…One Less Scene

While foraging around for strawberries in an overgrown, dilapidated greenhouse complex on Vashon Island yesterday, I ran into some friends that were filming a micro-budget horror film. It was a bustling, animated production in the middle of a forgotten wasteland, with a twelve foot tall boiler rusting in the background.

It’s amazing to see the dedication [...]

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A couple of weeks ago I drove out to Priest Lake to spend some time with my family. Among other things, we talked about gardening, Pete Seeger, the huckleberry season, and gardening. I love these folks.

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Just Riding Along on the Interstate 5, headed South at mile marker 156. The exit to Interurban avenue is coming up, and I’m planning on taking the 518 to Seatac for my last drop of the day. I notice a semi truck on the shoulder, with the driver checking something out by the front wheels. [...]

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These special fork tools are actually available from British distributors on ebay, but so easy and fun to make yourself! I had to hack apart a fork cap nut in order to use the large diameter, special-english-threaded section, which I fastened to a piece of threaded stock with some JB Weld,  to thread into the [...]

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It makes no sense to build a wheel by hand anymore. However, the inefficient time-wasting of custom wheelbuilding reveals some of the things that I love about bike repair: the patience, the unrewarded triumph of everything coming together, and colored nipples.
Back in the day at the Schwinn factory school in Chicago, instructors would have [...]

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L’Âge d’Or:

The Mad Scientist:

The Young Turk:

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