"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in 2008 Coast-to-Coast Adventure, Adventures, biking, meta on Sep 12th, 2008
To answer both Doug and MD, there’s not a route as such. We’re taking a mid-southerly approach…probably leaving CA via Yosemite National park, then obviously we’ll cross a little Nevada, and go along northern AZ & NM (we’re going to be crossing the Four Corners area I’m pretty sure). Then we may cross through the […]
Posted in 2008 Coast-to-Coast Adventure, Adventures, biking, Redline Monocog 29er on Sep 9th, 2008
The past couple of weeks have been getting chillier; fall is setting in awfully early this year. I get up a little before 6:00 on most mornings to take the dog for an early walk so that she’ll let me make breakfast in peace. Without that walk, she’d be ramming a chew-toy against my shins […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Party on Sep 8th, 2008
, originally uploaded by acmebicyclecompany. If so, then you should have been to the Frank Tuesday Du*cough*alon on Saturday night. The few of us who didn’t let chill temperatures, off-and-on rain, and more-or-less permanent insanity ruin a good time had a complete and utter BLAST! Sarah from ACME documented the affair and I think there […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Other Bike Stuff, Party, Utter Silliness, wrecks on Aug 26th, 2008
“> 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 […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Photo entries, Redline Monocog 29er, Travel on Jul 2nd, 2008
On Sunday, Joel and I went out to Emporia to have another go at the Dirty Kanza course. As I’d helped mark the second half of the ride (the part I didn’t get to ride during the race) I was really excited to get to see it from the saddle. We were supposed to meet […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Playing With Weather, Redline Monocog 29er on Jun 3rd, 2008
So…once again my lousy sense of direction bites me in the butt! I got in a fine ride and had a pretty darn good time, but man, I’m bummed that I only did 130 miles and that I was disqualified/DNF-ed. More on that in a bit. I’d never been out in the Flint Hills before. […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Distractions, dumb things I have done on May 29th, 2008
I’ve been useless today. I’m just tooo het up about Kanza to be any good to anybody. I think i have freaked out about 5 times an hour. I got some work done and all, but I am very thankful I was able to get off early as I was getting way too buzzy and […]
Posted in Adventures, Mountain Biking on May 22nd, 2008
How ridiculous is it that I’m writing about last weekend while the upcoming weekend looms before me? Anyway, on with the story: On Sunday we went up to St. Joseph for the Roubidoux Round-Up. Joel was helping with, as well as participating in the race, and I figured that since I was tagging along anyway, […]
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 Adventures, Oh, for fuck's sake, Photo entries, Well I'll Be Darned on Feb 10th, 2008
Well, my computer has upped and died. It’s not a big shock nor surprise – it had been acting shaky and shady for a while, and it hadn’t been built by a professional initially anyhow. So, the ol’ beast finally went toes-up. Because I had an inkling this day would be coming sooner rather than […]