New music Monday

Serious. Serious. Seriously. Serious is what I want to be.

"Thats probably the most ignorant blog I've ever done in my life. Besides the other ones."

With allegations of Lance Armstrong's doping back in the news (don't think they've ever really went away) stories are popping up again.

Everyone has an opinion.
This video from video blogger The Real MrNikbagtv AKA "The Blogaholic" has been making the rounds.

Although I don't necessarily agree with him its just too damn funny not to spread around some more.

Some of my favorite quotes:
"Anybody from the hood knows who rides bikes everywhere... Crackheads."
"He's American. I'm American. What American's do? We do drugs."
"Why would you ride a bike sober?"
"Thats probably the most ignorant blog I've ever done in my life. Besides the other ones."

"Theres a lot of space in Space"

Bill Nye the Science Guy.
I passed a college geology exam once thanks to Bill Nye.
Great show.



Picked up the link via Cyclelicious

"I'm not part of your race"

I stright up stole this jem from I Bike MPLS



Thanks Mark!
What a fantastic prank idea.

Halloween weekend... its here

Well Halloween weekend is upon us.
Which means all over the place there are "crazy & spooky "things happening in the next couple of days.
Supposedly... I wouldn't know for sure. I don't get invited to those kinda things.
However, I do know about at least one.
The annual Homie Fall Fest in MPLS

If you have the means and time to be there I suggest being there.
If you ride bikes, drink beer, and enjoy fun you won't be disappointed.
Believe me.
I won't be there again this year. I had planned to go but the whole new bike thing kinda got in the way of it.
Ah well. I'm sure I can make my own kind of fun here...granted it might be locking all the doors, turning off the lights and hiding under a blanket.
But hey... I'll have fun. And thats all that matters.
Right?

Have a good weekend. I'm gonna go ride my bike.

One to help you through your lunch break.

Signs aren't for lunch



Even if you are an idiot

Tour de Shawnee

The 20th annual Tour de Shawnee was over the weekend and I was there.
There's even proof too.
Here I am in the Kansas City Star:



The Star says:
"Zeke of BikeSource adjusted a bike Sunday prior to the 20th Annual Tour de Shawnee. Close to 600 cyclists participated in the event which benefited the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation."

More KC Star photos of the event are here


Good times

Its all about Performance

Uh... OK.

Other peoples words...

The glory of riding is losing yourself, leaving care and trouble and jobs and heartache on the road somewhere behind you. They'll find you on the way back and climb up on your shoulders again, push their way back into your life and consciousness, but for those precious few moments they disappear, left behind in a chaotic pile, and all that seems important are the road and the circles and the hum of the tires and the click click click click click of the metronome that begins to set itself inside your mind. The gears shift as if by magic, the world comes alive in a burst of Maxfield Parris colors along the edges of the tunnel of the road directly before you. An invisible hand pushes you along. Deep in your rational mind, you're convinced its is the wind, pushing and guiding and helping you up the grade. You also know, deep within your pocket of fear, that as soon as you make the turn toward home that same hand will place itself directly in your face, no matter what direction you ride, and make you work for you rest and comfort. And the metronome in your head continues to grow louder, more insistent: click click click click clickclickclickclick.

And you ride, to who knows where, carried on a wave of joy.

-Greg Moody

Winter riding...

Indoors or out? Whats your choice?

Yehuda Moon & the Kickstand Cyclery

The Long Road North

I really would like to see this film
I don't think I could do the ride but I bet it would be a great adventrue
The Long Road North