It's known enough that Epic Rides' Whiskey Off-Road is a very faste and hardening event, it being on a legitimate ATB type course and of a middle distance at 50 miles longish. Taking place at the end of April, it makes for a premier early season target - or spring season escape - for all kinds of bike riders from all kinds of places. Toss the $30,000 or so cash prize split for the PRO's, and what started out as a top notch pay-for group ride over … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2014
Greg the World – How to Fix a Flat
Now Hiring Technici Profezzionale!
We’re Totally Hiring Tech Professionals! Req'd Education: 2 year Technical Degree or equivalent work experience PLUS 10 - 15 years of bici-shoppe experiencia PLUS no children or wife or complainings. Travel: Totally All-Times/ Most Days. Relocation: Please relocate if you are not currently staying around here. Job Description Major Hand-typed Bicycle-specific Website Corporation World-Tour team is … [Read more...]
Superissimo on “Enduro”
Underbike Industry Mixer Number Six
You know the drill: Interbike, 2014. It is coming. By day, we make the thronging mess of gaping shoulder turrets sifting through carbon sediment. They call that "sustainability" in the bike biz, pulling carbon out of the atmosphere one layer of high modulus crabon fibre at a time. We like this. We will matching shoes and damn thicke glasses, pants maybe, and you name it, because we area team about bicycles. If only the stimulation didn't feel … [Read more...]
Social Syncronicity in the Pelotong
“Ha, ha. Nice, ‘Ski.” The sun wasn’t even up, and I hadn’t yet sank a whole coffee. It's not ever my best time of day, but then I was a prisoner: stuck in my shit car, headed to a shit business park in some shit town, riding another shit crit, with my shit teammate, Tim Andrzejewski. Already, he’s trying to bury his insecurity with fat girl jokes. This last was a real stunner. Q: How do you pick up chicks at the State Fair? A: With a … [Read more...]
Putting the HORS in Sexytime
From our analysis of the kit market there appeared to be a burgeoning glut of trend options. We were unsure how deepe it might go, and so we were axperimenting and we believe we found a bottom. Luckily, like rubber coqs, we bounced back with fists wrapped around heavy thinking. The tension of dayglo camoeux is heavy. We are notte sure. What is the fresh new patterns going to be? Or, is there one? Does there need to be? We mean that in a complete … [Read more...]
Arizona Party Series Part Two – The ITT
Part one of the Arizona Party Series. What is this freedom? There are too many reasons to ride far. We took up the Arizona Party Series in acknowledgment of this; that the morning ritual of coffee by campfire is as important as the daylong effort of making miles disappear. Ride long, don't rush, repeat. So it goes... Arriving home early from our original tour APS tour, I couldn't stand to waste days blubbering about the internets or … [Read more...]