Okay, I forgive a previous entry where I beat up on a certain brand for photographing a bike for an ad with gaps in the bar tape. This one takes the cake for absolute no attention to detail. Sometimes the ad agency owns you. In this case, the ad agency owes Road ID a freewheel. […]
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Tonight is Bakersfield and Beyond night on KWMR, a bi-weekly radio show I co-host with my friend Amanda. If anyone is a Dave Alvin fan, you’ll want to check out tonight’s show. We pre-recorded an interview with Dave last week and will be airing it tonight on our show between 6:30 – 8:30 pacific time. […]
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Pretty cool – bikeradar.com picked up my piece on the opening of Bill’s Trail in Samuel P. Taylor State Park to bikes I wrote yesterday. (What’s playing: Lucinda Williams Concrete and Barbed Wire)
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Recently, there has been talk about opening four single-track trails to bikes in Marin County. Yes, that’s four as in 4 trails out of the hundreds in the county. You’d think that opening 4 trails would be fairly benign, but nope, it’s got anti-bike folks all up in arms. I started writing the following several […]
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If there is one true hero in cycling, it is Graeme Obree. Read the book, watch the movie. They guy is definitely self-made and kicked the collective cycling establishment in the nuts when he broke the hour record on a home-made bike. And not one to rest easy, he’s at it again. When companies spend […]
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In addition to this bike stuff, I also get to co-host a radio show out here in West Marin on KWMR. Bakersfield and Beyond: Music for Maverick, Outlaws, and Romantics is a show dedicated to the Bakersfield Sound. The Bakersfield Sound crosses many musical genres with the center being twangy country with a harder edge […]
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I open at 9:30 a.m. on Saturdays. This is due in part to riders being out early on the weekend and wanting to be available to service problems they might have with their bikes. Yesterday, I stopped at the Bovine Bakery for my usual Saturday morning blueberry scone, opened up did some organizing/cleaning and waited. […]
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Okay, here’s the deal. I gotta sell this bike. It’s a brand new 08 model year Redline Mono-9. Frame size is 15″. If it fits you, it’s a great deal – $850 shipped to anywhere in the lower 48 states. If you are in California, I’ve got to add tax to that. I’ve only got […]
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The LA Times ran a story on “all-in-one” bikes yesterday. Pretty cool. These are the exact types of bikes that I love and that I want my shop to be known for. Out of the four bikes mentioned, I carry the Rawland, I can order the Diamondback, and Bruce Gordon is a great guy and […]
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Dave Moulton has a great post on his blog about taking the lane when riding in traffic. Check it out. And to show Guitar Ted that I do actually get the occasional BSO in the shop, I offer the following photo. (What’s playing: Lone Justice Pass It On)
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It’s no secret that I’m fascinated by Charlie Cunningham’s work. His bikes might not be pretty if your idea of a pretty bike is a lugged steel bike with a stunning paint job. However, his bikes were designed to be ridden. Beauty is in the ride of the beholder. In that sense, his bikes are […]
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I like ham. I like ham on a wall. I like ham in the dirt. I like ham on the road. I like ham, yessir and ma’am. I recently sent one of the Cunninghams I had on display back to it’s owner and he sent out a new ‘ham to replace it. The ‘ham that […]
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