Our Bonehead of The Week Award Winner
This is a police video of an officer riding in the right hand lane and gets some driver frustrated. The driver lays on his horn not realizing that the bike is being ridden by a cop.
The driver earns our bonehead of the week award.
Who are you honking at? from Keri Caffrey on Vimeo.
If Bass Fishermen Made Bikes – Interbike 09
The Cranky Mechanic
By Uncle Chad
Ooohhh boy-oh-boy I tell ya. I was just at Interbike 09. Sometimes what happens in Vegas should definitely stay in Vegas, and some should come with you home in a ditty bag. Used to be the show was expensive to get to, and your bike was cheap. [...]
What Were You Thinking?
Last weekend I went for a long training ride into the Santa Monica Mountains to not only get in some good hill climb miles, but escape the dirtiness of Los Angeles, the city I live in. On this ride I decided to go up Latigo as it is one of my favorites, as well as [...]
The 10 Thousand Dollar Chair
Written by: Uncle Chad
Man, there is nothing like seeing someone with a Rolex that doesn’t keep time, a Ferrari that’s in the shop, ROGANI BRUNO and FRANCO’s with poop on the bottom of their soles, or a ten thousand dollar racing bike being used as a desk chair. Pure, personal enjoyment, I tell ya. [...]
The Cranky Mechanic Presented by…..
I don’t get it. A few years ago, some father who owns a big corporate company, gave his son-in-law a schnazzy upper level management job in charge of the making and distributing of fangled widgets. The fact is he really doesn’t do anything, everybody hates him, and the company would run well without [...]
Upgrade This! Coming Soon To A Store Near You
By Uncle Chad
Upgrade. n. (noun). To pay extra for something that you should have gotten with your original purchase. syn. sucker, chump, fred.
Upgrade, upgrade, upgrade. That’s all I hear lately. I write this to you, (with a sweat ball dripping off my nose), as I wish to warn you what may come [...]
The “Trickle Up Economics”
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The “Trickle Up Economics”
By Uncle Chad
I am sure we have all heard of “trickle down economics”. It is basically “the economic-political argument that the increases in the wealth of the rich are good for the poor because some of such additional wealth will eventually trickle down to the middle class and to [...]
Does it “Matter”?
The Cranky Mechanic
One of my favorite cycling photos is the one of Albert Einstein riding a bicycle in a suit.
He also once said, “matter can’t be created or destroyed”. Yes there is nothing better than playing hooky and going out for an afternoon ride. But “matter can’t be created…”, I beg to [...]
Is Green Is The New Extreme?
Original Essay by: The Cranky Mechanic
All right stop. Collaborate and listen.
Remember way back in the last century when Vanilla Ice unleashed “Ice Ice Baby” on our unsuspecting ears?
Not only did he give us the gift of the greatest one hit wonder followed by the saddest career this side of Dana Plato, his flowing prose launched [...]
The Cranky Mechanic – “The New….”
By: Uncle Chad
Look at all the shiny new bikes. Seems like a $6000 rig is today’s flavor of the month. I recently walked into a coffee shop at the end of a ride, and began a conversation with a 50-something. Who knows these days. She commented that cycling has become the “new golf”, [...]
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