Kenny G
December 30, 2018
no feet ma look
December 26, 2018
ho ho bro
December 20, 2018
20 years ago today, Devlin took my camera and took this photo and fucking millennials cannot geek out and check the exact time and gps coordinates of the photo because it was black & white film in a real live camera before 9-11 when large office building lobbies had life size santa statues and not security guards in ill fitting blue blazers and oversized grey pants.
20 years later I'm wearing the same outfit except I ditched the Sidis because there is no reason to clip-in for the ride from Benson Hall to Bagley Hall and I traded that sweet Pearl Izumi national champ jacket --that I like to think was Rebecca Twigg's and she ditched all her stars & stripes after the 96 Olympics in a fit of rage and that jacket ended up at the Chicken Soup thrift store on the hill where I purchased it for $5 nwt -- for a Tuborg jersey at the CMWC philadelphia.
20 years and more of messengers bags and I had one T2 and one PAC and six DANK bags that I wore the shit out of lowering my right shoulder several centimeters hauling around legal documents and six packs of tall boys but that's Ortlieb in the photo and there's Ortlieb on my back as we speak
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kickstand you got loose and I threw up
December 19, 2018
i'm not angry, i'm disappointed
December 14, 2018
Jan Heine photo bro
Once upon a time in a small nonprofit bike shop warehouse I refurbished 1,987 used bikes and stripped or recycled or hacksawed into cheater bars many thousands more. When I replaced the cables and housing on a bike I also replaced the straddle cables. When the inventory of straddle cables ran out I would use a brake cable. Just like I do on my own bikes. However I soon stopped cutting this corner on the job when the shop mechanics told me of customer complaints claiming they couldn’t get their wheels off because they couldn’t release their brakes because they couldn’t get a grip on the straddle cable because it was actually just a brake cable and had no place to grab on.
The other day after a day of riding in the rain I met my old lady for a couple beers and then she offered me a ride home. I said hell yes I’ll take a ride up the hill. I walked my bike over to the car and started to take off the front wheel so I could fit the thing in the hatchback over the kid seats but I couldn’t release the front brake. I couldn’t get the fucking straddle cable out. All I could hear was Steve Maluk’s voice saying “don’t do that” with Homer and Kellen in the background frowning and shaking their heads.
I ended up riding my bike home.
I plan to continue to use an old brake cable to straddle my cantilever brakes when I replace the cables on my own bikes. I recently replaced my brake pads on my daily commuter and the brakes are so tight right now even with the finest straddle cable in the world there’s not enough slack to release the calipers. But in a couple weeks there will be.
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"i'm nervous and my socks are too loose"
December 13, 2018
the paint splat has been there for a while the words were added recently
it's the little things
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the ubiquitous red keg cup
December 12, 2018
these two were in my living room the other day holding green keg cups and I didn't take a photo to re-enact the moment-of-yesteryear so I could compare and contrast and win on instagram. what i did do is keep my phone in my pocket and actually talk to people so you now have to visualize these two plus or minus 10 years holding green keg cups.
same as it ever was.
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you kiddin me?
December 12, 2018
white noise
December 11, 2018
they're just background noise to the untrained eye.
but once you see them you cannot unsee them.
they're everywhere.
this kid has an eye for them.
he found this one on the Cedar River Trail
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can you feel it?
December 7, 2018
Alexa, what happened to Seattle?
December 7, 2018
wouldn't be December without this photo
its 13th annual posting bro
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tie goes to the runner
December 7, 2018
'round the corner chocolate's made
you think it's kinda funny but it's really
more like irritable bowel syndrome
ok google how do you spell diarrhea?
impulse control
auto correct
is that for here?
or to go
start seeing Raleigh Techniums
they're out there
he has the attention span of a
what were we talking about
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