"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Fashion, Other Bike Stuff, Redline Monocog 29er, Schwinn World Sport Singlespeed, Trek 800, Yellow Bianchi on Mar 14th, 2008
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 […]
Posted in Oh, for fuck's sake, Other Bike Stuff on Jan 24th, 2008
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 […]
Posted in bike commuting, biking, Other Bike Stuff, Playing With Weather, Sewing on Nov 7th, 2007
Daylight savings time, one of the goofiest ideas ever to roll out of Ben the F’s industriously fevered brain, has hit once again. I’ll refrain from the trite bitching about what an artificial pain in the ass it is, because it gives me a good excuse to play with my new, super-cool, kickass headlight. Last […]