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 [...]

of mild interest to someone, i am sure.

OK, so this may sound crazy to some of you, but who’s in for the 24hours of Levi. It is June 13/14 in Levi, in Finnish Lapland, and requires NO use of lights! Veronika and I will be driving from Prague to Copenhagen, then ferrying over to Sweden; will drive to Stockholm; then either drive [...]

it feels much more appropriate to say that it is currently -10 degrees! (14°F just isn’t quite as impressive.) anyway, we have about 8cm (π”) of fresh snow in the city now, after a good snowfall all day yesterday. and it was -13 (8°F) when I rode home from work. quite fun playing in the [...]

snoop vase 2.jpg, originally uploaded by jamesjohnsonart. A ride on saturday, the 20th!  or sunday… the 21st.  (apologies, I was obviously looking at the martian calendar… the first time). Ole Saint Nick will be in town, so we gotta get at least one ride in with him. I propose taking it easy: ie no mountain [...]

bicycle design is hosting a design competition. a good one. one to design a better human powered commuting machine. so, be it a commuter bike, freakcumbant, or trike…it’s probably gonna have wheels and pedals, and is definitely gonna have a person on or in it. or under it. or next to it. my point is [...]

It’s actually a real product, and a dumb one at that! (if you have to ask why you will never know)  However, for the purposes of this post and all future posts, a Tri-bag is a douche bag who races and or purports to race tri.  I have a sneaking suspicion that many of these [...]

ok so hot chip is coming to rams head live.  don’t know em?  ya should, if you like nerdy english analog electronic dance music that you can sing along to.  anyway its 20 bucks a head, and it should be cool.  here’s a link to a youtube video of them playing live..  anyone who wants [...]

here is a preliminary link to what might be the coolest ride you’ve never been on. looks like rolling hills, nothing too hard.  lots of dirt.  and i shortened it, due to popular demand.  only 71 miles!  that’s shorter than the distance my grandmother used to walk to get to school.   how about it [...]

. . . . . so we had a super good turn out for the scramble.  dave got points for driving the furthest to get here.  phil got points for riding a bike that would give a cory townie a run for its money (crappynesswise).  way to many people showed up on fixed gears and [...]