quality of life issues

the real deal

I don’t live in that apartment anymore. The cat died a few years ago.  I sold the Bridgestone to Brian and he destroyed it. But I still have the toaster oven, the top tube pad and the grey 600 dual-pivot calipers.

it was cool 

until it wasn't 

he asked if he could crash on the couch

eleven and a half months later                  he's still here

now       we have an unspoken agreement

we don't speak

the disparity makes me queasy between

what you say                     what you mean

just another regurgitated messenger photo

       a 40 year old rookie   walks into a bar

the bartender says, "why the long shadow?"

Bike Works   Frame Sale 

Sunday May 19      11am - 5pm

50% off cheap = really cheap

the ultimate set of tools           guerrilla like     

beer soaked basement bloody knuckle bike mechanics

gorilla tight    round off    cross thread    strip-o-rama

today is Skunk's 17th birthday

where were you in 1996?

I was riding urbanized mountain bikes and then I got my first real full retail road bike often wearing an empty messenger bag and Diadora spd shoes on Onza clipless pedals for the 8-block ride to spend countless hours sitting on a barstool at a brew pub just-opened on the fringes of Capitol Hill that served up imperial pints at a reasonable price featuring a limited food menu and very few customers with a free pool table and a dart board in the corner. Greg chicken-tractor Vogel was a barback.

don't call it a comeback   they been here for years

blocking out the background noise

with tunnel vision and laser focus

of one million parabolic mirrors

this photo from Shaggy asks "what's wrong with this picture?"

robot-like consistency    day in   day out

the kid  stage left  is fake
but now is a good time to ask
What if he wasn’t?

rode to work today with the fake kid strapped into the cargo bike      because I can and got a lot of comments looks double takes

don’t need bike-to-work month printed on the calendar to dust things off and ride to work and don’t need any spandex carbon fibers oriented in a racing roadie matrix either

Ronald Reagan and his wife Jane Wyman with matching Schwinn Continentals featuring ground-munching-630bsd  27 inch wheels, larger than 29ers, larger than 27.5ers, larger than 700c       lifted from the 1946 Schwinn catalog at schwinncruisers.com

Q factor crank length pedal spindle plumb bob
formulaic  you-are-here  mosaic
please press hard    you are
making three copies

insert the same variables          expect different results

repeat

Hey Matt Case, per your request, here is the pilderwasser logo. You can also find it on the sleeve of your T-shirt.  If you need a pdf or some kind of vector jpeg shit,  it might take an additional 7 to 10 working days.

PS   the pedalers fair is this weekend in Seattle and I know you're in Portland but I'm no longer just talking to you. I'm talking to you plural, if you're in the area code, check it out. 

I’m looking for a job that meets the following criterions
or if you prefer Greek, the following criteria:

1. It doesn’t suck
2. It pays a living wage
3. I can ride my bike there, and back again

seriously   for real    really
that’s it

if you know someone that knows someone
I’m looking for a job

RedKev photo

don’t go back to rockville
waste another year
working in a bike shop
to quiet the monkey mind
the old is now new
the retro    neo
now a factory in china
pumps out cheap neo-retro knockoffs
nowhere near the original
a trend     a circle     a cycle
a bicycle          rolls
as smooth as frozen glass
as smooth as tim mason
coming back around again
call it what you will
shimano wants you to call it 27.5
i call it       horseshit