Critical Mass Today!

Posted on August 29, 2008
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5:30 – Westlake Center. See you all there!

Waffle Bike Jihad

Posted on August 27, 2008
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Fully Weaponized

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Thanks Lee

Epic!

Yay!

Posted on August 27, 2008
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Mounting hardware showed up today!  Woot!  And it looks like they included a multi-tool in way of apology.  Super rad.

Rock and roll – Bikeisland.com.  Thou art forgiven!

Did I mention they don’t charge shipping or tax?  YEAH.

/happy dance

On touring bikes

Posted on August 24, 2008
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So, I’ve had touring bikes on the brain. Obviously. Been reading on bikes and panniers and whatnot. Found lots of information, lots of pictures.

http://www.pbase.com/canyonlands/fullyloaded

That is a link to a photo gallery of bikes loaded for touring, it’s interesting and gives me a lot of food for thought. Here’s a couple I like.

Man, so many beautiful places to go.

Anyhow, I’m just spinning my wheels until my rack gets here and I can focus more on the riding of bikes than the outfitting of them. I’m itching for a good ride.

Today for the Slow Sunday ride, it was raining so hard we simply be-lined for my house and watched movies all day. We watched (in this order…)

Death Proof
The Big Lebowski
Three Kings
Die Hard – Live Free or Die Hard

Some days, this is how we roll.

Onward.

Manly Bike For Sale

Posted on August 24, 2008
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http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/765370039.html

Manly Bike for Sale

Date: 2008-07-22, 10:18AM PDT

Bike for sale

What kind of bike? I don’t know, I’m not a bike scientist. What I am though is a manly guy looking to sell his bike. This bike is made out of metal and kick ass spokes. The back reflector was taken off, but if you think that deters me from riding at night, you’re way wrong. I practiced ninja training in Japan’s mount Fuji for 5 years and the first rule they teach about ninja biking is that back reflectors let the enemy know where you are. Not having a rear reflector is like saying “FUCK YOU CAR, JUST TRY AND FIND ME”.

The bike says Giant on the side because it’s referring to my junk, but rest assured even if you have tiny junk that Giant advertisement is going to remain right where it is. I bought this bike for 300 dollars from a retired mercenary that fought in both World War 1 and World War 2 and had his right arm bitten off by a shark in the Phillipines while stationed there as a shark handler. When he sold it to me I had to arm wrestle him for the honor to buy it. I broke his arm in 7 places when I did. He was so impressed with me he offered me to be his son but I thought that was sissy shit so I said no way.

The bike has some rusted screws, but that just shows how much of a bad ass you are. Everyone knows rusted screws on a bike means that you probably drove it underwater and that’s bad ass in itself. Those screws can be replaced with shiny new ones, but if you’re going to go to that trouble why not just punch yourself in the balls since you’re probably a dickless lizard who doesn’t like to look intimidating.

The bike is for men because the seat is flat or some shit and not shaped like a dildo. If you like flat seated bikes you’re going to love this thing because it doesn’t try to penetrate your ass or anything.

I’ve topped out at 75 miles per hour on this uphill but if you’re just a regular man you’ll probably top it out at 10 miles per hour. This thing is listed as a street bike which is man-code for bike tank. The bike has 7 speeds in total:

Gear 1 – Sissy Gear
Gear 2 – Less Sissy Gear
Gear 3 – Least Sissy Gear
Gear 4 – Boy Gear
Gear 5 – Pre-teen Boy Gear
Gear 6 – Manly Gear
Gear 7 – Big Muscles Gear

I only like gear 6 and 7 to be honest.

Additionally, this tool of all immense men comes with a gigantic lock to keep it secure. The lock is the size of a bull’s testicles and tells people you don’t fuck around with locking up your bike tank. It tells would-be-thieves “Hey asshole, touch this bike and I’ll appear from the bushes ready to club you with a two-by-four”.

Bike is for 150 OBO (and don’t give me no panzy prices)

Dammit!

Posted on August 22, 2008
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The rack showed up, but they forgot to include the installation hardware.

SHIT

MOAR

Posted on August 21, 2008
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Almost there. Just waiting on the front rack now. Randonneuring bars, Cane Creek Brake Levers, etc…

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Not Just A Pretty Face!

Posted on August 19, 2008
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From bikecommuters.com blog – someone kitted their LHT out really nicely and wanted to post it here.

Really nice job – shellac’d moustache bars and everything. Awesome. Can’t wait to get mine finished.

Onward

My new Long Haul Trucker – Initial Pictures

Posted on August 14, 2008
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It’s still not finished – but it’s alive and rolling and in my possession at least. I thought I’d post a few initial pictures…

GALLERY

Nygard finishing up the build there at the Dutch Bike bike shop…

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I have new handlebars and brakes coming, new racks and fenders, the whole kit and kaboodle. And of course panniers. Damn thing is expensive.

Thank you Mr School Bus Company for not killing me with your bus, and buying me a beautiful new bike.

Incidentally – it’s a 54cm frame, with 26in wheels. And she IS a sweet ride – nooo doubt.

More to follow.

Onward.

Edit: I took the following picture today (08/19) – it’s coming along. Still waiting on the front rack, and the cross-brake levers – the Nashbar ones that came were too small for the handlebar. Tonight I’ll put the new handlebars and brakes on and tape it up properly. For those curious, those are SKS fenders and a Soma rack.

Server Maintenance Complete

Posted on August 13, 2008
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Yeah well I don’t know how long I’m going to be with this host any longer. I won’t go into it but it’s less than ideal.

Incidentally, when I shut the servers down, the webserver/mail server had been up for 558 days.  What was surprising was the backup server was up for 607 days.

Crazy.

Anyhow, servers are moved, email seems to be back up – or coming up – and DNS is propagating pretty quickly.  Sorry for the interruption.  Ping me if you have problems.

Go ride your bike.

Onward

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