i rode this big jerk of a bicycle up a big jerk of a hill today. it’s metal as fuck and weighs in just shy of the 50lb mark, what with its lo-ten tubes and all.  i once gave a tap of the screwdriver on the top tube to see what sort of pretty ring could [...]

Hey yo – thanks for that intro Gnome, and thanks for asking me to write for DC. A few things about me….. 1. I was a bike messenger in San Francisco in the early 90′s. 2. That city chewed me up and spit me out. 3. I spent 4 months in a drug rehab detoxing [...]

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 [...]

BikeSnob, as he is prone to, nailed this one in a recent post. And, yes, I don’t even try to be current. I just talk about what everyone else is already talking about. Since the invention of moving pictures, only pornographers and the Nazis have documented their endeavors on camera more assiduously than the “bike [...]

I caught this piece on NPR the other day as I was eating lunch. It was one of those moments where everything stopped. I sat, still, quietly, at the kitchen table. My lunch was long gone, and still I remained, listening to the entire program before I arose from by chair. I went straight to [...]

In no particular order, I present the randomness of my experiences. This is what my view looked like as the girls napped last week. Yes, I was on the rollers in the kitchen. Big Kitchen gets it done. I’ve had the time to see some quality television these last three weeks. And, I suppose that [...]

Hmmmm where to start with this one??? Big Juan and I were talking today about change. Change in our lives of when we used to live in a 400 square foot apartment together. Him getting DC off the ground every day writing posts. Me eating miles and trying to make it to the “bigs”. Juan [...]

The last time we flipped a decade, folks were stocked up on canned goods and paying out the ass to have source code updated. What’d ya mean this thing can’t count past 99? 1900 and 2000 are the same, eh? Awesome. Bring on Y2K. It came and went and we’re still here. Then nine became [...]

Sounds like fireworks and noise out there, soon to fizzle away. And here we have 2010. A numeric beginning. Two years ago, I was a few rungs south in the latitude, and building up more bikes more often. Ahhh… I had a nice bar stool at my work table and a Park TS2, and the [...]

I sit in the backyard, chair turned toward the sun, with 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, irrigated, overseeded, fertilized. I am reading [...]

I don’t know who these guys are, but I like their style. Read about them here: ritteracing.com/story. Check out the kick ass looking bike they’re selling here: ritteracing.com/ritte-bicycles. They like Belgium. I like Belgium. We all like Belgium. So, I’m watching football the other night while trying to get a head count of who exactly [...]

This freaks me out a little bit. Source: www.ritteracing.com/2009/12/post-euro-era.