please hold please
July 21, 2011
pattern length - 7 to 10 working days
pattern width - the state of Iowa
please hold your holding pattern
I’m going on a little bike ride across Iowa with 12,000 people, it's about 480 miles long and 500 cans of Milwaukee’s Best deep
please check back in August
when I return I’ll have some fish tales, a few photos and one wicked T-shirt tan
cheers
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What Duchamp Would Do (WDWD)
July 20, 2011
There have been countless copies or imitations or knockoffs like readymade tributes to Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel sculpture since he made the original 98 years ago and then made a few more versions years later.
I’m sure you’ve seen a few art school dropout configurations or some backyard bike mechanic amalgamations. However I am confident that this is the one and only one with a hand crafted Mad Fiber wheel and it’s right here in Seattle.
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when the babysitter needs a babysitter
July 19, 2011
- - - Actual Size - - -
(baby added to show scale)
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reduce reuse bicycle
July 18, 2011
Monday is a working day
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this little piggy wears pilderwasser
July 16, 2011
P O V
July 14, 2011
an old five gallon bucket may be all you need
off-gassing new construction
120 unit residential
street level retail below grade parking
eventually
antibodies build up billed out of pocket
gone in a poof of black smoke
burning quick and dirty like
a pair of pop tarts and a large black coffee
in a stomach empty
edgy
she appeared to be riding no-handed
however rolling closer
it was just a sleeveless jersey and arm warmers
seamless transitions segue
and not in a Jeff Bezos way
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RAGBRAI Jedi
July 13, 2011
it's always the last place you look
July 13, 2011
white knuckling at 10 and 2
the big hand gets closer to the little hand
then it gets further away
completing the circle
returing to the valve hole
drilled for schrader
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tainted beef
July 11, 2011
square taper mandala
July 11, 2011
It’s not about the bottle cage bolts on a Bianchi that was actually made in Italy from Columbus tubes because that’s another story if I could draw your attention briefly to the blue anodized chainring 130 bcd of course bolted to ye olde 600 cranks radiating out at 170mm to two knife edge MKS pedals all the better to slice the shoes with if you actually rode it all daybut I only ride it to Safeway it’s not about the booted and patched second chance another go round renewed life tires only pumped up to 80psi to avoid blowouts on sidewalls worn eversothin by a guy named Scotty Mathauser working dual pivot 600 calipers for years riding sporadically as a legal messenger in and for King County residing in Seattle the rust on the chain is a natural defense mechanism oxidizing in its own way some say it’s a cry for help but I don’t see it that way because Archibald Sharp told me it’s just as efficient OK you can’t see it but visualize the quill stem dunked dipped dropped in the well of another one inch threaded headset repeated repeatedly all over the Pacific time zone during the past 21 years single speed conversion marsala greater than the sum of its parts it’s not a townie if it’s just like all your other bikes.
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smells like same time different year
July 10, 2011
6.8 kilograms soaking wet
July 8, 2011
VeloNews photo
Chavanel's Merckx
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touchy feely social science theory
July 7, 2011
What if all your coworkers turned out to be confederates in a vast all-encompassing social science experiment that for the past 14 years has been testing theories like teamwork; the greater good; textbook socialism; work ethic; efficiency; versatility; nutrition; dehydration; alcohol intake; interpersonal communication; supply and demand microeconomics; micromanaging controlling supervision; independent workspace with room for creativity and innovation; fresh air; repetition; attention to detail over great spans, sleep deprivation, environmental variations including temperature, humidity and precipitation; prolonged exposure to bright light; long stretches in a dark work environment… …?
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residual habanero fingers rubbing eyes
July 6, 2011
talking points:
moving forward retrospectively
this little piggy had roast beef
uniform spoke tension
whiter teeth fresh breath
NW Legal Messengers
proper paperclip placement
six degrees of Nick Dale
six pack ring collections
free range beer can chicken
auto spell checck
Portland, Oregon
Bloomington, Indiana
Grinnell, Iowa
Cour d'Alene, Idaho
spf 15 lip balm
hairball regurgitation
King County jury summons
175mm octalink cranks
passive solar heating
traffic mitigation devices
talk amongst yourselves
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it's all ball bearings nowadays
July 4, 2011
Fletch: I'm gonna need some wires and a set of 30 weight ball bearings...
Willy: What the hell you need ball bearings for?
Fletch: Awww, come on guys, it's so simple. Maybe you need a refresher course.
[leans arm on hot engine part] Hey! It's all ball bearings nowadays. Now you prepare that Fetzer valve with some 3-in-1 oil and some gauze pads. And I'm gonna need 'bout ten quarts of anti-freeze, preferably Prestone. No, no make that Quaker State.
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kundalini rising
July 1, 2011
the Raleigh Lil Push in blue and or pink. The time is now. Now is the time to skip the whole training wheel thing and let the kid Fred Flinstone their way to balance and a lifetime of shredding. It's like riding a bike. Something about white tires rubs me the wrong way which is just one of the reasons my daughter and or son would stick with the blue model rolling on good old black "rubber".
If I put the white tires, grips and saddle on the blue one, my kid would soon insist on wearing skinny jeans and hi-tops and a flat brimmed baseball cap and refuse to wear their helmet when they walked their bike to the coffee shop.
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