Posted in Adventures, Art Projects & Making Things, beer and/or homebrewing, Distractions, dumb things I have done, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Lists, Other Bike Stuff, Trashboat Shenanigans, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Jun 5th, 2009
Yep, it’s gonna be one of those days and one of these entries. 1. They’ve been playing some butt-ass-awful music at work lately. Like worse than usual, and usual appears to be Adult-Contemporary Hits of the 1980s and ’90s. The recent streak of aural atrocities however, really has me scratching my head. Are they trying [...]
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"Better" is "good’s" worst enemy., originally uploaded by Meetzorp. I accepted “good enough” as being good enough after I repaired the damages from my last attempt at “better.” Now it’s ready for the build. Joel often tells me “‘better’ is ‘good’s’ worst enemy” when I’ve jacked something up via my perfectionist tinkering. Of course it’s [...]
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Posted in Other Bike Stuff on Mar 4th, 2009
Daylight savings time is beginning, starting next Monday. Instead of grumbling about changing my clock/VCR/Nuker & losing an hour of sleep, I’m getting excited and hyper. Why, you might ask? Because FRIZ Season has returned! The time is upon us to drag out our old mountain bikes, dust off the Frisbees, and go ride around [...]
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So, the North American Handmade Bicycle Show was AWESOME! A little overwhelming at times, but isn’t that the “awe” part of “awesome”? Since pictures are supposedly worth thousands of words, you’re gettin’ mostly pictures (and honestly, isn’t that what you’d want anyway). It was a really fun experience and I look forward to going to [...]
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I had a pretty significant day on the bike today. I had a lot of errands to run, and I took the long route, so to speak, because I really needed to blow out the cobwebs. I think I got in the riding mode on Sunday night; Team Frank Stallone‘s Westport Roadie Douche Crit was [...]
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I sort of sometimes read New York City Bike Snob but after a post or two, his blog makes me get all head-punchy. His “your bike sucks, you sucky hipster” shtick gets really tired. Sure, fixie evangelicals can get super annoying, but what sort of zealot doesn’t? There are annoying people in pretty much every [...]
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Six months until the First Annual Kansas City Trashboat Regatta. Put that on you calendar. Sometime in mid-June, you will, if you are lucky, be floating down the Big Muddy in a home-built contraption based on salvage, bicycles, and cuss words. And maybe a little duct tape, a few zip-ties, and some hope. Crews are [...]
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“> Yes, yes, yes, folks…so it appears that Frank Tuesday is back in action in the KC area. Maybe it’s FT’s evil clone, maybe it’s something completely different. All I know is that the insanity and mayhem we’ve all come to crave is wafting on the breezes and we should all get a good dose [...]
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Ah, spring cleaning. For me it means so many things. Yesterday afternoon when I got home from work, I hauled a couple of feeeeelthy bikes out onto the lawn, sprayed ‘em down with Simple Green, let that soak into the winter guck for a while, and hosed them down. I worked over some of the [...]
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My winter helmet is a real beaut. It’s a Nutcase bmx/skateboard helmet I lucked into at Cranksgiving. They had a raffle going on, and a fellow Earthrider had won this helmet, but it was too small for him. Also he wasn’t real sold on the style – he called it a “hippie helmet” because it [...]
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