This one in from our boy 40 Hands.
Here we go, I’m gonna make my best attempt at giving you full and complete report about the entity that was SSAZ/SSUSA. Let me start off by giving a big thanks to Mr. Dejay Birtch for putting everything together. For me it all started the [...]

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 [...]

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)

I went to Goldsprints tonight. Not a scene I normally hang out in, but my friend Kelon does, and he talked me into going.
The first two rounds I raced dudes. And lost.

Then for the 3rd round, I raced a girl. It just so happened to be a girl named Cooper I raced CX [...]

That’s the question I get from family and friends more often than any other.
Well, I’d say it’s pretty awesome and x-mas-y and butt-assed-cold. -11 this morning, and supposed to get down to -22 tonight. (thats 12 and -4 respectively to you non-metric heads.)

It’s getting icier by the day, but with Mex-mas™ creeping up, there [...]

Yes, dear piggies, the Flight Of The Pigs is well underway. Looks like a damn good time out there on two wheels.

That would be, from left to right, the gnome, the sauce, and Dr. Jon. Good on ya boys, give ‘em hell. Me? I’ll be putting my girls down for their [...]

. . . shotgunning beers just seemed like the right thing to do.

Pic from the Kona Two Four in Colorado a few years back.

Yes, folks, he is living the dream.
From: Legs
Back at the pub.

Seems our boy Legs is overseas and enjoying himself. Good on ya.
From: Legs
Subject: Thinking of you
Sitting in a pub in Manchester, England and here a few of the sights.

Here is the pub mascot, Rocky.

Happy Friday.

Our man in the field, Hellbelly, proves once again, that all underground is local:
Gnome,
The weather was great and as a result waterline road was extremely crowded with peoples checking out the fall colors especially at the intersection of trails below the inner basin. We had 25 veloluchadores in various stages of inebriation at the top. [...]

From: Chris
just saw a pic of myself representin’ DC over on bikesnob
bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com
how many hipster points does that score me?

Combined with the fact that you’re drinking beer in that pic, I think you just maxed the DC hipster meter. And I didn’t even know we had one of those things. Gnome must’ve [...]

Turns out being a middle man sucks.
Without further adu I would like to indroduce Bacardi Marty to Big Pun. Seems a while back I was up at Martys place dropping some things off at his house when he issued a challenge to Big Pun. Some things were said and I likened it to [...]

First up, support your local bike shop such as this one in Fremont that offers bike repair lessons as well as prime parade-front realestate should you be one of those recluse parade fiends. 

here is my view after sucking down a coupla pbr 24’s. damage mcgehee’s impossibly ugly feet on the hotel bed the night before he tries to do 643.738 laps in less than 3:47:26 That would be an average of 24.36 mph. Which incidentally would be a new world record. [...]

Less than 24 hours away from hum day. That means it’s time for a little linkdump. 
A Brian Vernor documentary on touring Africa… “Where Are You Go”:
 

Which brings me to the question I often ponder: Is there any place in Africa that doesn’t resemble hell? 

from: Mr. Sparkle
Hey up, big man. Que pasa, as we say in England. I [...]

Flakeman’s request – no matter how it happened – came at the last moment and as it happened, it was exactly what the doctor ordered. By noon Friday the Hippy and I were en route to L.A. for a wedding along with a much needed excursion from this form of normalcy. And more importantly, it [...]

It’s 6:10 in the PM the day after. My hangover weighs a ton and by the end of it all, EK donned the Thong.

Ultimately, nobody cared about the course marker issue after the fact. At least not here. It was what it was, which was stupid… all the way around. Personally, it was a very [...]

from: jon g.
subject: Prohibition
Tomorrow is April 7th. This is the day in 1933 that beer was legalized after the 13 year prohibition. So, grab yourself a beer and raise your glass to FDR for allowing this glorious thing to happen.
“At 12:01 a.m. on April 7, 1933, sirens, fire alarms and train whistles shrieked. In Chicago, [...]