Props

10 people shwoed up last night for what was by far the coldest TNR of the year so far. Low of -10 god knows what the wind chill was. And we had an awesome time to boot.

Also, I stole this from bike jerks because it is nuts.

archival footage

More old pictures! More HILARIOUS captions!

"Why do they make these damn cooking instructions so hard to follow!?"
"What are you compensating for!?"x2

In all seriousness I like this photo becasue it has everyones bikes as they were a couple years ago.

"Hey the sign said no bikes!"

'What is this? The 80s?"

"Oh great! Now where is my dog going to pee?"

LOL, Oh man that was fun!

Thusday night ride tonight. Dress for negatives!

makin waves

I went to Underwater Adventures in the Mall of America with Jen the other week and saw this ad. What do Oakleys have to do with fixed gears? I have no idea. But heres a picture of some fish and a shark.

STUPORBOWL 13!

Saturday February 6th
Registration 10:00am-1:00pm @ One on One Bike Studio(117 Washington Ave N)
Race starts at 2:00pm

I would really like to go again this year. Any other takers?

Bike workshop!

Dan sent me this update via facebook on a bike workshop he will be hosting as part of the Eau Claire Community Free School project. This is a really cool idea and I encourage people to participate and learn more. Where you ask? Here!

Anyway, more info on the workshop:


Saturday, February 6, 2010
Time:
2:00pm - 5:00pm
My(Dan's) House
623 Fall St

This is a beginners Bike Mechanics class. Bring your bike and get some hands-on education! If you have tools, bring them too. I have two bike stands and enough tools for two. Topics covered will include:

- Tools
- Cleaners and Lubricants
- Bike Evaluation
- Parts
- Regular MaintenanceBike Fit
- saddle height
- stand over height
- seat angle
- stem/bar height/distance from seat

Tires and Tubes
- Proper Inflation
- Right tires for the job
- Rim Tape
- Finding and Fixing a Flat

Chain
- Cleaning and Lubrication
- Tensioning (for single speeds/fixed gears)

Brakes
- Alignment Tips
- Cable Adjustment BasicsDerailleurs
- How they work- Basic Adjustments
- Cable Problems

If you have suggestions on what you want to learn, please let me know! I'll try and include everything I can

Japanish 3

Bikes are important to Japanese society, so is science, so important in fact that they dedicated an entire floor of the Tokyo science museum to them. There was a ton of cool stuff there, here is what it looked like.

It was kind of a bummer that everything was in Japanese, but it was deffinetly very cool to see how much stuff has changed. They also had a reading room full of bike magazines from around the world, and free bike stuff. So I took a huge stack of reading material.

Japanish 2

So as far as nice bikes go it really depends where you are if you will see them or not. I feel like there were lots of roadies in most places, and lots of messengers in Tokyo, but in general the cool track and road bikes were usually reserved for cool neighborhoods. I didn't get any pictures, but I think the Japanese have a major hard on for Surly as well, because I saw a lot of them.

I feel like I should mention that it doesn't seem like the Japanese fuck around when they make their bikes nice. I think that Schwinn was probably the rattiest bike I saw, and usually even the most rediculous ugly bikes you saw still had carbon fiber so-and-so's, leather seats, aluminum things and neon colors galore. I wish I would have gotten more pictures of the old lugged steel frames and bikes I saw, but I didn't so too bad. Also I lied, that is in fact a Surly big dummy in the above picture.