Duo-tone (or) Stopping by the neighbors to borrow some sugar

So the stories of some of the bikes listed on my last post is not quite complete.  #13, my after hours built cross stead had gotten an emergency top tube replacement after I’d revealed a not repeated design flaw riding it in the woods a day before my first race on it at suckerbrook this September.  The true temper S3 top tube remained raw through the season with occasional... Read More

Black on Black

I was initially pretty bummed when sponsored BBW rider Ben Frank insisted upon flat black as the color for his much delayed by the painter Cross Bike. Finally getting it in hand after 2 months, a rejection, and a re-coat has made me reconsider. The gloss black graphics of the new logo just stand out and will only be apparent to those that bother to take a closer look at the bike,... Read More

A Little Con to balance all the PRO-ness around here (or) Bicycle Catacomb

It’s a pretty unique position that I’ve found myself in this November. I’ve the responsibility to get out to public events with an enormous athletic apparatus on wheels that seems to make people really happy, somehow I’m hoping it is working out as a promotion of the best dang moving company around. I doubt I’d be getting out and racing again this fall... Read More

Its only kids you'll see swimming at the beach when the waters cold (or) The Speed Stairs at Norhampton (or) I'd like to build you a joy machine

Are they impervious to the shock of the water robbing the heat straight from the bones that I feel as instantaneous pain stimulus that has me and the rest of the sane (?) mature population booking it back up to the dry sand after a momentary dip or is it just that they aren’t as conditioned to comfort and are better able to adapt to what really isn’t anything that shouldn’t... Read More

Get Busy Filing or Get Busy Dying (or) The Build List

Actually, there were options on my plate this past weekend besides getting my shop organized & cutting some tubes for the growing backlog of  Budd Bike Works frames on order or facing the reaper, namely racing.  Though, it would have been grossly irresponsible to ignore the clutter of tools and tubes on my bench that are demanding to be turned into proper performance bike... Read More

Who Else Thinks a Cyclo Cross Race Like This Would Be Fun?

Model it on the way motor races are formatted with time trials on the first day to establish start position for riders except on a longer circuit than the traditional 2 mile cyclo cross course or maybe even a point to point race that encompasses the variety of terrain that makes a cyclocross race fun only on a, dare I use the cliche, more epic scale. The next day at the same venue... Read More

Good Eats and Good Sleep make for a Good Start in Gloucester

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Thanks Mom, Thanks Dad

Its almost embarrassing how much my folks have given me throughout my childhood, through my prolonged adolescence (my generation pushed back the definition to 26 years old in this country), and continuing into my fits and starts at adulthood. Love, support, health, and an education were all great but right now I am most psyched about this camera that I got a little early for my... Read More

VT-(or) Is Racing a limitation to the enjoyment of riding a cyclo-cross bicycle?

Sunday Racing-Rain, starting in last place, just ride the damn bike, have fun, forget that you can’t really afford this weekend and move the work schedule to go on unmarshalled and free of admission ride on monday. Not being in the city is a relief. I’m afraid I did too much goofing off on the bike before my race, riding the fun sections of the course, exploring trails,... Read More

Thanks to Quad Cycles for giving me something to do today

The original plan had been to race, the original plan didn’t include me running out of gas in the giant staircase I was driving through a deluge on saturday and shelling out for a proper half tank to get me home. The vehicle is a study in an-aerodynamics, basically a reversed sail that tops out the speedometer of a 6 liter engined vehicle at 65, hustling to make up for time... Read More