Bedrock & Paradox

In the end I decided to tell my allergies to go fuck themselves, and had a good weekend. Yesterday was 3+ hours riding in Flag. We’ve got great riding all over town, and enormous potential for more. But the granite/volcanic/p-pine/aspen littoral is one of my favorites anywhere, and in Flag in particular. Riding up Shultz…

My dear old, dull, catastrophic college climbing and drinking pal posted this the other day. I always found the newspaper cartoons to be very dull. If only everything worked this well. To be or not to be is the question today ( see Justice Kennedy’s “trail” of Hamlet here: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june07/hamlet_03-29.html). The allergies have really been…

Informative comparison shots of classic WTB, new WTB, and Midge. Courtesy MTBR, of course.

So, my hands hurt a lot after this past weekend. A hard day out, to be sure, but I want to continue having such days without being all jacked up, and plan for many this year. Maybe I should just get new gloves. Or perhaps I should go the more bling route and get one…

Driving home an hour ago I could see, through the shades of precip and slanted evening light, the layers of Mingus Mountain above town better than I ever have. Normally, you can’t see the forests for the trees at all, but stereotypically unideal conditions today proved unique. So to with the rest. When I have…

Dropped by the post office on the way to work. 20 posters sent out, to 14 different people/organizations. CA, UT, ID, AZ, CO, and IA for the hell of it. We’ll see what happens. As per recent discussion, I don’t want an enormous number to show, and yet the democratic dimension of these events, and…

Race posters are copied, most are packaged and ready to send off early tomorrow. Still waiting for Harris’ address and reco’s from the CO crew. (umhmmm) In other news, my last birthday present came yesterday. Yes, my birthday is February 10th. That’s what happens when you order the complete box set of The West Wing…

A bit of a discussion has arisen (http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=281864) over the purpose and utility of drop bars off-road. “Shiggy”‘s treatise on the subject doesn’t leave much room for addition (see WHY in sidebar), so here are some fotos: Cleaning spokes seemed rather silly after the weekend, so I didn’t. I got sore, and will try some…

I haven’t been entirely idle today. My fully analogue stab at promotional literature is finished. Eh voila: So, now I am in need of assistance. Tomorrow I head off to the copy shop to make a number of high-quality copies for distribution, most will I presume head off to bike shops. A select few places…

Ed Ellinger took this on 128 last Friday. Outstanding photo! Eating like a starved animal mode kicked in today, driving back from the bike shop and a hike I simply had to have a cheeseburger. My role in life today has been lazy and unhelpful shop assistant to M, as the fuel tank removal saga…