Wednesday Evening Ride Report Recently dubbed the wednesday evening ride by Mr. Guzzld, it was an earlier start than it's been for a few years because frankly start times have been getting later and later, so late that the resolve to actually go for a ride, as opposed to the bar, was low by the time people started pedalling. Leaving at 8:30 instead of 10:30 equals more ride time and less headache the next day. Expect more of same for at least a while. Anyhow, last night I didn't meet up at the usual starting point. Instead, I worked on…

Dear Mr. Guy in the Black Lexus license plate number JMB 999, I appreciate your 15 second horn blast while rolling up behind me and my three mates riding on Poplar Bridge Road last night. It's especially nice of you to warn us of your plan to try and kill us. I know that you were in a great hurry to get home and I deeply apologize for being the agent who caused your 30 seconds of tardiness. It was just plain rude of us to be riding in the street. I also appreciate that you were unable to notice…

Reasons to abandon single speed riding (in no particular order): -30 gear drivetrains. I'm sorry, they cost how much? Whatever, your knees will cost more to replace than that, and at any rate the maintenance can't be all that bad. Can it? 50 miles of variable winds make gears seem almost necessary. -The whole SS thing was a fad. -As a cyclist, you profess to like all types of riding, but on your SS you're not at the crest of the wave anymore; its glory has passed. To those who are cyclists, it is now obvious that you are completely…

Wheel Repair 101: Many of us have had to make use of this technique this at one time or another. Sov, pictured here, uses it fairly regularly, but that is due in part to his choice of riding style and companions. In my life as a shop rat, lo these many moons ago, my co-rats and I saw many bad wheels, as shop rats do (not to mention lots of other things...have you ever tried to track down a Positron shift cable?). One guy brought in a wheel best descibed as 'undead.' It was far to badly taco'd to save.…

Our friend T got mugged this weekend, knocked off her bike after a show and the dillhole took her ride. That is so uncool. Luckily she's o.k. Shook up of course, and a cut on her leg, but essentially in tact. Let's be careful out there people, and have your u-lock ready for action. There's a special hell for bike thieves, but that doesn't mean you can't clock them with the business end of a u-lock if things get heated. The Twin Cities Dead Brewery tour happened saturday. A tour of defunct brew houses, Brauer took us all over MPLS/St…