in keeping with Snake’s theme
It’s all about the Attitude

This is going to be a pretty weak post. Mostly because the riding is off the hook right now in the desert southwest and I have better shit to do than type. So here it goes:
This might be the link of the week so far, keep hitting refresh notahipsterbecause.com.
A few years ago I had the pleasure [...]

This week, for the first time in 2 years, I got on an airplane without a bike. It felt kind of weird, if not just plain uncomfortable. But there I was, standing in the Reno airport, snowboard under my arm and ready to tackle some Sierra snow. It’s not often that i leave home without a bike (or two) [...]

It never ceases to amaze me the amount of us that are out there. The drunkcyclist family is everywhere and we are growing. I first started noticing this phenomenon a few years ago when I was just some guy wearing the jersey of my friend’s website. Countless people would hand me beers, pat me on the [...]

Another 24 Hours in the Old Pueblo is in the books, and as always, the folks over at Epic Rides put on one hell of an event. I represented DC the only way I know how. Obnoxiously.

 If you have never been to this little piece of heaven in the desert, this is what you are missing:
 
It was a [...]

“Gearing up for getting down” is an expression that I use a lot, some might even say too much. I stole the line from an old skateboard video and it has been a part of my vocabulary since I was a kid. It happens around 2 minutes into this video.
I spent the whole day today gearing up for getting [...]

Because sometimes we need a little extra something to get us to Friday.

What do a sandwich, a waterfall, and Tom Sellick have in common? Everything.
This kid goes big, and keeps it simple. I like it.
That gets me ready to ride. Kind of like Colt Fake’s little video.
Over at Ninebullets they stream a bunch of mellow shit I have [...]

Some people don’t hold grudges, and I’m sad to say that I am not one of those people. Sometimes they seem like a really productive use of time and energy, but most of the time they are downright foolish.
File this one under foolish:
It goes all the way back to the 1996 NORBA nationals at Mt. Snow, [...]

Hey guys, we need to talk. This isn’t to everybody, but you know who you are. I have put up with the half shirts on men, the sleeveless jerseys with arm warmers, the sketchy group rides… but I have to object at the new trend of compression socks.
People have been riding bikes for a long [...]

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I was checking out bikesnobnyc today and was surprised to see him mention the bike co-op in my fair city, bikesaviours.

He sums it up pretty well HERE .
Now, even though I haven’t had much interaction with this co-op, they seem pretty legit.  I actually live in the same neighborhood as a few of them..so although the [...]

So Big Kitchen was supposed to meet me at the Agnostic Front show last night and he texts me at the last minute to cancel. His skirt got caught in in his chain, or something like that.
I brought my camera so that he could see what he missed and this is what I came up with:

I [...]

I have been riding my bike to work a lot lately. This gives me a couple hours per day to ponder life. In fact just about every post I have written here has been the result of that 1 hour each way on pancake flat streets. I do a few things to mix it up [...]

I don’t get serious very often, but do you know why you REALLY have today off? From the  Letter From a Birmingham Jail to the famous I Have a Dream speech to the rest of his oratory art…the motivation and the follow through to take on The Man is simply remarkable.
It was one part vision mixed [...]

Lets set the record straight, I’m not a road racer. I am first and foremost a mountain biker with some strong roots in BMX. But that doesn’t mean I can’t be addicted to everything bike. As a youngster racing downhill my mind was closed to all the other bikes out there. We used to call the roadies [...]

I decided that I needed to start posting on a regular basis and Tuesday seems like as good of a day as any. You might find this entertaining, you might not..but I’m going to do it anyway.
I just finished a ride and  I have been sipping away at this fine glass of Sailor Jerry on the rocks [...]

With the new year upon us, it is inevitable that the best of/worst of lists will start to appear. I just stumbled on one from the Village Voice that I thought was pretty interesting. How many of these come over your headphones when you ride?
The Worst 50 Songs of the 00’s
50. brokeNCYDE, “Bree Bree”
49. LL Cool [...]

Lately my life seems to be a series of road trips interrupted by occasional work..and this week it finds me in Savannah, Georgia. The BMX scene here is small but really good… My plane landed at noon, my bike was built in the airport parking lot and we instantly drove to PK’s house somewhere in [...]

So I was killing some time over at Kore bike shop yesterday and something in the display case caught my eye:

 They are set #4 out of 10,  24 Karat gold plated Phil Wood track hubs retailing for just under a grand. Now I have Phil hubs on a few of my bikes and I am convinced [...]

I saw this post a while back and decided to go check these guys out
I am always down to support a bike friendly business and and I knew a little lady that just happen to want that tattoo. Coincedentaly they are right  next door to Carly’s, which is one of the better places in downtown Phoenix to get [...]