I’d better get this out of the way since I said I would and the Ridelugged overlord took the time to give me an account.  No napkin drawings for Johnson, but

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a website of Casey’s favorite material and its, lets say, issues:

plus they found someone who did one better than my broken and repaired record rear mech:

So I met up with some czechs, belges, and americans here in Prague, made some mallets, and started screwing around on street hockey courts a few weeks ago.
Well this week-end we threw down for real. We started playing some legit games on a newly discovered marble court on a historic platform of the Restaurant PRAHA-EXPO [...]

the apex of synergy between classic and high-tech!!
check it out at velo orange and velo news.
(unfortunately they opted out of the extra set of seatstays of the true mixte.)

Recently I saw this post on Retro-Bike and am not sure if you, the readers of all things lugged, have also seen this. Apparently this guy has the ultimate collection of all things 90’s and mountain bike.
Ultimate Collection?
Here’s a teaser pic.

Sometimes when you work in a shop too long, ideas can be thought to be good ones. Like the day an employee decided he was gonna leave his bike in the work area in a stand overnight, and well into the next day as well. When two childish shop employees went about their daily ritual [...]

So as I sit in a flu-induced funk surrounded by achiness and tiredness, fueled by Pandora and Soy Nuts…?, I figured, “Why not post something on RideLugged!?!”
So recently I decided I was gonna do something about all my bikes laying around amongst each other with pedals sticking in spokes and handlebars mingling like drunken high [...]

because it means i havent been riding.
anyway, lets rectify!  on friday evening.  s24o, leaving from the casbah johnson.  you me and the bottle makes 3…  anyway.

details?  oh those!  meet @ 6.30, outta here by 7ish.  bring a headlamp, so we can gather forthly fire sticks and cook hot dogs to a carbon-y finish.  wheres to [...]

OK, so a while back I broke a stupidly expensive rear mech. It was a campagnolo 10 speed record, short-cage carbon, ti, aluminum, and plastic affair:

Needless to say the part that broke was the carbon outer plate. Not the alu knuckles, plastic pulley wheels, ti and alu bolts, or even the steel pivots. The carbon [...]