more fun bikes from the shop

well lookie what walked in the rivermarket door.

jeremy powers jelly belly roadbike.

i love it when a real cycling enthusiast brings in a bike like this. this is for his 13 year old girl. cool! she is gonna love this christmas.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/photos/pro-bike-jeremy-powers-jelly-belly-p-b-kenda-focus-izalco-pro/175367

here is it in cycling news cool huh?

big grin…..joel

poseur

poseur

well the word says it all.so do you actually believe & do the things you profess to do? wow!
so when i looked at the rapha site tonight it hit me….poseurs!!! this guy fit the profile . now don’t get me wrong i don’t care how you get to cycling. just that you do it & have fun!
poseur holy crud a itialian middle aged hipster, damn skippy! i guess being a old school punk rocker it was an imperative to walk your talk! to do anything else was basically lying to yourself & others.
so what do you do??? what do you really do? well don’t worry how you look. just have fun & do it lots.

possibly a poseur, but really good lookin.

big grin….joel

rugs my second or third love.

rugs!

this is a nickle chinese oriental rug from the 1920s .
i found it in a thrift store for 20$. cleaned & fixed it’s worth 15 to 20 times that. but more importantly, it’s beautiful .

this is my stabilization stitch repair to salvage the ends from unraveling . fun for a evening fixing rugs.
most importantly michelle likes it so all the better.

big grin….joel

trailbuilding on the ot

aaron & tim in the muddy mess before picture.

this is all the rock used to make this.love this missouri red granite. sexy rock!

we got the pleasure of laying all this beautiful rock in the ground. these rocks were the sides set in about 4to 6 inches under ground . hard work the trenching.

lotsa playing with rock. this was the easy part playing where does the 4inch rock go.

the rock with the road barrier cloth around it.

joel doing the spreading of the 3/4 minus. way funner than the digging & laying of the big rocks.

aaron & tim enjoying 3 days of labor. we layed 20 some tonnes of rock in a 150 foot section in 3 days. this was a muddy bog in a valley on the ozark trail now with diversions of the runnoff & this work this trail will be great year
around.

the rest of the work was filling root ball holes with rocks & dirt. with needed deberming on the karkaghne section of the ozark trail. it was hit 2 years ago with a straight line wind storm that knocked over all the large trees on the hill tops.man it was dry down there we got 80 degree days in late october.

this is for my wife .she loves bracket fungus.

this was my favorite fungus of the trip. like a little ice cream cone.sweet!
we got to work outdoors in a beautiful part of missouri.good times with good people.

dream beautiful dreams.

big grin….joel

trans iowa!

well this has been a sucker that i’ve bitten into before but come away with a unfinished taste. year one was hard a 20plus mile per hour cold headwind never over the low 40s. i had to bail at mile 180ish.
year 2 was worse it was the last of the route across iowa. i miss that!too hard to put on a race like that! we started in a light mist & mid 40s after 2 day of rain softening the gravel.in the first 30 miles we had at least 4 miles of hiking!

this is nate king rocking a rugsnake on his surley. little known fact he was still riding at 6 pm when we picked him up he had gone 120ish miles . was off course but still trying to go across the state.

i’m the tall guy in the red jacket. i gotta say i don’t remember this. i was so cold & the weather sucked so hard.i really don’t remember the 5 or 6 hours of riding i did.
i stole these photos from jeff kerkove’s flickr page, thanks. these are the only pics of nate & i on trans iowa 2. the second photo was about 20ish miles in after a long hike.i was getting hypothermic somehow i got to a caseys off course at about 60 miles. i couldn’t stop shivering for 2 hours. had to be picked up from across the state then got nate .
i signed up for trans iowa 6. watched the rain come in then pulled the plug for my attempt that year. so now i’m hungry. let’s see what the weather gods have in store for us. i’m going rain or shine, to do my best.

dream beautiful dreams

big grin….joel

vacation!

chicago+ michelle + joel = fun for us!

the obligatory chicago skyline photo. well… we have things the davis dyke household likes to do. like ride bikes (duh) , visit museums , experience cultural interests. explore & see the wonderful wide world we live in.

the field museum. we saved this for the one rainy day we had in chicago . wow there are alot of dead animals in there!!!!

michelle taking a shade break outside the field. the middle of october & high 70s in chicago, sweet.

LUCY, FREAKIN LUCY!!!! do you get what i mean? LUCY!
you grow up hearing of our oldest ancestor . then your wife is standing next to her. , cool!

we were having a quiet moment of marital bliss then AAARRRRGGG! T-REX!!! ok we weren’t too scared.

this was in the art institute museum a cool talented bamboo basket maker from japan. wow.

van gogh ,wow a whole wall of his paintings.

wow!
more art than you can shake a stick at. you turn a corner & another piece of art you remember from the art history books. very nice!

the art institute & some building across the street. we exited the museum at the end of the day to a riot squad & the chicago police getting ready to get rid of the occupy wall street people . so we beat tracks the other way!

we got to see the world premier of the best ballet company in north america the joffrey ballet in louis sullivans theater. one of americas most important architectural buildings. we got to sit in the front 2nd side balcony for 35$ holy sh!t. super cool.

for 6 days we saw the city by bicycle . enjoyed the wonderful museums, the joffrey ballet. world class architecture ,, good food. good times .

dream beautiful dreams

big grin….joel

cool bikes i get to work on.

well i guess the header says it all.so….

this bike is not light at all!

we got to really give this old hercules a good overhaul.

love these alex moulton’s!

these frames make me happy.

this is a 63 cm perfect tommasini. i would have killed for one when i was 21. but alas i was a poor bike racer. still a sweet ride!

my size & all . sexy colors.

for a last thought. this person didn’t know the last owner had brazed together 2 shift cables. wow how hard is it to replace one shift cable.

so that has been my last few weeks of fun bikes….enjoy!

big grin….joel

sunday

the little lady & like to go mtn bike riding as often as possible. this summer we’ve been riding at smithville trails. good stuff a few weeks ago this caught my eye.

ya gotta love sunflower season!
this week we went to smithville again.

on the back side of my mushroom was a good lookin slug.

so yeah for sundays. good ridin.

big grin….joel

2011 dirty kanza pre ride! & gummy spiders

the super team at the dk 200 headquarters has come up with a new route. they were kind enough to share a little with michelle & i this sunday. so the weather in the midwest has been crapful lately . yesterday it was 70s & sunny. so today it had to be 50 with a super cold north wind( suck). we had the day to ride so no mater the weather it was ride time. tim & kristi are great company so off we went. the new route midpoint is in———– ,we started there.
in a town along the way was this little cute house.

with this detail , sweet!

beautiful.

michelle coming up a steep climb. the cold killed us. we just were not ready for this in may.

kristi said there were alot of graveyards along the route. this is the second in 7 miles. this route might be even harder than the last one.

the cold & our legs shortened our ride but we were super lucky to see some of this new route.

gummy spiders from the genius of dennis grelk. thanks buddy these are good riding food.

tim & kristi ,2 of the super group known as dirty kanza productions!
this is a hill that goes for 4 ish miles after a checkpoint. some poor people are going to hurt. this stretch of b road is so beautiful.

i’m going for more soon. i hope to see you all in emporia.

big grin….joel

a little bit of my holy week

so i’m at work being a helpful bike shop person. so there is where it all starts to go wrong.
i get this given to me….

expletive, deleted, curse , grumble, fuck. i’m at work here folks! really?????
i thought my wife & family loved me .now i hear from a stranger a guy names jesus loves me.
well crap! i have to keep a straight face & keep helping this gentleman. i’m at work here.
so 15 minutes later near the end of our interaction he comes back in with this.

so i’ve been baptised, read much of the bible & understand it. & now this ,wow.

can i come into your workplace & give you the good word of the spaghetti monster, my lord & savior.chuckle grunt , tee-hee. you get the idea . in these everyday interactions please keep religion, sex, & politics out of each others work places. not cool, not cool at all!

so that got me thinking of a discussion we had at the dinner table last week.
michelle & i were talking about the old testament & the sweet parts of begatting & smiting. then i remembered the erotic poems of the song off solomon. when michelle almost got rice out of my nose with the statement in the old testament god just fucking fucks with people because he fucking can ( job) . then in the next minute says in the old testament shit gets fo real. i love her. she knows how to bring big things back down to reality.

that is my piece of holy week.

happy easter .

big grin….joel