Somethingclassicin... Chicago!

Chicago...

A town of black jackets and smart phones. Homeless people and hoodies. BMW's and subways. Deep dish pizza and hot dogs. Wind chill and lake effect. And lots (and lots) to do.

Bring a warm jacket, and gloves, and a hat, and a scarf. Alcohol helps.

Thank you X for the awesome surprise trip.

Great town.

Save Ferris.

Burning the Candle at Both Ends

Hey Everybody,

Just checking in.

2012 has been crazy hectic with work going into hyper drive since Jan 1... but the last 7 days in particular have been off the charts busy.

We moved.

After a non stop weekend of boxing, lifting, recruiting, u-hauling, lifting and un-boxing, we're finally halfway settled in the new pad.

After looking at the great pic's from Street Cred stage 1 i was kicking myself for not going, i actually had a small window between moving duties but i just didn't have it in me plus X probably would have stared a hole right thru my skull if i rode off to participate. Not that i would blame her. i was however comforted knowing all you corncobs were huffing and puffing up the 'lord of the rings stairs' off Broadway Blvd. You like those? I do. Thats why i got 'em included in the race. Yep, i'm taking credit for that.

I'm awesome.

So.... the candle burning continues tonight with the Wednesday night urban mountain bike ride.

We leave Latte Land on the west side of the Plaza at 630. Not the Latte Land by the North Face store. Ride for 1.5 to 2 hrs at a medium pace. It's fun.

After that you can come over and help me unload more boxs.

p.s. the new pad is the bomb.

(no photos, too busy!)

Street Cred Starts Today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So i broke my promise and didn't do a post every night leading up to today. But Street Cred isn't about following the rules. It's about putting a brick thru the other guys window. It's about taking it out, and choppin it up.

See you today!

(More details here.)

4 Days to Street Cred!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You're cool, so you probably already knew this... but just in case you didn't...

(i think i'll do a post every night leading up to this, you know, get they hype going)

This is the first of 4 stages, so come on out, ride with your friends and have a great time.

Like this...

(more info here.)

(i heard they got a keg of Tall Grass)

1 gear w/ bull horns

The Volker man (cousin to the Omega Man) recently put the original handlebars back on my single speed bike.

I love it.

For a while i had flat bars but now i'm back to the bull horns. I like them much better. Tonight was the first ride with the new bars and i'd forgotten how great this bike is. I bought it from Volker Bicycles back in (i think) the winter of 2009. That was probably the first time id ever set foot in the shop.

Little did i know that purchasing this bike would be the first step towards joining the Colavita / Parisi Coffee cycling team and becoming totally obsessed with Bicycles.

Thanks single speed.

($10 if you can tell what movie i'm watching as i drank white wine out of a bicycle glass)

Apocalypto!!!

I got my Apocalypto on today.

have you guys seen Apocalypto?

The road bike is getting back into the swing. Did maybe 30 miles today. Breathing hard for a lot of it. I did a good job of falling out of shape over the last 3 weeks. I trained hard at it. Now it's time to put in the miles and see if i can actually get some descent results on the road bike.

Mountain biking (weather permitting) will be in full swing too. I took the new rig to swope yesterday and it was pretty sweet. So sweet that i didn't stop and take pictures.

Next time out i'll rock the Apocalypto jersey and snap a few pic's.

New Mountain Bike (it's totally kick a**)

53 degrees at 930pm on Sunday, January 15... and i have a brand new mountain bike to play with.

Pow!