• Attitude is Everything.

    Yesterday, I was out riding along the San Gabriel River Trail on a beautiful Southern California morning when something unexpected happened.

    After making it far enough south and deciding to turn around I was cruising north, listening to Boston, hands resting lightly on the tops of the handlebars when I noticed I was overtaking a couple young kids riding single file on their bmx bikes.  On this segment of trail, which runs directly adjacent to the San Gabriel River, the river is completely concrete with a steep concrete slope at probably 45 degrees from the top of the trail to the bottom of the “river”.  Because the speed difference between the kids and myself was pretty high (I was going about 20mph and coming up on them pretty fast), I moved my hands down to the hoods so that I had access to the brakes in the unlikely event that it became necessary.

    It became necessary. (more…)


May

This is the archive for May, 2010.

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  • The new Ryan Bingham album 'Junky Star' is pretty great. http://ive.ly/cNG 4 hours ago
  • CRAP! just removed myself from the suders file. not a good way to end the day. guess i'm going to the colo tomorrow :( 18 hours ago
  • the chairs at starbucks aren't that comfortable after an hour. this may be not be an accident. 1 day ago
  • and speaking of maximizing value, my last tweet was exactly 140 chars. i love it when that happens. 1 day ago
  • The reason I drink hot coffee/latte instead of iced is because I drink a large iced coffee in about 30 seconds. That's not maximizing value. 1 day ago
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