Rides and Races - Boston rides

Holy hangover, Batman.

yeah, I didn't make it to my 10am class. don't know how you people with real jobs handle that ****.

yeah, I didn't make it to my 10am class. don't know how you people with real jobs handle that ****.

Years of experience, my friend.

sounds like you guys had fun last night. i intentionally didn't go out cause i needed to sleeeeeep (i know chris, i know). Is the crit in the Metro??? could someone link to that???

so would anyone be up for riding down to providence this weekend? i realized that i'm so hyper scheduled for the next couple weeks that it may be my only chance to do it before it gets really cold. alexi claims it's only 40 miles or so. i think it's more like 60, but either way. we could ride saturday, hang out saturday night, take the train back on sunday.

and yeah. what IS the deal with the halloween ride.

weekend or tuesday?

don't make it friday cause i won't be here! :)

The race will be on Halloween proper, as there are events in NYC that people will probably be going to. So, Tuesday the 31st, post-5pm (for us working schmucks, and for maximum dusky spookiness). Checkpoints are being planned right now. Somebody design us a spokecard! More info to come...

I can take care of the spokecard. Just gotta finish my Admiral Ackbar stencil first though.

i'll throw something together for ****s and giggles.

sounds like you guys had fun last night. i intentionally didn't go out cause i needed to sleeeeeep (i know chris, i know). Is the crit in the Metro??? could someone link to that???

so would anyone be up for riding down to providence this weekend? i realized that i'm so hyper scheduled for the next couple weeks that it may be my only chance to do it before it gets really cold. alexi claims it's only 40 miles or so. i think it's more like 60, but either way. we could ride saturday, hang out saturday night, take the train back on sunday.

and yeah. what IS the deal with the halloween ride.

I'll be out of town, so no riding. However, the boston-providence ride is a good one. I took washington street, which runs parallel to route 1/1a, and is a somewhat less sketchy ride.

I discovered last night after flatting on the way to ZuZu that black duct tape is a decent substitution for a patch kit. Hooray not having to wait outside of Internation Bicycle until it opens at 10 to get a working tube so I can ride to work!

I discovered last night after flatting on the way to ZuZu that black duct tape is a decent substitution for a patch kit. Hooray not having to wait outside of Internation Bicycle until it opens at 10 to get a working tube so I can ride to work!

the moral of the story? stockpile tubes

the moral of the story? stockpile tubes

eff morals.

http://myspace-470.vo.llnwd.net/01306/07/44/1306254470_l.jpg

what do you think so far?

not written by me

from the Weekly Dig (Issue 8.42: Wed, October 18, 2006):

"Dear Allston meathead

While walking my bicycle down Comm. Ave. alongside my friend last Saturday night, I become aware of your sarcastic bellowing from 40 feet away—“Nice BIKE. I really like your BIKE. What a cool BIKE”—as you and the rest of the popped-collar patrol snickered and walked past. WOW! How brave of you to talk **** when you both outnumber and (exponentially) outweigh your opponents. I bet you felt really cool—just like you did when you were football captain at Bumble**** High, right? I’d like to see you run your mouth like that in Roxbury or Southie. Oh wait, you imagedon’t know where those neighborhoods are, because in your four years here, you’ve never ventured outside the area bordered by the Charles, the Pike, Cambridge Street, Harvard Ave., Beacon Street and Kenmore—except for that one time you went to the Cheesecake Factory at the Pru. I guess you wouldn’t have learned the value of a bicycle growing up somewhere where there’s nothing interesting to do within a 20-mile radius; and now you never stray more than half a mile from your $900-per-month Ashford Street ****hole. Go back to suburbia, you cul-de-sac-dwelling ****. Boston doesn’t want you.

My bike is ****ing awesome. Go choke on a beer-pong ball."

HA!

"My bike is ****ing awesome. Go choke on a beer-pong ball."


+aliens

http://myspace-470.vo.llnwd.net/01306/07/44/1306254470_l.jpg

what do you think so far?


There is to much black, but I assume that will be text at some point, but very nice... not so sure how it would print in black and white though...

so i'm coming to town tomorrow.

bus arrives at south station at noon or so... i'm biking to suburbia to have lunch with the mom, then probably heading back to the city at around 6 or so. i'm going to check out a frame sometime after that, but probably will be bored silly between 7 & 10, when i hope to meet up to ride at the christian science bs center -- where is this, by the way? -- my question is, anyone want to ride or eat or visit a bar between 7 & 10?

Corner of Belvidere and Huntington, right across from the entrace to the Pru.

Headquarters Halloween party Oct. 28th.
Beer, ****** firemen and other great stuff.

hey cool scott. anyone of you graphic designer buffs want to take a shot at a flier to advertise ladies' night? i want to have something to hand out to women i see riding to recruit more people. [actually, does anyone who used to ride the MIT track think this is a bad idea? did you have trouble when "too many people found out about it"?]

i made a myspace page today (http://www.myspace.com/bostonbikeblog) which you can send to all your bike ridin' lady friends.

hey cool scott. anyone of you graphic designer buffs want to take a shot at a flier to advertise ladies' night? i want to have something to hand out to women i see riding to recruit more people. [actually, does anyone who used to ride the MIT track think this is a bad idea? did you have trouble when "too many people found out about it"?]

i made a myspace page today (http://www.myspace.com/bostonbikeblog) which you can send to all your bike ridin' lady friends.

More than likely we will get kicked off the track pretty quickly but we can figure that out.

hey aaron so what got discussed? give me a call or send a pm.

So like, does the thursday ride ever involve drinking? I wouldn't want to lie to you, sometimes I get thirsty.

ride tonight. bar after!

I still want to go on a ride for bbq... who would be down this weekend? pretty much any time works for me.

http://myspace-470.vo.llnwd.net/01306/07/44/1306254470_l.jpg

what do you think so far?

it's ****ing awesome man! nice!

as always:
tonite, meet 10pm-ish, Christian Science Center fountain.
destination and alcohol level to be determined.

so i'm probably buying a new old frame today while in boston before the ride...

...would anyone have a house/apartment/garage/anywhere where i could stash it for the evening?

so i'm probably buying a new old frame today while in boston before the ride...

...would anyone have a house/apartment/garage/anywhere where i could stash it for the evening?

If you are anywhere near allston you can stash it in my house.

Man that seven eleven burrito is gooooood.

all i can say is: flat tires suck.

all i can say is: flat tires suck.

Is your wheel okay now that you've seen it in the somewhat daylight?

THANKS GUYS, IT WAS FUN.

i'll be back in town on sunday, but i'll be playing a show at tufts - which is free, if any of you want to check it out - and i'd be down for riding afterwards...

tonight and tomorrow is the Boston Bike Film Festival at the Somerville Theather in Davis Square.

http://www.bostonbikefilmfest.org/about2006.htm

hey, i'm going to that show on sunday, and i'll have my bike with me. so if you wanna ride, i'm down.

$25?! No way my non-riding friends will go to this...which means all of them. Hatriots.

$25?! No way my non-riding friends will go to this...which means all of them. Hatriots.
Yeah, that's rather steep.

I keep tossing around the idea of having a fixed gear film festival (pedal, red light go, the puma dvd, the mashsf trailer, etc.). I envision it in someones apartment (I'd be willing to host), with a ride after.


Is your wheel okay now that you've seen it in the somewhat daylight?
It is ok... it is out of round which sucks, but it looks like it will hold up.

Anyone going to see The Have Nots (or maybe it's The Rights, I can't tell - Jon Cauztik of the Stray Bullets, anyhow) show in some basement in JP on sat?

There were a bunch of bikes there last time I saw the Bullets and I think Jon might mess?

RIDES MUTHA****ERS!!! we need more rides... if we're not going to ride lets atleast talk about riding!

yo, I rode to Lexington center last night because I was bored, thats gotta count for something.

My roommate decided to "Ghost ride" his mountain bike this evening and after it hit a curb, breaking the rear suspension piece again, I fell over on my bike laughing so hard, and ended up breaking another crankbrothers road shoe adapter.

It was funny but not 7.50 funny. :(

yo, I rode to Lexington center last night because I was bored, thats gotta count for something.


Sounds fun..


AND
maybe I'm the slow kid in the room but what does "ghost ride" mean?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWy_Hanw_RE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag370nHDZis

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8892637301431960152

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29mIa1ADQuo

i may have gotten a little carried away

and the actual music video:

http://video.download.com/3800-11170_53-12302.html?tag=vdl_prefs_watch_tmp

edit: and better quality with no ads on you tube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0-T2q5YgDU

oh! I've seen that **** before, didn't know the term "ghost ride" though...

yo, I rode to Lexington center last night because I was bored, thats gotta count for something.

i did the same thing to get breakfast at dunkin donuts on sunday. but i think we discussed this.

I have my new bike. HOTTT.

I have my new bike. HOTTT.


umm, pics?

I don't know where my card reader is.

But I'll take it out Thursday (unless it is raining). because my rear wheel on the KHS is still way out of round/true and I don't know when I'll make it to a LBS before the weekend

Anybody want to donate a non-drive Sugino 75 crank arm to the Rob-Got-T-Boned-By-Stupid-Car Charity Fund?

Anybody want to donate a non-drive Sugino 75 crank arm to the Rob-Got-T-Boned-By-Stupid-Car Charity Fund?

Did you not get insurance money? That is a bummer man.

Foolishly, I biked off without getting the guy's info. About ten yards down the road I realized my bike wasn't actually all right but by then the guy'd driven off. Oh well, at least he has a Rob-sized dent in his hood to worry about.