It has been some time since I’ve checked in here. A long while in internet times even. This deserves attention however.
There is nothing bourbon about this Jim Beam Red Stag. In desperation, with the shelves of the liquor store bare from a week long snow storm that has more or less paralyzed the city [...]

How do you get a poster home from Interbike?
First you eat it, and then you poop it out.
Eat, then poop.
Eat then poop!
Wise words from Sov as day three closed, and all the tradeshow coverage you truly need this year.

251 Tips that Suck
1. Ride your bicycle piss-drunk. Fun will rain upon you like blood from your forehead. You may run down a pedestrian, engage in fisticuffs with a motorist, lose a big gamble or even invent your own particular style of a good time. Or you might crash and burn on the median, losing [...]

Things are different in Germany.
I mean, here in the US of A I don’t think this sort of ad would fly. Parking a bicycle in someone’s ass-crack to promote a bicycle classified site? Effective yes, but definitely not something these shores are ready for.
That poor woman may need a Re-skin.

After a relaxing post-Interbike day in the Flagstaff offices of Drunkcyclist, it would figure that I’d get bumped from my early AM flight back east. “Overweight” was the charge – too many checked bags from the rest of the passengers bringing home dreamcatchers and kachina dolls. As I type my seat is empty on my [...]

This may be all you really need to see from Interbike 2007, but if you must there is more coverage form yours truly at BlueCollarMTB and Urban Velo.

I’m not even there and I’m hearing it already.
“Interbike sucks.”
I thought day one of the convention would be hard enough – running the hamster wheel of cubicle life before boarding a plane to Vegas with an anticipated arrival roughly 5 hours before I’d have to get up and hit the floor. And then hit [...]

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

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″).”.

Another friend has fallen to an automobile accident. Honorary cyclist, Malice.

From one of Malice’s best friends:
This is awful news so I won’t try to polish it. One of our best friends is dead. And you can say it’s not a human life, but we’ve all lost a friend in Malice.
What an awesome dog. [...]

Yeah thats right. You’re out there looking for an extra body on your 24hr team at Seven Springs, coming up in two weeks. September 1-2. On this, the last day of registration.
That fellow in pink? Thats your guy. He’s not very fast, but he’s not very slow either. Has camping gear, lights and lots [...]

The annual conference of recycled bike shops/collectives has touched down in Pittsburgh for ‘07. Bike Bike is on.
While much of the cycling world sheds a tear for Johan, this group doesn’t give a shit. And they’re healthier for it, as are the communities they all call home.
We’ve got 200+ folks from out of [...]

While the rest of the cycling world was stuck to the television and computer following the who’s who of blood transfusions and horse medication, I was riding and eating ice cream with a bunch of friends.
Ice cream is my anti-drug. Rather than making me go faster and longer it makes me go slower and [...]

Could the Handmade Bicycle Show find its way to Pittsburgh come 2009?

Past years have seen the show in Houston and San Jose, and for 2008 the Handmade show is scheduled for February 8 – 10 in Portland, Oregon. The show’s founder and behind the scenes workhorse Don Walker is looking to move the show [...]

Doping.

1 in 10 American women take antidepressants on a daily basis, tripling in the past decade.
In 2002 6% of boys were taking antidepressants and another 14% of the were on prescription stimulants for ADHD etc.
In 1999-2000, overall 44% of Americans were taking at least one prescription drug. 17% of Americans were taking three or [...]

I feel for Ohio. They can’t help it. Not east enough to have that grit, not west enough for twang. Right in the middle, the terrible place you have to drive through on the way from anywhere northeast to Chicago and beyond. And not a Superbowl ring between any of them.
It must be tough. [...]

Mainstream racing and the bullshit fees and attitudes that come with it are for the birds. My days of forking over $35 plus a license fee + a parking fee + three bucks for water only to hear the organizer whine about not making cash-money are pretty well over. Once or twice a year maybe, [...]

July 3rd was the opening of Urban Velo’s inaugural Art By Cyclists event.

Art By Cyclists. Get it? Not art featuring bicycles. These are artists that ride bikes, or cyclists that make art, or some combination of the two and their current pick of what piece to show off in such an illustrious show. Rudi [...]

I got so much trouble on my mind
I refuse to lose
Here’s your ticket
Hear the drummer get wicked
Welcome to the Ghettodrome

Its really a half mile crit racing track, with a bit of a hump in the middle. And a downhill front stretch. Meaning there’s an uphill finish. But the curves are banked, so its good enough [...]

The guy on the left – Pittsburgh’s boy-Mayor Luke Ravenstahl
The guy on the right – Executive Director of Bike Pittsburgh
The Mayor on our new bike lanes, “The lanes will further encourage biking as a mode of transportation, promoting a healthy lifestyle and environment by encouraging exercise and reducing carbon emissions.” Fuck. Yeah.
When was the [...]