I am on the road yet again and this trip finds me in Moab, UT. This place never gets old. Some try and say otherwise and I say those people are blind fools. It has fluctuated in popularity over the years but fun will always be had here. I remember the first time I came here, 10 [...]

We get a ton of great emails from you guys every day and I make sure to read every single one.  This week, one in particular took the cake. It was just a picture of a piece of paper and note that said “put this in a mailbox tonight”.  I think this is 100%  pure [...]

Greetings from a strip mall. That’s right, I landed safely and securely in Colorado Springs, and since the interwebs company can’t seem to get their shite together, I am without a home internet connection for the time being. I am therefore at the whim of the Starbucks internet connection and the mercy of the very [...]

I entered a trance like mind-space induced by speed Rejoicing I went up residential 23rd and ripped down 24th Eating green lights, speeding for ten streets The sun came out, and, feeling like a teenager I went up the hill and did it again. A state of joy can persist tossing away worry and want [...]

Thanks to the sketchiness that is craigslist, I was fortunate enough to stumble upon some tickets to see Tool in concert in Vegas this past weekend. The show was unreal. I hadn’t seen those guys in concert since 2003, and they’ve only gotten better since then. Now, I try not to get all Fanboy about [...]

R+E is not open yet but if it was I’d go in and ask an obscure question about obscure parts and dream of a new Rodriguez tandem Now a hill.  Down we go carving turns around car spaces Happy I still have this little bike I’m out to show you my favorite places here in [...]

My man CaseNuggets sent this one to me via email one day recently. Seems both he & I were dumb enough to enroll in summer school classes. Buy the ticket, take the ride. i fold. i just can’t take it anymore. they caught me red handed. i’m tired of the lies, the blood, the false [...]

Seattle is my home now, and Count Vermin fades in rear view. I have found it. Poised to be a real bike city. Not that snobby, I find. With dirty pants, I ride in traffic all through North Seattle, loving the new-ness of every corner and hill. It is not California, and not Oregon. That [...]

Two years ago, I bought a chain fattest chain I could find at Bimsco Hardware on Stone Avenue. Tonight I did the same thing I’ve been doing three nights in a row, and that is yin within yang: sitting by the woodstove listening to BBC World News and chain smoking from my mesquite pipe. But [...]

Along light colored sand
she said: “Brown becomes the aesthetic.”
Only four years later, I get it.

I don’t get serious very often, but do you know why you REALLY have today off? From the  Letter From a Birmingham Jail to the famous I Have a Dream speech to the rest of his oratory art…the motivation and the follow through to take on The Man is simply remarkable. It was one part vision [...]

I had not thought about my old friend The Big Hurt much of late. It wasn’t until my wife told me a story this week of a co-worker of hers, a nice guy about my age that I’ve met exactly once, that I thought much about it at all. Seems the old boy went through [...]