a quality of life issue

aren't you glad I didn't say analog bike? 

here's to parking meters. handy bike racks installed every 50 feet.  Never completely taken over by chuffers or office workers out for a smoke. 

U-lock around the headtube & the parking meter post = good to go.

there aren't many parking meters in Seattle these days and that's ok because I don't have a headtube and I don't go downtown. 

I'm not sure who took this photo in 2018 but I know that guy and there's been a lot of photo shoots and press releases and blah blahing about the final 50 fucking feet and sustainability and the what not but I want to see that thing --half stationary bike - half tractor trailer-- actually working in downtown Seattle. 

be careful what you wish for Long Island City  

Andy Voight took this photo of that guy at CMWC in September of 2003 and this is how it appeared on the inside cover of kickstand #17 in January 2004.

15 years later   Jake is wearing the same gloves. 

the entire fleet is now rolling with Profile Design which as you know is the bottle cage designed for seamless transitions along the coffee-beer continuum.

All six of the cup holders above were once donated to a small nonprofit bike shop in 98118 and now they're rolling all around 98195. Thanks to Steve G and Bike Works. 

those in the know   know

the unmistakable smells in the last week of July

and the importance of living a little RAGBRAI in daily life

but they don't call them Honey Buckets in Iowa

same as it ever was: the ultimate urban utility bike is any old fucking thing you ride to work everyday

as your eye is drawn to those culture club crank skins then to that 853 tubes sticker please take a moment to take in the profile design cup holder. 

easy-peasy if your colors were like my dreams  red, gold and green   red, gold and green.

i'm president of the profile design cup holders club and i approve this message

it’s not better       it just

sucks in a different way

the solution is

now another problem

the tire liner    eventually

slices into the inner tube

preventing 7 little punctures

causing  one big   laceration

limited range of motion

repetitive use injury

pessimistic prophylaxis

psychosomatic    reality

it was cool   until it wasn’t

then    it wasn’t cool

habitrails rote routes

played out

mixtape memorized

end of song cues the next

it’s all in your mind

not in album-order

in hand-written cassette cover order

sedentary legal messenger flashback

or something like that

hollow idle chit chat

between

have a good weekend??

have a good weekend.

every city

every year

every messenger

not every jimmy john

no uber eats

happy birthday to 87. 

he looked 35 when he was 19 and now I've lost track of how old he really is.

i see 

young lions

step into the street

staring at their phones

and i wonder if

it's wisdom

they lack

GPA 3.78 + ACT 29 = clueless

i  see

older  lions 

on  the

street  and

wonder  if

they  have

a  wisdom

i  lack.

ask me about work - life balance

ask me about people-magazine-parenting advice

ask me about tattoos across the tendons in the wrist

click here for chance to win a $25 starbucks gift card

eight years ago today I set down my nextel and walked away

but      ask me about teeth

incoming and outgoing 

When I was a kid my mom took us in a ‘71 Monte Carlo on a road trip to Seattle and then all the way up into British Columbia almost to Alaska and back down and around. Stopping along the way in various hotels and restaurants. I was fond of collecting sugar packets from one and depositing them in another. Taking them out of context and putting them back in     somewhere else down the road.

I’m still a big fan of repurposing things retrofitting or flipping it sideways and making an end table out of it. I like road signs in living rooms. I like collections of toaster ovens in surplus piles. I like to make artwork from hundreds of discarded bike computers. I really like free piles on the side of the road and I like to shop in thrift stores.

The other Saturday I saw this shirt hanging in a thrift store. It was already placed on the end of the rack which is the only reason I noticed it.

The only thing cooler than that is spotting a shirt that I made moving around on a complete stranger.

 milkshake photo