Breakfast Sandwich

Breakfast Sandwich

Working out in a void

“By using this device, bicyclists will have a clearer path on which to ride safely and out of the way of vehicular traffic. At the same time, as more bicyclists using the Contrail go over a line created by a cyclist before them, the line gets brighter allowing drivers to clearly see a marked bike path where there might be none. It’s sort of similar to what happens when a dirt path appears in a grassy field after lots of people have taken the same shortcut over a period of time.”

she’s just wearing a weird dress…

now THAT’S hot!

so, this is for you, ben.

So remember when you were a kid and you did the thing where if you guessed how many jelly beans were in a jar correctly you won the jar with all the jelly beans in it?

they should do that with the teeth on this bikes chainring.

ps. wtf?

I thought we could use a little beat.

Twenty-six years after a near-fatal bicycle accident left her comatose for two months and with permanent brain injuries, the saleswoman, Barbara Buchan, performs many actions more slowly than others. But on Wednesday in Beijing, she did one thing in world-record time.

Buchan, at 52 the oldest member of the United States Paralympic team, broke the record and won the gold medal for her disability class in the individual 3,000-meter cycling pursuit. For a woman who has lived without a quarter of her left-temporal brain and with serious physical and cognitive problems since her accident in 1982 while competing for a spot on the United States cycling team, the moment capped a remarkable comeback that has lasted longer than many of her competitors have been alive.

“You can be very upset at the world and have everyone take care of you,” Buchan said by telephone from Beijing, “or get back on your feet again.”

full article here.

FRIDAY, MAY 2ND

was the one year anniversary of the House Of Quality!

I think as a present to the blog, you guys should post more, because it summer and I know ya’ll are doin nothing but drinking beer and riding your bicycle to tedeschi to buy ice cream or something, and if you’re working, nowhere does enough business over the summer to keep you there more than 40 hours a week. and school is over. I’ll give you a 2 week grace period because I love you.

So, as I am in the mood for a blog rant type of deal now, I’d like to say a few things.

#1
Lately, I have been thinking: No matter how obnoxious the rise of bicycles and accompanying fashion and aerospokes and anodized sugino cranks that match your chris king headseat blah blah are you can’t argue with the fact that there is NOTHING bad about riding a bicycle. Even if it is an obnoxious trend at this point, I am honestly just glad that people are so into riding bikes.

It’s like, nobody likes all that rediculous party time lets take digital pictures of a party we don’t care about thing, but I can’t see any argument about the importance of the decadance of youth culture. Young people are supposed to do that kind of stuff because it gets hard to do when you’re old. Just my angle, not all my agree.

Nobody really likes dance clubs but there has never been anything shitty about dancing.

#2

That’s all, I lost a little bit of steam.

ok guys…

So now that it’s started to get warmer, you all getter get hyped for bike rides, pond swimmings, picnics, and performance art.

And time for this bad boy to go back into the garage:

[photo david shrigley]

Courtesy of one of my favorite blogs, Copenhagen Cycle Chic, an explanation of how I usually feel about bike culture.

I’m pretty sick of bike snobbery, and I agree that it would be more easily incorporated into American culture if it wasn’t such a ~thing~

what do y’all think?