Congrats!

July 4th

No fireworks, but a pretty sweet view just the same. R and I pedaled down to Jacob Riis Beach in the Far Rockaways.

(Vive le Tour! Vive Cavendish!)

It's Official

Last night I dreamt I won the Tour de France. Yellow isn't really my color but it felt pretty good last night. . .

Durango, CO

Spent a fantastical week in Durango, CO staying with friends. Thank god we went or I think I would have completely forgotten what it's like to ride non-commuting miles outside.

You know the drill, click on the photo to get to the album.

Welcome to Spring, NYC style

Ah, Spring. Though the high is only supposed to be 50 today, I thought I'd mix things up a bit by getting off the trainer and taking the Pista up to The Cloisters. The roads were pretty quiet and after a loop around The Cloisters I decided to see how many roadies were out by taking a trip out and back on the GWB. The answer is quite a lot.

On the way back home riding down Riverside Drive I got doored. I was thankfully a few feet away from parked cars so I didn't take the full door, I think the door actually caught my right calf, I'm not sure. At any rate, I went flying and landed on my back. Maybe the door hit my bars too, I'm not sure, but they took a pretty good whack somehow because the drops were pointing skyward when I picked up the bike. [edit: Upon further reflection and bike inspection I think I safely conclude that the door struck the right side of my bars and also hit my right calf.]

The guy stuck around, was nice and very apologetic. I didn't feel pissed off, just more a sense of disbelief. The bike looked ok, I didn't have any broken bones, so it could've been much worse. Of course I didn't discover the massive hop in my front wheel until after he walked away. SO STUPID!! That should have been the first thing I checked. I feel sure he would have given me cash to replace it. I did true it up enough so that it's rideable (we'll see if it holds because there is definitely some pretty serious unbalanced spoke tension going on. . .) So my lower back is nice and puffy and my calf muscle is killing me but I'll live. Had I been on the Moser, oy, I can't even think about it. Let's put it this way, I don't think I would have forgotten to walk with him to an ATM.

Sometimes I wish I only had a casual interest in cycling and could, say, go to the gym instead. I'm over getting hurt doing something I love. I know I'm a responsible, skilled rider and I'm trying to fight off feeling like there is some kind of fuku over my head. The first f'ing ride of Spring! C'mon!!

DR Pix

An amazing week in the DR. Photobucket has a nice new widget so you can now view the slideshow right here without having to click over. Cool.

Cats, Snow Day

Got the day off on Monday because of snow, so naturally I took a bunch of pictures of the boys. Click on the image to get to the album.

80's Fav

Check the Stereogum player for a reworking of one of my all-time favorite tunes from the 80's. Bon Iver takes on The Outfield's "Your Love". I can dig it.

ToC

Flandis (as I like to call him), Lance, Basso, Leipheimer. I'm into it! Hope it's a cool race. Wtf, Versus is using "the" TdF music!

Versus TV coverage.

ps- like the redesign?

Nerdcore Rising

This is a super-fantastique documentary about Sir Frontalot, the "Godfather" of nerdcore, and also a friend of Rachel's. Highly recommended.

Quickly, a few other films I've seen recently that were also super: The Wrestler, Man on Wire, Milk.