Published January 29th, 2010 in Cycling News, Humor
Somewhere on a secret test track in Germany, Apple engineers are putting the final touches on an application that didn't make it to yesterday's iPad launch. Rumor has it that Jobs was uncharacteristically restrained from pressuring the team to deliver the project, code named Colossus for the main stage presentation. Charles Forbin Jr. who heads [...]
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My New Year's Day pilgrimage to Mt. Hamilton is normally a solitary affair but this year Brendan, Tim and Willy toed the start line for the climb to the observatory. Willy on his mint green Vanilla, Tim on his white Cervelo RS, Brendan astride the steel Soulcraft and yours truly on my Enigma. We rolled [...]
Continue reading about Four Horsemen, Three Rapha Rain Jackets, and One “Fetality”
Levi Leipheimer has had us fooled for all these years. I don't know about you but I bought the whole soft-spoken nice guy image hook, line and sinker. On Saturday his Granfondo convinced me he's been hiding a mean streak... a dark, bitter secret that finally surfaced on the back roads of Sonoma County.
I couldn't [...]
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OK, so I didn't get to carry a gun or sleep with a hot girl named Heavenly Rider but getting a chance to see a new PRO bike months before its official debut at the Tour de France was pretty cool. After swearing I hadn't been tailed and signing an electronic NDA in the lobby, [...]
Saturday morning Brendan and I parked at Lucky's and set out for our first long ride together in some time. As usual, our plan to take it easy early was disturbed by a tailwind and some fast company on Foothill. Neither of us said anything of course, we just raised our speed to keep the [...]
Published July 28th, 2009 in Humor
It took a few seconds for Juli's question to register as we drove home tonight. And then I started laughing. "Incumbent... I countered? You mean the person's existing bike? Or did you just see the mayor pedal by? You mean recumbent bike!"
"Yes, yes, I meant recumbent" as she started to laugh too.
I suppose if you [...]
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Published June 1st, 2009 in Humor
Knog's topsy turvy world comes to life through a series of clever, quirky vignettes with Wendy, Violet, Graeme and Charlie (my favorite). Bring your sense of humor because the boys and girls of Knog are going to make you feel things about bicycle accessories you never thought possible. "Have you found a hole in my [...]
Continue reading about Knogumentary – Down the Rabbit Hole (ooh) with a Bike Tool
Given that we’re normally separated by 5,000 miles of real estate and a rather large pond I couldn’t miss the chance to visit with Brian Palmer of the washingmachinepost during his week long pilgrimage to Portland (and he’d be the first to call it that). A 6:00 am flight Tuesday got me to Stumptown in [...]
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Published April 27th, 2009 in Humor
On Saturday morning at precisely 8:42 am my pal Brendan stepped gingerly out of the shadows beside the car to reveal the highly polished surface of the world's most dangerous cycling shoes. I'd prepared myself by wearing two pairs of sunglasses and a liberal coating of SPF 220, unfortunately the flight of sparrows torched by [...]
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Published April 20th, 2009 in Humor, Road Bike Gear
If last week's post about Willy and randonneering had an underlying theme it might have been the relationship between style and practicality. Willy aptly demonstrated you don't have to sacrifice one for the other, but cycling gear typically involves a trade off. The latest featherweight carbon component may not survive an innocent tumble. Helmets keep [...]
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Published March 18th, 2009 in Humor
If you've been following this story for a while you know that Velodramatic and thewashingmachinepost cooperate when the wind is blowing hard and take turns riding false tempo when the other is in a breakaway. At least that's what I do when Mr. Palmer is off the front. This week he took a flier with [...]
Some ways back I seem to have reached the summit of my enthusiasm for new technology. More and more it feels I'm pedaling on a false flat, working harder than I should and going slower into the bargain. The admission doesn't come easy for someone who makes a living as head of product design [...]
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