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From a calm and friendly Critical Mass to a rough and tumble Sins and Sprockets in a LONG night of cycling.
Last Friday night started of calm and friendly with the North East Los Angeles Critical Mass ride. We met up at the Highland Park Goldline Metro stop for a fun ride. This ride [...]

Caught and released.

He was small, but feisty. I caught around 10 of these guys over the weekend. Mr. Z says he is sure it’s a Brook and that’s what I thought at first as well. I then searched the web to figure out what it looked more like form photos on [...]

Dorkbot SoCal 24
After night after getting drenched in the rare LA rain I was one of the lucky attendees at Dorkbot SoCal 24. Why lucky? Well not everyone gets to tour Mister Jalopy’s secret lair, better known as, Hoopty Rides Inc. It sits nestled beneath a store front in an undescript LA [...]

Ended up being more of a ‘Riding in Heavy Rain‘ ride.After a couple weeks off the bike while getting it completely built up I needed to ride.  I worked on the brakes to the 11th hour and finally got it rolling.

Me and my new steed.  It still needs some work, but it’s ridable.

Devon and John [...]

Been busy doing stuff!
Which of course leaves less time to tell my tales via this blog. Coming soon: More Midnight Ridazz, Dorkbot run down, more fishing in Mammoth, yet more riding and my lovely Amy crashing ‘n’ takin’ it like the tough girl she is. Stay tuned for all the bloglicious action!

Or for you new school folks, bottle opener.
I like the sound of “church key.” Say it a few times. Conceptually it’s interesting from the point of view that a bottle of beer is church for many folks. The bottom line is twist-off caps are lame.

I present to you the Anchor Steam Titanium [...]

Being buried under bicycle projects isn’t all that bad.
Ever since I stopped racing my car I’ve had less reasons to wrench on something. I haven’t stopped racing forever, but for now that’s reality. I have always loved bicycles and working on them. At the end of the day I’d probably be happy [...]

I’m even lucky number 13 on the list!
For more info or to see if you can get in on the action check out the Dorkbot SoCal site.  If you are form another party of the county, country, or world check out the main site:
http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsocal/
http://dorkbot.org/
Dorkbot 24 is at Mr. Jalopy’s super secret lair of fun.  He’s [...]

Some videos of things I mentioned in the first post.
This is the Red Bull Helicopter doing freakin’ flips and stuff and things:

This is the final run of Kirby Chambliss (USA, also last years champion) in San Diego on his way to 2nd place:

If you like speed and live near one of these races, go! They [...]

One of my fav burger joints in Pasadena.
I lived in the fair city of Pasadena for some time and in that time I had a few burgers. If I wanted fast, close to home, and tasty I’d up Tops Burgers on the corner of Allen and Walnut. After many visits I never had [...]

So you want some bull bars eh.
My buddy Devon has been riding around town with his super sweet Kalavinka Keirin bicycle (he brought the frame and fork back form Japan a few months ago) with gold Nitto drop bars and wanted to try something different.

After deciding on some bull bars he dug up an old [...]