Operating under the somewhat outdated advice of armchair guidance counselors everywhere to “do what you love and the money will follow”, I’ve been trying to turn my love of bikes into various odd jobs for quite awhile now. In addition to a long, illustrious career as a Portland messenger, I’ve been...
Birdland – 55 miles
posted by Editor
In the kitchen area at work they have stash of tea. Usually it’s just the awful Lipton variety. But today they had something different. Something special. It was called New Mother tea. It promotes lactation. I don’t know what “lactation” is, but I assume that it is similar to “endurance” and that it is a byproduct of “electrolytes” and “antioxidants”. I always hear my more athletic friends talking about their lactation threshold and their lactation acids. So I made some. I’m drinking it now. I can’t tell if I’m lactating more than usual because I don’t have a power meter. But my cheeks are flush and I feel a warm glow. I wish I’d had some of this...
Banana Belt #4: Marc...
posted by Dawn
I took 5 bananas. I ate two, but the rest I took home to put on my morning oatmeal. Money in the bank!
Interview: Team High...
posted by Dawn
I know I say this a lot, but I love teens. And not in a creepy way. I swear. I think I just have a lot of memories of looking up to cooler, older people when I was a teen, and now I feel fully ready to now step into that role. The problem is, most teens don’t really care about the stuff I do. They like their Gossip Girl and...
Cait has left Portla...
posted by Editor
but she’s still playing her Scrabble turns on Facebook. Weird. I should have known that when she fell for social networking, she’d fall hard. This is where she’ll be blogging her trip. And you can read about her route here....
Spand and Deliver II...
posted by Editor
I was waiting for Dawn to finish her interview with Team High School as a review of Spand and Deliver III: Spandier and Deliverier. But those high school kids can’t seem to focus without Ritalin. They’re too busy doing drugs and listening to that damned rock and roll music. AND GET OFF MY LAWN! But I feel like...
Bottom Bracket
posted by Editor
As I continue my fool’s tour of bicycle anatomy, let me guide you to the next in a long line of misunderstood components: the bottom bracket. While its job seems to be a pretty simple one (connect the two crank arms and spin!), the bottom bracket acts like that crappy employee that we all have at our respective jobs, the...
Firehouse
posted by Editor
I really love it when I put a dollar in the vending machine at work and my Twix gets stuck. Then watching the vending machine angrily process it’s failure like R2D2, stomping around on it’s stubby little legs, before it sighs and concedes, dropping a second Twix bar for free. I know that this is anthropomorphizing the...
Banana Belt #2.5 or 3 – March 15, 2009
posted by Dawn
I was going to try to write a race report about the 2nd (technically the 3rd) Banana Belt, but what can you say about a race that you just did a few weeks before? The only real difference was the rain and the lack of personalized birthday cakes (I am petitioning for those to be a weekly thing next year). So instead, I think I’ll use this internet time to talk about my plan to become a true professional cyclist. Now, I don’t know if you guys have noticed, but bike races cost a lot! Even more than last year. If someone asked me to go see a band or go out to a dinner that would cost me $25*, I wouldn’t even consider it. But somehow I am willing to shell out that much – plus gas money – almost weekly to do...
One Hour Rides ̵...
posted by Editor
Okay, so I can’t do this ride in an hour. But I really wanted other people to do it, and come home thinking “Wow, that Editor is fast!” But it isn’t true. I’m not fast. And I can’t do this ride in an hour. This is why in high school I was voted “most likely to lie to make...
Banana Belt #2 ̵...
posted by Dawn
Outraged by my previous blog assertion that the Banana Belt race series is devoid of jokes and gags, the folks down at the OBRA pulled out all the prank-stops today. Not only was the race scheduled for THE DAY daylight savings begins (robbing us of one sweet hour of morning sleep), but they also had it on a day with predicted...
Raise your hands. If...
posted by Editor
I learned how to ride with no hands when I was a wee lad. I thought it made me look cool. The same way my trapper keeper and Boba Fett underoos T-shirt made me look cool. I knew that underoos were made for bedtime and handlebars were made for holding. But rules be damned, I looked awesome! I remember one time I was trying to...
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