What could a guy who spent the daylight hours in a mortuary recommissioned as a bike shop who emerges after dark to enter the forest under the waxing moon possibly dress up as for Halloween (or) "I'm really digging how these grips dial my stance"

With a completely blank social calendar I celebrated the day of the dead in a fashion more proper for the kind of ghouls I’d seen others dressed up as then I’m entirely comfortable with. A busy week of work at the moving company forced me to shun the beautiful day outside to get cracking cutting tubes and forming up chain-stays for BBW #25 and relegated the riding... Read More

The Pain of Success

The debilitating leg cramp that just coursed up my left hamstring and threatened to turn into the dreaded double by cramping the quadricepts or calf as well as I stretched it are as sure evidence as any that BBW #23 does indeed do its job as a fun woods riding bike. (And that I’d better start getting some more miles in before cyclocross season really heats up) I didn’t... Read More

Labor of Love

getting caffinated and carbohydrated to take a test ride on the personal off road frame that I just finally finished after over a month in the jig and the drawing board.  I can’t wait to get some pics that actually show any of the features that I’ve been working so hard on like. Eccentric BB for riding geared, single or fixed without finagling with the disc brakes or... Read More

Ben, Jerry, and I scream rides (or) Imagine if the scene on the landspeeders in the redwood forest in the return of the jedi were filmed at night

And the scene continued for the entire running length of the film or a little short at 90 minutes.  oh yeah and you are on the old model landspeeder following two dudes with the 6″ suspension model and you have what I experienced this evening, and no EWoks or overwrought political drama passed off as SCi Fi. LEDs & Batteries are good enough to allow riding trails at the... Read More