Where the hell is Grinnell?
January 31, 2011
this year RAGBRAI rolls through Grinnell and spends the night
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Monday is a working day
January 31, 2011
"Life is a daily battle against the accretion of tiny entropies"
like Little Edie said of Grey Gardens
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Spokane WA 99205
January 30, 2011
having grown up in a town where dogs ran free
at a time when there were no leash laws at a time
when a kid on a bike was a rather attractive rabbit
for an Irish Setter named Chester with nothing better to do...
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8 years later, the truth is still true
January 30, 2011
This little ditty is re-reprinted from kickstand #15
For the art show at the CMWC 2003 in Seattle, I produced a larger-than-life 4’ x 12’ triptych of this little comic strip. Each panel was blown up at Kinkos on the blueprint machine, then wheat pasted and painted onto canvas stretched over wood frames in a d i y garage arts-n-craft weekend fiesta-o-rama.
After the art show it ended up at WaLegal base briefly and then I let AG take it home to hold onto it until I could find a place for it because my home at the time did not have a stretch of wall space large enough to accommodate the hugeness of its bigger than big big size and I was not in the mood to schlep them home anyway.
Now, here it is, eight years later and I’m wondering what ever happened to those three panels of it’s-funny-because-it’s-true.
If you’re listening AG…do you still have them? Or does anyone know what happened to them and if they’re still together???
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vegetable protein added for texture
January 29, 2011
OEM ± 2.54cm
January 28, 2011
2011 Raleigh Port Townsend pilderwassered
What came out of the box now rolls a little something like this:
Size
57
Frame
Reynolds 520 Butted Chromoly Tubing
Fork
4130 Chromoly Cross
Cranks
Shimano Sora 2pc 34/50t
BB
Shimano Outboard Bearing
F.Derail
Shimano Sora
R.Derail
Shimano Sora
Shifter
Shimano DuraAce Bar-End on the downtube
Br.Levers
Cane Creek
Brakes
Cane Creek Rear, Avid Front
Gear
Shimano HG50 9spd (11-25t)
Rims
FSA RD-60 wheelset black
Tires
Continental Gatorskins
Pedals
Shimano spd
Handlebar
old old flat bar hacked to 19.5”
Stem
Salsa older than dirt
Seatpost
FSA Alloy with some wicked setback
Seat
Flite with classic nose peel taped
Headset
Ahead 1-1/8" w/Alloy Cup
Color
Black is the new Thursday
Spokes
Sapim
Grips
Ritchey True Grip
Extras
Fenders and Cup Holder
Note
Specifications are Subject to Change
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shonky
January 26, 2011
pick a gear any gear
ride it for a year
single-speededly
like anything else
eventually
you get used to it
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like a fish needs a bicycle
January 25, 2011
roadbikereview photo
Hey Mr. Chris Murray
If you put these on your bike, you won't need to ride across Iowa, you'll float.
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what would John Forester do?
January 25, 2011
There are few things that bother me as much as getting scolded by a vehicular cyclist. Especially when the scolding comes at 6:30am while I’m rolling slowly through an intersection when the only people on the road are me and the vehicular cyclist. Not a car in sight. I am conditioned to expect scolding from drivers and when it comes from a another cyclist it stings a bit more.
I did nothing to endanger Mr. Righteous Commuter when I went to the sidewalk on the left of him on 12th Avenue and gracefully crossed Madison and onto Union while he posted up in the left turn lane like a traffic safety instructor with one foot down smack dab in the middle of a 5-way intersection. No matter what John Forester says or what Dave Hiller wants you to do, there are ways around left turn lanes that I believe are safer for cyclists and less annoying to drivers. I meant no disrespect to his respect for the red light. In my opinion traffic signals in the wee hours are like serving suggestions and not rigid recipes to be followed to the exact teaspoon. The strict vehicular cyclist recipe won’t work for me no matter what time it is or how much traffic is on the road. I’ll cherry pick the parts that make sense and disregard the rest.
At the green light on Pike at Broadway I sat and waited for Mr. RC to catch up just to see if he really was talking to me but he had nothing more to say.
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lifestyle sponsorship
January 24, 2011
and you may ask yourself
When’s the last time Jonny Sundt patched an inner tube?
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What we talk about when we talk about full-fendered flat-barred urban utility bikes
January 23, 2011
she came in through the bathroom window
January 23, 2011
all is well in Ordersville
hypotenusing through the tulips
golden ratios pop up everywhere
perpendicularly pleasing to the eye
aesthetically actually and or anecdotally
apparently not so accidentally
Entropy Avenue is a one way street
rotate exactly 90° counterclockwise
nonverbally virtually vertical on the horizon
the vanishing point is just over the next hill
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53 lbs of utility
January 21, 2011
kegerator [keg-uh-ray-ter]
January 20, 2011
kegerator is a noun that means more of this and this and less of that
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do you speak the lingo?
January 19, 2011
see no hear no breathe no
January 19, 2011
87 photo
acetone daydreams
wipe it clean
but that’s too emo so
harden the fuck up
ask me about
proper paperclip placement per pencil
don’t forget to account for
parallax error
converting metric to standard
with a firm grip on the Channellocks
for best results
insert fork in toaster
predicting pedestrians
gets good done did
things will work out
like disposable income
fingerlicking vulcanizing
patch kits patch its
* *
snake bite
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you say Electrolyte, I say Pickle Juice
January 18, 2011
reach out and touch dissimilar metals
January 16, 2011
lube your post
try not to take anything too seriously
support your local bike shop
and wear a sweater
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what's that?
January 15, 2011
same on the weekends as the rest of the days
January 15, 2011
here we are
once again
at the valve hole
land mark
bench mark
question mark
pilder mark
lazy susan
carousel
wheel
cycling
trends tend to
come back around
do not adjust your set
mega pixel pixilation
blurred vision
light headedness
sudden loss in cabin pressure
fresh synapses firing
the brain rewiring
compensating
anticipating
change
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NEW LOOK!!! Same Great Taste.
January 13, 2011
Please take a moment to locate the DANK bag nearest you
keep in mind it may be behind you
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vector scalar tensor cantilever chatter
January 11, 2011
from VeloNews-o-rama
phantom slow leak syndrome
glycogen stores sold out
tired
tire
false flat
literally
up hill both ways
no really for real
psi check it
tpi read about it
Mr. Tuffy
how ya like me now?
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nonfat decaf mocha extra whip
January 11, 2011
it's Happy Hour every day, just this side of Yuki's Diffusion
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are you kidding me?
January 9, 2011
dot the connects
January 9, 2011
stop gap psychosomatic head set spacer
January 7, 2011
beer can shim
January 5, 2011
Daddy, what’s he doing?
Oh honey, that man is shifting gears.
What?
Those are downtube shifters.
What is down tube?
Well honey, those are another kind of shifter that activate the derailleur to move the chain on the cogset, they’re just a bit antiquated and rather inconvenient when compared to the STI levers you have on your tricycle.
Why is he doing that?
Well honey, he appears to be kind of a retro grouch.
Like Oscar?
Yeah I guess, he’s sort of like Oscar, and he has a thing for steel too.
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to build a better bass boat
January 5, 2011
stardog champion
January 3, 2011
harder better faster stronger pilder wasser
January 2, 2011
The longer a bike spends in the pilderwasser household the more it begins to look like all the other bikes around here. People look like their pets. Form fluidly follows function living and working in the margins of utility cycling slowly exorcising the demons of janky bike parts past with a little bit tighter tolerances and different definitions.
A new bike in the stable kick starts a mini tsunami butterfly effect in full chain reaction cherry picking parts off of other older bikes morphing the new kid on the block until it’s obviously a pilderwasser until it’s one of us as obvious as Stevil’s new bikes sport the stem and bars and saddle and seat post combo in ways very similar from ride to ride. Points of contact relative.
Port Townsend came to town on Thursday and since then has gone on only brief tweaking test rides around the block and one inaugural beer run but it’s only a short time before it’ll be asked to take over commuter duty full time. Early observations include a solid smooth Cadillac quality ride and excellent action on the cantilever brakes (see disembodied hand shadow bike fence photo)
Avoiding the lack of foresight hasty hacksaw reaction of a younger man I left the steer tube uncut with spacers stacked up like poker chips because I’m still playing around with the stem and bars and lever levels and it seems prudent to put some miles on it before hacking chopping crimping and feruling.
Gave the stock stem and bars a minute of consideration before going with a riser bar because I’m old but not so Aaron’s-Bike-Shop-old where I want my bars above my saddle by a country mile ala Grant Peterson what’s the point of drop bars rising oh so high on a high rise stem?
The bar end shifters bumped down to the downtube in a resourceful use of resources readily available. The pedals never made it past the packaging because it’s personal like the saddle see Selle San Marco. Plan to give the derailleurs a chance and try the shifting thing for a while because if I strip this bike down to one gear it really will look just like all the other pilderwassers.
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one - two - one one
January 2, 2011
