The Whiskey came and the Whiskey went, with shots of fine liquor and a dime well spent. It was last year’s event that I first met Dirty, knew at first sight that we’d be flirty. Hell, who wouldn’t be with a guy who gives Jim Beam, after blowing all his steam after that climb so mean? Now Read the full article…

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 Read the full article…

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 Read the full article…

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 Read the full article…

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 Read the full article…

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 Read the full article…

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 Read the full article…

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 Read the full article…

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 Read the full article…

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 Read the full article…

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 Read the full article…