the first snow pugsley ride & feeling grateful

last night in kc we got some real snow. not that 1 inch of crappy little snow then it melts off the next day kind we usually get . i’m thinking 5 inches of wet wonderful snow. the drifts are too deep to ride through .i finally got the pugsley fully functional. except for the [...]

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good protests

i tend to like people groups that question what is happening or why is a school closing or why are jobs going to china. most protest doesn’t change much but it is a great eye opener & thorn in the side of the controlling class.
there are some things happening in our neighbor hood. [...]

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first snow ride of the year

man i love snow rides. especially the ones before the salt truck has been out or the trails are rutted & icy. in the late eighties lowell premer curt bales & i seemed to get out for epic mtb snow rides alot. when the first snow happened we headed for the trails & slithered [...]

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i’m getting really tired of this!

well i tend to live a perfect life. i’m married to a beautiful , cyclist . i have a great job that i like being at. i get to do wonderful things like make bikes , ride bikes, garden, work on my house. pretty much ideal. so when a dream comes true like a car [...]

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dirty kanza registration is upon us.

jim & i have been up in our cloud enveloped secret headquarters plotting our next move. we thought long & hard , & figured we ought to have a registration date soon. IT’S JANUARY 10TH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that took us all Fr 2 minutes so just wait for the other 5 minutes planning.
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gramme obree’s bike?

i was looking for pumpkin pie recipies & what did i see in the ads column?

a very sweet looking man with a goofy looking bike under him. wow this looks like a messed up version of gramme obree’s bike old faithful.

very similar. but gramme’s looks alot faster. i’ve been checking out the hour [...]

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i just can’t figure them out, but i like it

this band was introduced to me by my wonderful wacky wife who loves jpop. i started doing youtube surfing all their music. bad, good ,really bad, but really good. i think this is what i listened to in the early eighties when punkrock was in it’s heyday. they remind me of x , mixed up [...]

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sometimes life is better than film

today i was riding into work. having one of those driver kind of days they all were being stupid. either not seeing me before turning left in front of me or not caring if they ran me over.so i was riding on the sidewalk for a few blocks to get across a busy street. a [...]

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damn it that made me sad # 2

acme closed it’s doors this week. yes all you hip midtowners acme closed this week. a institution for it’s few years for a bike shop is closed! it was owned by two wonderful gals sarah & christi they both walked their talk & supported grassroots cycling .all the alley cats in the last 6 [...]

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damn it that made me really sad.

last night i was surfing l’eroica videos on youtube. videos of old itialian guys struggling up gravel climbs. good stuff. then i saw pantani’s name on a video clip.

damn it pantani made me happy. that little italian was the best climber since my favorite gino bartali.tuff as nails but a beautiful [...]

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