keeping the dream alive

Shooting for one century a month this year ala Hurl. It's a nice goal. It's been going well and I've been clicking them off on gravel with Carl on either my drop bar 29er or my extra clearance road bike. October was a tuffy. We're having to do it separate for the first time since last December. Two more to go for me at this point

. So, anyways, October hundy was up to Prague and back. Prague was in full on party mode. It was great. The dirt roads were barely dry enough get across, but they worked.

recently had a quick weekend trip to the mountain bike nirvana that is western CO and eastern UT, with a few buddies incluing kliner. did the big loop from rabbit valley to western rim. great way to clear the mind out from work work work...

Short Attention Span Frame Building

FROM STEEL: Short Attention Span Edition from michael evans on Vimeo.

more of the same

Sounds like a bad thing, but not all the time, and not in my case, at least for this post. The century a month challenge has been keeping me motivated. In July, Carl and I did an overnight century from 10pm till 7am on a Saturday evening. It was a trip, to say the least. August was Gravel Worlds and that was 170 door to door. We

were forced into the final weekend of September for September's 100 miler. It was a gorgeous day. We took a familiar route down to Wilber and up to Malcolm and home.

Gran La Fonda Bike Show

Friday night is the Gran La Fonda Bike Show in Santa Rosa.  5pm at the corner corner of 5th and Davis near the Sycip shop and across from Toad in the Hole Pub.  Bikes+beer+food truck=boner.  Check it out.

Where oh where has the time gone?

I promised Captain Shants that I would come through here on the regular to pen some of this, or some of that, and I'll be damned if keeping my own ship off the rocks has prevented any such activity. It is with my heart in my hand (or is the adage 'my hat in my hand'?) that I come here right now to get some work done. Whatever the case, at least my record is still cleaner than Hurl's. Anyhoo, the primary reason for darkening this blurg's door today is to mention for the forth year running, Interbike will be seeing the underside of the bike industry converge at the nearly world Famous 'Underbike Industry Mixer®. The players in this bash will of course be the Soulcraft Bicycle Corporation, Ritte Van Vlaanderen, Swobo, and my personal All Hail The Black Market imprint. I've lost track of what we're actually celebrating, but when friends who don't see one another but on an annual basis do, celebrating in the most debauched way is advisable. Do your worst, cats and kittens. It's going to be the handsomest of all trainwrecks.

Ben is a married man!

This is somewhat old news, but I recently came across this picture from the 2012 24 hours of the Old Pueblo (held in February), and Ben recently was married in June. I also really like this picture as Ben has been an important part of my life since I met him. So, I wanted to say congrats Ben and his new bride Sarah! Ben has had a relationship with SOULCRAFT bikes almost from their inception, and I met Ben at SOULCRAFT dealer Absolute Bikes in Flagstaff in 2001. We hit it off immediately and we subsequently attended the 2001 race together, which was their second go in Tucson. We still tell stories from that early race and we added a few more to the cache this year.  Thanks for all your help this year Ben.