Bikes, Barbecue, Boy Stuff
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HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!
We have an annual Chinese New Year dinner at Keefer Court. It is a small family run Chinese restaurant and bakery located on the West Bank in Minneapolis. Paulina and Sunny Kwan are the owners. Jack Ma is the Head Chef. I think Keefer Court is the only real Chinese bakery in the five state…
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To Air is Human
Twice a year, my mechanic Tony and I do the same wheel and tire dance over at Dale Feste Automotive. Twice a year, the same song is played. Twice a year, he puts my season-specific wheels and tires on my Element. Twice a year the TPMS warning light comes on and the fun begins. Tony…
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Happy Barbecue Ribs Day 7/4/2016
Happy 4th of July! Did you notice that these blog posts have revolved around bicycles lately? The BB subhead is Bikes, BBQ and Boy Stuff. There has been a shounder of pork shoulders slowly smoking in my Lyfe Time Pit of late. She Who Must Be Obeyed deemed it my duty to provide pulled pork…
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Wednesday’s Orange Revenge
Last Sunday was like every other Sunday when I don’t have to go to work. The day usually starts with breakfast involving smoked salmon and bagels ( Pop’s favorite, not mine ). Maybe I get to do a bit of yard work, then some grocery shopping gets done while Pop stares at stuff at the store. She Who Must…
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Plastic Fantastic Luber
Ever hear the one about a man who walks into a bike shop and gives the mechanics some bike lube made out of plastic? I didn’t think so. Nor did I. There is quite a battle out there involving bicycle lubes. This one is organic, another one is au natural, and this one plant based.…
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Baby Got New Shoes!
Last winter at Frostbike, Some orange colored fat bike tires caught my eye. These orange delights are made by Vee Tire Co. in Thailand. I talked to the nice folks at the Vee Tire Co. booth and told them that Ms. Wednesday, my Surly fat bike, would go out of her mind if she saw…
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Global Fat Bike Day 2015
Yesterday, Tonka Cycle and Ski hosted a Global Fat Bike Day Ride again this year. 30 plus Men, women, and children met at the shop. 10:30 am arrived, and the riders broke off into fast, faster, and uber-fast groups, and then we all rolled out of the parking lot. Wednesday and I rode with the middle…
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Surly Wednesday Fat Bike
They’re creepy and they’re kooky, Mysterious and spooky, They’re all together ooky, The Addams Family. No matter what else was happening in an episode of the Addams Family TV show, you could be sure that the daughter Wednesday was trying some scheme to kill her brother Pugsley. Wednesday finally accomplished here quest to kill off Pugsley…
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In Heaven There Is No Beer
If you have ever been to a German Restaurant you might have heard that song. The music was written by Ralph Maria Siegel, with lyrics by Ernst Neubach in 1956. For those of you uninitiated in this tune, the lyrics state: In heaven there is no beer. That’s why we drink it here (Right Here!)…
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Maid Marian “a bonny fine bicycle of a noble degree”
Last fall a 1965 vintage Sturmey Archer AW 3 speed rear hub fell into my lap thanks to my friend Russ. The hub was attached to a 40 spoke chrome plated steel wheel that was attached to a Robin Hood, British made, vintage 3 speed bicycle. It was all there except for the saddle. No worries.…
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