6:00pm ride
TATI Cycles
1013 E 53rd St
Chicago, IL 60615
(773) 598-8284
7:30pm talk and booksigning with The Book Cellar and 57th Street Books
On The Route
2338 W Lawrence Ave
Chicago, IL 60625
(773) 989-2453
I do intend to conclude the week tomorrow with a more fuller post, but in the meantime I will say that Madison, WI (the city from which I am now departing) is an exceedingly pleasant place to ride a bicycle, and I want to thank everybody who joined me during my brief visit. In fact, between Madison and Minneapolis, I'm not sure Portland has all that much to be smug about. Our BRA ride even became "epic," owing to the inclusion of this very short unpaved sector:
Also, I was wearing the new Rapha perforated yak leather underpants.
Lastly, I apologize for the early hour of this brief post, and if you're having trouble waking up you should watch this video which was forwarded to me by a reader:
Apparently this video is meant to promote the Nagoya Keirin Association, though I didn't see a single bicycle. (Unless they are being secreted in her cartoon cleavage.)
In any case, now that you're awake I wish you a productive day, and I'll be back tomorrow with a regular update.
Yoars treely,
--Wildcat Rock Machine
121 comments:
Surprise early acceleration for sneak attack victory! *sits up on saddle, arms extended skyward*
crap - I actually read it and everything. podium still tho.
*promptly suffers surprise exuberance face-pavement encounter*
last in translation
early early top ten
Ungh! Just missed the podium!
Happy travels. Hope you enjoyed the isthmus.
Re - the video.
I'm SO glad we won the Second World War.
Top X
9th
See ya in a couple of hours, Snob!
Aieeee! It burns! Make it stop Snobby!!
number one in your hearts number one in the game
That video is some good shit. I wonder if Primal will make a jersey?
Cartoon cleavage: a great way to start the day.
EATN PUSY
Missed the top 10 - the Lobster worship ran long. Thanks for visiting us last night.
Still made the top 20 even with a slow smarting phone on the slow train to work.
I know; its not even raining, but my brakes are worn down and I am lazy. Also I can post bsnyc comments while cycling.
Early Sprints are a killer, need more EPO.
I am a little confused about the phrase "secreted in her cartoon cleavage", which definition of the word are you referring to? <<perposition!
TITY F--K
Great post both!
have fun judging AGT!
Panties!
Cartoon panties!
Scranus! What a bunch of early birds.
Only mid-pack worms for me.
oh, and Weed Panties?
the Keirin association is trying very hard the last decade to market to women..throught the use of local foods and sites..otherwise the crowd is all old lone wolfs smoking non filterd cigs in leiu of riding bicycles
A ride along Lake Michigan would be real nice right now.
Yes, but there's a cold wind blowing off that lake, so bundle up!
eating pussy
epic pussy!
Fuck cats!
Ok,
Tomorrow: long post + quiz.
Don't get your leather panties in a bunch. Happy Trails!
I've never ridden a bike in Madison, but on my own single visit there, I found it a fairly unpleasant city to hitchhike into (though not as bad as Oklahoma City or Wichita, which score very low on hitchhikeability in both highway design and cop unfriendliness categories). The hitchhiking advocates should address this problem. I'd say aim for Sudbury, Ontario... sort of the Portland of hitchhiking. There it's perfectly safe to stand close to careening dumptrucks making haste to the aluminium smelters and even elderly nuns from Prince Albert feel comfortable stopping to give one a lift.
weed.
In a world without smuggness there would be no such thing as smug.
Damn, WCRM, that's actually a half-way decent photograph you took there. Especially if you were riding a unicycle at the time.
full carbon campagnollo panties
Snobbie,
I was going to drive from Milwaukee to Madison last night to get a look at your BRA. But, inspired by your encouragement to try my own hand at bike maintenance, I spent the morning finally finishing my first "epic" bike repair: a complete drive train replacement, plus changing the front derailleur cable.
It was more of a comedy of errors than a heroic triumph over adversity. Especially the part where, having gotten everything put back together I broke the derailleur hanger putting the back tire on.
At that point I was so mad I cancelled my plans in a fit of pique (that's douche for rage). Maybe if the book had stickers I could use to tape the hanger back together I'd have gone...
Hope to see you in MKE next time,
Max
Ima gonna watch the video again. Back in 5...
WTF?
Cartoon panties!
balls™
8 6 7 5 3 0 9
Inspecting/Training Pussy
The Japanese GET track cycling.
What about the groupies snob?
How about video of you and several of your velo-groupies romping au natural on a bed of watercress, cucmbers, vegan cold cuts and select artisinal goat cheeses in your Barnes and Nobel dressing room?
No Stickers!!??
Nice job with the mobile blogging WCRM. That Steve Tillford's got nothing on you now.
holyshit whatthefuckwasthat?!
CHIP MONK
BOOB BOOB
VELO RACE
PIST STAR
BOOB BIES
In true snobish fashion, despite your BRA location being only a few miles from my house I'm going to skip it. Welcome to Chicago.
I think that's an 8 bit bicycle race at the very very start of that amazing video. There may have been more later, but I want to savor the whole video over the course of the day.
This is bullshit. I've been putting up with your book plugging for at least two weeks, and you can't even manage to put up satisfactory blog posts while on the road.
You need to get your priorities straight. I'm looking forward to a half decent post tomorrow.
There's a warm wind blowin", the stars are out, and I'd really like to see you tonight...
MADBOX!!!!!!!!!!!
My favorite part of that video is when the black and tan Ghostbuster lookin thing is flat on the stage looking up her skirt. SKIR TCAM
@Max
You really done fucked up if you broke the hanger putting a TIRE on.
You know the rubber that ISN"T attached to the wheel.
Just sayin'.
Better luck next times.
Scrantireies.
@DerZoots
Wait, you mean the rubber part comes off?!? My bike shop's been selling my a new wheel every time I get a flat! ;)
Haha, right! I changed the tire, then broke the hanger putting the WHEEL back on.
Share David Byrne's car...
Sudbury, yeah!
I haven't hitchhiked to or from there, but from just down the road all the rides were memorable:
A circuit judge.
A seventy-something moose hunter, pissed off because he had got his camper ready and hauled ten days of provisions but then bagged a moose on his second day and had to go home to butcher it.
A dealer of industrial plant pressure relief valves, whose qualification for that job was that he was formerly a dealer of cocaine.
A worker in a bread plant whose car was covered with magic marker decorations thanks to his buddies at a bush party, and who had a pornographic bubble gum card tacked to his dashboard (he said it was his girlfriend).
Also, though I do collect first editions of books, I had to return Snob's. No stickers!
"I want to thank everybody who joined me during my brief visit."
Who cares if you want to or don't want to thank them. Just thank them (or don't).
If that cartoon is advertising Keirin racing, what the hell does a Japanese ad for junk food, porn, or hallucinogenic substances look like?
Boo to space-time conflict between Bike Snob and the last night of Gapers Block Crits--but I gotta race!
Chicago?
"Hog Butcher for the World
Toolmaker, Stacker of Wheat..."
That Chicago?
Remember the great poet Ryne Sandberg's observation about Chicago:
"They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys."
Ride safe. And bring home pictures of your travels to the exotic Mid-West to staid and domesticated Brooklyn.
Prospect Park is lovely just now. Except for the torn up roadway that flatted my tire and dented my rim yesterday. But other than that ....
Madison >>>>> Portland all day every day (unless you really really dislike black folks and think Milwaukee is still too near... Sad to say, some "bike activist" jerks do.
@leroy,
I also had a flat in PP last Sunday, though thankfully no rim damage.
I forwarded my receipt for a new tube to Sadik-Khan and Benepe for reimbursement. Haven't heard back yet.
Look out, Chicago!:
http://deadfix.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/kitty.jpg
Just bought the book.
...twice in my life, well over forty years ago, i stood near slag piles amongst the fumes from the nickel refineries on the outskirts of sudbury, ontario with my thumb out whilst hitch hiking across 'the great white north' & on down to the warm california sunshine...
...twice was more than enough, especially when california said 'welcome back, hoser'...
...ya wanna talk 'chicago', read yourself some books by the institution that was mr studs terkel...
...that's all i'm sayin'...
Californians have all built houses on top of portlands smugness and that odd funk of self entitlement actually rises from our cultural grave, situated somewhere under some bearded yuppies subaru. And FRED armisen is face f'ing us on tv to keep more vacuous turds moving here to gentrify the last of our flavor away. alas, five years from now, when the rain monsters have eaten all the unworthy, portland will be great again.
BikesGoneWild... man of wisdom, experience and many ellipses. I'm in the Outer Sunset (the neighborhood, not the Sun Ra state of consciousness). The words "warm", "California" and "sunshine" are never juxtaposed. You know, it's the part of SF where we just ride our bikes without throwing ten advocate parties to plan and celebrate the errand. For sunshine and epic burritos, I go to Nevada (been to Yerington?)
Anyway, I unfairly leveled an insult against the people of Madison. It was Ann Arbor I was thinking of, clarity jostled into my head on the cobbles of Oakland this morning. What can I say? I had probably been up for 4 days, not eaten in three and may or may not have just had sex with a retired postal worker to shoot clear of Cleveland.
Had a decent ride yesterday in the Jamaica Bay region in the Holy City of Brooklyn.
Now much scranus scratching.
vsk
Sudbury is a great place to hitchhike from, ...drive from, ..walk from, run from...
...and may or may not have just had sex with a retired postal worker to shoot clear of Cleveland.
OLDE MAIL
...@ share david byrne's car...when i read 'outer sunset', i immediately hadda laugh even before i read your comment - "The words "warm", "California" and "sunshine" are never juxtaposed." 'cuz while i'm up here in the general warmth of fairfax, i honestly know your story...
...had some cycle friends who used to live in the outer sunset & they literally would not see sunshine at their house in the summertime for maybe a month at a time...
...15 blocks away it could be sunny, ya but the summer fog oft comes in, blanketing the city in the late afternoon & then, generally in the morning, it will slowly recede - 'til just before the outer sunset...
...no matter what anyone sez, you don't need to go to nevada for sunshine & epic burritos...just pedal across town...
That animator should be up on charges.
Sick motherfucker.
I love it.
...@ commiecanuck...to a kid initially raised beyond 'outside of timmins', surrounded by nothing but trees n' lakes, thumbing through sudbury, long haired & 'peace symbol'-ed was kinda like a glimpse of hell on my way elsewhere...
Sounds like the Great North American Rube Tour of 2012 is going well. getting any good road pussy? Yours in christ,
Mario C.
more cartoon cleavage:
http://hwalther.home.xs4all.nl/images/opc-labluegirl-yasha-bra.jpg
...speaking of sudbury...just to the north in the kirkland lake area, while canadians don't pave their streets with gold, somebody decided to cover 'em with 'loonies'...
... http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/story/2012/03/29/sby-brinks-crash-update.html ...
...sorry, too lazy to do the automatic link...
Seems like some of this afternoon's commenters are just itching to write a book themselves...
Never mind the outer Sunset, it's gray all around the bay today
One thing I would like to applaud this blog and it's comment section for, a complete and total absence of motherf--kin' emoticons. Now I fully expect a few after this comment but hey I'm cool with that, it's bonafide sarcasm.
Man, if all it takes for a ride to be "epic" is an unpaved interlude...you could have had a truly epic ride back when you were doing your BRA in Bethesda. Not even 200 yards from where you left the Capital Crescent Trail to preach to us at the Barnes & Noble, you would have found that the trail goes totally epic (unpaved) for the next 3 miles before essentially disappearing into a slag heap.
No bicycles here either, but perhaps the ne plus ultra of Japanese weirdness.
Why the recent absence of dachshunds?
Methinks WCRM, like a true zen master (or a fixie adept), is so firmly in the moment as he traverses the country singing for his supper that he does not have the opportunity to reflect on times gone by.
Oh come on, that doesn't even come close to ironically epic. You're riding alongside a river. It isn't even raining. Unless you are trying to ford the river, or riding into the teeth of a hurricane, or there is a twenty per cent gradient involved, no dice. Please refer to the upcoming limited edition armadillo-skin-covered version of Rapha's Dictionnaire des rouleurs avec supplement pour les baroudeurs for the complete definition of epic. You will get a cease and desist letter from my lawyers in the morning.
@McFly:
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
Shit, dude, it is on!
I thought craigslist did away with human trafficking?
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/bik/2929768092.html
Sandwich Porn? Really? I like it.
It is a super-fast, super-stable and super-comfortable bike. I rode aluminum and hybrid bikes before I bought this one, but the first time I got out on it I felt like I had finally bought the "cadillac" ride I was looking for. If you ride over 30 miles, you really need to be on carbon. Even at 30 miles, your body will feel the difference in the lack of beating it takes by riding on carbon. The price of carbon, however, makes some shy away from ever getting one (as it did me for awhile), so here's your chance to buy a "like new" carbon bike with a racing set-up at a sensible price. I built it up to very high standards over time. I hope to do 2 things in this sale: (1) see it go to a good home to a rider who wishes to improve performance and maybe even enter competitions [if you're only looking to do better in your local pack, that's great, too! I went from struggling to stay with the fast bunch to one of the top dogs in that one season of riding it!] (2) give someone a great deal on the "total package" to make it reachable to ride carbon.
monster beats Many thanks for finding the time to talk about this specific, Personally i think firmly about this and incredibly similar to studying on this kind of matter.Dr Dre Beats Butterfly
Japan has Earth's most paedo-friendly popular culture.
...emoticons ???...you mean 'smiley face thingys' ???...
...i don't DO smiley face thingys...
...（￣ー￣）...
...just sayin'...
...@ mr paul bowen...
...i'd suggest that the whole concept of internet blogging in itself has given rise to a previously untapped state of neotenous emotional behavior due to both the intimacy & yet remoteness of the process...
...& i, for one, am certainly willing to point a finger in my own direction as example...
...just sayin'...
[ O ] (o)(o)
Hi all - nice piece in the Times about a ghost bike in NYC.
cycle
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/around-the-corner-of-loss/
Rule 34, definately Keirin applicable.
If I recall correctly, the Brazilian term for "strippers +" is "chu chu chu", which is what was shown at the beginning of the video... maybe she was running to catch a flight to Sao Paulo ?
Great article about you in the Boulder Daily Camera today. I can't wait to hear what you have to say about the biking culture in good old Boulder CO.
BRA Tour leads to exploration of Cleavage Culture.
All for it.
Hooters!
BGW
Take off eh?
Dang, bgw, you made me look up a word. Interesting one as well.
Wiki says:"In a cross-cultural study, more neotenized female faces were the most attractive to men while less neotenized female faces were the least attractive to men, regardless of the females' actual age.[21] Using a panel of "Asian", "Hispanic" and "White" judges, Michael R. Cunningham found that the Asian, Hispanic and White female faces found most attractive were those that had "neonate large eyes, greater distance between eyes, and small noses"[22] and his study led him to conclude that "large eyes" were the most "effective" of the "neonate cues".[22] Cunningham also said that "shiny" hair may be indicative of "neonate vitality".[22]
I enjoy riding on unpaved places but not for a long time
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