Happy Friday everyone. Now go gouge out your eyes.
From: Snake Hawk
Subject: yeah, bro.
get it. i’m feeling super hot today, king of the world, top of the food chain. after i made my breakfast of frozen waffles with canned peach wedges on top, and did my push-ups and crapped, i thought that i [...]

Small packages
Cigarettes are never as fun as you think they’ll be when you light one up. Nothing but disappointment in a small package.
The full moon split the tree tops and I sat on the back patio facing the moonlight. I found her cigarettes where I thought they’d be, in the center of the [...]

14 scheduled repairs at 10am. Walk in, try to take it in stride. First custy I help shows the dim bulb response. After minutes of contemplation over combos or keyed locks, he brings up the key version and asks, can you open this so I can test it out?”
I knew the day was on the [...]

How Beer Works

On Sunday I got in another ride of one hour. I went _maybe_ 10 miles.
It is better than nothing I suppose
El Grande Link dump:

[tucson's off the heezy] tuconweekly.com
[gringo central] theblack13.blogspot.com
[time fuck] michaeldorf.org
[watch for bikes] photobasement.com
[learn how to dope] granfondocyclingtours.com
[Intelligent] bike for sale on craigslist
[bicycles & mowing] craigslist
[sacrifices at the [...]

The Wagon
I sat in the front seat,
she was driving.
On a small back road
we passed an Idaho farm.
Mostly dust now, and sparce brown grass.
There was a broken, withered wagon
abandoned in the front yard.
Now midday sun blasting the shadows out,
just gone in the brightness.
Every crack and busted plank
of that wagon was illuminated.
I saw myself in this.
Much older, [...]

After Saunier-Duval pulled the plug, Scott bicycles was joined by American Beef. Talk about strange bed-fellows. Now it seems that Scott bicycles has had enough and is discontinuing sponsorship. What now? In lieu of dopped up Italians, the team will now be riding doped up cattle?
Source: www.cyclingnews.com

Sad news outta the northeast today:

A bicyclist, John Lacaillade II, 38, from Meredith, NH, was killed yesterday on Route 25 in Porter, Maine, when he lost control of his bike and fell under the rear wheels of a tractor trailer.
Read the news account here on MaineToday.com. Read a more detailed article here.
I know that section [...]

Yep, in his own words. And I’m not going to bother posting any of his words. The pics are enough. Must already have a dozen emails (so far) with people sending shit in.
Bottom line: Our man Chris was at SSWC spreading the love like mayonnaise.
And if that didn’t gross you [...]

handlebarsandwich.com has a full sswc08 report. Thanks to Nate for the sweet pic.

Since the DC crew is old, and can’t find the time to get out to the sswc since 2002, at least we have things like this to keep us in the loop:
From: Doug E. Moore
Cheers to the DC clad, beer gutted, single speeder charging at Worlds today in Napa!!! I just pulled a dusty DC [...]

First of many, I assume.

Dew, love ya man. Don’t ever change.

Sometimes I get a piece of something, like this email here for instance, that I just know is going to land a great big old pile of shit right here on top of my shoes. And I like my shoes. Or, maybe I’m not wearing shoes. Or pants. I digress. [...]

Eagles 27, Patriots 17.
Take that, you bastards.
It looks like the statue of Billy Penn I have on top of my fridge, pointing lovelingly eastward towards the lands he “acquired”, is doing it’s magic.
I’ll take what I can get.
Go Eagles.

You’d Have Them Do Unto You.
Only seems fitting that there are those in Washington who view Russia’s recent emboldenment as a problem. Worried that Russian arms sales could undercut Western policy or even current conflicts. Hmmm, seems rather similar to when Russia invaded Afghanistan and the U.S. supplied the Taliban.

No doubt, there are a many a people without a bike:
From: Dano
Subject: Rotten Thieving Dirtbag
Jonny,
This link is worthy of your site: anybody, anywhere sees this rotten, thieving dirtbag on the street, he must be dealt with — and harshly.
What it said…

Toronto residents searched for their own stolen bicycles among 2,865 recovered by the police during [...]

His Coeness sent in this little gem saying, simply, that “the site speaks for itself…”
I concur.
www.timmkoelln.com/the_peloton
Happy Friday, everyone.

I don’t know how he did it really, but the guy made it to Moab from Flagstaff with quite the story in reflection:
From: BGR
Subject: Finally Made it
Well it isn’t prompt, but here is my final leg of the trip update.
Check out the photos here.
After finishing my last update and loading up on what I believed [...]