Need A Ham Bacon & Swiss, on Rye (or) Card Counting

I’m feeling the same excitement as at 13 years old coming home knowing that the UPS man may have left something shiny from Bike Nashbar to keep my mongoose IBOC with Grove Innovations hardcore fork and Hammerhead bar stem Combo running smooth and looking boss.  Just placed an order with Paragon Machine Works for some of their beautifully machined dropouts, inserts, and threaded bits with the windfall of my next builds deposit so I can start... 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 whenever I could.  From the very first twisting and and turning lap at... Read More