Monthly Archives: November 2009

Monday Mourning in the Mortuary

TweetSasha “Bear” T. Dog passed away last monday, not having daily greetings from a 15 year old pit bull is sorely missed despite the convenience of now being able to have anything with a wiff of food on it at … Continue reading

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Moving on Monday

TweetWith Bikes 24-26 at the powdercoater and on my  last day off from the holiday spent at home the wreckage of the last year is finally due for assessment.  Winding down 2009 there are a lot of loose ends to … Continue reading

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Rolled Joints (or) Something for your Head from Budd Bike Works

TweetBBW #26 is inching nearer completion with some interesting construction details that I can only describe as rolled joints.  Making each miter by hand is so fastidious and slow anyhow that it doesn’t seem like that much of an extra … Continue reading

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A Little Con to balance all the PRO-ness around here (or) Bicycle Catacomb

TweetIt’s a pretty unique position that I’ve found myself in this November. I’ve the responsibility to get out to public events with an enormous athletic apparatus on wheels that seems to make people really happy, somehow I’m hoping it is … Continue reading

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11-11-09 in Pictures

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Dumping Self Deprecation as an Introduction

TweetI’m home from the day job today and getting work done on a couple of frames that I’ll see through to completion as performance bicycle frames from a pile of tubes with not too much more than my hands and … Continue reading

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Its only kids you’ll see swimming at the beach when the waters cold (or) The Speed Stairs at Norhampton (or) I’d like to build you a joy machine

TweetAre they impervious to the shock of the water robbing the heat straight from the bones that I feel as instantaneous pain stimulus that has me and the rest of the sane (?) mature population booking it back up to … Continue reading

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What could a guy who spent the daylight hours in a mortuary recommissioned as a bike shop who emerges after dark to enter the forest under the waxing moon possibly dress up as for Halloween (or) “I’m really digging how these grips dial my stance”

TweetWith a completely blank social calendar I celebrated the day of the dead in a fashion more proper for the kind of ghouls I’d seen others dressed up as then I’m entirely comfortable with. A busy week of work at … Continue reading

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