(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 Prague and [...]

ok, so I went for a short ride the other day to meet the misses after work, for a tool around on some city park paths. it turned pretty short, when on a steep little dirt climb my front wheel kicked up a piece or path debris (a stick or a rock, in the end [...]

ok, so where did our frequent posting go, yikes!!
anyway here is a conundrum I am in these days, see if you can answer it:
(I’m pretty sure it’s a recurring issue I know the solution for, which I’ll pipe in with later.)
when I am pedaling along at a normal (~75rpm) cadence under a light to moderate [...]

so I was in a nice art gallery a while back and saw this nicely brazed rocking horse that I thought you all may enjoy. couldn’t find out anything about the artist though?!

I kept meaning to remind you folks of some of the nice things about living in the Czech Republic from back in mid February.
Not the driving snow, but the fact that as I ride home from work, the beer distributor is pumping fresh beer into the pubs from a tanker truck the same size as [...]

another retro-grouch with photoshop wants to bring back engraved and polished C-Record, with honey hoods, real cork tape, and campy Record-level shellac!

an interesting group of weird crap and reconstituted tubes

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.
looks like [...]

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 or take [...]