Recent studies have discovered that bike-related economic activity in Portland is experiencing an unprecedented boom, as record new jobs are created to service the flourishing industry market.  This is pretty great news in these troubled financial times, but unfortunately the study fails to include one key area of the bicycle...

I really like when food establishments trust me enough to serve myself for a set price. It makes me feel like a grown up. Like a valued and respected member of society. Unfortunately, I also really love to take advantage of this trust they’ve given me and I use it to serve myself the greatest amount of food possible....

My teammate Emily was recently lamenting that none of the stuff left over from our recent kit order fit her. I immediately tried to comfort her by suggesting that she post something to the list asking to buy peoples’ old spandex in her size. This with met with a look of utter horror from Emily and gasps of disgust from ...

I had been hearing rumors all year that these wheels sucked, but apparently they suck so bad that you can get your money back. According to the CPSC, the “rim surface and spoke hole plugs on the wheel can cause a puncture to the inner tube, resulting in a flat tire.” They add, “this can cause the rider to lose...

I used to really like the Cup and Saucer on Hawthorne, but the weekend wait kept getting longer. And it was one of those awkward restaurants with a giant window in the front. Where you look in at the people eating with a face strained with hunger pain, and they look out at you with pity. But not so much pity that they stop...

In my world, “training” means sitting around the house eating pints of ice cream and watching videos of monkeys riding segways on YouTube. Unless it’s race season, in which case I watch Dancing with the Stars. Because Chloris Leachman gets my heart rate up. But every once in a while, I feel like I need to get...

Obviously the result of a marketing experiment designed to test the late-90′s discovery that consumers will buy any beverage that comes in an unusual shaped bottle, the makers of kombucha decided to push this law to its limits. Not only would they provide us with less liquid than ever before and charge more for it, but...

Two weeks ago, I swore off cyclocross. To my friends, the decision must have seemed rash, or probably just overly dramatic. After all, I had only really participated in one full race before formulating the life-altering decision to remove myself from the sport forever. But my early retirement was not without good reason and...

“To all that ride one speed bikes, like to keep dirt under their tires and don’t suck at life… Saturday, October 18th, for those not familiar, the ride will feature some of, but not all of, and certainly more than the following:Single track,Booze drinking,Sweet jumps,Park shredding,Public urination,Cheap...

I’m consistently amazed by my ability as a grownup to buy anything that strikes my fancy, with little or no approval. It’s this lack over oversight that has allowed me to, in a childish effort to impress shallow people, frivolously and methodically purchase the desired objects of my youth: my racecar bed with black...

I had but one goal for this year’s Cross Crusade: to win oatmeal. The fine grain-magicians at Bob’s Red Mill decided to sponsor these races by giving out free, hot, body-and-soul replenishing oatmeal at races. They also donated large bags of steel cut oats as prizes. Due to a miraculous turn of events I became...