"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in biking, Hercules, huffy, Other Bike Stuff, Photo entries on Dec 31st, 2009
A few years ago, I acquired this old English 3-speed from Brian Chasm. I think I gave him some homebrew for it. He’d picked it up at a yard sale, but for whatever reason he and Hercules didn’t ultimately get along. He said he’d just as soon as I had Hercules so long as I […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, dumb things I have done, Party, Photo entries, Utter Silliness on Nov 15th, 2009
Half of a grocery cart, laden with a passenger, being towed behind a bicycle makes a pretty distinctive sound. A grinding, rattling, metallic rumble, sometimes accented with whoops, yelps, shrieks, and cursing. Like this, basically. We’d convened on Friday night as planned in Korruption, a fine and choice dive bar in the West Bottoms. It’s […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Party on Nov 7th, 2009
Christi just got a frisbee that has a little LED light thingy in the middle of it. What this means is that this frisbee can be lit up at night and the more die-hard (and nutty) Friz enthusiasts can now play Friz even after the Daylight Saving time change. We tested this theory this evening […]
Posted in biking, Food & Snacks on Oct 7th, 2009
I have a long and colorful history of substituting recipe ingredients. Because of a combination of poor planning and poverty, I frequently find myself looking at a recipe and lacking at least one key ingredient. Today’s foray into the making of home-made power bars was typical, typical, typical. Below, anything you see italicized, is something […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Party, Well I'll Be Darned on Jul 17th, 2009
So yesterday evening, Joel was off to Kung Fu class, and I was considering my options of leftovers from the fridge, maybe re-watching one of our DVDs, and finishing up cutting out this suit jacket I’ll be working on one of these days. As I was just about to have a rummage around the fridge, […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, dumb things I have done, Playing With Weather, Redline Monocog 29er on Jun 1st, 2009
In the immortal words of Daft Punk: [youtube = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGBhQbmPwH8] Once again, I tried, tried again, and failed, failed again, but oddly, this year I don’t feel nearly so bad about my personal defeat as I did last year. Possibly because I was among a very large majority that bailed this year. Of 89 starters, […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, dumb things I have done, Family, Party, Redline Monocog 29er, Utter Silliness on May 26th, 2009
I rode the Redline to work today to make sure that all is in good order for the Dirty Kanza, which is only days away at this point. All, indeed, is. That bike is such a pleasure and a joy to ride in any of its many guises. For the upcoming weekend, it’s done up […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, dumb things I have done, Oh, for fuck's sake, Shopping, Utter Silliness, Well I'll Be Darned on May 10th, 2009
Who says I’m playing? Trash-pickin’ is serious business you guys! Anyway, yesterday we found a dumpster that was a BONANZA of clothing…good stuff too, some of it with the tags still on it! We actually ended up leaving plenty for the next scavengers! Melissa nabbed a pair of lime green pants and a shirt that […]
Posted in biking on Apr 27th, 2009
It’s really been since the tour that I’ve had a good, long, leg-stretcher of a ride, but on Sunday, Joel and I carved a nice chunk of the day out for a 60-mile spin about. We went out past Longview Lake, which is a pretty popular cycling route, though it was a new one on […]
Posted in biking, Recommendations on Apr 17th, 2009
I’ve been meaning to write a little bit about some cool bike shops for quite a while now. I know I mention ACME a lot, and I gave Charleston Bicycle Company a shoutout when we were in Charleston, and if I didn’t I should have raved about Rasmussen the summer we went on RAGBRAI. Another […]