Archive for July, 2007

Dirtbags are beautiful

Monday, July 30th, 2007
Dirtbags are beautiful

Tour de Fat, Truckee, CA 2007 We filled up our bottles @ Stampede Campground and rolled on down towards Prosser right about moonrise with purple glow over Glenshire, our tires making that perfect white noise hum over the first of 13 more miles of dirt and Soma cruising along beside me, no PBR yet,... »

Posted in adventure, biking-OFF, endurance | 4 Comments »

Bacon Skateboard

Saturday, July 21st, 2007
Bacon Skateboard

I met this dude @ Sound and Fury Records / The Great Basin Community Food Co-op yesterday. Turns out he’s into bacon too. Of course that’s tops in our book. He said he’d take me skateboarding sometime. That’ll be painful. He also does hand silk screening and said he’d design us a T-Shirt! Nice... »

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Downieville Classic 2007

Monday, July 16th, 2007
Downieville Classic 2007

Team Bacon Strip mobbed the Downieville Classic for the 2007 race and we dripped our nasty bacon grease all over the course… »

Posted in Disgusting, bike races | 17 Comments »

Ely Enduro Pics

Sunday, July 8th, 2007
Ely Enduro Pics

Thanks to all the volunteers who took the pics! -M »

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Help Save Bike Access to the Continental Divide Trail

Saturday, July 7th, 2007
Help Save Bike Access to the Continental Divide Trail

dhReno Posted on this. Check here for the deets. Click here to submit a comment. Sometimes a trail should be a quite dirty place for plodding along under the weight of a pack and the burning sun (or freezing rain). Sometimes it’s a shred fest. It should never be a loose, dusty, piss-smelling dung... »

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Stolby all the way

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

SteadyB sent me this vid from Patagonia. These people must be a lot better acquainted with tragedy than we, and therefore seek joy a bit more aggressively. -M »

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