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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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