Everyone mocked me when I started this blog. Now everyone but me uses it. We have at least 2 rabid fans, Christine and some guy in Singapore named ‘Ganook’. So I present this brief Ride Lugged timeline.

-7.15.81 James Johnson born. World starts turning again and emerges from the darkness of the 1970s.

-sometime in 1986 Johnson gets first bike. er big wheels. last time he will ever swear by anything plastic and/or fixed gear.

-1988 gets huffy mtn bike. Proptly breaks it on first ride off road. But those moto brake protectors looked soo tuff!

-1997 meets Starmer, who at the time has a skater hair cut and jencos. We work on our mtn bikes in his dads wood shop. We install headsets with wood and hammers, adjust U brakes with wood and hammers, remove pedals with channel locks, and shoot at weather vanes with bb guns. Dont tell Starmer.

-1999 first lugged bike, also first road bike. a orange falcon from the 1970s with campy parts and the worlds coolest bottle cage.

-1999-2002 lugs are forget as singlespeed mtn biking becomes the hotness. tig welds and anodization fixate the collegian mind.

-2006 ride with lugs, which has morphed into ridelugged.com was formed. mocking commences.

-11.06 Johnson starts some shit with SUV owners and soldiers’ wives. Death threats and reverse brainwashing ensue.

-11.06-12.06 Johnson answers 43,000 comments about how he is a ragging asshole jackass asshat. No one comes up with an educated response.

-1.07 Starmer stages a you-tube coup and takes over the site. Johnson is relegated to occasional comments and poorly read mumblings.

-4.07 Johnson takes world’s best picture after getting blisters on his hands from world’s hardest ride. See post below. Starmer attempts suicide by tequila, chartruse, yeager, salty ribs and natty boh. Johnson coasts back to power.