Hmmmmm?

Ted has been irrelevant for decades

On the outside looking in.

The tragic killing of a cyclist by a drunk driver is not a declaration of war between cars and bikes. It is a knock at the cyclists door to notify them they are as susceptible to these tragedies as pedestrians, bystanders, drivers and other victims of drunk driving. It is not proof of the infallibility of the cyclist or the demonetization of the driver. You can not let your outrage blind you into a protest that makes you more vulnerable than safe. Every tragedy has lessons to learn on both sides.

Eyes wide open

There are facts and there is a truth that goes along with them. They might not be what you want to know, or what you want to hear but that has nothing to do with what they are.
It is going to sting, but you can not allow yourself to be blinded by outrage.

I have been trying get people to really read, now it is catching on.

Now beat it.

Beat it

The only way to fix all that's been done.

yep

"Introducing the new Bike Library Mechanic--- Brian Rose!
B Rose will be the new Bike Library mechanic--- we are happy to welcome him! His contact information is as follows: brose@cyclesforchange.org and his Bike Library phone number is: 651.317.9474 " .

Do you have any idea how important this is?

• Mindlessly taking the first small step
• Dehumanization of others
• De-individuation of self (anonymity)
• Diffusion of personal responsibility
• Blind Obedience to Authority
• Uncritical conformity to group norms
• Passive tolerance of evil through inaction or indifference

7 Social Processes That Grease the Slippery Slope of Evil

Haters be hatin'

My new player card has gotten me some hate mail.

a few thoughts...

The Blue Scare ~vs~ Supply and Demand

  I have been noticing a few trends that are really interesting. Lets for a minute forget the the word "gun" has anything behind it. It is just a category of "widget", specifically we will be looking at gun parts, the kind that you do not need a license to buy. I am gonna put this in a bulleted list :)

• 7 years of gun part sales happened in 4 weeks around the end of the year.
• Companies that were literally about to go out of business were saved and restarted their production lines again.
• There had been a trend of sites like Ebay and Gunbroker getting a premium price for parts over what companies like Midway USA and Cabellas were able to get. Probably because like capitalist circus seals the cheap gun public has been trained to look to Ebay first. Much like the use of Walmart.
• In the last few weeks demand has gone way up. Guns shops and online retailers have nothing on their shelves. Tumble weeds and blank space is all you will find.
• Prices have gone up in ways that defy logic. $17 magazines are going for $40 plus. Lower and upper receivers (cheap ones) that were under a $100 a piece are now selling for $500 a piece on Ebay and Gunbroker (when laws permit). And the Online businesses like Midway have nothing available for weeks.
• The gun community will eat itself in spite of its self. It is a very suspicious and greedy group , why isn't important. But it will gouge until the market has bled dry. Companies like Midway and  Cabellas can not, they have to look more to the future and customer satisfaction surveys :)
• In 4 weeks, there will be a lot of orders fulfilled on the whole sale level. And this is what I am leading up too. A few things are gonna happen very quickly and might not get noticed.

1. An online retailer will like be selling product more than %100 cheaper that Eaby and gunbroker style sites. Imagine if your bike shop was cheaper than the internet.
2. Online stores will likely be bought out by ebayers and the like who will still have a few weeks to make profitability reselling parts purchased at retail. Imagine if someone came into your bike shop and purchased all your parts at retail to sell online.
3. Then as things equalize , there will likely be a massive sell off because MSRP will become the norm and the ebay types will be back to selling in that price range. How do you adjust for a bubble that only you can see.

  It will be interesting to see this happen because there is a perfect storm brewing that be like nothing else I have seen as an industry dances up close with its online spoilers.

Go easy Lou

East Liberty Shooting Leaves 1 Dead

January 14, 2013 4:15 PM

 

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Police are investigating an overnight shooting in East Liberty that left one person dead.
It happened just before midnight Sunday at the intersection of North Negley Avenue and Rippey Street, outside of an apartment complex.
Police stayed on the scene until after 3 a.m., but have yet to release much information.
The victim was 37-year-old Lou Auer of East Liberty. He was found with a gunshot wound to the torso and pronounced dead at the scene.

One neighbor who did not want to be identified said she heard three gunshots.“It’s not [abnormal] to hear the gunshots, but to see a body outside your building, that’s (abnormal),” she said.So far there have been no arrests and police have yet to determine a motive, but say that two black males were seen running after shots were fired.

“With the body laying there, and then for the kids to get up this morning and still see the sheet still left there,” the neighbor said. “It’s just mind boggling. And my daughter asked, ‘why’s that out there?’”
A maintenance worker at the apartment building said he had to chase the victim out of the building twice, but did not elaborate on why.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Pittsburgh Homicide Squad at 412-323-7161.

Save this damn date!!!

All you need to know!

STTNG

You can make no mistakes and still lose. Cptn Jean Luc Piccard

Selling my first dream bike

Check it out!

Yep

OMG LKAB!!

This just happened to a friend of mine...

"This woman works at this place and drives that car. She ran me off the road on my bike and spent 20 minuets repeatedly screaming at me, calling me a "faggy white boy". This woman is a racist homophobe who tryed to kill me with her car."

USPS

I am on my way to the post office, 31st and 1st. Guy runs the red light across the intersection. A few minutes later the light changes and I pull 180 degrees into the lot and the guy is waiting in the lot for a car to pull out, he has been sitting there for a few minutes blocking everything. A car behind him starts to pull out, this is nice because I will be able to pull in and the cars behind me will get off the street. Then this jackhole backs up, right into me as I beep he flips me off. Well I can't budge so we sit like that till the guy pulls all the way up to the first spot he was waiting for originally, then I can park. I don't know what the guy was thinking when he flipped me off after he backed into me, but it probably wasn't that he would be standing face to face with me. So whats he do???? PULLS A F%^$KING BABY OUT OF THE CAR AND KEEPS IT BETWEEN US!!! I figured the progeny of this hipster, wheres waldo looking ass hat can't understand what I am about to say so I let the guy have it. You know what he says in reply? AFter running a redlight, stopping the whole facking world around him, hitting my car and flipping ME off and me reading him the riot act for the next 30ft... "Nobody likes you!". I am very well liked!! I didn't tell that, I called him a coward and he scurried away without conducting his postal business. dammit

Discovery Channel

I want to be the first to say that I think the Discovery Channel is funding the pillaging of gold from the worlds jungles.

Its all up in the air now

Its not fine.

Damn

You would be more interesting if you didn't spend all your time drunk, high and/ or talking about it. (Trust me its true)

DB

If you use the phrase "s24" or "sub24" you might be ruining cycling.

Step 2

Polishing and assembly

Step one... Aquisition

Got the parts to build the lower receiver.

Nope

Girl Scout cookies aren't good.

Shit if I care...

If you repeat that your plan is to get drunk (as if anyone expected anything else from you) in as many conversations and as often as you can... then you probably mean to say "I am real f$#@king sad". Cant you think of something else to do or at least pretend.

Clarification

  Shockspital is a program I created to fill a need in consumer direct suspension service. It is like the many mechanics I have trained and other programs I have started over the years; a very important part of what makes Brian Rose, B Rose. Each thing I have done in the bike industry was always meant to out last me.         Kevin at Freewheel has been a very good friend to me and an advocate for me for more than 10 years and in that time I have had nothing but fair and honest dealing with him. Freewheel and their staff is in my opinion one of the most service centered shops I have ever known. Pete Hamer is by far the most honest and professionally focused service manager I have ever worked with and my days working with him at Freewheel will always be held in high regard. Jake is a stand up guy that will make a hard decision and never let it be personal.
  And everyday I meet more people that already have met Tyson Acker in his travels. Tyson Acker "hoops" is integrity personified. His technical proficiency has impressed me over and over. I can give no higher recommendation than I would give to Tyson. I say all of this to level one point, Shockspital is in better hands than mine.
  Freewheel will take what I have created and move it forward in ways that I had run out of energy for years ago.Freewheel was there for me when I needed them and I am always there for them. Our relationship is still strong, I just don't work there anymore. The highest honor I could ever receive for anything considered a professional accomplishment of mine is to see it go on and grow as it was intended to and Shockspital is doing just that in Freewheels capable hands. And you know I would not say this if I did not mean it.