gage & desoto

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keirin: speed racers

March 10th, 2011 · 1 Comment · crashes

Time to kick back with some Kirin [beer] and keirin: [Video available here.] Via Nowness and Mr. G + D

motion pictures: stage 7 of the 2010 giro

February 2nd, 2011 · 2 Comments · hanging out

As most of the country gets ready to engage in the national past time of consuming bucketfuls of cheese puffs while screaming at a giant flat-screen TV, I am reminded of how much I have…grown. Not that I wouldn’t stuff my face full of greasy wings, limp celery sticks with ranch dressing, piles of tepid [...]

rapha cycle club redux

July 6th, 2010 · 4 Comments · bike shops, nyc, style

Three more weeks and that feeling that I’ve got a snowball’s chance in hell when it comes to passing the bar is becoming more and more of an actual reality. And with this heat, “walking through Hell” isn’t so much of a simile anymore. “Don’t lose your marbles,” Mike joked a few weeks back when [...]

missing july…and the rapha cycle club

June 21st, 2010 · 2 Comments · bike shops, style

People were out in lawn chairs, grills and coolers set out along with friends and lovers as the bus lurched and chugged past Pelham Bay Park; and as I looked out the window, I thought it almost odd that, for possibly the first time in my life, I am looking forward to the end of [...]

turn left at kissena

June 8th, 2010 · 4 Comments · races, training

“You’re Japanese, you have to do it.” It was the default nationality reasoning, which, when you happen to be Japanese, gets applied too often to activities that normal people just wouldn’t choose to engage in. Raving? Cosplay? Zentai? Yup, yup, and yup [and no, I did not do all of the above]. But this time, [...]

pedal strike, esq.

June 1st, 2010 · 4 Comments · life

It was Saturday, and tummy full of breakfast eaten with the family, we were killing time before the planned IKEA run. “You have another thing in common with Pantani,” I was informed, “you both love karaoke.” Then, “…Oh my God.” From Mike’s new iPad came the streaming sounds of an Italian song. He had found [...]

adjustments…financial and otherwise

April 23rd, 2010 · 3 Comments · handmade goodies

“I think my hamstring’s done for the season,” I said. “The season hasn’t even started,” Mike responded. “Exactly.” Yeah, I’ve complained about it a lot. It’s still weirdly tight and uncomfortable, one main reason I try to walk around everywhere after I get off the bike for the day. I’ve stretched it in all different [...]

saddle woes

April 13th, 2010 · 10 Comments · general stuff, training

So, yes, I did watch Paris-Roubaix on Sunday. Yes I saw FabCan dominate the last 45km and be all like PEACE OUT, BITCHES!!!!, and yes I saw Boonen come in a measly fifth. And yes, there is now a dope t-shirt about the events of last Sunday. And yes, I finally got back on my [...]

centerfold champions

November 9th, 2009 · 4 Comments · bike shops, cassette, handmade goodies, things in print

When significant others fail become less significant, I do what [I'd like to think] most others do: stuff all objects/memories/gifts/pictures associated with said person into some kind of receptacle [not the trash, though, apparently newly broken hearts like to cling not purge] and place it somewhere it can be easily forgotten. Months later, I’ll come [...]

an outlier problem

September 30th, 2009 · No Comments · cassette, handmade goodies, hanging out, sales, style

You know you’re at Interbike when the day starts with a stop by a suite at the Venetian, and the elevator next to you spits out a guy in a full kit on his bike, who clips in and rides his way to his hotel room. But you know the day’s going to be really [...]