30 July 2008

WHY IS THIS NOT SURPRISING? Cop tackles cyclist for no reason at NYC critical mass, as in an out of nowhere, unprovoked violent assault from the cop, for real. Another guy who didn't make the varsity football team in high school.

28 July 2008

RAGBRAI Main Street USA Beer Bust, Now with More Chumba Wumba

23 July 2008

Woo!

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Albion monkeys and 'bents

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Aloha Albion, IA

The best part about riding in to this town was seeing a rider with Incycle kit (An LA racing team) yelling hello and asking her if she was from LA and having her ride past us without acknowledging us. Just like back home!

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Tough shit, little lady!

Respect my author-I-tie

21 July 2008

Field of Hoop dreams

Fire dancing and hooping at ragbrai Jefferson, iowa

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Corn

Town square tankin

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Ragbrai day 2

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It's a twister in the middle of the night

Currently taking shelter in mrs. McCallum's garage at 230 am. A fire truck just drove up through town telling everyone to take shelter, gikant storm coming through, high winds, hail, possible tornado. Temp dropped 20 degrees in 5 min., winds picked up. Campmate woke me up by screaming in my tent with this info. Interesting way to wake up, storm about to hit.

19 July 2008

Ragbrai night 1

Missouri Valley, IA west coast style.

18 July 2008

Golden arches + bass fishing in kansas city, missouri

En route to ragbrai, back in the high life again.

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12 July 2008

unbelievable! he's itching to escape!

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06 July 2008

More broken bike stuff. Jesus christ, basta!

Tacx bottle cage that sheered off mid-ride, Bontrager seatpost bolt that seized and had to be drilled and tapped to liberate my Specialized Toupe (yup, it works, best saddle i've ever used for my own personal rear) so it can go on stealth roadie single speed i'm buildin' up. . .all just in time for me to miss what feels like the nicest day this summer. No time to ride, just to fix broken stuff so that when I get back from road gig this week I CAN ride.

This is the substance of the way of the samurai.