"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in "Greenie II", Burley, Trek 800, You have got to be kidding me!, bike commuting, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching on Aug 22nd, 2009
Good grief, I had one of those days! Due to basic laziness, I got a kind of late start heading out the the bank, but I figured that it would be no biggie, since they’re open until noon on Saturdays. So I headed downtown with my paycheck in hand, ready to take care of some [...]
Posted in Trek 800, biking, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching on Dec 11th, 2008
Yep, I rode my old-trusty Trek 800 today to run a few errands. Too bad I managed to complete none of my errands. It was an extravagantly frustrating day, to be honest. I had two pieces of business to accomplish. #1 was to go downtown and correct the ownership record on my old house. For [...]
Posted in Food & Snacks, Trek 800, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Nov 29th, 2008
Today’s weather is kind of disgusting…it’s sort of rain, sort of snow. Nieve likes it; Ruby is not so sure. I went for a walk earlier anyhow, because I was getting kind of grumpy about being inside, and also I needed to go to the library and print out some documents, since at the time [...]
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 Trek 800, bike commuting on Feb 25th, 2008
Joel had a vision regarding my old Trek, and I’m no woman to stand in the way of visions especially when the end result is going to be a better bike for my nefarious purposes. The old Trek still had many original parts on it until this winter, Both derailleurs, front and rear brake calipers (but [...]
Posted in Adventures, Imports from old blogs, Trek 800 on Jun 21st, 2006
I went out to practice picking stuff up off the ground while riding my bike once again today. I heeded Ryan’s advice and practiced with a can for the time being. I had an old plastic coffee can on the back porch, left over from christmas goodies. I try to amass a number of these [...]
Posted in Burley, Imports from old blogs, Trek 800, biking, 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, Imports from old blogs, Mountain Biking, Trek 800 on Jan 25th, 2006
I got invited to go nighttime trail riding. His wreck was Friday morning, when he was coming home. On Saturday afternoon, I went on the usual group ride with the Acme group, and they reminded me of an event I’d forgotten all about, the Full Moon ride out at the Lawrence River Trail. I hadn’t [...]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, Photo entries, Playing With Weather, Trek 800, bike commuting on Dec 3rd, 2005
Well, this is my much-beloved Old Reliable mountain bike. The ten-ton Trek. The first picture was from last spring, before I started doing stuff like putting bottle cages on it. It just had blinky lights, and I think it still had the bar-end rearview mirror, which it no longer has. It kept getting knocked off [...]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, Trek 800, bike commuting, dumb things I have done on Nov 14th, 2005
So, Finslippy was talking about stinky Gingko fruits, the other day, and I was thinking, wow, I’m glad we don’t have Gingko trees here in Kansas City, because wow, that would suck to ride my bike through a pile of dead leaves and rotten puke-fruit and then have that shit stuck in my tires. Ahem. [...]
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