I woke up this morning and had a rather extraordinary epiphany. It was that the phenomenon of blogging in general have "Jumped the Shark". As a result this will be the last entry until the next greatest thing comes around.
I will shield the loyal reader from my rather long and pointless diatribe of this retarded term "Jumped the Shark". In summary, I think it is lame, stupid, and overused by ironic hipsters.
As Cora Corman so succinctly and elegantly put it, "I never look to the past, that's like so long ago."
Good bye for now.
To my special reader who is preferred by 9 out of 10 Ghanian men, stay strong out there, we will ride one day.
I realize the ironic nature of posting a blog entry about the demise of blog entries.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Soooo Borrrrreeeed....
I just realized, if they(Robert Dinero) made a movie about me, it would consist of the main protagonist waking up, drinking coffee, and looking at the same cycling websites repeatedly for exciting updates (which inevitably never happens) all day long.
Sometimes the character may even venture out to read some blogs but get irritated that there has not been any updates for days.
The the character will walk home, looking at various bikes, maybe even riding the trainer for45 minutes, eating some dinner, and finally going to sleep after farting 4-7 times under the covers.
If anyone:
1) Has seen any actually entertaining blogs or websites, please tell me.
Cyclingnews is getting real old lately, this blog has become stale and puffy.
2) Knows how to jailbreak the Ipod Touch 2nd Gen, please tell me.
3) Is doing anything remotely interesting, please report.
This entry goes out to a young fan and reader in Ghana. Please be on the lookout for an Ironic T-Shirt I just sent you. The locals will love it. It is a t-shirt that says "This is not a T-shirt". Enjoy!
Until then, I will be in NYC all weekend.
Perhaps I will visit the famed YASUDA for some Chirashi sushi...or just spend all my money at Pinkberry. Who knows.
I guess most people have figured out that I was asked to be in a new sitcom that will feature an ethnic bike messenger type character.
This is the real reason I will be in NYC, to audition for this role.
Sometimes the character may even venture out to read some blogs but get irritated that there has not been any updates for days.
The the character will walk home, looking at various bikes, maybe even riding the trainer for45 minutes, eating some dinner, and finally going to sleep after farting 4-7 times under the covers.
If anyone:
1) Has seen any actually entertaining blogs or websites, please tell me.
Cyclingnews is getting real old lately, this blog has become stale and puffy.
2) Knows how to jailbreak the Ipod Touch 2nd Gen, please tell me.
3) Is doing anything remotely interesting, please report.
This entry goes out to a young fan and reader in Ghana. Please be on the lookout for an Ironic T-Shirt I just sent you. The locals will love it. It is a t-shirt that says "This is not a T-shirt". Enjoy!
Until then, I will be in NYC all weekend.
Perhaps I will visit the famed YASUDA for some Chirashi sushi...or just spend all my money at Pinkberry. Who knows.
I guess most people have figured out that I was asked to be in a new sitcom that will feature an ethnic bike messenger type character.
This is the real reason I will be in NYC, to audition for this role.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Tubular gluing failure...
So yesterday I went to go check on the set of tires that I had glued before.
This was the first set of cross tubulars I glued without using the tape so I was pretty curious how it would come out.
When I was testing the tire adhesion, I was gut wrenched to find that I was able to peel the wheel off just by pulling on it with some force. What I discovered was that for one wheel, the glue did not seem to adhere very well to the base tape, and for the second wheel it adhered to the base tape, but not very well to the rim.
The process took about 4 days total, 3 thin layers on the tire and rim, and a final tacky layer on the rim before mounting.
I am curious how hard it should be to pull a properly glued tire from the rim? I had to use a tire lever to break some of the interface, but it seemed to come off MUCH easier than when I used tape.
Maybe back to tape...
This was the first set of cross tubulars I glued without using the tape so I was pretty curious how it would come out.
When I was testing the tire adhesion, I was gut wrenched to find that I was able to peel the wheel off just by pulling on it with some force. What I discovered was that for one wheel, the glue did not seem to adhere very well to the base tape, and for the second wheel it adhered to the base tape, but not very well to the rim.
The process took about 4 days total, 3 thin layers on the tire and rim, and a final tacky layer on the rim before mounting.
I am curious how hard it should be to pull a properly glued tire from the rim? I had to use a tire lever to break some of the interface, but it seemed to come off MUCH easier than when I used tape.
Maybe back to tape...
Monday, February 23, 2009
Vallely Barnyard
This is a deck that I used to ride all the time, and would beat the crap out of. I crashed while doing a trick and it fell into the Copley fountain where I left it. Now a new one goes for more than $2000 on ebay.
Much like bikes, I went through about 20 boards in the two years I skated (1990-92).
Here are some memorable ones....in chronological order
Powell Caballero Dragon and bats
Toyoda
Powell Underhill
Powell Barbee
H-street Magnusson
H-street Hensley
Blind Rudy Johnson
G&S Street Chomp 1 & 2
Vision Double Tail
Vallely Double tail
Vallely Elephant
Vision Double Jinx
Planet Earth Miller
New Deal Templeton
New Deal ??
Santa Cruz Slick
Jeremy Klein Super Mario
Nothing
I have nothing of interest to post today.
I thought the Tour of California's last day was pretty boring.
There were no real attacks, racers seemed pretty content with their final GC po-sish.
I would have liked to have seen the "Alpe de Huez" of California be the final climb to really destroy the riders, have a screaming down hill, and a 10 mile finishing straight away.
Also, for some reason, I find many of the "Runners" in American races much more irritating than the ones in European racing. I am not quite sure why that is, but the whole time I was watching the climb, I was thinking, my god, who are these idiots????
I thought the Tour of California's last day was pretty boring.
There were no real attacks, racers seemed pretty content with their final GC po-sish.
I would have liked to have seen the "Alpe de Huez" of California be the final climb to really destroy the riders, have a screaming down hill, and a 10 mile finishing straight away.
Also, for some reason, I find many of the "Runners" in American races much more irritating than the ones in European racing. I am not quite sure why that is, but the whole time I was watching the climb, I was thinking, my god, who are these idiots????
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