The Breck Epic is less than a ways away. Riding, to some extent, has been done. And it's worthy of note as well, I've enjoyed it. Immensely. Finally. Effectively, however, what's done is done. As it pertains to preparation. For me, travel takes over come this July. So, what's left (pre-Epic) will and shall be considered TAPER*. * Look it up, all the pro's do it. It shall be a great ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. June 25, 2012 Misfit Psycles Corporation. Bolton Ontario, CANADA. The relatively unknown but periodically popular despite itself single speed company, Misfit Psycles, is pleased to announce the passing of a wondrous milestone on Friday June 22, 2012. It was on that past Friday the 22nd that a man named Noah placed the 2500th order at PSYCLESTORE (the Misfit Psycles direct sales website). In accordance with the contest promise, Noah's order was ...
That. I've got that covered. 24 Hours of Summer Solstice tomorrow. Four-man. No nights. Which, to those who might, it could sound - entirely worse. Unless, to those like me, you consider cush - entirely better. The spawn of me will be running the pits. Those of you that know them and their energies, know that the mileage I rack between laps will be the harshest. Expect many Monday declarations of ...
A mere two things worthy of note on this very hot day. Three if you count the fact that sales at PSYCLESTORE are down 0.75% month over month. If this dive is not corrected severe alterations and adjustments will be considered. Heads will roll. One. I don't have tight jeans, witty tattoos, I dislike my moustache face and horizontal stripes make men look stupid. In compensation for these and other inadequacies, ...
Bike Rumor kindly confirmed the validity of an email I received earlier in the day from NINER BIKES. I looked at the pictures. Skimmed for text. Full (news) letter Here (it's a long one). The new SIR 9 caught most of (their) headlines; Oversized head tube; allowing for new headset options and tapered forks. Modified Reynolds down tube; increasing fork clearance and decreasing stresses at that new head tube. Addition of ...
Owning a bicycle company. Running a bicycle company. Pure magic. When you aren't doing the dribs and drabs of what you have to do in order to pay for all those fucking hats and rabbits. But you working sorts with your comfy desks, free pens and stable incomes wouldn't understand. So. Here it is. Graphically; NOTE: If you find a man resembling the one depicted in the second image, please ...
Stage Racing. Some do. Some don't. Those that do, do and that's that I suppose. Those that do not, have their reasons. Reasons, most likely, that are a one of just two; they don't want to they don't think they can. To the former, sure. To the latter, you're (probably*) wrong. * In the event that you were not wrong, that I was wrong...and you are now dead...sincere apologies. ...
The 2012 edition of the BRECK EPIC will be a go in some and so 60 days. For you, there can only be three possible responses; You have entered. You have not entered, you will be doing so, you are just slow. You have not entered, you will not be doing so, you are a pussy. Certainly, if you have entered, you probably and already know that you aren't number ONE. Because ...
Six Fifty B. 650B. Not 26, not 29. Misfit Psycles (in accordance with corporate policy) considered then ignored this rumbling advance, each time, for some time. 2008 specifically. For the most and major part, so has much of the cycling world. At least mass manufacturingly speaking. Then someone (someone more corporate) got a good case of that wind. Someone, it seems, with just enough clever to determine that they might and actually could ...
During a less than, but most nearly, recent visit to JOYRIDE a seemingly simple (and other-wisely un-notable) conversation (with Mark*) took place. A conversation that only just now and most recently struck me. *Mark: Good man. Friend. Partner in JOYRIDE 150** **The words utilized are individual descriptors, they should NOT in ANY WAY be combined or misconstrued as implying that Mark is a "good man friend partner". It was a sunny ...
I am no stranger to sustained and repeated failure. I've done it much, I do it well. I've grown comfortable with, if I'm not most partial to, it's sting. I excel at decelerating. It's not mere failure that constitutes my current cycling complication. It's the graphic (evidently intentional) journey through the stages of; laughing stock (A) to potential (B) to loser (C) to complete disappointment (D) that I despise the ...