Early Saturday morning I found an email from Chris at Circle A Cycles in my inbox. It was like Christmas, but since I dont particularly care for Christmas, it actually was quite a bit better.
Go ahead.. drink it all in. I dare you.

Would you believe all he wanted in return was a wool jersey?
No- I kid... Ill be missing meals for months to pay this thing off, but the distended stomach is a look thats all the rage in Milan and Paris right now, so Im good.

Did everybody have a good weekend? I did. An old school, chum of Complaynas rolled though town by the name of Kimberly. Blacksocks and myself hooked up with them and we went on a bike ride.

Despite the fact that the night before Kimberly was, as my parents say, 'over served' she held it down, one gear and all. A true one speeder, through and through.

I also got involved in cutting out a few little tables with candles and other what nots on them.

My therapists all agree that its good for me.
Except for that one guy, and all of the rest think hes a quack, so who am I to argue?

Aside from that, I spent a bit of time preparing for the arrival of my new brown and blue baby. You know that bumper sticker that states 'everyone should have one house before anyone has two'?
I need to get one that says 'everyone should have one pair of Caramba Double Barrel cranks before anyone has two.
Im a whore for those things.

Robert Ives knows what Im talking about.

As per our discussion about riding down Mount Tam on crazy contraptions, Intern A sent this website on. I guess it really should come as no surprise that it resides in Minneapolis.
They love their bikes there, and they love their hootch, so really why not combine the two? Its forward thinking like that that makes the world go 'round.

CFO wrote in to let us know the apple really doesnt fall very far from the tree;

"My nephew got booted from pre-school because:

In music class he:
1) Punched Raheem
2) Bit Michael Reed
3) Punched Michael Reed
4) Turned class into what my bro described as a "prison riot"...

He lays down huge skids on his SE though so he should be fine.

CFO"

At one point in art class when I was just a wee lad, I took a swing at this kid named Jason with a pencil sharpener canister thing, which resulted in him getting his lights turned off and the teacher dragging both of us out of the room by the shoe laces amid a full blown class wide melt down, and look at how I turned out..
Im sure your nephew will have a very bright future ahead of him.

He also sent this on;

"When I die...Which by recent indications should be very soon, I want you to keep the attached picture of me beating Taylor Phinney's ass in a vault, lock box or false bottomed Budweiser...Thanks

CFO"

I replied with the observation that when Im getting lapped, I always like to think of it like for that brief moment, I too am in the lead.
I dont think he cared for that too much.

Last weeks hotdog hill climb winner Oz forwarded this next bit on to me, which we think youll find if pretty funny. Go here and then click on the North bound arrow once to see a classic example of 'just riding along' syndrome.

Those sidewalks will jump out and get you any chance they get.

Richie Redhot of 'MASH SF' fame wrote in to let us know that hes not just another pretty face...

God.. At least I hope hes more than a pretty face.. That mugs enough to make a freight train take a dirt road..
Anyhoo, Richie writes;

"hey stevil,

i just got my website up and wanted to let you know about it. it showcases some of my past builds and i am selling mash dvd's and raffle tickets for one of my frames. check it out.

Ditta Cycles(dot)com

i was rocking my swobo t-shirt and socks in l.a. this past weekend for the velocity block party, i hope you get some grity urban rider press from it...haha. i am going to put a links page on my site soon and want to include swobo/htatbl, is that cool?

word to mama bird,
richie ditta

p.s. i just found my green swobo shorts packed away with some old messenger gear. i will get the full swobo "poster child" shot and send it soon."

Yes of course it would be alright if you linked us. We need all of the help we can get, and it should go without saying that youll be receiving the standard 15% of all annual earnings link cut that we give to everyone that gives us some props on the interweb.

And now on to upcoming events. I plugged this one a while back, but it looks like its just around the corner so Ill put it up again.
Plus its just so damn sexy looking.

That flyers so handsome it makes me feel ugly just looking at it.
Uglier than usual, I mean.

Heres a clip that I nicked from the C-R-C, dontchaknow?

Now for the results in the JMac shpantz competetion.. As usual, you all stunned, shocked, and awed me with your deftness of vision regarding this query.
Pento nailed it immediately, but on further inspection, I realized I had in fact given him the answer many months ago.
That being said, it was the one known as 'sinn fein' who knocked it the hell out of the park with this answer;

"I'll go with Bill Stevenson, but while in All.
Got an A- in college statistics in 1986 and think that this problem is a 'conditional probablity' one - but can only guess as to how to actually solve it 22 years later. Probablity of A is 1/18 and probablity of B is 1/5 (18x5 = 90) - so probability of any one of those folks in that bed while in certain band is 1 in 90?????? Or something like that.."

Seriously, I really dont give this audience enough credit. Here I was thinking that Id caused havoc with this impossibility of a quiz. Maybe something akin to "who had a regularly occurring cameo in the first nightmares I remember ever having?" Id sit back, feeling pretty smug, knowing there was no way anyone could possibly get that one, and within five minutes of posting it, the first four of you wiseacres would comment "Mr. Rogers".

WOULD YOU PEOPLE PLEASE GET OUT OF MY HEAD?!

Anyhow, would Sinn Fein please step up to the mike and claim your prize?

Rest assured though folks, Im going to hit the books, and come up with something none of you all, and I mean NONE are gonna get.
Im like the house in Vegas...
I dont like being beat.

Ok, so on that note, have a good Monday.

Now get to work.