Originally Posted by moki

dude, that's not my bike, but I wish it was. It's Joel Metz's (blackbirdsf.org), SF courier, bike geek, and punk brevetteur extrodinaire. Custom Sycip (hnnngh!). Looks like an XC bike, but has (according to his site) 700c wheels, steeper HT and ST angles, and shortish chainstays. Enough unlike a boat to ride 125000 miles in 8 years. Now that's an effin bike.

and the rider. If even half of what he writes is true, he is a God. With one helluva stable.