It must be tough out there if you’re somehow ancillarily connected to the subject of a story topping the current news cycle — in this case the super-tragic one involving the Porter Ranch man who killed his children, his wife and her mother reportedly from a growing despondency fed by worsening financial woes. I try …
Last week I was drooling over all manner of new mountain machines. This week I still am — and further stoked by the announced enthusiasms of my friend Michael and his lady Crystal to hit the trails and an invitation to join them — but I’m glad I demonstrated some fiscal restraintitude. Simply put, I …
Be-yoo-tee-fool morning. The new fork is making Le Noir feel brand new, like I’ve only put five miles on here, not 5,000. Coming west on 8th Street on my way to Fairfax a car darts out from across the street and my first impulse is that it’s firing itself across my bow, but it’s cool: …
I am everything that is old school about bikes. Steel’s my first choice for frames, and I roll single-gear like I did as a kid, in part because it’s pure and simple and because I’m still very much a kid at heart. So in the wake of my fork-bender a couple Tuesdays ago (which aged …
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In a weird turn of events one of the two packages I most recently ordered from nashbar.com containing items needed for the resurrection of Le Noir ended up at my previous place of employment. I found this out when my cell phone rang yesterday near noon and it was a voice I’d last heard about …
A lot better than expected given how it looked the day it happened, thanks for asking. Pardon the stubble after the jump… hard to shave that promintory without opening things up:
Pardon the craptacity of the above 12x-digital zoom snap from the window of my 10th floor office, but I couldn’t resist documenting this irony no matter how catastrophic the pixelation. Because as oxymoronic as it strikes me to use a vehicle as so outlandish a rolling billboard for booze, there is something oddly appropriate –Â …