Posted in Fashion, Other Bike Stuff, Redline Monocog 29er, Schwinn World Sport Singlespeed, Trek 800, Yellow Bianchi on March 14, 2008 | No Comments »
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 February 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
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, Friz, Imports from old blogs, Trek 800 on June 21, 2006 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Burley, Imports from old blogs, Sensual Pleasures, Trek 800, biking, videos on June 16, 2006 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Adventures, Imports from old blogs, Mountain Biking, Trek 800 on January 25, 2006 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, Photo entries, Playing With Weather, Trek 800, bike commuting on December 3, 2005 | No Comments »
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. [...]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, Trek 800, bike commuting, dumb things I have done, tagged grossout on November 14, 2005 | No Comments »
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.
So, my [...]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, Trek 800, biking on June 30, 2005 | No Comments »
I was too tired to update last night. Here’s why:
I ended up taking a three-and-a-half-hour bike ride.
KCMO is surprisingly hilly, and Sam (the dude who leads the rides I’ve been going on) LOVES the hills. Mad-man! Riding with him, on top of not really feeling that great yesterday, wore my ass out. [...]
Posted in Burley, Imports from old blogs, Trek 800, biking, depression on June 17, 2005 | No Comments »
I have a problem. I’m unable to buy myself non-essential stuff, especially not big-ticket items.
I talked myself out of the exact pair of Doc. Marten maryjanes that fit like they were already broken in because I just couldn’t hork up $98 on the day I’d spent nearly $400 to get my glasses fixed.
I talked [...]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, Trek 800, bike commuting, biking on May 22, 2005 | No Comments »
Like most American children born in the 1970s, once I was able to pull myself up standing, I was plunked into a “walker” and allowed to cruise the house under supervision. This meant, apparently, that I importuned customers in the restaurant and attempted to stalk the dogs as they motored around, minding their own [...]
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