This week I split the uprights and got a Happy Friday post up on a Friday. Sometimes you’re in front of the eight ball, and sometimes you’re behind it. I’m not sure yet which I prefer, so I’ll keep alternating between the two and get back to you with my impressions, depressions and [...]

Dare I say, possibly safer than riding the streets these days.
A different kind of bicycle suspension from Brazil.

File this one under “holy shit”.
From: Cody
Subject: Cyclist Down
Jonny,
Mike & the boys at his shop read DC regularly. Mike’s going to be ok, but seriously, how fucked up is this:
venturacountystar.com
Ventura police are asking for the public’s help to find two motorists they say intentionally hit a bicyclist Monday night.
[...]

Oh, I get the goods up in here. Let me assure you.
From: Primo Huesepole
Subject: cailifony gum show
well here I am in Berlin, no I didnt get deported, I owe you 5 bucks. Berlin is really crowded but it’s Fucking bike friendly as hell. we went to a bike shop, they [...]

Going with my embed like crazy and fuck all to IE6, check this one out: Miss South Carolina answers a question. Or at least, she tries to.

Same drill, if you have IE6 this probably won’t display. If you run IE7 or any version of Firefox, you’re straight.
Go figure.
From: Chris
Subject: rad
If this doesn’t inspire you to ride i don’t know what will.
Ride what you got.

Famed beer author Michael Jackson (no no no, the other one) has died. The good news is that this officially means the top position for the best job on earth, which is traveling around drinking beer, is now available. Nevertheless, we at D.C., along with beer aficionados everywhere, extend our condolences to the [...]

Oh my fucking god…
U.S. Rep. Benjamin Sinclair (R-OH) has a plan to reduce skull fucking levels in America by 5 to 7 percent.
It had to be a Republican. And he had to be from Ohio. Well played Onion, well played indeed.
Those with IE6, follow this link: Live From Congress: The Skull Fucking [...]

‘An extraordinary girl’
Motorist drank all day at Gatineau strip club; convicted twice before with impaired driving
Jean-Francois Bertrand, Andrew Seymour, Katie Daubs and Alana Toulin, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Thursday, August 30, 2007
Marie-Hélène Primeau, 17 years old and days away from starting her studies at an Ottawa art college, was on her bike on the Lady Aberdeen [...]

A 15-year-old boy is dead after being struck by lightning while riding his bicycle.
Kevin Avelar was found lying unconscious in a parking lot with his bicycle next to him, Officer George Gordon said.
Avelar was a freshman at Roswell High School.
Source: wsbtv.com

A quick reminder.
From: Michael
Subject: hill climb?
hey jonny,
do you think that you could n=mention the hillclimb (the last race in the single speed seris on your site. then maybe link meandrosco for the details.
the hill climb is sunday sept. 2 at high noon. meet where elden lookout road turns to dirt.

Link as [...]

Local legend and friend of Drunkcyclist Steve Garro took a 3rd in the Hill Climb and a 4th in the Cross Country at The 2nd Annual World Off-Road Handcycling Championships held in Mount Crested Butte, Colorado last weekend.
Big ups.
I stopped by Steve’s place after my morning mountain bike ride, as he lives less [...]

Leave it to the Onion…
Non-Doping Cyclists Finish Tour De France
August 30, 2007 | Onion Sports
PARIS—A small but enthusiastic crowd of several dozen was on hand at the Tour de France’s finish line on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées Tuesday to applaud the efforts of the 28 cyclists who completed the grueling 20-stage, 2,208.3-mile race without the [...]

Ladies and gents, allow me to present to you…
VULVA

Some things just need to be said.
From: John
Subject: Is it just me………
…….or does Gonzales have that angry chimp thing going on too?

And that was one of ‘em.
There is a nice “look back” at our Dear Alberto’s Reign of Terror out today… Sorry, I mean, service to his country as attorney general. Reign [...]

I rode out Lake Mary by myself today. Two hours of spinning away like the lycra clad douche I am. I got scared shitless on they way out when some asshat pulling a trailer behind his white Dodge pickup came within two feet of me at a rather substantial rate of speed. [...]

This kid was 10 years old.
The investigation still continues, but police say Vaclav stopped his bicycle on the sidewalk of Bailey Hill Road Monday afternoon, waiting to cross the street. Traffic stopped to allow him to cross and he entered the roadway. That’s when they say a 16-year-old driver sped around a stopped car on [...]

So there you have it. Idaho’s senior senator goes down in a bathroom bamboozle, and utter silence from this Idaho masquerading as Arizona website.
What
The
Fuck?
Big “Boise” Jonny, Chopper, all the ifso factso notso, quiteso Idahoans … not a fucking peep!
Mighty, mighty, suspicious.
I am on a fucking diet. I am using Fitday to count calories. I am [...]

From the horse’s mouth.

And I quote: “The evolution of society, the change in mentality and the future conception… all have little by little turned the cycle industry towards the racing bike (700C) and VTT (26″).”.

Gonzo walks away after what Bush describes as “months of unfair treatment”.
My heart bleeds. Really
“After months of unfair treatment that has created a harmful distraction at the Justice Department, Judge Gonzales decided to submit his resignation and I have accepted his decision,” Bush said from Texas, where he is vacationing.
…Bush denounced what he called [...]