man, long time since i've posted...i don't live at a house with wifi anymore. suckage.

here's what i don't like about portland, and it's about the only thing: people give a **** about bikes here. higher profile + more people doing it = cops riding your ass like there's no tomorrow. the brake tickets? in another town, people might go "those dudes can go **** themselves" and leave it at that. in portland, people allow it to become a "problem". i recall taking a college course on social problems, the basic premise being that no condition is inherently a problem, but is made one by people in society identifying it as such. case in point, the previously mentioned brake tickets (and the current sting on the broadway bridge, watch yourselves). wouldn't be a problem elsewhere where bikes would simply be written off, but here people go on about "being treated like a car" like its desireable and the cops will hold you to the laws that are written for cars and blah blah blah blah...i hear chicago is nice to ride in. i kinda want to check that **** out. plus it snows there. snow is radicool.

anyway, i've been absent. i should try to get on more. zombie cult massacre race this saturday, 7:30 pm at alberta park (20th and killingsworth), 7 bucks, 15 if you want a shirt (they're pretty sweet).