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Gnome’s post sure got a lot of Flagstaff attention lately, especially from people not usually associated with Drunkcyclist. It was clear from the moment i read it that it was going to get some panties in bunches, because he went right at a few topics all at once. and he didn’t flinch, blanch, or mince [...]

On the lighter side of life, I ate pretty good shit rolling through campus the other day. En route, back from the DMV where I retrieved a title to the car I sold, I clipped a pedal on an uneven cobbled corner and as Miller said… “You got Godsmacked”. My hands didn’t leave the bars. [...]

The FBO has a very diplomatic report regarding the local USFS closing some pre-existing trails under an umbrella known as the “Fort Valley Restoration Project.” The closure was labeled as “an effort to protect” the Mexican Spotted Gray Owl (TMSGO). A bird that seems to have survived until now without the “desperately needed crutch of [...]

Next time you hear someone in Arizona bitching about “those damn Mexicans” or whatever other colorful phrase is in vogue, remind them that not more than 160 years ago, all of this was Mexico.
They call it the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. It was signed on February 2, 1848.

The rest of it went [...]

BGR was telling me about this one the other day. Kid outta nowhere makes it big in the city. Or something like that.
While out on a trail ride, a group of bicyclists spy a small blaze and douse it, stomp it and build a fire line around it.
Firefighters dubbed a small blaze near [...]

Overheard at the bike shop:
“What’d he call me?”
“Vanilla.”
“Why’d he call me Vanilla?”
“I dunno. Some kind of put down I guess. Trying to say you’re bland or something.”
“How’d he know vanilla was my favorite flavor?”
“Vanilla is your favorite flavor?”
“Are you kidding. Vanilla might just be the greatest flavor of all time.”
And so it [...]

At 34, I once again set down the wrenches and walked away from another tour of Shop Life. This time, it was only 6 months long and it bridged the gap between a failed Tucson design gig and my new life as a member of the biketrailershop.com family. I was happy to be back in [...]

(It seems they took the image down… Bummer.) Thanks goodness I saved it.
More here…
In other news… Don’t worry if you don’t read italian, the pics tell the whole story.

I can’t even explain how badly I want want WANT this bike.
—bp

Friday was one hell of a day. I had flatted the front tire on my cross bike about week prior while pedaling my happy ass back from the jobby job. Since I’ve got a garage full of bikes, I left her at home and ran through a couple of worthy alternates for some [...]