Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Name drop
Dude, I have Carson Storch's phone number now. He's, like, famous and stuff.
Realistically though, now that Carson's on the DF5 team, my days are numbered. Mid-pack results + cutesy ironic blog + writing something thought-provoking once every six months does not compete with 720's and double tailwhips.
Realistically though, now that Carson's on the DF5 team, my days are numbered. Mid-pack results + cutesy ironic blog + writing something thought-provoking once every six months does not compete with 720's and double tailwhips.
Saturday, May 4, 2013
Friday, May 3, 2013
For the guys who think Danica Patrick is hot
Once she got pole at Daytona and we realized that maybe, just maybe she really could drive, it was the final piece in the puzzle.
Finkle is Einhorn.
Einhorn is Finkle...
Light bikes
I ride my road bike a lot. It's a good way to train, and I love getting out and getting lost in the backwoods and side roads around Portland. Plus, being a mountain biker in Portland it's pretty much a hour and a half drive to get anywhere you would want to ride, and sometimes you just need to ride right now. Riding your ride bike out of your driveway is a huge upgrade over three hours in a car. I'm a baller on a budget, so I've been riding my Dad's 61cm 1983 Fuji Team,
One of the most productive things I've done in a long time was riding Diamondback's top of the line road bike, the Podium 7. It's a full carbon frame designed by Kevin Quan, who apparently is like the Dave Weagle of carbon road bikes, it's got full Campy Super Record, Carbon wheels, and the complete bike weight is 14 and some change. Basically it's baller as shit.
Really the only thing that could make it better is Dura Ace 11 speed, which a) I have no idea whether it's actually better or not but I am required by contract to say it, and b) is a pretty small difference in the grand scheme of thing. Campy 11 speed vs. Shimano 11 speed is sort of like choosing between Mountain Dew Baja Blast and a Mountain Dew Baja Blast Icee at Taco Bell. Which is better? It doesn't really matter, you're so close to perfection already that the difference is negligible.
Anyway, Verg and I went on a ride through the Berkeley hills last week on our bourgy-ass Diamondback bikes, and surprise- those hills are really steep. The ride ended up taking almost three hours, and we only rode about 20 miles. That means we weren't going very fast, because it was pretty much climbing the whole time. Here's a quick breakdown of my experience in Berkeley:
But here's the most important thing I learned on that ride: being tired on an $8500 wonderbike with carbon rims feels exactly the same as being tired on my 30 year old steel clunker.
That feeling, when you just know your tires flat or your brake must be rubbing or maybe you broke a spoke? No, that's just you being a dumbass. You're just weak, and you're looking for an excuse. And that feeling- the feeling of being tired and weak and needing an excuse- it feels exactly the same on the best bike in the world as it does on a crappy bike.
So get a bike that fits, get a bike that will be dependable, and get a bike that you like to ride.
The bike isn't riding like shit.
I'm riding like shit.
One of the most productive things I've done in a long time was riding Diamondback's top of the line road bike, the Podium 7. It's a full carbon frame designed by Kevin Quan, who apparently is like the Dave Weagle of carbon road bikes, it's got full Campy Super Record, Carbon wheels, and the complete bike weight is 14 and some change. Basically it's baller as shit.
Really the only thing that could make it better is Dura Ace 11 speed, which a) I have no idea whether it's actually better or not but I am required by contract to say it, and b) is a pretty small difference in the grand scheme of thing. Campy 11 speed vs. Shimano 11 speed is sort of like choosing between Mountain Dew Baja Blast and a Mountain Dew Baja Blast Icee at Taco Bell. Which is better? It doesn't really matter, you're so close to perfection already that the difference is negligible.
Anyway, Verg and I went on a ride through the Berkeley hills last week on our bourgy-ass Diamondback bikes, and surprise- those hills are really steep. The ride ended up taking almost three hours, and we only rode about 20 miles. That means we weren't going very fast, because it was pretty much climbing the whole time. Here's a quick breakdown of my experience in Berkeley:
But here's the most important thing I learned on that ride: being tired on an $8500 wonderbike with carbon rims feels exactly the same as being tired on my 30 year old steel clunker.
That feeling, when you just know your tires flat or your brake must be rubbing or maybe you broke a spoke? No, that's just you being a dumbass. You're just weak, and you're looking for an excuse. And that feeling- the feeling of being tired and weak and needing an excuse- it feels exactly the same on the best bike in the world as it does on a crappy bike.
So get a bike that fits, get a bike that will be dependable, and get a bike that you like to ride.
The bike isn't riding like shit.
I'm riding like shit.
Jeff Hanneman. January 31, 1964 – May 2, 2013
Sad news, we lost Jeff to liver failure yesterday.
these are some of the songs Jeff wrote.
R.I.P Jeff.
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Ten things we learned from the new NS Bikes Prototype In Action video.
1. Poland sucks.
2. ixs helmets suck more than Poland.
3.we have all been clamping carbon bikes into work stands wrong for some time now, and apparently under utilizing the ball end of allen wrenches.
4. ns bikes needs to get Chazz riding for them. now hear me out, they have a proto dh bike being developed by a mid pack racer that's regularly loosing by 13 seconds to guys on evils. Chazz has been doing that for the past couple of seasons.
5.poland sucks.
6. norco paint job plus commencal\fsr equals sales.
7.is marzocchi out of business yet?
8.putting a CaneCreek Double Barrel band aid on cancer doesn't make it go away.
9.if your bike doesn't have an integrated seatpost clamp you shouldn't be riding.
10.you could say that poland is the New Jersey of Europe but thats not true because anywhere in America is a hundred times better than poland.
2. ixs helmets suck more than Poland.
3.we have all been clamping carbon bikes into work stands wrong for some time now, and apparently under utilizing the ball end of allen wrenches.
4. ns bikes needs to get Chazz riding for them. now hear me out, they have a proto dh bike being developed by a mid pack racer that's regularly loosing by 13 seconds to guys on evils. Chazz has been doing that for the past couple of seasons.
5.poland sucks.
6. norco paint job plus commencal\fsr equals sales.
7.is marzocchi out of business yet?
8.putting a CaneCreek Double Barrel band aid on cancer doesn't make it go away.
9.if your bike doesn't have an integrated seatpost clamp you shouldn't be riding.
10.you could say that poland is the New Jersey of Europe but thats not true because anywhere in America is a hundred times better than poland.
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
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