john g of empathytest is holding/hosting/having a road ride next tuesday.  knowing john, it will be scenic and back roadsy, slow enough to leave the skin suit at home, fast enough to not be bored.  for those that dont know about john’s project (unrelated to this ride) he is riding all of the roads in [...]

tinker bell is back! and with a vengance.  the dirty sugar ferry ride that took place last year with snow, freezing winds, vengeful ice covered roads, and harrowing brakeless decents is back!  but it wont be nearly as cold.  just pretty cold.  and longer.  and dirtier.  cause pavement made some good albums, but it’s no [...]

lets do one.  the weekend of the 4th.  saturday nite.  start in frederick, head up to the shed, poach a camping spot, eat some grub, pass out, wake up, drink coffee, go back to frederick. who’s interested?  we have some but not a ton of spare camping gear, including an ok bag, a sleeping mat, [...]

. . . . . 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 [...]

Day 1 – 88km (preride: 1.5 ham and cheese sandwiches, water, orange juice, slow release vitamin C capsule) 1 water bottle with energy drink, 1 with water ham and cheese sandwich on buttered roll, 1 pack Clif Bloks pork chop steak with potato wedges 2 – 17oz beers, 12oz Coke 2 cups of tea Day [...]

1. to pedal a bicycle along the edge or gutter of a rugged or rutted path in an attempt to find less demanding, smoother passage. ex. I just rode 500km from Prague to Vienna, and some of the roads were so rough I had to paris-roubaix that shit.

so without yer knowledge, the database has been pushing forward. is it called the database? no. did i mastermind it? not reallby joe whitehair is on board, but he might have been two PBRs to the wind when he said he was. they were a dollar. i mean. cummon. so jay has been working on [...]

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 [...]

OK not only do i wanna know who is coming to the ride so i can make spoke cards, but christine wantsta know so she can make grub for post ride consumption.  So, um, 2 people so far have let me know.  Everyone else get up on it.  Leave a comment.  Yeah, Nah, or ProbablAH.

looks like we are going to have low voter turnout low rider turnout for saturday’s ride.  too bad, cause the weather wont suck like it did for last january’s ride. sign in/leave a comment if you think you can come.  want a final head count sort of thing. weather outlook: 40s, partly clouding, 30% chance [...]