Bar width.
Hipster narrow or BMX wide?
After experimenting, I’m leaning to BMX wide: more leverage, easier to climb, multiple hand positions, better for the trickin’. Though I can’t be completely sure, I suspect that narrow bars started with someone somewhere chopping the drops off of track bars: which are narrow by definition. Narrow bars make sense [...]
Tom LaMarche is riding another evolution of the Charge Scissor prototype… or, rather, he will be. At the moment he has a broken wrist (or so I’ve read). The prototype is looking pretty sweet. Pearl Velo, which is set to open up soon in the highlands, will be the only Charge dealer in Colorado, and [...]
Wind blows sand and dirt against the weathered white siding, which once had a brilliant coat of white paint that has now been worn and erroded, of a tiny bar that exists only in an imaginary land northeast of Los Angeles in 1959. The patrons of the bar wear straight cut Levi’s, western work shirts [...]
Something about green is what gets me: rolling, dew covered hills of lush grass, windy hills, cold brisk air… if I had my station in life to choose, if fate did not dictate the place and manner of my birth, I could see myself living in the fair English countryside (of course, perhaps I’d rather [...]
Hats off to whoever did this Quizno’s ad (Quizno’s is a Denver company, BTW), is this actually on tv? Homoerotic jokes are fantastic because they make “bro” types so uncomfortable. Though it’s not the best commercial they have done, Quizno’s has had quite a few brilliant ads over the years (remember the one with the [...]
I really like this singlespeed from Geekhouse that was featured at NAHBS this year. This seems like a great street to trail bike, capable of handing non technical, rolling singletrack and still rolling around town. Not as much fun for riding in the city as my fixie (not as easy to ride backwards, etc), but [...]
Where fingers meet palm angry red lumps first formed along the creases of my hands in a noticeable fashion in the fall of 1998. These lumps were at first disconcerting, but in the last eleven years they have worked themselves into thickened, hard, slightly yellow skin. I cannot say that all cyclists undergo this, but [...]
When you get sent to your room for wearing your wolf costume and being “wolfish” what do you do? Where do you go?
Well, like many fond and bitter sweet memories you can only stay in the land of wild things so long… heartwarming and sad at the same time, we’re all going to get to [...]
It’s old, but it’s funny: the phony “viral videos” that Sony hired a marketing firm to do when the PSP was first released. I believe the words “funky fresh” were used to describe why they pulled the vidoes… in reality, savvy nerds did a “whois” on the domain name. In other words, the DNS information [...]
There’s a state that exists somewhere between the sharpness of a well rested mind and a recovering, formerly feverish brain… a fog of healing, if you will. That is out of one’s hands, to be sure. However, what is well within one’s control is the decision to demand equal rights, yet to act as if [...]