, when a large construction truck pulled up along side of him […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Imports from old blogs, Party, Schwinn Suburban, Utter Silliness on Jun 9th, 2006
So. Do you know what 70+ bicycles parked in front of a bar looks like? It looks about like how the world ought to work. the photo heading this entry was taken just prior to the mass start. We all laid our bikes down in the parking lot (it’s traditional) and lined up against the […]
Posted in bike commuting, biking, Imports from old blogs, Photo entries on Mar 14th, 2006
The front wheel on my ’73 Schwinn Suburban is out of round, so until I either get a truing stand or get access to one, this bike is off the streets. I guess it happened last Thursday. I came out of work to find the front tire flat, so I changed it in the parking […]