Tuesday, November 20, 2012

One Year Ago Today

off road toad

are they really doing these?  the website hasn't been updated in a while.  that's kinda fucked up if in reality they are a going concern.  jesus, those top tubes are short, though.  it ain't 1991 anymore.  wonder if they did/do custom?  wonder if they have a couple of columbus max off road tube sets around?  any off road toad would be so much more fun and way fucking cooler than shitty no-name chinese carbon fiber with a fancy paint job.  if you really can get an off road toad and eastern woods research again during america's twilight, that's an unexpected treat. 

erin burnett

the biggest embarrassment for williams college since that vile walking fuckstick the wannabe shah of iran.

a giant stirs to swat a fly that's lost its best defense

winning isn't easy.  and this is something that's not going to end well in the short term.  the occupy movement is going to face increased violence as it, along with the ideas it embodies, gains cultural significance.  the fear of the 1% was clear in the plaintive cries of the bill o'reillys and sean hannitys that the movement was finished.  their masters never believed it, even if their mascots were too shallow and incompetent to understand reality, so everyone can expect more beatings and tasers and pepper spray and mass arrests.  eventually, some idiot will kill a hippie or an old woman or a veteran or a retired cop, and then it's gonna get weird.  and whether that weird is gloriously transformative or violently destructive is something we can't know till it's happening, so... 

there's nothing of magic in this shining pearl

the cracks are beginning to show.  this is not going to end well.  most days it appears the best we can hope for is that we manage to crumble relatively peacefully and not take the rest of the world with us, but you don't build a bigger military than the rest of the world combined without using it all before you disappear.  we will fuck everyone else rather than die gently.

columbus max off road

this might be the holy grail of orphaned oval steel mountain bike tubesets.  supposedly kona used more or less max off road tubing for a few years in mid-late '90's on their explosif frames.  those were decent bikes; i liked them a lot even though the construction quality was sometimes a little rough.  that sort of thing stands out on a simple hardtail frame with small-diameter tubing; on those aluminum fs frames, the sketchy welding didn't show as readily, and there was so much of it that you lost your will to critique the joinery.  serotta also did what may or may not have been an almost completely max off road frame, the tmax.  much better construction, but the design was a bit too old-fashioned for serious technical trail riding.  regardless, i'd like to ride a really nice, modern custom frame made with the max off road stuff...never gonna happen, though.




eddy merckx corsa extra max

that's the one i'd get if i had a time machine.  eddy merckx corsa extra max--not mx leader--in my preferred (custom) size.  of all the long long ago max frames, that's the one.  this pictured example is perfect in every way: no ergo loops, proper horizontal dropouts, threaded headset, better fork crown than tommasini.  fantastic.




hatchlings

apparently this is a popular time of year for tots to get hatched.

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