. So.  The scramble is just around the corner.  I’ve started to finalize the route, with tons of help from the dirt road database, and Joe over at single speed outlaw.  Joe even took me out on some of the trails he thought would work well.   Let’s just say that if you have a [...]

The Steampunk Recumbent

so i was downtown about a year ago, and there were these assholes in suits and sashes, with big red banners, looking like nazis with theology degrees.  i was pissed enough by their presense and chanting that i wrote them a letter.  They are the American T*F*P, which stands for tradition family and property turds, [...]

I know, I know, those who shun turkey bacon are heretics, thrown out into the cold destitute wilderness of a meatless breakfast. Yet there is solace to be found in the warm sizzling frying pan of grease that is know as a real breakfast. I ran across this article and it reminded me of the [...]

. By the light of the day the pimp’s yellow ochre suit is plain beige. The rotting wooden trailer out front is the same emerald green as the swing that sat under the willow tree for years after the willow had blown down in a windstorm, 15 feet from the porch where I slept, dead [...]

i was talking to a local rider and friend, and fellow penn state art program guy eric roman the other day. yesterday actually. and we were sitting at the table cory designed, and talking about people we knew, and found that we both knew a number of philly folks, and meg, so there meg, eric [...]

for all you lazy sods who didnt make it, (everyone) here are some pics from my recent thesis show. you know, you could make up for it by buying something. visualization of the dirt road database: different colors of lichen (for different road surfaces) is flocked to screen captures of google maps data. you are [...]

Uh Transportation: Ride the Bitchcruiser Bike, But Wear Protection (NSFW)

Just got back from London, where the above clip was shot in front of the robot rider in the “World’s Best Bike Department” at the famous Harrod’s department store in Knightsbridge. The audio is kinda muted. Basically I’m saying that the robot on the suburbo-cruiser is the best thing about the “bike department” that otherwise [...]

so i was walking to the post office today, (on a dirt road) and was lamenting the fact that with all of the crazy mapping software out there, GIS, google maps, USGS, etc, there isnt a good way to tell if A. your route will work (is that someones driveway?) and B. what the road [...]