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I love Dikembe Mutombo! This commercial makes me happy. Still not buying Geico though…
Husker Du mid ’80s promo photo.
Fat Tire Loppet
Another great Minneapolis, MN winter bike race, albeit, only for those with fat bike standards.
Protect Big Cats
My 8 year old nephew is awesome. This is a website he created to provide information about big cats and help raise money for their preservation. I encourage all of you to join the site and use the forum to talk about your favorite big cat and, if you can, throw a couple of bucks into his fund.
“You would have to be an imbecile or a crook to imagine that a professional cyclist who races for 235 days a year can hold the pace without stimulants.” Jacques Anquetil
In the last minute we have had a horse drawn carriage, 2 pedicabs, 2 tow trucks, a Zuhrah Shrine float, and a snowmobile drive down our little street. A snowmobile…there is NO snow on the street…
The Red Bull Crashed Ice mob is moving into our neighborhood. I swear you are safer on the Crashed Ice track than trying to compete for parking spaces.
Update: The tow trucks are already moving in. St. Paul rescinds parking restrictions on Crashed Ice day right? Not!
You guys. I think former Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass. is drunk-tweeting.
August Schell mid ’70s. Export II lost out on the contest for which brew would go into “mass” production (enough to keep New Ulm bars in supply which was a monumental task in itself) but was the more full bodied, delicious beer.
How Minnesotan’s have winter bike fun.
My old bike shop, Bennett’s Cycle (the largest single shop in the U.S. at the time, $3+mil/year, early ’90s), purchased all the Fisher RS-1’s for closeout of the line. We had a few of these with Mert Lawwill leading link forks but most came with the first gen of Rock Shox (purple frame gold rear suspension). I really wish I had purchased one of these. Way ahead of it’s time, 4 bar suspensions still rule. Component compatibility and the short comings of the elastomer springs doomed this bike. Campy MTB gruppo sucked on hardtails much less full suspension. Pro Stop disc brakes may have been the best thing on this bike…until the heat built up and locked the brakes on (same problem Mountain Cycle San Andreas had). On the plus side, Gary Fisher visited our shop on a regular basis.
A man even more cynical than me. I still have my Pussy Galore t-shirt. New Music Seminar 1987. The Problem With Music is a must read for anyone interested in making music their vocation.
Brilliant!
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