Yearly Archives: 2011

I’m headed out to Houston, TX today for a good week with my family.  Drinks will be drunk and food consumed.  I’m not bringing my Surly with me.  I’m already feeling postpartum about it.  It will be good for recovery, and I’ll be running a fun 5K to support the elderly.  All in all I’m ready to get out of Alabama for a while.  Wish I had time to head up to Austin, TX and give a shout out to ProllyIsNotProbably.com.  Happy Holidays!!

Fun Video Time.  Cranksgiving 2010.  Little old but still good.

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Cranksgiving 2010 nyc from crihs on Vimeo.

Check this out via ProllyIsNotProbably.com.  Firefly Bicycles built a monster.  For more images click MisterDangerPants.

Timo Stark “The German” brought the Athens Twilight Crit to my attention.  It’s pretty freaking amazing!
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Music will make a lonely partnerless ride way better.  100% of the time it pumps me up to ride harder 60% of the time….. Anyways, Rdio is an amazing app that will work on most smart phones.  I personally have an iPhone and it works great.  It’s $10 a month, a little steep for an app but it lets you link your entire iTunes library to the phone without bogging down your phones hard drive.  You can also listen to anyone you want anytime you want.  Click on THIS to learn more.

This is very inspiring!  Phillip nailed it.  When you are passionate about something it dosen’t matter.

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Ride or Die from Alpheus Joseph on Vimeo.

This looks awesome.  Time to brain storm on how to bring my local biking community together.

 
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CRITERIUM GIJON 2011 from Hector Torra on Vimeo.

Every since the Yalta has been out I’ve wanted it.  Now that FTC has their 25 year stamp of approval on the bag I want it even more!!  Maybe Santa will be good to me this year.

This is how you do it!!  FOAD shows you how to use the Fairdale Skaterack!!  Sweet Surly… man after my own heart.  

I remember when I first got wind of Empire and the DVD they were putting together.  I was excited and pissed that I didn’t know when they were gonna crank it out.  Now they have, I pre-ordered immediately.  Check them out HERE for your pre-order purchase.  The price has been dropped for a week of pre-orders.  Grab’em up!!  

Yesterday I hit up my first real back country road ride.  Timo Stark (AKA The German)  invited me out on one of his leisurely paced rides (also first ride in my Hincapie bib shorts… BOMB).  It was awesome!  He cruised along as I gave it my best.  All in all it wasn’t that bad of a ride…. untill we hit the 1000+ foot climb at the end.  I started strong and gave it hell, then slowly turned into a wimpering little girly man!!  Looking forward to fighting that climb again soon.  I ended up riding further than I every had before at about a mile and a half faster average speed than I would have if I was by myself.  This is another great example that you are only going to be as good as the people you ride with.  Moral of this long winded post… Ride hard with people that are better than you and avoid wimpering.

Art work provided by Kyle Steed