True... I really do appreciate how nice my current 722 rides(especially compared to the Gravity Swift I had). Damn bikes.

Today I am no longer a teenager!!
Today my girlfriend woke me up with apple pie and a triple tall extra hot non fat latte (my favorite drink!)! Damn. I don't think it gets better than this... <3

I also got a park tools chainwhip and lockring spanner and a new v-neck from my parents :D Can you get much more BFSSFG than lockring spanners and v-necks :lol:

I'm hoping my new drops come in today! Probably not though since I'm pretty sure MLK is a shipping holiday.

today i saw that movie real steel. what a piece of...

happy bday chwinn.

Today I...

Started a band: The Carletons

So how often do you google your name?

I've got a band too. Los Tejanos.

Maybe a couple of times a year.

If you ride the T1 on the street I will personally punch your face...with my fist.

Same thing happened to me today. My phone also stopped working and my eyeballs need chapstick on them now.

http://distilleryimage8.instagram.co...381b65e3_7.jpg

EDIT: Also, it's funny. During todays ride, riding back into the city with that gnarly freezing headwind I was the most miserable person in the world and never wanted to ride a bike ever again.
Fast forward 2 hours and a long hot shower later and I'm in an awesome mood.

nah lol... take it to the velodrome... good time to start.

Today I purchased a domain for the website of the fixed gear bike club/gang my friends and I are forming. I'll link to it soon, but I'm waiting on a friend to clean up the logos in photoshop and once I drop them in I'll be ready to post the site. I'm so excited; we're gonna host bar nights and rides and events and it's gonna be super fun and hopefully as a side benefit get more women feeling comfortable and confident on bikes.

I'm also trying to figure out a name for my fundraising team for St. Baldrick's Foundation (they raise money to fund research to end childhood cancers). I and three friends are going to be shaving our heads for this charity in two months and we need a good team name so we can start promoting it and organizing fundraisers.

Luckily this is all stuff I can do from my couch, since I am feeling supremely lazy today.

are you in the suicide riderz!?

Hahaha, no. We're not cool enough to ride around in the dark in a Target parking lot and record it on video. LULZ

Her bike gang is rad. I love it, even though I can't join.

Today I worked. Final health inspection on the restaurant is tomorrow, and I feel that there's no way in hell we will pass. If we don't, I don't know what the future holds. Kind of freaking out.

I have bars w anatomic bends and it's actually comfortable, don't care much for the way it looks though.

It was cold this morning, 19 degrees when I got on the bike.

Only tiny women on fixed gears can be IN the gang, but our events are open to everyone in the bike community. Well, except for the all women/trans alleycat (a *****cat, hahaha) we're planning.

I know. We've had this discussion. I'm just giving you ****. If I'm off work/have enough advance notice I'll work a checkpoint for the *****cat. If normal alleycats have cute girls, why shouldn't a *****cat have cute dudes?

My ride to work this morning was great.Few cars on the road due to MLK day and picked my layers just right for the 9deg ride to be neither cold nor overheat...good start for the week.

It's MLK day? I feel pretty far removed from the states...

strava app!* we need to make a bfssfg strava group

what app is that chrissssssss

isn't the deal for complete bikes only?

question was already asked an answered.

A LBS of mine has a T1 built for 1.9k

went down there today, and they arbitrarily said they aren't participating in the Cervelo deal... even though they get reimbursed the 2k, and all they have to do is sign a few papers..... guess it wasn't having a customer.

aww that sucks. im going to my lbs tomorrow and see if they can scour a built t1 and see if they are participating. thanks!

And if you can't, you can get an RS for around 2.2k... so... $200 dollars out of pocket? yes please.

not a track bike, bike a really nice road bike.

Tonight I made a joke with a friend about opening a restaurant/bar/music venue across the street from a place in town that treats everyone like ****. Two hours later, I have a couple people interested in investing, a few cooks ready to quit their jobs and come work for me, two bands that wanna play opening night, a social media specialist onboard to consult, an artist working on designs for logo and menu layouts...

This is nuts.

I use a Garmin 500 and import it into Strava
I have the app on my phone so I can see all of my activity while on the go.
I find that if you record the ride thru the iPhone app, it's wildly inaccurate.

yeah my iphone app is a bit innaccurate and you have to pause it if you ever stop for a minute or it'll really **** up your time (where the garmin 500 starts/stops recording based on movement, right?)

I just couldn't justify $150 for slightly better accuracy / a minor inconvenience. I really want one though!