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SERVITUDE

Who, Who do you serve?
For whose empire and for whose whims?
Is your honor judged by men?
Will you lie?
Will you lie if they say it's their will?
Will you die or continue to kill?
Until the generals all have their fill

Craven Cowards
Armchair Warriors
You will serve Them well

What, what will you write?
For whose pleasure, for whose delight?
Will your readers see your light?
Will you say...That the singer can't blow you away?
That we hate people just 'cause they're gay
Women and children all stay away

To whom, whom do you pray?
Do dollars wash your sins away?
Does God love cold hard cash?
Do you say...If we all just continue to pay
All our ailments will go away
And our souls will be saved

God's not with you
"Holy Roller"
Your heart dwells in Hell

Why, Why do you run?
Our awareness has spoiled your fun
Our eyes see you too clear
Will you hide
From the joy of expressing our pride
For the leaders and people who've died
While combating your genocide

Chains are breaking
Minds are waking
Soon we'll serve no more...

Speaking of hipsters....

FIX PUSH

STUFF WHITE PEOPLE LIKE

My favorite site of the day

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/

I think GG will find some things in there he likes

BOCKFEST 08!!

I'd write up a report, but I don't remember. I DO remember Ed falling on the ice and breaking his leg in 3 places. compound fracture no less. get well soon brother. Oh, and his blood alcohol content was .18! and that's after laying on the ground for an hour! YES!

Till next year, enjoy the pics!

OLD BLUE

This is the first installment of spotlights on some of my personal whips.

I forced myself to ride this 26er before I discovered 29ers back in 2001. Back in the good old days before kaizen, kanban, budget cuts, lawyers, and account numbers, people could head out to the factory floor and make their own ideas come to life. Albeit under the table. I made this one back in 98? I think. It started out as a dumpster dive special. The head tube was milled out too big, so they threw it out. Score! A bead of weld laid down by a friend inside the head tube fixed that. We later re-machined the ID of the head tube to fit a 1 1/8" headset. Then we proceeded to get medieval on the stock vertical dropouts. We cut through the dropout to stay welds to remove them. Then we found a nice box of Fisher 24" cruiser horizontal "dropouts" that we trimmed on a bandsaw to fit into this frame. You can see what's left of the Fisher logo stamped on the side. These things were HUGE so we had to remove a lot of material. To our amazement, this combo fit perfectly into the factory welding jigs. Then I had my friend weld the d.o's in place, another friend helped with alignment and heat treat. Warranty sprayed on the "Donner Blue", and it was set to rawk. Besides the small wheels, the only thing I don't like is the fork. I thought about throwing a rigid fork on there, but I think I'd rather keep this one as a time piece. Actually, that's not even the original fork. I had a 98 SID on there until I drove it into my garage and broke off the fork tips. Rock Shox felt bad and sent me the one you see on it now. I've only put air in it once, and it feels the same today as it did then. These were some of the very first, if not the first, mountain singlespeeds to come out of Waterloo. Ahhh, the good old days.

"Hipsters" rant

So, we have about 80 feet of snow on the ground in and around Madtown right now. We actually broke the all time snowfall record yesterday. Today, I had to run down to the courthouse to pay my "delinqunet" property tax "bill" that I never actually received a "bill" for. Anyway, as I'm driving around the Capitol square I see one of my all time pet peeves.

This person was attempting to ride up the hill between State St and West Wash (made famous by the Kohner/Buhl bicycle tango of 07 which caused Kone-bone to lose some front teeth). I immediately noticed how hard they were struggling to get traction on what had to be 23c race tires. Then I noticed this peep had the cadence of a slug riding a 53-11. Yep, that's a single speed. OK, but a SS with a HUGE gear. Then I noticed their "cool lookin" 5" wide flat bars and negative rise stem. They must have had a 8" saddle to bar drop. Who can commute in that position? It was just all wrong. Sure, it's a "cool lookin, sick" track bike that was originally intended for the.......drum roll......TRACK. I just don't get it. Now I love bicycles of all types, and I gotta admit it was kinda "cool lookin" but it's all about the intended purpose. It's seems as though this craze that is slowly becoming mainstream is all about the image, and not the ride. I wish I would have had a camera, or better yet a video camera.

I guess I should just be thankful that they were riding at all. I'm not riding much but the couch these days. But I intended to change that soon. The days are getting longer, which is always a good thing.

Happy Mardi Gras Y'all!!!

Fuck Blogger

I could never get crappy assed Blogger to load photos properly. So here's the NEW NEW Shawzam website y'all!!!