Blog#1: New? Start here.

Huh...so I guess I am blogging now?! Well I suppose I should give some background, ya know, share a little bit about "myself." I like bikes. Done. I wish it were that simple. I am a lot of things: a father, husband, idiot, do gooder, near do well, general engineer, Brittany Spears fan club prez...in my spare time I like candlelight dinners, walks on the beach and riding bike. 

This blog is about bikes so let's talk bikes. I love bikes! I have loved bikes forever and at this point in my life, apart from my family it is the one thing I want to dedicate time to. There are two parts of the bike I like in particular: riding and tinkering. This blog will serve to share my craziness with you! And maybe how I manage that crazy with my crazy life. My plan is to do this with a kind of magazine format with a number of standard recurring segments and features such as:

-THE RIDE: Talks about the riding I have been doing for the week.

-N+?: About my collection.

-NUTS AND BOLTS: Discussion about builds and maintenance.

It's a passion, not an obsession (at least that is what I try to tell people): Speaking of crazy I have included a pic of my "collection." I used to have twice as much but I have sold a lot of it off. Having a lot of crap especially bikes used to bring me joy but I have come to a point where having less and getting rid of stuff makes me way happier. Besides that I would rather put bike money back into the bikes that I ride. 

Speaking of the bike(s) that I ride I will be talking a lot about a bike that I built recently. It was one of the few good things that came out of Covid. As a rider I rider I do just about every type of riding and the bike I built covers the widest range of riding. From straight up group road rides to dirty single track it does it! More on that and it in the next blog. Later!

I've sold off most of my bmx collection. It used to span the entire wall.