Saw the title, thought this was going to be a T.Pain ‘On a boat’ type remix. I was gladly mistaken.
P.S. I’m going for a maillot jaune repeat on the Tour de Fuck You so check your 6
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This looks like it’d be the best $15 you’d spend on riding all year.
Click here to see the official release. Pretty sure the busket is going to be camped out in Whistler for a week this summer! Location: Syncline Had an old college buddy in town for a week for work, which was awesome since most of my friends these days have become the married type that don’t do a damn thing. We spent the week eating, drinking and recreating our way around Portland. After reintroducing him to powder days (apparently they don’t get that many pow days in Charlotte, who knew?) and introducing him to the Outback, I figured for his last day in town I’d show him Hood River. Hit up the Fat Tire Farm sale, sadly not early enough to get one of the demo bikes they were selling off, and quite frankly the rest of the sale was unimpressive. As we were walking back to the car we were throwing out ideas for the ride, knowing that the snow would probably be a hindrance on most of the trails. John’s rental car guided us to the obvious answer.
Driving out through the Gorge the weather looked as if the ride would be ‘interesting’, but as we turned the last turn into Hood River you could see the sun was shining on Syncline. High-5! We ended up having a blast, soaking in the weather and the views. Wildflowers starting to do their thing (which means the poison oak and ticks are only a few months away as well…). Trails were in good shape in most places, but muddy and rutted around the new diversion about 1/4 mile below the brown house. We ended up doing two laps, one up the Jeep Trail, past the brown house and down Hidden Canyon, the second up the same trail but cutting off at Little Moab instead. A third lap up to hit Little Maui on the way down got vetoed by the call of the Double Mountain beers. Siiiick. On the drive back John was looking for jobs in the area and telling his wife it’s time for a move. He wore the GoPro cam for an hour or so to show his lady how the riding is, should have that vid posted later this week once I get it converted over. Hopefully they can make it happen!
 These guys were everywhere, and when the sun came out full-time looked insane when backlit  oh hai sunshine!  John on Little Moab  recovery meal  Doppelganger? The S.O. wanting to ride can either be a blessing or a buzz kill. However, before they ride you’ve got to make a decision on WHAT they’ll be riding, which leads me to today’s poll Looks like it’ll be either wet/muddy, or covered in snow, depending on where you ride this weekend. Regardless, have fun! Spandex for a downhill run? Check.
This guy just makes trials look sooooooo easy! Yup, a dick saddle. Been riding an indoor trainer quite a bit lately, trying to get some semblance of cardio so I can keep up with the young bucks at the kickboxing gym. Have noticed that my toes/feet often get tingly or go to sleep (note: I’ve got horrid circulation in my feet/hands due to one part bad genetics one part too many battles with frostnip/minor bite), likely because you aren’t really changing positions and going through your body english vocabulary when rocking the indoor human hamster wheel vs. when you ride outside. After some brief Googling and Binging* I discovered that: 1) this isn’t all that uncommon and I figured that if I could find one of these ‘increased circulation’ saddles on the cheap I’d give it a go, partly out of nagging fear that if my toes and feet were going numb that there was a chance my, um, ‘front derailleur’ would have gear shifting issues, and quite frankly I don’t want my 4th favorite pastime** diminishing my first. Flash forward a few weeks and found a Selle SMP Dynamic take off for crazy cheap (relative to usual retarded cycling markups) at Western Bike Works. Decided to pick it up (yes, there is that slight twinge of embarassment buying one of these saddles – I imagine it’s what it feels like buying lice shampoo or micro fit condoms) and give ‘er a go over the next few weeks. Anyways, a couple quick photos. Yes, they’re horribly out of focus and the colors are whack, but I had all of 10 seconds of battery life and think that was killing the autofocus and can’t pop off another round of ‘em for a bit. That, or maybe I could just desaturate them, add some fake DOF blur, register firstnamelastnamephotography.com, find a bunch of yes man enables on twitter and flickr, and call myself a pro photographer. Or not.  Girl look at that body  Bravo to Selle SMP's marketing team - Merriam-Webster actually has 'impotent', 'soft' and 'nerveless' listed as antonyms for 'dynamic'  Brazilian butt lift on this saddle! Will update this post with some decent photos in the near future, and obviously will report back with a full report after dousing it with butt sweat for a month or two. *Just kidding, nobody uses that shit **Heirarchy for those interested Yup, these guys again, still putting out the dark (in a good way), vibey, feel good vibes. Upfront disclosure: These are 2011 models. As they changed considerably from 2010 (longer cut, velcro cargo pocket closures in lieu of the magnetic ones on the 2010 shorts) the 2012 model may be substantially different than the below. Company: Fox Racing (or is it Fox Head now? Not sure which they go by these days, when my old roommate worked there it was Fox Racing) is ubiquitous among flat billing motorcrossers and their style biters, Fox Racing () has been around since 1974. Initially focused exclusively on motocross parts anc clothing they’ve since branched out into MTB, BMX, surf and other action sports. If you want their full story click here, otherwise let’s move on with the understanding that these AREN’T the same guys that make your fork and RP23. First impressions: My first impression when buying a pair of Sergeant shorts was ‘these feel like they’ll be a ball sauna, but I’ll try ‘em anyways’. They have a heavy hand to them that would keep your everyday XC whippet from picking them on the rack. However, if you’re looking for a short to do everything else these have some nice details.
As mentioned above have used a 2010 version of these shorts for over a year, and these will likely have the same positives (durable, comfortable) and negatives (garbage chamois, heavy when wet, fade quickly), but rather than assuming I’ll give ‘em a go and report back in time.  Full frontal  I think this colorway is called 'brain'  Mesh lined pocket, removable sunglass wipe  2011 shorts use velcro instead of magnets, which I could never figure out how they worked |
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