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rides and needles

September 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · bike shops, nyc, road rides

I blame my childhood epilepsy for a lot of things: the parental prohibition on engaging in sports, the inability to climb trees and my subsequent complete lack of interest in traveling at any rate faster than a brisk walk. All of which could be explained by simple laziness, but the epileptic seizures and symptoms that [...]

work it, girl

August 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · bike shops, nyc

“You’re not working on Sunday? Sunday is funday. Sunday we dance around the shop naked.”

Kyle told me this as I leaned on the counter by the cash register at NYC Velo. It was Friday, early afternoon, and my legs were beginning to feel worn down already. A few hours later, I would sit on a [...]

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 I [...]

less miles, more gears

April 21st, 2010 · 7 Comments · nyc, road rides

So you know how sometimes you’re sitting around with a bunch of your best friends and just because you’re all totally comfortable with each other you start playing “Never Have I Ever…” [or whatever the male equivalent is] and then you find out that you’re the only one that hasn’t done this one thing? And [...]

coffee and the city

April 12th, 2010 · No Comments · bike shops, nyc, style

I had it all planned out. A day off Friday, an easy ride Saturday, another rest day Sunday while I traveled back to Boston, and then back on the bike for real on Monday.

Funny how things never turn out like you plan ‘em.

Saturday was bordering on cold but sunny enough and Mike suggested a quick [...]

riding obstacles

March 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · nyc, road rides, training

Remember when I was entertaining the idea of actually trying to race my San Jose? In a cyclocross race when I can barely run?

Yeah, that was funny. Especially because at this point, how heavy I can make my bike has become a personal challenge for me. I am piling on the pounds, yo. In fact, [...]

weekend warrior

February 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · bike shops, food, hanging out

I suppose, in a way, that it was completely appropriate to be feeling up a roadie’s legs last weekend.

Actually, I felt up two different sets of legs, and the hard substance that the denim was covering up was foreign enough to have me almost groping. In a totally platonic way, though, and we were all [...]

frozen slow

January 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment · general stuff, hanging out

There are usually two choices when you’re stuck out in the frigid cold on a bicycle in too little gear: 1. go as fast as you can while hoping that the resulting body heat you create will somehow overcome the wind that you’ve also created, or 2. reduce your speed under the theory that less [...]

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travelocity

January 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · general stuff, road rides

I don’t like to say that I hate to travel. The statement seems to immediately make you a smaller, closed-minded person who is only capable of being comfortable in familiar surroundings. It seems to kill off any ideas that you might have a sense of curiosity or adventure, or that you are in any way [...]