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 [...]

Calfee claims its $3K bamboo bike will save the planet. Riding lugged makes mother earth cry.

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 [...]

. . Little does cory know that this actually costs 1 dollar a link. buahahaha. Cory has a mountain bike, and supposedly he is getting a cross bike. What he doesnt have is a cory proof townie bike. As far as I can tell, cory likes bikes that almost look 100 percent rad, but have [...]

so, i just sent a letter to rob, which he will get in a few days.  see, i do this thing.  where normal people day dream about new kitchen floors, dream vacations, hot dudes or girls, piles of money, ect, i day dream about building rad bikes for people i know.  i take into account [...]

so here is my super quick guide to bike lighting, not really for you to read now, but more so you can ref it later, when i link to it and yeah. our rambles end in the dark or the dusk, as a rule. people dont believe me when i say a ride is going [...]

hey i am starting a music blog.  its going to be sort of like this joint, but with less bike references.  actually what i mean is, i hope to run it as a collective.  get lots of contributors, so lots of people roll through.  i want to cover the following genres: not shitty folk, bluegrass, [...]

. For OW Houts OW Houts has always had an aire of sadness. Today that aire became palpable, unavoidable. Today OW Houts annouced, that after 78 years in their present location, they were going to close thier doors forever on January 11th. Rumors that Houts had been nearing it’s end abounded, but most shoppers, like [...]

Ok, we dont really have any new content, so chew on this.  I wrote it today, basically in reaction to issues I am dealing with in grad school.  I recently told a collegue that I felt like I was surrounded by Futurists, and this essay hatched as a result.  Sorry the footnotes didn’t copy: I [...]

so i was in scotland last week, clearing up that buiness with the lemons and the pre-glued stamps. i came across this link at st andrews, apparently crafted by a japanese investment group calling themselves Arrow, or Day Month Fire Water Wo. They had this to say about our recent post on the treadmill bike: [...]