found a super cheap peugeot at centre peace, a local thrift store kind of place where convicts at the local lock up can do some service and earn 1 dollar a month or something. anyway, i just got through restoring my friend emily’s peugeot, which was a mixte as well, but black, with fenders and [...]

ridiculous ramblings and rantulings: My house is surrounded by shitty neighbors. It’s like being engulfed by people who are too dumb to really hate, but you hate them anyway. Across the street we have a family who have two very much adult sons who still live at home. Their principal occupation (the whole family) seems [...]

_ Even Levi Leipheimer uses the old paperclip in the brake lever trick! hmm… he’s actually racing with a carbon bar and stem. doesn’t sound like a good idea to me.

_ so, i’ve been home workin on a project, and i am hear listening to seinfeld, and i heard this incredibly pertinent episode. er, pertinent to this blog. or rather, this particular blogger. it would of course be better, if they were wool jerseys. Opening scene – A locker room at Yankee Stadium. George is [...]

so cory taught me this wrapping technique when we were living together in france interning at alex singer. he claimed to have taugh alex himself. while this may be doubious, what is sure is that nobody freestyles better than mr singer, and nobody can reach a falsetto as high or as clear as cory’s. now, [...]

so on-one makes some drop bars somewhat reminicent of the WTB drop bar that sells for too much money on ebay. what was so nice about it? it was silver, made in japan, by nitto, and it was heat-treated. it also had a nice deep drop, and wasnt too wide. also: it had enough room [...]

Slate has up a great photoset today for the birfday of James Starley who is “considered the father of the bicycle industry.” Most of the pics are classic shots, thus the “shit that rights up johnsons alley” tag. What’s your favorite?

we knew cory less than 1094 days. during that time, he wore camoflage (sp) shants for at least 1078 of those days. for proof of this, visit fix. here is a super short foto journal looking back on the 1093 days we knew cory (or thought we did). what? i have a fever, i cant [...]

I’m a bit ashamed to say this but it was very tasty! Shimmy shimmy ya shimmy yeah shimmy yay

In order to cater to the real purpose of this blog I have a quick video that I think everyone will love Retrospective. Videos and photos. Music from the Horse Whisperer soundtrack I think “Gloriapower” said it best in the comments: As if being in France is not paradise enough, being in France with a [...]