A few weeks ago I screened myself a Hella t-shirt and pulled off a few postcards too, residual byproduct side effects.
Then I mailed them to Corndog, 22 Heather and Catarina. It took a few weeks for Heather’s to travel one mile, a few weeks++ for Corndog’s to get to Rip City 200 miles south, and I’m still hoping Catarina’s will surface in McKinleyville some day soon, 571 miles south of here.
These postcards sat in some US Postal purgatory for a few weeks. I think they were stuck together and maybe stuck to other mail too and tossed aside until someone somewhere sorted them out and put them back on their way. My postcard to Perkins Coie took weeks and weeks to get to Molly. Ashurst Perkins Coie, that is, just a few miles south of here in downtown Seattle.
I believe my fondness for Dot-a-Lot dimensional craft paint is the reason my postcards have glommed onto each other. And perhaps I need to scale back on the use of it with USPS items.
I went to Portland for 67 hours to visit Corn Dog and the MADE show. Now I’m in recovery mode, aka: robot boy zombie electric ass mailman. I got some photos I plan to put in a slide show. But I’m in a bit of a technology pickle. So it might take a while. I started a MADE PDX slideshow on the slideshow page. And eventually I'll get the photos up there.
"Toto represents Dorothy’s deep connection to home, her grounded reality and the voice of truth."
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Rare Buffalo leather San Marco Rolls saddle. Light brown with gold highlights. This is a vintage rare saddle. Perfect finishing touch to your 90's restoration project. Or you can buy it and flip it on eBay for $200. They don't make these anymore. The only thing wrong with it is the rivet head that popped off on the rear ROLLS panel, as you can see in the photo.
This saddle is gently used but over all, it's in good condition.
that was my craigslist ad
A couple days later, one response, no bullshit, no stupid questions, she showed up early-on-time, on a bike, and paid cash.
sometimes craigslist is cool
I got this saddle years ago at Bike Works and Steve Maluk frowned upon my "employee 5-finger discount" because he knew this was not just any old saddle. I put it on my purple Bianchi for stint. Then I gave it to Steve Young for a bit and he rode it for a moment. Then I took it back from him because the other Steve said it was so valuable. And then it just sat in a milkcrate full of saddles in the garage for 12 years....
Up on upon its first test ride I had the rear brake only laced up to Ye Olde School Suntour cantilever lever. It felt like nothingness. It felt like a rainsoaked super saturated nerf ball on a trampoline. It felt like a stress dream where you’re trying too hard to look like you’re not trying too hard.
It did not inspire confidence.
Then I slapped on some XT levers and the brakes felt better. I rode it around the block a few times trying to burn off all the BikeWorks greasy grease on the rotors. It started to feel a little bit better.
And then I thought of Steve Maluk scolding me for building up a bike with canti levers on V-brakes. It works. But it’s half-ass. And we don’t sell half-ass bikes here. Those were not his words but they’re my summation of the situation. Lesson learned.
On these XT levers you can switch the cable pull from canti to V-brake. Quick as a wink. If you’re cable actuating disc brakes you want to be in V-brake mode and pull more cable. Not until today did I realize I was test riding in cantilever...
“Note the fine red bicycle leaning on the sunny side of the outhouse.”
-Paul Fattaruso
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The Poprad’s maiden voyage was just down the street to shoot hoops with Junior-Junior.
With only the rear brake strung up, it was a slow roll. The microSHIFT shifters shift just like shifters should shift. This fine red bicycle still needs work, and a new fork. But it’s coming along.
This cold brains Cannondale sat outside of Fisheries all week, unlocked.
unlocked…
cold brains, unmoved
untouched, unglued
alone at last
no thoughts, no mind
to rot behind
a trail of disasters
“Cold Brains”
Beck 1998
Perhaps it’s been there more than a week, but I do that fishery route every third week, so I’m not sure. The fact that U-district bike thieves have bigger fish to fry in 2026, makes me chuckle.
Cannondales make good cheater bars. If this bike rolled into BikeWorks during my tenure, I’d tag it: “AS IS ONLY” I would not touch it with any tools. But if it was damaged, I’d strip any usable parts and hack-saw the downtube into an oversized cheater bar. This cold-brains Cannondale would fall on the cheater bar spectrum somewhere between the Gary Fisher and the Klein.
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses. But don’t give me your blown out HeadShok. What would Pig Boy do? (WWPBD) Note the superfluous seat post clamp on the saddle.
