Tuesday night I get the call from bobejin:  “dude, what the shit! It’s Tuesday night, why haven’t you posted anything yet? I know  you were on a road trip this weekend” then I proceeded to ignore him and sit back on the chair in my driveway with a can of Tecate and watch the pretty girls walk by.
The truth of [...]

Two years ago, I bought a chain
fattest chain I could find at Bimsco Hardware on Stone Avenue.
Tonight I did the same thing I’ve been doing
three nights in a row, and that is
yin within yang: sitting by the woodstove
listening to BBC World News
and chain smoking from my mesquite pipe.
But this time I got something accomplished.
I pulled [...]

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 [...]

From: Response
Subject: HK bike trend?
I see this in HK only. 20 inch bikes with banana seats and home made aluminum extrusion sissy bars.
Allows an adult to ride a cheap kids bike for a fraction of the cost of the piley overpriced 20″ commuter bikes that are so popular here. I think there [...]

These came in from one of our South of the Border Correspondents. He titled his email “boguie wonderland.” There was no accompanying text. What the hell is “boguie”?
I take it to mean this:
Anything that is perceived as “upscale” from a blue-collar point of view. ‘Bougie’ (pronounced boo’-she) is a hacked truncation of [...]

Toying with the idea of selling the Landshark. (no I’m not) busted my winter wheel, time to clean her up and put the GOOD wheels on ‘er. (…to have and to hold) take the glamour shots in departing sunlight (the frame doesn’t fit) and degrade this legendary bicycle with a Seattle craigslist post.

From: Response
Subject: Chinese bike
Here is at typical bike in my town. 24 inch built for two, no lie.
This one is in pretty new condition. Many folks don’t even remove the bubble wrap from the frame and they ride the with every bolt loose so the kick stand mounted on the rear axle [...]

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 [...]

Happy Vday to me! She’s done! Dominic worked on it all day. This picture just does not do it any justice. It’s way more beautiful in person. You still can’t see all the candy colors. I promised the Colonial I’d post a picture outside but we have like 2 feet of snow out there and [...]

Put a helmet on when doing fast, dumb, or unusual shit. Your hands might catch the street but your bike can smack your skull. (I found out)

Soon, I am going to have a bad ass old school Trek MTB. All for under 100 bucks. Recycled bikes are the best.

What is that phrase I keep seeing? Chromo or….homo? Whatever. This frame is chromoly. I take it that’s a good thing?

TITS (Time In The Saddle). Got that from Suzanne.
Yesterday we rode fixed for 31, today I rode solo for 58.
89 miles in 2 days. I’ll take it for Feb 1st.

We were driving by and some people had this bike out by the trash. It’s a Monark, mid-50’s. It’ll sit in our basement for who-knows-how-long. Someday it’ll spin again.

For all you Apple dorks, which I am not, by the way.

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 [...]

From Calfee Design. A bamboo/hemp ‘cross bike.

From: Response
Subject: Chinese driving rules
I have only been riding in my Chinese town for 8 months.
I am the only white guy cyclist in a city of a few hundred thousand people. My biggest fear is that I will be hit by a car that is trying to avoid someone doing something stupid. Its just [...]

Hey DC, this is something that any bike geek would really dig.  The newest addition to the Woody’s line up- shaped (no shit) concave convex wood fenders.  I’m still blown away at how these turned out.  I can do just about any of the patterns on my site and make them shaped just like plastic fenders.  Please check em’ [...]

when i encounter acts of stupidity that also qualify as humorous i am tempted to share with the wider world.
this morning the alarm went off at 5am sharp. since i am a bicycle industry rep these days i usually dont start that early, but this being a sunday and me having committed to Bill [...]

I sit in the backyard, chair turned toward the sun, reading a new book.
The sun is warm and good. I need this. Our house was built in 1992. Brand new by east coast standards. Ancient history in the ever expanding, southwestern metropolis of Phoenix. The lawn is manicured, [...]

Today I went and bought another bike. This time, I drove to Oak Harbor and found out it’s quite a ways out from the Vern. I cannot believe there are people in my class that commute from that far There are actually four students in the class from the same two bridges [...]