Back in my college days I had a roommate that had a lot of IF bikes. All steel, all campy, and all with custom paint jobs. We didn’t dare touch them or even think about riding them. But this roommate also liked Guinness beer, a whole heck of a lot. Whenever he would get all tanked on that [...]

Really. Just read it ten minutes ago. After more than a week in court, plaintiff Specialized was left with just one charge against Volagi, breach of contract by the two former employees. Just before noon, local time the verdicts came in: Robert Choi guilty of breach of contract. Barley Forsman, not guilty. But the message [...]

File this under “Damn the Man.” SPECIALIZED BICYCLES SUES FORMER EMPLOYEES WHO CREATE START-UP. Specialized is no different than any other large corporation. These non-compete clauses are very common, and they are ridiculous. I understand trying to protect  your proprietary developments in house, but honestly, the day a corporation owns my thoughts is the day [...]

I rode my CX bike yesterday for the first time since last November. I thought I should probably test out the bike since I am racing tomorrow. Dominic had the bike all ready to go for me when I came home from work. He mentioned that he put his old 10 speed Ultegra shifter and [...]

Tucson Bike Swap website. For the price of a needed radiator, a frame jig will be for sale one day only at Gaba Bike Swap tomorrow morning. It is a fund raiser for my auto parts counter addiction. I will also have some other parts to sell, and will have the stand set up, with [...]

Right on Main Avenue, near the train tracks and the Western edge of the Dunbar Spring neighborhood, is a building housing Jimbo, a cyclist woodworker, and Ed, a frame builder in the early prime of his career. Pistol Pete owns one. That man is as serious as they come when it comes to expedition bicycle [...]

This weekend rediscovered the joys of being off the bike, and Sunday was perfect.  I have since Saturday been deep in the finer side of maintenance camp. I’m at it with two bikes on the stand.  One is a 54cm Tange rig that will utilize some idle road parts and go on the market.  And, [...]

My view – notice not from the right side but from the center of the lane.  I’m moving very fast. I think that the most dangerous thing we can do is to hang out on the right side too much. Being in the center has saved my life more than once… saved me from being [...]

i’m not doping.  i’m trying to fit in here again.  i’m probably the smartest person on the whole site here, but i just haven’t chimed in lately to say anything about it because i’ve been too busy racking up impossibly high percent results in classes such as Math 140 and English 112.  then i got [...]

Imagine you need to change the cable on your dream honey road bike, the one you adore, and you come across this: Pictured here is a Campagnolo 8 speed shifter, with a badly stuck, misshapen cable end, cut to the quick, mentioned in an earlier post and since, my sweet baby has been sitting apart, [...]

On this week’s edition of “This Old Bike”, we are working with a classic USA made Trek 950, from the 80s, one of Norm’s favorite bicycle eras. A golden age mountain bike restoared; today on “This Old Bike” (clarinet music begins) [photo tour of old restored bikes] (fade music)  “My name is Senna.  Welcome to [...]

My sleep patterns got all fucked up. Yesterday I had to work 1p-1a. I had a scheduled rest day so before work I went downtown and hung out with my friend Susan in her art gallery. Her bike got stripped a few weeks ago and Dominic found her a set of wheels for 15 bucks [...]