"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Holidailies 2012, Mountain Biking, Notions and Rants on Nov 30th, 2012
Not necessarily referring to “Permission to say ‘cock’” but permission to suck, as referenced in the article linked…here. I just get an inordinate amount of amusement from strong invective, especially as uttered by Top Gear’s own Captain Slow. So, the other day I was kind of freaking out because I signed up for another of […]
Posted in biking, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Mountain Biking, Trek 800 on Jun 13th, 2011
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 […]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Super-Short Entries, videos on Sep 7th, 2010
Apropos of pretty much nothing, Perez Prado’s “Patricia” popped into my head and stayed for the day while I was out riding the trails at Smithville yesterday. It’s a surprisingly good song to mountain bike to, actually.
Posted in Distractions, Mountain Biking, Redline Monocog 29er on Aug 9th, 2010
Last night, Joel and I went to Lawrence with a bunch of his co-workers to ride the River Trails. It’s a rare treat and one I go for every time it’s possible. The river trails are great for a mtb moron like me. They’re not rocky, just swoopy and twisty, which is pretty much my […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, Mountain Biking, wrecks on Jun 10th, 2010
I’m not sure if I’m just a lousy cyclist, or if there’s a certain proportion of falling-over-per-mile that every cyclist averages and I’m simply fulfilling my quota. One way or another, I seem to be entering another of my streaks of wreckage, kicked off by a little offroad falling-over out at Lawrence when we got […]
Posted in meta, Mountain Biking on Sep 8th, 2009
Been re-adjusting and re-configuring the site since I moved it from wordpress.com to meetzorp.com. I had to download and upload my preferred theme, and somehow it still looks a bit different, but it doesn’t suck, so I am okay with it. I kind of need to find my original header images, though, ’cause the version […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Mountain Biking, Redline Monocog 29er on Apr 16th, 2009
So, the Dirty Kanza looms ahead. This year, I’m gonna be prepared! This year, I am planning to team up with some riders who ride around the same sort of pace I do, and NOT GET LOST THIS TIME! I fully understand my limitations, chief amongst which is a complete and utter lack of direction […]
Posted in Mountain Biking on Jun 23rd, 2008
There was a mountain bike race out at Landahl this past Sunday; “Truman’s Big Love” which would have been the championship race out of the Heartland series if over half of the rest of the scheduled races this season hadn’t gotten rained out. As we have finally had a good stretch of dry weather 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 Cats, Home Improvements, Mountain Biking, Sewing on Jan 22nd, 2008
I had a 3-day weekend this past weekend due to Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Day. A 3-day weekend is always welcome – in fact, I wish they all were, considering as how I generally spend all of Saturday on the run, then Sunday doing basically jack. That Monday in a typical 3-day weekend is […]