Choice Club

Put winter shoes on the hobo-commutard.

So we made a wrong turn, entered a conservation area as an attempted shortcut, swam, chose a random trail "out", dead ended, took the route we decided not to take before trying shortcut, walked a hill #rando style, ended up riding 15 miles extra, pizza time plz. 🍕🍕 Btw why is the sun/world/horizon covered in haze?? (at t00 tired 2 stretch 😶👤)

Went to Waffle House this morning after floating.  Took a photo of this rockin’ couple.

The Benj.

Antiquing in the City of Jefferson

Rode the 950 around town for errands today.  I was out for about three hours.  Got some cedar sachets to protect my wool clothing stash, a Mall-Mart run, the library.  The entire set up has maybe five-hundo into it, max, and I'm stoked on everything about it.  Friction shifters, saddle bag, old rat-trap Pletscher rack, gum-wall semi-slicks, saddle & basket bag.  Mm-mm, a hearty dayum all around.   Sexy-flexy old MTB turned utility-bike goodness.  Getting some errant spray from under the fender so I swung by the bike shop and added a kevlar-treadmill belt mudflap utilitizing some choice brass hardware I had saved back.  

A customer's mint NOS Pinarello.  Stay tuned for more.

Don't knock it 'til you try it.

Camping above L.A.  — Mt. Lowe

It's winter in L.A.

Looking through some old photos, my first reaction tends toward, “Gosh I take too many pictures of bikes”.   Taking photos is a welcome creative escape—a medium that allows me to create in a way that is spontaneous and a (in its spontaneity) surprisingly satisfying.   My urge to analyze and critique my own work is undeniable and, while a studied look at one’s own photos is immensely valuable, I am driven to shoot what I want to shoot (and isn’t the truest art that which is driven by something almost instinctual?).

How does he do it?

Really appreciate this part of rivbike's latest newsletter.  Keep lookin' up, there's a sun beyond our grey Midwestern clouds.

Here comes the sun. (at megamile monday)

It's cold today, and I've been sitting, working on graduate school applications for four hours.  My back hurts and my head has a lot of pressure.  I think I give up on the applications for today—I'll slave away Saturday.   Last week I went to the library to check out a book they had about Alec Soth's photography.  It was pretty cool, and made me want to take pictures. I broke my lens about a week and half ago.  I'm yearning to shoot, so here I am, posting two month old pictures of Ikea.

Missing my camera so hard right now.

Day Two, Color Fotos