New Ride, with 300% More Epicness...

So I'm heading down to Ashland for school, United Bicycle Institute. Gonna learn me some wrenching. My sister is gonna give me a ride down there as an excuse to go do some downhill runs in Ashland. Anyway, I don't have a ride back to P-town, so I'm gonna peddle my ass back, and do it in style, along the Oregon coast.

~475 miles and 11,000 vertical feet of quad exploding madness. Oh yeah, 'tis gonna be sweet!

Epic Ride, Portland Style

I recently started planning a 3 day ride from Portland, out past Mt. Hood, up to the Columbia and back. 180 miles of cycling awesomeness. My buddy Charles and possibly another guy we met recently, Vinnie, will be doing this ride sometime this summer. I'm thinking June or so. Notice the 10,000 feet of climbing, sweet!

Christmas Tree

Brought the Christmas tree home on the bike, it was pretty sweet, took Joe's Kona MTB as it handles the ice a little better.

I'm Back Bitches!!!

Obviously I've been gone for a while.

Many things happened in the past several moons.

I got a job as a bicycle mechanic
Then I lost my job as a bicycle mechanic
I sold my car!!!
I built my first bicycle wheel, Chris King, IRD, and Wheelsmith... All the parts were manufactured in the USA, My little stimulus package to the economy
I paid for bicycle mechanic school
and bought more bike crap

Pictures of the bike, 'cause I just finished it this evening...

The Last Few Days...

A few photos

$^&*!$* Thieves Stole My Bike!

They got the RecycloBurningManGrocerygetter Granola Bike. Right out of my carport, maybe I'll get lucky and spot it, or one of the people that I have looking out for it will see it...

In the meantime, F%^k thieves!

Now comes with 100% MORE seatpost!

And fenders to boot!

Single Speed Grocery Getter/Burning Man Bike...

Needs a few things, like a seatpost.

Yehuda Moon and the Kickstand Cyclery

If you like bicycling, and you like comics, or even if you just like comics, check out Yehuda Moon... It's good schtuff mate!

New Bike = Not Smoking???

The idea is that I'll be riding my bike to work, therefore life will suck if I keep smoking (15 mile ride to work).

Well that's the plan anyway. I was supposed to stop smoking last week, but I had a hell of a time, here's to this week!

Bike Build-up!

So I've started building the bike that my sister gave me, it's gonna take a loooong time to finish it. I started a blog at MTBR.com (Mountain Bike Review) to document the build-up, here's a link>>> http://forums.mtbr.com/blog.php?do=showjournal&j=139

I've been reading about the frame Chelsey gave me. Seems that it is a bombproof frame, which is good, as I tend to be HARD on my bikes.