Hey!
So tomorrow nights Wednesday night ride is getting all exotic and stuff.
We're going out to Placitas. If'n you like Placitas, or you've heard it's good riding out there but have never been, come on and ride with us.
I say, come by the shop at 6:00, or earlier, or meet us out there at 7:00.
If you want to meet us out there, call me at the shop tomorrow afternoon, and I'll let you know if we're meeting at the trailhead, or at Juan y Pams casa.
Every time I say "Placitas" I think "placentas." In case you were wondering.
Buenobye.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009
New Glory from Giant
We've been hearing rumors, and seen a couple of shoddy pics, but here's the goods:
Full Article from Bikemag here.
A whole bunch lighter, and a straight 8 inches of travel? Based on how much our local guys like the current Glory, this one promises to be a winner.
Start saving your money. It won't be available til next year.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Maximum Extreme Awesomeness!
If you read How to avoid the bummer life, then you probably saw this clip:
Which really isn't funny unless you've seen this first:
I find both strangely entertaining.
So I'm thinking top of copper for tomorrow nights ride. As usual, 7:00pm is a realistic start time. Please join us.
And next wednesday, we are going to head out to Placitas to change things up. I'm hoping to leave the shop very close to 6:00. We will meet Juan y Pam, our Placitonian compadres, and they will show us all the wonders that are to be seen in Placitas. It's great riding out there, as our friend Chris puts it "it's like the foothills were ten years ago", which I translate to as "better than the foothills are now."
So be awesome, and join us.
Also, if anybody has been brain dj'd by either Charles in Charge theme song, or "On A Boat" I would really appreciate knowing it. It gives me great satisfaction.
Which really isn't funny unless you've seen this first:
I find both strangely entertaining.
So I'm thinking top of copper for tomorrow nights ride. As usual, 7:00pm is a realistic start time. Please join us.
And next wednesday, we are going to head out to Placitas to change things up. I'm hoping to leave the shop very close to 6:00. We will meet Juan y Pam, our Placitonian compadres, and they will show us all the wonders that are to be seen in Placitas. It's great riding out there, as our friend Chris puts it "it's like the foothills were ten years ago", which I translate to as "better than the foothills are now."
So be awesome, and join us.
Also, if anybody has been brain dj'd by either Charles in Charge theme song, or "On A Boat" I would really appreciate knowing it. It gives me great satisfaction.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Taints a Blazin'
Did a rather long fixed gear ride yesterday with Charles in Charge and Dr.Dave.
If only I could actually ride with Scott Baio. How sweet would that be?
The issue with long fixie rides is that you tend to spend a large amount of the time riding in the saddle, really just grinding away. Road bikes allow you to kind of shift positions around, stand up and coast, and generally get some grundle relief. But the fixie, not so much. I think it is really those long descents that make the difference, where you are just planted firmly on the saddle, spinning as fast as you can.
I rode from my place, pretty close to the shop, out to Corrales, and met Charlie and Dr.Dave. Then we took some odd route out through Rio Rancho to Unser Blvd, and rode that out into the middle of nowhere, past Mariposa and the Armory, and connected with 550. Then back into Bernalillo, out to the Jemez Dam just for good measure, and then back into 'Burque on the "low road." It was a good ride, but the bacon strip was screaming by the end. I was day dreaming about one of those obscenely nose-padded TT saddles by the end.
I've only really ventured into the heart of Rio Rancho a couple of times (is that a silly thing to say, is the "heart" of Rio Rancho an oxymoron?) I have to say, I find it weird to come across all those suburbs that are really just planted out there in the middle of nowhere. And that Mariposa development is even more in the middle of nowhere.
From the sound of it, Danny did a rather hard fixie ride yesterday as well. Except he was out with a couple of buddies with gears,and managed to end his ride coming down 9 mile hill back into town. That doesn't sound fun at all, but we'd expect nothing less from Danny.
Tony got back early this morning from a successful weekend of racing, with just enough time to get a couple hours sleep before coming into work. He pulled it off pretty well, it wasn't until this afternoon that I found out he hadn't gotten to bed until 5:30am, and I couldn't tell.
Tony finished 8th in the Pro Class, and our man Spangler finished second in his class, which I believe is Cat 2. Good work fellas.
Tony also added to the productivity of his weekend by procuring the ugliest pair of Adidas ever made. If you ever see him wearing them, you'll know what I'm talking about.
Lots of excitement in the shop today as a result of Tony's racing weekend and the first local road race of the season, Hillsborough, having been yesterday. We started sorting out the calender and deciding who would get to race which weekends. Hopefully with a little planning we can manage to have some fun during our busy summer season. Can't let our customers have all the fun, now can we?
I'm planning putting together a calender that will be view-able from the site that will let everyone know which races we're planning on attending, and correspondingly, what days this summer we plan on being closed.
We know, it's a pain having your favorite bike shop being closed on a Saturday in the middle of summer, but as I said, we can't let you guys have all the fun.
If only I could actually ride with Scott Baio. How sweet would that be?
The issue with long fixie rides is that you tend to spend a large amount of the time riding in the saddle, really just grinding away. Road bikes allow you to kind of shift positions around, stand up and coast, and generally get some grundle relief. But the fixie, not so much. I think it is really those long descents that make the difference, where you are just planted firmly on the saddle, spinning as fast as you can.
I rode from my place, pretty close to the shop, out to Corrales, and met Charlie and Dr.Dave. Then we took some odd route out through Rio Rancho to Unser Blvd, and rode that out into the middle of nowhere, past Mariposa and the Armory, and connected with 550. Then back into Bernalillo, out to the Jemez Dam just for good measure, and then back into 'Burque on the "low road." It was a good ride, but the bacon strip was screaming by the end. I was day dreaming about one of those obscenely nose-padded TT saddles by the end.
I've only really ventured into the heart of Rio Rancho a couple of times (is that a silly thing to say, is the "heart" of Rio Rancho an oxymoron?) I have to say, I find it weird to come across all those suburbs that are really just planted out there in the middle of nowhere. And that Mariposa development is even more in the middle of nowhere.
From the sound of it, Danny did a rather hard fixie ride yesterday as well. Except he was out with a couple of buddies with gears,and managed to end his ride coming down 9 mile hill back into town. That doesn't sound fun at all, but we'd expect nothing less from Danny.
Tony got back early this morning from a successful weekend of racing, with just enough time to get a couple hours sleep before coming into work. He pulled it off pretty well, it wasn't until this afternoon that I found out he hadn't gotten to bed until 5:30am, and I couldn't tell.
Tony finished 8th in the Pro Class, and our man Spangler finished second in his class, which I believe is Cat 2. Good work fellas.
Tony also added to the productivity of his weekend by procuring the ugliest pair of Adidas ever made. If you ever see him wearing them, you'll know what I'm talking about.
Lots of excitement in the shop today as a result of Tony's racing weekend and the first local road race of the season, Hillsborough, having been yesterday. We started sorting out the calender and deciding who would get to race which weekends. Hopefully with a little planning we can manage to have some fun during our busy summer season. Can't let our customers have all the fun, now can we?
I'm planning putting together a calender that will be view-able from the site that will let everyone know which races we're planning on attending, and correspondingly, what days this summer we plan on being closed.
We know, it's a pain having your favorite bike shop being closed on a Saturday in the middle of summer, but as I said, we can't let you guys have all the fun.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Friday the 13th, Bikeshop Style
After ten years of bike shop laboring, there's certain things that just really crush my spirit these days; fixing Wal-mart bikes, boxing bikes for shipping, f-ing with BMX style cranks, to name a few. Today was special, as most of those special soul destroying bike shop tasks seemed to roll in, one after another.
I was thinking Danny or I must have done something horrible to destroy our bike karma, but then I realized that today is Friday the 13th, so I'm going to go ahead and blame it on that
I shouldn't complain, but I'm still going to.
It's a good thing we have Tony, because if he was not around Bikeworks would be also known as "Two sourpuss crusty mechanics named Dan, who are probably going to give you dirty looks if you ask them to do anything less than their favorite thing in the world."
Speaking of Tony, he is off racing this weekend in Boulder City NV again. Don't even remember what the race was called, and I most likely won't have any awesome pictures to share with you because they won't bring me any back, so we'll just stop talking about that now.
My favorite new thing this week?
I'm linking it below, but consider this fair warning, it has lots of naurghty language. I was going to put in the edited version, as I try to keep things PG since this is a business site, and not truly my personal blog of nonsense, but it is just so much funnier with all the cussing, and quite honestly, if you are the type to be really offended by foul language then you probably aren't the type of person who thinks Bikeworks is the raddest bike shop ever.
It's incredibly stupid, just the way I like it.
It has been a long week.
I was thinking Danny or I must have done something horrible to destroy our bike karma, but then I realized that today is Friday the 13th, so I'm going to go ahead and blame it on that
I shouldn't complain, but I'm still going to.
It's a good thing we have Tony, because if he was not around Bikeworks would be also known as "Two sourpuss crusty mechanics named Dan, who are probably going to give you dirty looks if you ask them to do anything less than their favorite thing in the world."
Speaking of Tony, he is off racing this weekend in Boulder City NV again. Don't even remember what the race was called, and I most likely won't have any awesome pictures to share with you because they won't bring me any back, so we'll just stop talking about that now.
My favorite new thing this week?
I'm linking it below, but consider this fair warning, it has lots of naurghty language. I was going to put in the edited version, as I try to keep things PG since this is a business site, and not truly my personal blog of nonsense, but it is just so much funnier with all the cussing, and quite honestly, if you are the type to be really offended by foul language then you probably aren't the type of person who thinks Bikeworks is the raddest bike shop ever.
It's incredibly stupid, just the way I like it.
It has been a long week.
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