For once, a muddy start to the cross season. I'm liking it.
Thanks to Mr. Woo for the photo. And the offer of his mountain bike after I crashed into a pole (not the one in the photo, but about 2 minutes later) and broke my front brake lever.
11/11/10
10/6/10
Salsa!
Old-school, I'd guess 1980s, Salsa MTB, Columbus tubing. Keeping with the retro-grouch vibe, it's got Shimano 7-speed thumb-shifters. I caved in and got a Marzocchi suspension fork.
Shot on Marys Peak, outside Corvallis, OR.
Shot on Marys Peak, outside Corvallis, OR.
Felt TT bike
Felt TT bike, 10sp SRAM, Time cranks, yes that's a Campy front derailleur, somehow it all worked. Ritchey tubulars.
Surly Pacer
This is for my friend Maria at bicyclekitty.com
This is one of my two main work bikes, a 2008 Surly Pacer with SRAM Rival 10 speed drivetrain. The steel is pretty soft, not sure what kind, generic Chromoly. I think they updated to a nicer tubeset for 2010. I give the frame a lukewarm recommendation. I only weigh 140lb, but with a 35lb banker box on the rack, there's a lot of frame flex. I replaced the stock fork with a carbon (aluminum lugged) fork from some Raleigh.
Overall, a decent bike for day rides, light touring, commuting, messengering. I wouldn't recommend it for racing or carrying heavy loads.
This is one of my two main work bikes, a 2008 Surly Pacer with SRAM Rival 10 speed drivetrain. The steel is pretty soft, not sure what kind, generic Chromoly. I think they updated to a nicer tubeset for 2010. I give the frame a lukewarm recommendation. I only weigh 140lb, but with a 35lb banker box on the rack, there's a lot of frame flex. I replaced the stock fork with a carbon (aluminum lugged) fork from some Raleigh.
Overall, a decent bike for day rides, light touring, commuting, messengering. I wouldn't recommend it for racing or carrying heavy loads.
9/8/10
thoughts about Bon Jovi
This has always troubled me ... when Bon Jovi sings "Sometimes you tell the day / By the bottle that you drink" just what the hell is he talking about?
I envision several scenarios:
-- JBJ drinks certain kinds of alcohol on certain days of the week. Monday: Scotch; Tuesday: Scotch; Wednesday: Fernet and so on.
-- JBJ drinks exactly one bottle of booze per day, and clears the recycling one per week, on Sundays. That way, if there's three bottles of booze in the recyk, it must be Wednesday. Right?
-- JBJ is lining up the empties in the window. One quart of JD per day. Four quarts, it must be ... well wait, unless he always clears the window on Sunday, how would the number of bottles indicate anything except that you are a huge alcoholic?
Someone enlighten me. I agree, it's a cool-sounding couplet, but what the hell does it MEAN!
7/22/10
5/29/10
haussler.jpg
Oh Heinrich likes his beer ...
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/haussler-caught-drink-driving
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/haussler-caught-drink-driving
5/11/10
boot2.jpg
Yet another cut in the expensive tires, back in Dec 08.
Tried to boot it with a FedEx envelope. Wasn't gonna work. It kept cracking, so this tire went in the rubbish bin.
But its mate has lasted for nearly two years and untold miles, so it's just bad luck, not a knock on Continental.
Tried to boot it with a FedEx envelope. Wasn't gonna work. It kept cracking, so this tire went in the rubbish bin.
But its mate has lasted for nearly two years and untold miles, so it's just bad luck, not a knock on Continental.
5/4/10
notes on classic rock while listening to the Bone FM 107.7
-- The distance from SF to LA via I-5 is 381 miles. If it takes Sammy Hagar 16 hours to get to LA, that means an average of 23.8mph. I could bike that fast. Come on, Sammy, do you really expect us to believe that? Or maybe he was driving from Seattle, but I've always assumed he was talking about San Francisco. After all, Brion would always point out that road where they filmed the video on the way to LA. Perhaps Sammy was making use of "poetic license" to drive home his very important point about unfair government regulation. After all, if you can't get your Lamborghini out of 1st gear, what's the point of having one?
-- Golden Earring is Dutch. DUTCH! Who knew. That solves the mystery of the idiotic song title, "Radar Love." It's Scorpion-glish, like "Steamrock Fever" (an actual song title from "Tokyo Tapes.")
-- Is it really possible for a motor scooter to be "bad?" If so, what about a moped? Could it be "moderately wicked?"
-- Am I the only person who thinks of a mongoose when they hear a song by Montrose?
-- Does anyone outside of Modesto ever want to hear Steppenwolf again? And how could a band named after a Herman Hesse novel end up writing the anthem of the Harley nation?
-- Nothing makes me feel 39 years old like hearing Green Day on a classic rock station. But I'll bet they feel older.
-- Golden Earring is Dutch. DUTCH! Who knew. That solves the mystery of the idiotic song title, "Radar Love." It's Scorpion-glish, like "Steamrock Fever" (an actual song title from "Tokyo Tapes.")
-- Is it really possible for a motor scooter to be "bad?" If so, what about a moped? Could it be "moderately wicked?"
-- Am I the only person who thinks of a mongoose when they hear a song by Montrose?
-- Does anyone outside of Modesto ever want to hear Steppenwolf again? And how could a band named after a Herman Hesse novel end up writing the anthem of the Harley nation?
-- Nothing makes me feel 39 years old like hearing Green Day on a classic rock station. But I'll bet they feel older.
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