December 2010
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`Tis the Bike Porn Season
Winter is the season for bike porn.  When the days are short or cold or wet, it’s so much easier to stay inside, drink an adult beverage, and surf the web for hot bikes. Besides the weather, you also know it’s bike porn season because NAHBS is right around the corner.  They’re gearing up and posting bikes.   I’m planning on being there this year, dog willing. Yeah, I...
Dec 13th
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Yeti Pro FRO circa 1991 →
I was thinking about where my bike “problem” started.  It was seeing these bikes on the trails in Santa Barbara in the late eighties / early nineties.   The Desert Turquoise paint, the ovalized top tube and unique cable routing, the crazy rear triangle.  There’s nothing like your first (unrequited, unfortunately) love. 
Mar 28th
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Getting into the (bike) porn industry
Porno Velo early in the morning on Feb 21, 2010.  Normally I’d get my bike porn fix on the Fixed Gear Gallery.  But I just wasn’t feeling fixed gears that morning.  I was thinking about cross bikes — single speed cross bikes to be exact.  I looked around at the DeSalvo and Vanilla sites.  I checked out Tonic too.  But what I wanted was something like the fixed gear gallery, but...
Mar 20th