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ACS claw

March 18, 2024

What would you do if you were digging around in the garage and you pulled out a 14T ACS Claw from a ziploc freezer bag full of cogs and lock rings and bottom bracket cups and other assorted bike shit from yesteryear? 

 

you may ask yourself how did I get here? and you may ask yourself how can I incorporate this sweet 14T single speed freewheel into my life? and you may say to yourself, my god what have I done?  with 130 BCD cranks or even 110 this thing is crazy.

 

and then you remember you can just mount that shit on a telephone pole outside and call it art…   …stacked in a stack of washers including big fat AGBs so those in the know know they can still reach up and give it a spin and get the satisfying sound of an ACS claw freewheeling from a telephone pole in a traffic strip on the edge of Skyway.  Add biopace to taste. 

 

Fuckin A+

 


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like a fish

March 18, 2024

bikes bicycle

 

bicycles bike bicycling

 

like a fish needs a bicycle

 

from 1201 to McKinleyville 

 


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as if

March 17, 2024

 

only only

except 

if only

only if

as if

if and only if

iff <--->

what if

if then

then what


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green glitter grips

March 16, 2024

got that green Fuji at BikeWorks for $10 frame & fork, back when Daniel Boxer was working there. 

 

20+ years ago as those in the know know. 

 

Built up on 27 inch steel rims with a coaster brake. The front wheel was radially laced to a beefy BMX hub. Green glitter grips on a hacked down riser bar topped off with a Ritchey Force stem. 

 

That bike was fun. Even Travis Keene said it was “clean”

 

I sold it 13 years ago to another guy named Travis.

 


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87 Catarina Face

March 15, 2024

This photo brings me joy in 2024 because I was there and I saw what you did, I saw it with my own digital camera outside the Hopvine in 2008 during the Volunteer Park Crit. They say you can’t drink all day if you don’t start in the morning.   That day I drank all day. 

 

87 Catarina? Is that kinda like a 71 Monte Carlo?  Kinda not really. 

 

87 is Litrell aka Justin. Catarina is Cat. And Face is Face, you know Matt. 

 

That Chris Murray PW arrow on the Ford pickup canopy directs the eye to 87 and then to Cat and then back to Face for the trifecta 

 

I don’t see much of those three these days but recently I’ve reached out to all 3. ONEWAY or another.  Or maybe they’ve reached out to me…  …it’s a small world afterall, it’s a small small world. 

That green Fuji there on the bike rack brought me joy but that's another story

 


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summit

March 15, 2024

that one-of-a-kind kickstand hoodie was an alleycat prize from yesteryear


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hose clamped milk crate douche bags expecting respect from bungee corded pickle bucket Dexter Avenue warriors

March 14, 2024

Whatever works, works. This bike got my attention, interrupting my staring off into space on my coffee break, enough for me to send Litrell a photo, talking shit about the 0.33 cm of travel in that crusty elastomer. My eye went to the what’s wrong with this picture but he replied with a what about those PAUL brakes and that THOMPSON seat binder… being all half-full of joy to my half-empty shit talk. His attention to detail refined and laser focused in a bike guy way. 

 

I am not just a shit talker. I just talk a lot of shit. I do have a sincere appreciation for people that ride their bikes. Whatever their bikes may be. And this guy obviously rides his bike. I’d like to draw your attention to that Darigold Milk Crate from Eugene and say that my brain in 0.07 seconds went with a made-up story to tie it all together…  …this guy was Biology major at Oregon back in the day then he moved to Seattle for a Masters degree in Aquatic and Fishery Science at UW schlepping this milk crate full of LPs as well as a garbage bag full of VHS...

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three point one four

March 14, 2024

what a difference

a day makes


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Pittsburgh paperboy

March 12, 2024

Man   that’s an old bike    you must be hardcore. Said the guy on the train. 

 

No.  Nope.  Not even close.  7 gears see, there’s a few to choose from. I said. 

 

All the while thinking, “if I was hardcore, I wouldn’t be on this fucking train, I’d be pedaling my ass 15 miles all the way home, uphill both ways in the rain all the way to Skyway bro” 

 

You know there’s only 3 other places with hills like Seattle, he says:::  :::San Francisco, some town in Louisiana, and Pittsburgh.

 

“you don’t say”  I don’t say, but I’m thinking it as I smile and nod. 

 

then as I’m getting off the train he says, go home and eat a good meal. 

 

I smile again and wave as I exit. 

 

Depending on the workload and the weather conditions and the bike I happen to be riding, there are days when I need to paperboy up the last Cooper Street hill on my way home. Single speed or 1 x 7 or full-on Ritchey Logic touring triple,  sometimes I’m so cooked I need to paperboy up the last kick on Adams Lane to...

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good old ballard

March 12, 2024

good is a good doctor,

but Bad is sometimes a better.

 

-Ralph Waldo Emerson


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