'gadgets' Category
69ing the Big Dummy: An Enlightening Experience
About a week or so ago I was over at Adam and Benson’s place for some dinner. As these evenings usually go, we ended up in their garage, which doubles as a veritable mecca of all things bicycling.I had ridden the big dummy up there, and as we walked around looking at some [...]
Bears, Blogs, and Butt Butter
Just a couple quick items of interest now that I’m back at the home base.First off is a scary tale from the great north about a 24 hour race gone horribly wrong. And you thought we had it bad with the cacti down here. . .
Next up, I’ll give a plug to the [...]
PVC Pipe and Pale Ale
I managed to get some work done around the house as well as some riding this weekend in spite of the nasty weather on friday and saturday.One of my big projects for saturday since I wasn’t out on the dirty century was to try and bring some semblance of order to our mounting pile [...]
Conspiracy Theory - Backcountry.com Selling Bike Components
When I posted a while back about steep and cheap, I commented that if steep and cheap started selling bike components I’d be in trouble.Colin pointed out in the comments that a couple items appeared on steep and cheap, and it was officially a conspiracy.
Now it’s the real deal
Their selection isn’t the greatest yet, [...]
Down the Chute
As you may have noticed, my race reports tend to be fairly high level. I leave out things like riding into the ditch on willow springs road during the APC, falling in the one puddle on the entire course during the singleswizzle, and an incredibly long, somewhat bizarre stream of thoughts (and songs) [...]Functional Art
About a month ago I started the cycle again of debating about pulling the trigger on a new lighting system before Old Pueblo. I was very close to just closing my eyes, handing over the CC number and picking up a Arc Li-ion setup with an extra battery.Then, as some of you might [...]
