… when I save things that remind me of something, but later I can’t remember what they remind me of. It’s like my brain has an itch that I can’t scratch. Oh well, relegated to the recycling bin after all.
I had nothing better to do last night than drink beer and rearrange shit in my [...]

I was thinking today (while riding my bike of course, a wonderful time to think) about all the things that people do on the bike which I am able to recognize from afar that make me have no respect whatsoever for their skills on the bike. I might like some help with this from readers [...]

How is it possible that I can be so hideously inept at this most basic of bike maintenance activities?
Today I managed to install two new chainrings without having to undo everything and redo it multiple times. Not so for the bar tape. That I can never do on the first try.
All thumbs. No skill.

This from a column of breaking news on the New York Times online at 9:35pm on April 8.

Lay off

January 15, 2009 | 1 Comment

Gosh, you all are boring.

So we can all go faster in our cars? And scare the crap out of any cyclists we happen to pass?(Mind you, at $499.99, I am not enticed.)
Though I dislike The Man as much as the next irritable cyclist who has seen many sketchy automobile vs. bicycle actions go unnoticed under the nose of a [...]

Crazy shit

October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Scotch tape emits X-rays. 
Sarah Palin’s makeup stylist earned $22,800 in two weeks.
Should I go on?

I was just leaving my yoga class (yes, I know, yoga is for pussies, but I do the hardest variety, and it serves as a nice diversion when I get emotionally fatigued of riding my bike, which actually does happen); I was unlocking my bike, when one of my “classmates” paused and pointed at my [...]

This freaky guy

August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment

He was a customer at my bike shop. Did he buy anything? I don’t know. I know he was known to be difficult.
Read all about him in this fascinating New York Times article.

French swimmer Alain Bernard.
Don’t tease him about freedom fries.

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