"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in bike commuting, biking, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching on May 15th, 2008
I’ve come to the conclusion that I pretty much don’t give a crap about what other cyclists do. I don’t care if they wear a helmet, if they stop for lights, if they ride on the sidewalk, if they’re tighter than a boiled owl, riding up the wrong side of the street at 11:00 a.m. […]
Posted in biking, dumb things I have done, Utter Silliness on Apr 25th, 2008
During a group ride, pointing out potholes is considered polite Bunny-hopping them might be considered a bit ostentatious * Hollerin’ “Yee-HAW” if you get good air when you hop is probably a tad uncouth. ** * Newly-developed skill – working hard to perfect it **I haven’t “Yee-HAW-ed” yet, but you’d better believe the thought has […]
Posted in biking on Apr 16th, 2008
I’ve heard that it’s good to have goals. I have goals, though many of them are frankly ridiculous. For example, coming up in about a month and a half, I’ve taken it upon myself to ride a couple hundred miles via dirt roads in the Flint Hills of Kansas. This is called the Dirty Kanza, […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Burley on Apr 14th, 2008
Joel’s been re-modeling the Burley for me, and yesterday we went out for a ride to Leavenworth which was the first trip out for me with this bike in its new configuration. Not so long ago, I was trying to sell this bike. Nobody wanted to buy it, however, and Joel convinced me that it […]
Posted in bike commuting, biking, Playing With Weather on Mar 1st, 2008
Well, last night was the first time since about mid-October that I haven’t had to wear my coat while riding. My god it’s great to be riding in just regular clothes. I am so heartily sick of wearing EVERYTHING to go out and ride my bike. Last night I wore a pair of normal pants, […]
Posted in Adventures, bike commuting, biking on Feb 7th, 2008
(note: I wrote this up yesterday mostly in word, then couldn’t post it because the ‘net connection crapped out. Therefore this is basically yesterday’s news. Today was a largely snow and slush-free ride and I did an impromptu photo-ride on my way home which I will write a little about later) I got a nice […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, biking, Food & Snacks, Hair issues, Lists, Photo entries, Urban Photo Highlight Rides, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Jan 29th, 2008
Because I skipped a few too many days of posting and now I have all sorts of random everything to get down. So. 1. I stayed home sick from work on Friday. I got this weird cold from Joel that seemed to go in reverse, starting with a nasty cough and winding up with stifling […]
Posted in biking, Photo entries, Urban Photo Highlight Rides on Jan 7th, 2008
This past weekend was just insane as far as the weather went. It was somewhere in the 50s I think, and there was no excuse to be inside. Nor had I any desire to be inside and waste a minute of the warm weather. Riding in shirtsleeves in Kansas City in January is pretty much […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Playing With Weather, Utter Silliness on Dec 31st, 2007
1. On Friday night, the usual chaos that is Critical Mass ensued. It was a much smaller and more subdued group than usual…because it was butt-freezingly cold. Actually, it’s been worse at various points recently – it was darn near reasonable Friday night, but reasonable for December in Kansas City is still plenty stinkin’ cold. […]
Posted in biking, Distractions, Photo entries, Playing With Weather, videos on Dec 18th, 2007
But before I get on with the recaps from Sunday, I’d like to draw your attention to a new blog in town – Team Sexypants, authored by none other than Big Grin himself, joEL! His header image is a picture I took of him one of the nights we were camping out during our weekend […]