Last night at Portland Bicycle Studio, Lazer helmets and Ridley bikes really brought the “bling” with some of their coolest gear I’ve seen. It was a fun night of fast bikes, flashy helmets, fun dudes, and foreign refreshments (effing , oh yea).  I was expecting a good time of meeting the reps from each company [...]

A motivational phone call from Magnum PI (NOT Tom Selleck) – We all need some reenforcement sometime
A signed photo of Richard Nixon and Robocop discussing Vietnam strategy – priceless
Puma ‘New Haven’ Perforated Sneaker, black and in size 13 – for some mad mobbin’ round town
Cole Haan ‘Air Infinity’ Oxford in black and size 13 – [...]

Who want’s to spend $975 on me?!
I’ve been shopping around for some parts to build a touring bike for 2010, and just yesterday I spotted this Surly Long Haul Trucker. The LHTs are decent steel-built touring bikes with a bunch of great features (like the extra spokes mounted in the chainstays). At first, I thought [...]

With the release of the Apple Magic Mouse, finger use is making a serious comeback! People around the country are finding all new uses for the “Two-finger swipe”. For those of you who haven’t been making it past Second base ( I’ve been hitting 1000 for the past year), the new Apple Magic Mouse will [...]

I recently picked up a Lazer Genesis under the recommendation of Molly at Veloshop. It’s a rad helmet. A lot of people think bicycle helmets are too bulky or don’t fit well, but that’s really a price-point issue. This helmet fits like a hair-net and breathes really well.
Then again at $150 pricetage it better fit [...]

Dear Coca-cola,
Seriously, what the shit? I mean, I’ve seen you take some risks, but nothing too nuts. Nothing like your competition, for the few who can remember Crystal Pepsi (bleeh). You’re classic, just like your name states. Even New Coke was withdrawn when you realized what an atrocity it was. You don’t need to “update” [...]

Pursuing my usual places this morning I came across something an acquaintance had made. It was a terrible, robot voiced video that he seemingly made in a drunken stupor the night before. All courtesy of this site, XTRANormal, I had to give it a look. The online application was pretty amazing. You can write the [...]

After a  couple of weeks, a stop in East LA while in Southern California, and some palm greasing I finally got the HplusSons (H+Sons) rims on my hubs and rolling. Tzusing at HplusSons was good to deal with, even when trying to battle the shipping error that the delivery company made. Doug was especially helpful [...]

When I checked my email this morning, something wonderful happened. The USPS package tracker informed me that my package from China was “delivered”. Shortly after the front desk at my office called me, “Max, your package is here.” I was so giddy. I felt like a young woman right before Senior Prom.
I walked across the [...]

Before my birthday I posted this blog: My Dream, The Barking Hot Dog Cooker
Of course while I hoped and prayed that mayhaps some wealthy philanthropist might take pity on my lack of novelty hot dog cookware, I honestly didn’t believe in the power of dreams. Well? Well thank you Matt and Michelle for making my [...]

I don’t blog much about music anymore. To be honest I don’t even listen to a large variety much anymore. Of course I get out there and sample things. I check out what people are buzzing about, but really aside from some great eletro albums there hasn’t been much to tickle my fancy in the [...]

As a gift for my birthday, Christina surprised me with a Wine Blending class at Urban Wine Works. The Urban Wine Works tasting room in NW Portland is very laid back yet classy. It was really educational and fun. Not to mention that we got to drink the entire length of it.
Our instructor, Annie of [...]

I would like this shirt made for my birthday….and I would like 14 of them

Wear your helmets and your condoms. They protect the two most important things: your freedom and your brain.
Also Check out this Bern Watts helmet
I’ve already got a sweet Lazer helmet, but I’m kind of thinking about getting one of these for urban riding. The ventilation would be bad news on long rides.
Changa!

Christmas has this tendency to be rather self-absorbed. Not necessarily each of us within ourselves, but the country as a whole being self-absorbed. We think about spreading joy and sharing love, but normally that notion ends at our doorstep or our neighborhood, or maybe even as far as the city limits. It’s sweet, really, [...]

It’s Christmas time. And while the children around America will be unsatifed with their presents which cost more than the yearly diet of most kids worldwide, I will be waking to my newest present to myself. Yes, I bought myself a used Nikon D70. And boy, I’m more excited than a 12 year-old boy [...]

I recently picked up a G1 phone this last week. This Google powered phone, running on Android, has had some ups and downs in the pasts week. I’m still undecided about it. The features that work well are frankly amazing and things I’ve been waiting for in technology for years. However, there are some fundamental [...]

Link: Electronic Drum Kit Shirt
Oh how wonderful being a geek can be sometimes. After my personal discovery of the glorious iPhone app Pocket Guitar, I knew the beginning of the end of traditional music was here. I floored at this magnificent app and slowly realized there was company for this iPhone guitar on the horizon. [...]

Local artisan/cap-maker Victoria Jarvis provided me with these caps recently. Of course, I paid for her services, although I think she could charge a great deal more than what I paid. In retrospect the caps were well worth what I paid and more. But enough of the warm and fuzzies, onto the review of these [...]

Outdoor Research Tremor Jacket Review
I bike. A lot. I bike to work, I bike to bars, I bike to have sex, I bike to the doctor when I get hit on my bike. I bike everywhere. And living in Portland, with the NW gloom and rain, does not make that biking easy sometimes. Last year, [...]

Link: http://www.smokingsafely.com
I never thought I’d write about, let alone find, something like this on the internet. Then again, I guess people need to smoke something in the Matrix.
While this looks to be more for health than anything, maybe the e-Punks will all latch onto it, and while lurking 4chan maybe light up (charge up?) an [...]

Link: Gromada Hub Repair / Disassembly
I recently obtained some Gromada hubs from a former Portland area messenger. He said he knew the Polish man who made them and that he purchased them from him in Dublin last year. They were laced up with DT Comps to Velocity Aero rims, a pretty nice setup. At the [...]