as dave said, roughly “who will light on fire first?”
this is of course, dave’s beautifully crafted ‘cherry chucker’, his cherry bomb launcher WMD.
i dont know if he drew it just cause i asked where the cocktail napkin drawing was, but he sent me this rad drawing too.
the place to see it: my house, saturday night, [...]

jay, john, dan and yours very truly set off saturday evening for some stealth camping.  upon arrival, i noticed with some chagrin that my chosen stop was kinda close to the road, a fact that went unnoted last time, cause there were leaves on the trees.  this caused mild paranoia, but we set up shop, [...]

the what what:
frederick city alley cat, w/ checkpoints, contests, challenges, scavenger hunting, and rad urban cyclist prizes.
Where: meet at the big bell tower in baker park downtown frederick.  you know it.  MAP HERE
all the normal crap too: skid competion, track stand comp, rapping comp.
do we all know what an alley cat is?  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleycat_races
the saturday after [...]

Originally written Feb 4, 2008

In 1903 the Wright brothers flew for a few seconds in a heavier than air craft of their own design. They worked outside of typical aeronautics thought, reworking and recalculating established thought. The wooden propeller they developed, hand hewn from laminated wood, was 83% efficient. Modern Propellers, the [...]

An interesting thing has been happening on my flickr photostream recently.  I’ve been getting lots of photos favorited.  Not by cyclists.  Or art enthusiasts.  No.  By people who like pictures of guys in tight clothing.  Folks who think man ass crack is hot.

because it means i havent been riding.
anyway, lets rectify!  on friday evening.  s24o, leaving from the casbah johnson.  you me and the bottle makes 3…  anyway.

details?  oh those!  meet @ 6.30, outta here by 7ish.  bring a headlamp, so we can gather forthly fire sticks and cook hot dogs to a carbon-y finish.  wheres to [...]

I helped put together a Rapha Continental Ride, as the spoke card below denotes.  Some editors from Bicycling magazine showed up and rode it as well, and wrote it up, and gave a shout out to not only this humble, dust cover’d blog, but also to the neglected but viable dirt road database.  We thank [...]

of mild interest to someone, i am sure.

there is a big brown bottle of beer.  bubbling beautifully when bestowed upon a beer glass.  today’s temps tip toward tedious: 95 in the shade.  the suds are salivatingly slick on my tortured, tropically torpid tongue.  i quaff quantities quickly, 10 oz, 16 oz, 20…  the glass glissens and gloats: i am a beer glass, [...]

i was invited to chart a ‘rapha continental ride’, ie a bike ride in the continental style: dirt roads, mountain passes, grand vistas.  it will be part of a published series of rides documented in a classic style, ie from a van with medium format cameras, hanging out the window on 40 mph rutted descents.  [...]