Ever been on a ride and hit a squirrel? Shit can get real bad, real quick like. I remembered the post a few days ago about a busted carbon seatpost, and It looks like many of you have either contributed to or should to busted carbon dot com. You’re wondering where the rest of the Read the full article…

A box came for me on Friday. Inside was this: Raleigh is letting me demo this bike for my race season. Here is what went down. I went out to King’s to do some CX practice last week. After a couple of laps around the course, I was doing some intervals. One minute on, one Read the full article…

If you’re a DC Facebook fan, you may have seen the question of the day today. For those of you who aren’t savvy enough with the Interwebz to figgur out the Bookface, here it is: Q: What’s really expensive, about 400mm long, and sounds like a thousand crunchy tacos? Winner gets D2′s undying respect. Ha! Read the full article…

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 Read the full article…

Had me a pretty good bike week last week…which is to say, I rode. I got out on the mountain bike twice while the weather was beautiful and in the 70s, which is fortunate because it snowed today. It’s also fortunate because I had almost no free time…I ran into Gnome on the trails and Read the full article…

As a general rule, I try not to do too much bitching about the industry, since I have, technically, been a part of it and reaped many benefits from it. I stopped working in a shop back in October and have since been a member of the real world, so I’m making some observations as Read the full article…

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 Read the full article…

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 Read the full article…

Welcome to This Old Bike. Today on This Old bike, some unsettling news from Seattle: Mother Katie’s kid-towing, hill crushing bike has been stolen. “This bike represents the most time I’ve eva spent tinkerin’ on any rig. So when I herd that it was lifted, that just made me rip-shit mad.” “Yeah, Norm, I am Read the full article…

I’m sitting square in the middle of my third winter well south of the snow line. I’d be lying if I said I missed it. And, while I’m knocking gin splashed ice cubes off the sides of this glass and spitt’n shit all over the keyboard, I wanna say fuck that “you gotta earn it Read the full article…

My wife and I have been in nonstop travel mode since before Thanksgiving, and about an hour ago, I just got home from Vegas and realized how much I just want to stay at home for, like, an entire month. Alas, Snowbird is calling next month, though I suppose I shouldn’t complain. A week slopeside Read the full article…

This morning I woke up at 6am, coughing. I layed in bed, holding my pee, and coughing. I was hoping I could lay in bed a while longer, but the cough kept on, waking Dominic up about 20 minutes later. Dominic: You know you aren’t racing tomorrow. Me: Shut up. It’s the last race. I’m Read the full article…