From: frye
Subject: recycle
i finally found a use for the stock bars from my track bike…..tap handle…swweeett if yur east valley and need a drink hit me up for some delicioso tecate.
love the site
later
frye

Frye, you just might get some takers. Better find some other old parts to make a tip jar, quick [...]

Just got home, checking email and the like. What’d I get? I got this:

When I work from home, I watch what’s going on outside. Dope boys come and go from the house across the street. He seems to be the steady supplier for many. I often wonder what drug he sells. His kids come over here to get their bikes fixed. Not once have they ever thanked us. [...]

I promise people: The next posting I make will be poetic and positive. But for now, I’m opening the door of my hurt locker to allow you to look within. It is a desperate grasp for commonality that I can’t find in the people I see today. My hope in humanity [...]

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 [...]

After 11 years as a professional, Bobbie Traksel (Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team) locked down the biggest win of his career as he out paced Rick Flens (Rabobank) and Ian Stannard (Sky Professional Cycling Team) to win the 63rd edition of Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne in Belgium on Sunday.
In classically brutal Belgian weather conditions, the 28-year-old had instigated what [...]

I’m sick. And sore. I have a cough and am all snotty and shit. My doc called in some cough syrup (minus the hydrocodone). It seems to be helping. A little.
So I’ve missed a long ride this week. Was off the bike 3 days. Who really cares? Is it really going to make a [...]

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: Mark S.
Subject: Storm Damage
With all the news lately about the subzero weather and snow that the midwest and east coast areas are experiencing, we shouldn’t forget that Southern California has its share of devastating weather also.
Attached is a photo illustrating the excessive damage caused to a home from a west coast storm that [...]

Photo is of yours truly at the 2004 24 Hours in the Old Pueblo. I raced solo-single speed that year. I got sixth. Someone handed me a glass of draft beer immediately upon crossing the finish line. It just felt right.
Seems like a lifetime ago.
That was me on form. [...]

I’m not sure who took this photo, or where and when they took it. Or, for that matter, why they took it. Was it to memorialize something? A place in time? A road trip with friends? A crappy little exit somewhere off some soulless interstate highway?
Could be Arizona. [...]

I was digging in the crates (anything over school work, go figure) and came up with these two fine wallpaper images from days of yore. Thank you Snake Hawk. You are both a gentleman and a scholar. Click through to download large image.

What’d ya’ll think about DC wallpaper images? Funny? [...]

From: Dan
The once every seven years dusting of snow in Nashvegas. Had to get the ‘cross bike in it.
-dan
eastsidecyclist.blogspot.com
Nice to see a Surly putting in work.

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.

Yes, ladies and gentleman, that would be three (3) days of riding. In a row, no less.