Ride Lugged

Ok, here are the basic rules:

Entry can be any length, but not too long, ie less than 5 pages, we dont have time for that much reading.

Has to deal with bikes as an overriding theme, or bike riding, or bike riders, or bike events, ect.

Can be fiction, non-fiction, poetry, journalism.

We like pictures so they count as an extra 5 points, 6 if they contain lugged bikes.  Who said we werent biased?

They can be emailed to us at jamesjohnsonart(at)yahoo(dot)com

Please title the email: ride lugged competition

Entries due the last day of February.

The top three entries will be picked by a jury consisting of an architect, a semi professional political blogger, an artist, and a computer programmer who hates to read.  John do you want to write or be on the jury?  G Hambone?

The winner will be picked by votes, submitted though the comment section of the blog, over the course of a week.
Anything you submit wont be edited or used without your premission, ie we arnt gunna make a coffee table book outta this stuff.

The first place winner gets her/his choice of a sugino track crank, pictured below, in whatever length they want/is in stock, or a sugino xd crankset, also pictured below.  They will receive it about 2-3 weeks after the winner is declared.   We have to order and ship it ya know.

I’ll announce this contest on bike forums and the bike site, and on the rbw mailing list.  Feel free to plaster it where ever else you see fit.

ok I have an idea, based on getting articles in here. we all chip in a small amount, say 10 bucks, to get a decent item: like sugino xd 500 cranks with aluminum rings. we then post on various forums a writing contest, take submissions over the course of the month, and post the top 5. We then let the readers decide who wins, and therefore gets the cranks. Might be a good way to generate interest here, and get more people involved. Let me know what you guys think.

go here for more details: http://ridelugged.com/2007/01/18/ride-lugged-writing-competition/

Those of you who know James have realized by now that he’s been reincarnated. His previous life began somewhere around 1901. I try to cater to this old man trapped in a young man’s body when I can. The other day I found some old timey ranger pants at a surplus store. He really liked them so he got another pair of hand-me-down Ranger Rick pants specifically to alter for bike riding. We converted this pair into knickers. The pants are like 60 years old so sewing them kicked up some nice nose tickling fibers. These snapshots depict the oh-so-hip pants. Aren’t they so “now”, so haute? They’re practically the new black, or the new coffee.

The pants sit just below the nipples. Keeps the beer in the belly warm.

Features: Four pockets. Adjustable knee area. Metal buttons. Button fly and, it’s about 15″ long. Added elastic in the waist for some give when you’re actually riding and not just parading around like a lunatic. Suspenders are needed. I’ll make more of these if anyone is interested. Don’t want to wear suspenders with pants up to your man boobs? That can be arranged. Colors and styles vary slightly. $75. -Mel

State College “Surge” Protest

About seventy five people showed up the other night to protest Bush’s new plan. This might not sound like a lot of people, but for State College it’s a mob. Especially because the students aren’t even back yet from winter break. Three press trucks showed up and interviewed for a good part of the hour long gathering. Many folks driving by honked their horns in support (of course they were driving Stupid Unnecessary Vehicles) and one guy mooned us.

A Big Bad “Coozie”

The first in our collection of bike art.

Anyone know who this guy is?

He seems to have a decent little bike blog going. Not quite the same free form flow of gibberish that seems to come out of here but useful nonetheless.

Thanks to bike hugger for giving me a reason to wash my eyes out with bleach this morning.

Here is an excerpt from one of the “grrrls” likes, “People with a book of existential poems in one pocket and a bike lock in the other”. I like a white girl with a head full of dreadlocks, especially if she has lice. It gives me something to pick at post coitus, mmm lice.

Who’s up for a ridelugged calendar? I’m thinking close up shots of armpit hair. Womens armpit hair.