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I expect that most of the people who saw me, and especially the four teenaged skateboarders over by Penn Valley Park, were thinking, “what the hell is that crazy lady doing?” I expect I elicit that question often. I encountered an abandoned rug on my way home from Friz tonight and decided I’d just as […]

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Saturday, July 14, 2012, I was up and at ’em at the crack of 7:00 a.m. By golly, I had shit to do, and a finite amount of time in which to do it. I had provisions to lay in, prizes to prepare, and most importantly, I needed to go scavenge up a few more […]

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Direct quote from a kid who’d stopped by Friz tonight to spectate. We were taking a break and chatting with the newcomer who’d voiced interest in the game. He was riding an IRO fixie, which would have been supremely difficult (if not somewhat dangerous) to try to play Friz on. So various among us were […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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The Makeover!

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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