Today I watched a criterium. I want a road bike even more now.

I love Velo Cult... seem to have hit it off well with the owner as we are both older bike shop guys and owners and have a common interest in vintage machines.

As to other shops... River City Bicycles is a place you should definitely see.

I did too when they were in my part of town.. sky is a great guy. But I guess sharing is caring. ;)

Adrian -
Really??? You've never had a pierogi and you live in Brooklyn??? TONS of good places around. There's Kasia's on Bedford at 9th St (two blocks from the Bedford L stop). But really, you can pretty much stop at ANY of the 13132132 Polish places on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint North of the BQE. Usually, there's mushroom, potato, cheese and meat. Try 'em all and try them with sour cream, apple sauce and fried onions. And try them boiled and fried. And while you're at it, have some potato pancakes and kilbasa with horse radish. Wash down with a Zywiec beer, then find a century to ride to burn it all off <g>.

Warsaw's a great place. http://www.warsawconcerts.com/ On one side it's a well lit, spacious bar with rows of folding tables set up like a VFW (it's "The Polish National Home"). In the back, there are more tables and nice grandmotherly Polish ladies selling pierogis. On the other side is an 800 capacity ballroom that gets booked by a bunch of different promoters here. The sound isn't so great - really boomy/muddy - but the booking is usually good, it's so easy to get to and comfortable to hang at that I've been there a bunch over the decades. Some of the bands I've seen there: Buzzcocks, Mission of Burma, F'ed Up, Ceremony, Love (when Arthur Lee was still alive), Butthole Surfers, Psychic TV, etc. You should check it out if you get the chance.

+1 on both. Pierogis are awesome. You can also find them in most supermarkets in Greenpoint/Bushwick/Ridgewood, packaged locally and reasonably fresh. Pan-fry them suckers for 2 minutes with some onions.

Warsaw is awesome, and i agree about the sound being a little muddy.
My experience with Warsaw: 10 years ago I was on tour with Amon Tobin, Bonobo, and DJ Food. Warsaw was one of our last stops on a month-long tour and we were all ready to go home at this point (plus Amon and I both caught some nasty cold in DC). With 20 minutes left on Amon's set, Warsaw's owner (big old Polish gent) came up to me in the wings (i was on mic duty) and started pointing at his watch, yelling "it's late! Time to go home!" I tried to plead with him to let Amon ride it out for at least 10 more minutes, but the owner just went straight to the controls, pulled some big lever that seemed to both cut the sound and turn on the house lights. Amon had this look of pure WTF bewilderment on his face, and I just lost it and started laughing/coughing hysterically. I also found out the next day that my parents, who came to the show, got a bit of a contact high and stopped for food on their way home.

Sounds like my night (though I didn't get a song in...) Was almost an hour late for work this morning and have the worst headache.

Today I wake up to see this picture of my nephew on instagram

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8180/7...587673c824.jpg
Keenie by kazbo, on Flickr

According to my sister,
1. that's permanent marker
2. he said "look, i'm a girl!"
3. he is very proud of himself.

today, sadly, I found myself back in the cube. :(

I'm running to check this out ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H pick this up this after class today. Pumped.

http://i.imgur.com/L6iaz.jpg

That's the kind of thing you skip class for. Hopefully it's still there!

450? gotta be stolen.

today i dropped my car off for an oil change.

I dunno man, he's had it long enough to swap out the tricolor RD and cassette, but he still has them.

If I had to work as early as you do, I'd have been late too. As is, I was ten minutes late for my 9am start. I have a sore throat because I decided to do Slayer, RATM, and Pantera at karaoke. Smart. Your nephew is adorable.

Today I'm dealing with the dumbest customers ever. Seriously.

Booya

http://i.imgur.com/D0LqXl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/1nFhdl.jpg

I think it might be worth it to fly out to the Northeast US for my next bike purchase. I see insane deals out that way in the C&V eBay/CL thread all the time.

Nice score, Dan!

so jelly

That prompted me to browse ebay real quick. Everything my size $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Here that would totally be over $450 for just frameset.

I got some Pho for lunch.

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/9060/phoh.jpg

That's the tiniest pho I ever saw!!!!

What's your size range, hairnet? 60-62?

It was a decent size, those peppers are big. I'm just happy I found a place that's pretty close to me.

holy **** ti merkx.

ijelly

well... not that jelly. i do have a sweet roadie already.

Today I felt good enough to throw the dmr around a little, then got cleaned up and headed to the specialist. MRI on friday.

62+

There are some nice Panasonics on there. I think a while back there was a hot Moser

today i received spam voicemail tonight during class at 8 pm from some random "preacher" about how he "knows these times are hard, and thats why i should call him for prayer service"

its called DO NOT CALL LIST for a reason, and i am on it. screwoff.

Today I swapped around some rubber and so far I am quite impressed aesthetically with the resulting combinations.

holy **** that ti merxxxcxxxx

also, today i introduced my wife to strava.
she already plotting to QOM this climb she got 2nd over all on :lol:

STRAVAAAAAAAA she yelled

+1
I am so jells, beautiful & practically a steal.

Great catch dan!

how can not be stoled?!

SO MUCH JESLUS

Got my 88mm carbon wheels from china today. Schweet.

Think I might have re-broke my foot somehow. There is a slight pain, and i feels bones moving where they shouldn't be. ****.

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