Somewhere Between Atrophy and a Trophy (or) Racer 1282
So, any etymologists among readers in the ether? Is the word for the wasting of unused muscle the antonym for the prize in a contest? I’d have to guess yes. New England CycloCross 2011 will be winding down and I am fraught that failing to find time delve into the fray of the CAT 3 field to fight for a finish in the mid fifties, I’ve failed maintain my muscle tone, let... Read More
Cyclo Cross Disc Brake Discussion This Morning
German Guy:Hi List, Just a brief update on the recent semiheated debate concerning an upcoming change of paradigm in cyclocross racing: The racing season has started here in Europe, and I have yet to see a single (!) racer with disc-brakes. Cheers, M. Budd:The component manufacturers still haven’t caught up, as soon as a disc system is available that doesn’t carry a... Read More
Surpassed by the Upstarts (or) Corners aren’t for Shaking Hands
I bought a secondhand cyclo-cross bike at the Trexlertown bike swap in 2002 and raced it the very next weekend. I’d raced road and mountain bikes the previous two years while I was in college and was pretty well immersed in a life of full time bike riding as a messenger running delivery in downtown Boston and getting out on the root infested and rocky New England trails... Read More
Budd Bike Work’s October Update. BBW’s no.28 & no.29 on the Table, 17 days to my 32nd year. Three and a half weeks to Halloween and Philadelphia Bike Expo. Getting Busy Bike People
Design Draft Approved on no. 29, and tubes and dropouts and assorted bits are ready for cleaning and marking and checking and marking and checking and marking and forgetting what it was you were supposed to be doing and eating and clamping and checking and moving cutting and checking and drilling and cleaning and welding and tweaking and checking and welding and checking and eating... Read More
August News Letter e-mail heist
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Build-a-Bamboo-Bicycle/ Yeah, I’ve seen a bunch of these around and came across it in the NY times today, you can gorilla wrap a resined carbon or natural fiber string around the joints a bunch, vacuum bag it, and cure. Lign up the metal inserts at the head tube,bottom bracket, seat pin and dropouts then go to town on it. Neat, but I... 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
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
#gallery-4 { margin: auto; } #gallery-4 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-4 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-4 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } Not having your arrival at a race a test of your mettle more arduous than the 45... Read More
