Bakersfield and Beyond: Music for Mavericks, Outlaws and Romantics. Our show airing Thursday April 16 is sure to rock the house. In honor of the induction of Wanda Jackson into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it’s ladies night. We’ll emphasize songs by the ladies of the Bakersfield Sound and will be airing an […]
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When it rains, it pours. Not long ago, bikeradar.com had pictures and an interview with me on-line. And now in the May 2009 issue of Mountain Bike Action, there is a page with some info and pictures of the shop! My buddy Jimmy Mac (thanks!) was visiting over New Year’s and stopped by the shop. […]
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In my quest to promote the shop a bit more, I’ve received a bunch of pint glasses emblazoned with the Black Mountain Cycles logo as well as frame stickers, the kind bike shops put on new bike builds, and decals for custom wheel builds. Pint glasses! These fine, clear mixers have a 16 oz. capacity […]
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I’ve always had a somewhat eclectic taste in music. However, country was never really one of those tastes. Oh sure, there were the classics like Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Hank Williams Sr. But I never really got into it deeper that those. So it shocked me as much as anyone that I found myself listening […]
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Read this great interview of Andy Hampsten on Belgium Knee Warmers. (What’s playing: KWMR: Community Radio for West Marin)
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This was never intentional in my move to Point Reyes to open a bike shop. However, I ain’t complaining. I don’t know why, but I seem to be a magnet for old bikes. Now, there’s old bikes and then there’s old bikes and then there’s old Steve Potts bikes. And it’s old Potts bikes that […]
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Sometimes the combination of bike, price, and size is just too tempting to pass up. I met the original owner of a nice 1988 fillet-brazed Otis Guy over the hill in Petaluma yesterday and came home with his bike that he’s owned for 21 years. It will be a nice addition to the collection of […]
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Well, not quite surprising after hearing about the rains of several years ago here in the area where sections of roadway were washed away, but not the thing I was expecting when I got to the shop on Sunday morning. The shop sits at the low point of a dirt parking lot and water, behaving […]
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Wow! I don’t think I’ve ever had anything like this published about me at any time. I’ve written some pieces that have been published in magazines, but nothing about me. It’s kind of an odd feeling reading something that is about you. But I think I can live with it. Read the interview on bikeradar.com. […]
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Pretty historic day today. There’s a lot of hype, for obvious reasons, surrounding this election. From my perspective, though, I see the election of 44 as the best man for the job and not the election of someone simply because you don’t want the other guy to win. The only thing this election was about […]
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You know when you’re working on something and a small part falls? You train your eyes on the approximate location where it’s going to fall, listen for it hitting the ground, and then, hopefully, your eye notices movement making it easy to find? Well, sometimes it doesn’t happen quite like that. I’m adjusting a first […]
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Like Dr. Hook proclaimed, “gonna buy five copies for my mother.” However, there ain’t no buying things that are posted on the internet. Regardless, there’s a photo of three good lookin’ guys at the end of a nice interview with Sean Walling of Soulcraft on bikeradar.com. I happened to be out in Petaluma for a […]
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