Wesleyan, Wesleyan, Wesleyan ( Read more... )

Just rode back from practice... rough because I've been off of the bike for about five days, also rough because the new freewheel is not getting along with the old chain, so the only gears I had consistently available to me were the highest ( Read more... )

So it's become tradition now, when lindsey leaves, to bury myself in a technical project in order to distract myself. It's lead to some of my greatest manic works. Tonight, I impulse-bought a close-ratio gearset for the bicycle (a suntour 7 speed, geared 13.14.15.16.17.19.21), and got good and dirty installing it. The bike is faster, and the close ( Read more... )

WHAT A GOOD SHOW THAT WAS!

UGH! I need to move out. Home feels like being a guest overstaying his welcome. And many wonderful friends say "well crash here on the weekends"... but same problem, I just end up feeling like a guest.

shit. I just want my own damn room.

I think I was flirted with, bicycle to bicycle, on a long ride down 50 blocks worth of 2nd Avenue today. Cute girl Hannah on red 1980's vintage Raleigh then invited me to a show at (of all places) Bluestockings, and I really would have gone, save that I had to get to Bailey's Famous Sunday Salon ( Read more... )

I dont know what I like most about this bike: the fact that its quick and buttery smooth, or the fact that it seems to make everyone who sees it happy ( Read more... )

Shit. Just took the bike out for a road test. I've gone 120mph in a road car, but I'm not sure I've ever quite felt so... fast ( Read more... )

Well, I've always wanted a British Roadster ( Read more... )

well, I got what should be my first clippings today... thoroughly unglorious 150-250word bits for a "news and commentary" section, one about a No CHild Left Behind award to a local school, and the other about a bus stop that the MTA removed three weeks before they were supposed to in order to reroute a bus line that they didnt tell anyone they were ( Read more... )