just like yo Red Cup, sometimes a ride is all about the possibilities . . . have you noticed? the sport has a preoccupation with bottle openers.  i think there’s a reason; cyclists are grittier and more often off the grid than any other bunch i’ve encountered. something like the surf culture in attitude toward [...]

Hard to be bad-ass when you’re worried about your tires. Vittoria tires are apparently manufactured in Thailand now; all o’dem.  Story has it, VeloFlex bought all the equipment from Vittoria after they went looking for a good time in Asia and setup shop across the street.  VeloFlex boasts they make all their tires in Italy. [...]

Memorial Day: a day to remember and to be thankful to all who have served and to all who gave the ultimate sacrifice. In the midst of World War two, 1942, Picasso created this piece of art and turned it into a bronze sculpture that’s become a cultural icon. During the War materials for sculpture [...]

Oh Yea! Well, your mother’s a whore! Yep.  In the days of  my childhood it was the vilest of retorts you could slam-jack on your buddies to s’plode any chance of a come back that could dig deeper than that put-down (as if we knew what it meant). The other day, riding home from a [...]

It’s a pavilion designed by a Dutch architectural firm for a client in China. NL Architects: visit there site @ http://www.nlarchitects.nl/ MuyDrome AniMauXz! window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({appId: “364015433630063″, status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true}); }; (function() { var e = document.createElement(“script”); e.async = true; e.src = document.location.protocol + “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js”; document.getElementById(“fb-root”).appendChild(e); }());

These guys got game.  750 miles, 8 days, fix gear (riding in the rain; Rule #9 – straight up “bad ass”): I’m gonna go all the jack way and say they gotz chutzpah , (they’re out o’their fucking minds) and i be betting they’re good for chingasos .  You got any chingasos bitch or you [...]

Conundrum:  When there’s a special glory to life because your entire world is crank’focused on cycling and everything else comes second except for drinking, you’ve got a conundrum. As a Quasi Race Boy you’ve got commitment to stay on the game, to keep the fitness level high so you’re ready to go to the chingasos [...]

3-D metal printing makes digital photography look pÄsSé. One of the April editions of The Economist magazine features a special technology section that talks about the 3rd Industrial revolution: producing products from digital design to production in a series of seamless steps without much labor (skilled) in between. The video demonstrates an extreme example of [...]

RoadBLock was in town to meet with Charlie Gandy and I jumped the gap to get me-self right into the middle to close the connection in the lattice of coincidence with the underground cycling cultural phenomenon WolfPack Hustle: RoadBlock is its founder. The underground cycling community in the Greater Los Angeles area is a vibrant [...]

It was an unprecedented day of serendipitous events. The lattice of coincidence has been squeezed shut. Get out your CogJoint tape measure to rule the gear inches we’ve got planned to excite the Southern California Cyclescape. Muy Mysterious Animaux! window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({appId: “364015433630063″, status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true}); }; (function() { var [...]