Archive for the 'Townie' Category

05
Oct

Stratigraphy of city life…

In order of importance.

discountfood&liquor

Note: there is something above food, but it isn’t clear what it is…

-M

24
Sep

Tallcan.TV episode #3: Pabst Blue Ribon 16oz

I’m moving Tallcan.tv over to it’s own site. All the tall barley goodness can be followed over there. Enjoy…

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    ps, be sure to become a fan of the Facebook Page…

    -M

    20
    Sep

    tallcan.tv episode 2: Icehouse

    Episode 3 is in the bag, we need to schedule a TBS episode ASAP.

    -M

    09
    Sep

    grab a tall can and a hand full of bacon

    Enjoy.

    We need to record a tallcan.tv episode from the top of The Bacon Strip…

    -M

    09
    Sep

    Jukebox, meets parking garage for bikes…

    Tokyo has a lot of public transportation and a lot of bikes. They also like robots. So it was only a matter of time until they built a robot bike parking lot:

    I wonder if out Japanese friend Aki, could go give us a personal video demo… Although it looks like fatties don’t fit fine…

    -M

    28
    Aug

    Doomtown III + MudSharks Saturday!!!!

    mudsharkTBS friend and kickass Metal Fabricator, Paolo Cividino of Tutto Ferro, is throwing a Scooter Ralley and Party @ his shop on Dickerson Road. If you don’t have a scooter, I say ride your bike.

    Here’s the official invite on Facebook.

    The ride ends @ Tutto Ferro (….2329 Dickerson Rd….) for a Ska show with ….Reno….’s own MUDSHARKS followed up by a guest DJ. Prizes and raffle gifts will be given out between sets. The door fee is $15 for scooterists and $20 for others. Cost covers the show, beer/beverages, and all the swine, chorizo and turkey you can stuff your face with. Food courtesy of The Old, Fat but Humble Greek Mad ….Man….. ….

    I’ll be backpacking, but if you’re in town. Hit that shit!!!!!

    -M

    18
    Jul

    Pushing the pedals

    Fish and pedal
    Photo by forkgirl

    Here’s the situation, You have a road bike and a mountain bike and you want to use one of them for your commute to work, daily coffee shop run or to do a drunken pub ride.

    Problem is, those bikes have fancy clipless pedals that make it tricky and dangerous to ride with sneakers (which are great for strolling), and your clipless shoes are hard and tight and uncomfortable and crappy for walking. So what do you do? Take a pair of shoes? Deal with the clips? ride carefully with your sneakers on those tine little pedals?

    What if there was a sturdy, safe, and robust product that could convert any clipless pedal to platform and solve this problem for less cost than a new set of pedals that won’t send you running for a pedal wrench and trying to remember which one is back threaded…

    We may soon find out. My sister is designing just such a pedal for an engineering class @ UNR. Please help her out by taking this survey she and her team needs to gauge the marketability of the product. With our help she’ll be the first bike product development engineer on the team!!

    Click Here to take survey

    -M

    08
    Jul

    Team Bacon strip header photo challenge!!!

    TBS needs a new header image!!!
    As such I am hereby instituting the first EVER Team Bacon Strip Header Photo Challenge!!!!!!

    Find a photo that says, “adventure” and “summer” Send it to this address: TeamBaconStrip@drop.io, or upload @ this url: http://drop.io/TeamBaconStrip#.

    Winner will recieve Dinner for two with Wolfy and Smella!!!

    Keep in mind the aspect ratio fo the current header image and the decidedly Bike bent of this site in the summer. Although grommets, climbing, and home improvement are big with the team now (not to mention carnage and convalenscence…)

    -M

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    07
    Jul

    Oil crisis?

    In a crisis, people take drastic measures to correct a problem. I’m observing quite the opposite though. It seems as if people would rather accelerate towards the cliff. People are driving more aggressively than ever, and road rage is a common sight.

    carson st
    Many of us here in bacon land ride bikes as basic everyday transportation, not just for recreation. And if you look around, we’re not alone. The good weather and the bad gas pricing has nudged people out of the bucket seat and onto the saddle in recent months. Still, as Jeff points out on bikecarson.com, you’d be hard pressed to call this a sea change.

    I’d add to the discussion that getting around without the use of your car at least once a week, or even once a month, if everyone does it, can save money for fuel, maintenence on your car, and save us all a lot of money on maintaining the roads. Check out the RTC Washoe Website for information on Public Transportation and the RTC Rideshare program, where you can use a database to connect with people with similar schedules and commuting routes EVEN ON BIKES.

    Also, let’s not loose sight of larger problems when gas prices are high. Carbon emissions and air quality is still a major issue here in the Truckee Meadows. Hopefully our resident CO2 expert can elaborate on that for us. And riding some crappy moped you bought at a garage sale might save you some cash, but it’ll put out way more emissions than an H-2. In the long run that will be seen as stepping over dollars to save dimes.

    And I can’t help but wonder when people will be priced out of their pickup trucks. I’m not talking about people like the GrislyBikeGeek who uses his truck for work. I’m talking about that douchenozzle in the magnum powerwagon with dubs and the NorCal sticker who floors it on the green and rides your ass only to have to hit the breaks going uphill! You have to assume that behavior will change before people get rid of their vehicles which obviously are closely tied to their self image…

    -M

    04
    Jul

    A close call for Japhy Rider…

    Just a week ago J.R. did a big Tahoe Tour. On his way home he was hit from behind by a drunk driver on McCarran. He came out of it pretty damn well. And the team, with the addition of another new member, rolls on. Congrats, good luck, thank god, holy crap etc…

    -M




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