Sorry

I guess it's that time of year when we all decide that it is far too cold to do anything outside of the house and all the leaves have been raked up, son. I have been riding my bike. That's pretty much all I have to report on because everything else is in the news. Company is going down, possible job cuts, Obama is president, we have watched Twin peaks from open till close and Julien shows no signs of stopping. I have been riding and I alone am, more than a little, disconcerted at how much I have changed. I haven't though no matter how many times I watch this I always think I could facking kill him on the dead frame bike with a backpack on. Pinch cycle is back!

Vancouver

Working a dead end job gives you a lot of time to catch up on other things. Unfortunately, in my case, other things means youtube and season 3 of Dexter. I should be reading or studying or if all that falls through I could work. In my travels through the zeitgeist mind of youtube I came across this video. After all the riding I've done this year I feel I have earned my membership in the friendship circle of cyclists and cats. I have no idea what that means but it could mean another beer and I'll be riding more BMX in the back parking lot.

nuit blanche

supposed to be an all night art event, but ended up being more of a bike around town for 5 hours, punctuated by various stops for bevvies in parks. good times, and probably better than the originally intended event. got home at 5 am, slept in, and tired for the next day or two...but worth it.
wish you were here...

street art

2 blocks from my house.

Forsaken

Who knows why but after a summer of riding and hating the rain we threw in the towel on a night of pleasure pedals for cans of beer due to the wind. What a freaking lame excuse we pulled out but it was the best we could do. I guess most cyclists would look down on the lurker and me for not feeling like riding after commuting by bike all week in piss poor rainy conditions then trashing a breezy Friday night ride for piss, in a can. yet we did so like it or lump it. After several beers and few arguments we headed over to the trendier sites that offer fashion sense over riding and felt upon the vimeo links. I'm not sure what vimeo is but I am dead sure it doesn't have Urkel dance links. There we found people doing stuff on bikes that we both laughed at and then claimed we could do. To those guyses dismay we found out we could do their tricks and to our dismay we had fun doing it. Thus.........the no hand skid whilst drinking a beer. We went through 3 beers taking this.

Zombies abound

Here it is. The second installment of the pre scary night ride. I have no idea how many people will show up and I myself will be surprised if it actually happens but a boy can dream.

idle days

The sign has a list of rules to follow while you are in the parking of 711. Most of them are common sense and you would follow them whether they were posted or not. Making noise for example. How many people do you know go to a 711 in the suburbs late at night and start screaming or setting off fireworks? Not too many I hope. We had our post ride beer and laughed at how it would be fun to adjust the sign with lewd comments or change the pictures etc. The background music to our conversation was the loud idling of a truck while the driver was inside slaving over the microwaves provided to make his supper. He must have been rick to let a behemoth of a vehicle like that run unattended because gas prices are getting higher and higher everyday. After preparing his tasty cup noodle and sticky rice he came out to chow down while sitting in the driver's seat. I half expected him to have a beer with his meal because he seemed like the kind of person who wasn't content with just breaking one rule. We continued talking about how it would best if we did a 100km ride before November so we would be in shape for the winter to come.


After ditching our juice bottles and cans we decided to head to out to around the neighbourhood to see if there were any other interesting things around. It was then that we noticed that Goldilocks had thought it best to have a little post nosh nap. At this point in time the truck had been running for just under an hour. Sweet. With all the ECO life and save the world garbage floating around in the media today I was glad to see that not everybody is buying the hype.