This is not an update…

I will simply say the following. Domestic CNC components will replace imported items effective April 2 (so as to NOT be considered an joke). This will include ALL sliders, hangers and small components for the BONER. BONER Tensioner is in final production.  Shipping and pricing to be confirmed this week. If it is NOT, I will publish the personal contact details of the man controlling the CNC for the Boner-bodies. All ...

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Misfit Psycles Eats Topeak-Ergon for Camp

So I wasn't invited to participate at the spring edition of TEAM TOPEAK-ERGON BASE CAMP camp. I suppose I was indirectly invited to contribute...but the entry and the words looked kind of like a lot of work. Besides, I couldn't possible stand the rejection. As it is, I can't see any better way to serve the great green lot more right (for such an obtuse oversight) then to ensure ...

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Long Past Due

This will not be the update you were expecting... My recent trip on behalf of Corporate Psycles to Taipei Cycle confirmed a number of things. Good things. Bad things. Things I didn't need to confirm at all. And. All in all, it was a great trip. A productive trip. A trippy trip. And I would. Update. I wish I could. But. And now, I don't know what to say. Or ...

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Things I Learned. Despite Being Ignorant.

Updates specifically relating to TAIPEI CYCLE will need to wait. Ever the visualist, I will not post updates without pictures. I can NOT post picture because (it seems) I am without BOTH the appropriate USB cable AND the means to appropriately ask for one. Me:  Excuse me, do you have a USB cable I could borrow? (To assist with the comprehension I made the universal USB cable insertion sign). Hotel ...

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Taipei Cycle: Morning Update

Firstly... Blog entries may be the most exciting of all formats...what with the colours and sounds...but from HERE also the most erratic and incomplete. It is a format that requires a stable WI-FI with some real bandwidth. This combination (as it stands and I stand to be corrected) is proving about as rare a commodity as size 11.5 slippers and a house coat that covers my buttocks. Email entries ...

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First Blood

15 hours into the journey and now 12 hours in front of EST. Observations: There is no personal space. Anywhere. Things smell different. Many of these smells are unwelcome. There is much unwanted touching. Tiger Balm is apparently very popular. If in doubt, follow. If in a rush, push. Weee!

Tsunami Watch Over. Trip On.

Taiwan updates Tsunami warning. Good.  I am not a strong swimmer. Then there is this little matter. Sources suggest that there a) isn't an immediate risk to Taipei or Shanghai b) are plenty of trained peoples looking after it. ADDENDUM: Taipei Cycle Press Release In summary...no big waves, many many plates and westward wind offer no influence on Taiwan... Obviously the map was integral to comprehension.

Build Additions and Special Editions

The 2011 buying season will see some additions and modifications to the existing BUILD KIT options. First to arrive was something heavy and odd. The MANITOU TOWER 29er. TOWER PRO (left) and TOWER EXPERT (right). Comparison.  My rigid fork is stiffer.  BUT.  The TOWER promises some 80mm more of travel. As for the two forks themselves the differences are obvious.  One of them is white (PRO).  The other black (EXPERT). The ...

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Things Overheard at a Starbucks Date

He's really into the beach boys. Well. That's certainly an interest. I went to university a few times. The I decided I wanted to study social justice. I suppose that's more interesting than general arts. Did you actually attend university for that? You are in a band, what's your band like? I'm not in a band. Sorry I thought you were in a band. I was. Oh. I broke it ...

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Updates…Quickly…

Here are things as they lay.  Today. Misfit Psycles WAREHOUSE SALE continues... Selection of diSSent AL frames in: SMALL is virtually nil, MEDIUM (RAW) is ultra-thin and EXTRA LARGE is all but nawt. WAREHOUSE SALE and CASH FRIDAY continue this Friday March 11 from 10am to 4pm. Make an offer for the crap on the table. That is, take the bits yourself, for what you want to pay OR bid against ...

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Warehouse Sale

All REMAINING inventory of diSSent AL, diSSent ALC and Nummers frames are on sale. Limited inventory.  No substitutions.  No extensions.  No exceptions. All and any REMAINING samples, overstocks, demos and general crap will be on sale. There isn't a listing of this shit.  It's all over the fucking place like a rash.  I will table it and you make offers... Friday March 4th 10am to 4pm and Friday March 11th 10...

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Misfit Psycles vs The Bike Show

Spring is nigh. The weather may do as it fuckingwell pleases.  Deny if it must all intents to the contrary, riding season* is almost on us. * proper riding, riding that doesn't involve garbage bag skin suits and distain. At this instant, tractor trailers are being docked at bike shoppes across southern Ontario.  Each one stuffed with product relegated to basements and storage facilities, products unworthy of floorspace, products that have ...

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Repercussion Instruments

Strong sales in winter = inventory issues in spring. Happens every year. I assure you, there is no lesson to be learned from this sort of predictability. PSYCLESTORE NEWS So diSSent AL stock is low.  Again. Moving on.