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This is a pretty sweet little story.
I’m in love with this saddle. For me, Fizik attained Chris King like “covet” status when I discovered their saddles in the late nineties. They were fresh and appeared to be doing something different than the other “selle” brands.
I’m still in love with the Arione and Antares saddles. As [...]

Red Herring:

(been a crazy few weeks. getting back on the bike in a real way and work is keeping me too busy as usual. meant to write this weeks ago and now my coach and dozens of others have weighed in too. redundant to write this, I know. But, it was already started so, I’ll finish.)
My [...]

I woke up this morning dreaming about Belgium.

I really want to go back over and race my bike this season. (possibly because it has been cold and raining for the last 6 months straight, reminds me of Europe.)
There is something addictive about riding against the best in the world. I know these are not races I will win. I know these are [...]

I was just featured in two local papers!

Lots of media dropping! This is old news for Portland locals:
I was in the Portland Mercury and the Willamette Week local papers last week!
Here is a link to the Portland Mercury article. Written by one Sarah Mirk, I like her writing. Check out some of her other articles.
And, an article where I recommended my favorite [...]

so much culture. this is real life. i thank you.

Hit play on this music video while you read this update!

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Fell in love with this design this morning. Thank you Arch Daily blog.
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DAMN YOU CASTELLI! These rain jackets are off the hook!

Look at their post here.
The folks at Castelli USA HQ have been talking about putting on their own 24 hour race. This is something [...]

“I just want to fucking shred.”

I just read some emails from two frame builders I truly respect. (I mean that.)
“Bikes aren’t art to me. They are vehicles for beating the crap out of myself and others.”
and
“I just want to get on my mountain bike and fucking shred. I don’t want to think about branding, culture, cross marketing the whole [...]

GENDER+his(her)story. (and more Kano)

“Look. Yo!”
(first line in one of my favorite Gorillaz songs)
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So, I am really struggling here. I need to write an “introduction” to Molly Cameron for sponsorship proposals and press releases. I loathe writing about my self. It is sooo hard. (I can already see the comments pouring in “and… you write a blog about yourself [...]

I’m not quite sure what the hell is going on in either of these videos:

And, I can’t come to terms with how much I like this video. So generic. So “done before”. Yet still I linger.
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The dude filming the video below is STOKED! And kinda gross.
Shit, when I was ten and Leia was all imprisoned by Jabba the Hutt (I should add that before she was captured she broke [...]

Take a video tour of Portland Bicycle Studio:

Caveat: this is a pretty crap little video. And a little redundant as, I’ve posted it up already on the ol’ social interwebs:

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There you go. That is where I spend a lot of my time these days. I love my job, I love/hate the bicycle industry.
I love custom cycling and the personalities involved in creating [...]

Smoke monsters and Sea Otters. Table Rock and more.

I am just back from a great weekend in Southern Oregon. The Portland Bicycle Studio road team made the trip 5 hours south from Portland to race the Table Rock road race last Saturday and spent the rest of the weekend training in the beautiful Rogue River – Wolf Creek area.
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The road race was a [...]