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another ride, plus august scramble wrap up.

. . . . . 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 [...]

This Steampunk Shit Has Gone Too Far

The Steampunk Recumbent

Do It! Do It Now!

Bicycle Film Festival, on now in NY.

This one’s for the womyn

Context at http://jalopnik.com/393601/giant-vulva-bicycle-taxi-is-freudian-wet-dream

Praha – Wien pics and more

_ So I have finally gotten around to picking and cropping images from our bike trip/tour from Prague to Vienna. With some stats, here we go… (don’t miss the story in the mouseover captions) Praha – Wien Greenway (day – summary – start town + time – end town + time – distance, time and [...]

long silences dont mean i have not been doing things, riding places, finding stuff, packing up, plotting, or doing lawn maintenance. so forget those bad thoughts, and read on…

. . . . Mel has been riding some sugino xd 500s for a while now, but for some reason, no matter what, they get chain suck. not every ride, not every shift, but sometimes it happens. And its not her fault. I rode it and the same thing sporatically happens to me. What gives? [...]

MFA show pics.

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 [...]

Secret Mountain riding training course

So you may have seen a post last year about some training obstacles I set up in my backyard to help Christine improve her bike handling skills. This year I added another rock/log pile for her to crawl over and she tried it out today. Here’s the shots… The course overall…over one pile, around the [...]

Hutch and the wooden Velociped

So Hutch ventured around on the wooden velociped today. This was the first time he actually spent more than thirty seconds on it. He pittered around the yard and driveway for like a half an hour! He even tackled the obstacle course I set up for Christine’s mountain bike training in the backyard (I’ll reveal [...]

bringing the kitchen sink: a salute to chuck boxes, 3/4 inch plywood, and suicide punch

so the 24 hours of big bear is coming up. 2 months in which to lose 50 lbs, learn how to grind for 2 hour internals, and to make incredibly complicated lists and prepatory plans. last year i took a series of steps to make life more comfortable at the camp, including but not limited [...]