So yesterday we hosted the Czech National Single Speed Championships 2009/Mistrovství České Republiky v Single Speedu 2009 here on the edge of Prague. It was a snowy 27km lollipop loop, with over 22km of forest single and doubletrack. i had haphazardly marked the twisting trail 2 days before in the fresh, and several racers got [...]

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, [...]

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 most advanced [...]

DISCLAIMER: Gratuitous use of the letter č in this post Originally written June 12, 2007. So Verča and I headed out for a Saturday morning ride. We weren’t in a hurry, because it was supposed to rain all week-end. But by the time we roused ourselves it was nice and we took a quick jaunt. [...]

So I met up with some czechs, belges, and americans here in Prague, made some mallets, and started screwing around on street hockey courts a few weeks ago. Well this week-end we threw down for real. We started playing some legit games on a newly discovered marble court on a historic platform of the Restaurant [...]

Sometimes when you work in a shop too long, ideas can be thought to be good ones. Like the day an employee decided he was gonna leave his bike in the work area in a stand overnight, and well into the next day as well. When two childish shop employees went about their daily ritual [...]

_ (note: originally written 19 June 2007) So for the last week of her full-time work with the research hospital (she has started her new position with the Academy of Sciences now, and still consults with the hospital) Verča had a conference in Vienna, Austria to go to. It was a Wednesday – Sunday deal [...]

(eds. note: so it seems that this never got posted because I never got pics from from Wayne4 and Zac, and I just noticed it in drafts. so anyway here it is with my pics. it was written 16 March 2009.) Presidents Day week-end 2008 We flew out to AZ to escape the winter in [...]

Pursuant to the convo Case and I had while he was e-supervising my fixed gear conversion project I thought I’d post some choice clips from Lancey Stronglegs’ twitter stream: “You know why else New Mexico is cool? The Shins are from here. 4:11 AM Apr 30th from TwitterBerry Good morning! Feeding kids and getting ready [...]

ok, so it looks like it’s going to be a nasty long post, and I am kinda getting bored writing and trying to assemble pics from 2 different cameras. anyway, I almost missed this picture of some unidentified rider leading Stijn Devolder, Belgian national champion and domestique of the ultimate winner, through the Arenberg trench. [...]