As Famous As We’re Ever Gonna Get
Our friend John Greenfield, who writes for Momentum bike magazine, did a piece on my neighborhood Roger’s Park. The hood is beginning to grow on me, especially now that the weather is a bit warmer. I like it up here because it’s less polluted and congested than the cool neighborhoods closer to downtown.
Momentum is a free publication and I’ve seen it available in Austin, TX and other bike centric cities. A few big cities such as San Francisco and Chicago have their own version of the magazine that includes a section on locally specific bike community stuff. So we only made it into the Chicago version.
Jared and I were asked to go eat Indian food with John and got our photo taken for the article. There is also a paragraph about the bike shop where I work as well as a photo of my boss. You’ll see his typical goofy jeans and suspenders attire. My housemate Sharlyn as well as my friend Jonathan are also mentioned. Here’s an online version of the article.
-L
I’m a little out of date on my bike technology (my newest components date to the mid 1980′s). But do they make ass-rifters yet? You know, brakes, shifters, and ideally bell and headlight activators, all in the seat?
I just hate having to move my arms or fingers around when I’m riding a bike.
Wow, Jared has brifters? Always figured he’d be more of a bar-end or down-tube type of guy.
I have no heroes anymore!!
dude you did not just say that. that word should be banished from the cycling lexicon.
Jared would be a down tube guy, but when your head tube is 5″ long it dosen’t make a lot of sense.
Is that a no on the word brifters or the concept? And yes, I said it again.
brifter
brifter
brifter
the word!
It’s gonna be hard since my favorite band is Brifter Sister, I gargle with Brifterine, and I wash cars at Brifter Wash. But I’ll try.
Jared hates DT shifters. He is a shimano brifter for life. He told me he’s getting some tats of them in costa rica.
Andy, you’ve been reading the blog for a while now and had plenty of chances to peruse Jared’s brifters in the past.
You’re right, I guess the heart sees what it wants to see. But now that it’s been splashed across Americas newsstands, I can’t close my eyes to the truth anymore.
snif. brif..
Aw. Sorry to let you down, Andy. If it’s any consolation, as you can see I’m keeping it real with my DT shifters.
Actually, I’d say Jared is more of a bar-end kind of guy in Jared’s perfect world. But he’s also a cheap kinda guy in the real world, and he’s had that Fuji for years. It’s pretty much the first bike he ever bought….and he didn’t know everything when he first got into touring. He’s literally ridden the thing into the ground, which is about as legit as it gets brifters or not as far as I’m concerned.
I know, you’re right. I’m just being annoying about it.
What DT shifters, lar? Your La suprema has some sort of half-ass grip-shift cap ghetto rigged onto your handle bars. I don’t recall Eddy Mercx rolling through the mountains with a grip shift
on the bike in the photo, mickey! my cannondale that i ride everyday.