Seen on Granby Street

I've been stopping more to grab those street shots I see on my bike. And now in a pathetic attempt to emulate the Bike Snob, I'll share them with y'all:

"Take Elevator to 2nd Floor?!?"
What the heck?
You can't walk up a single flight of stairs to the freakin' gym?!?

News Flash! NEXT Bicycles releases a "PowerClimber" Mountain Bike.
Next up, a Huffy track bike.


Oh, yes, my adolescent dream-car! A turbo Subaru coupe, in vintage 80's earthtones! Note the cro-moly hubcaps, plastic bumper, and locking gas cap. How this car ever survived the Reagan Recession years, we'll never know...

U Locks Are In...

Vince at East Coast gave me a holler to let me know that the U Locks are in, purchased with proceeds from our most recent Alley Cat Race.

Malik & the other guys on the Catholic Worker Coffee Line will be happy to see them.

Cyclocross in HD!

I'm trying out a new service called Vimeo, which allows full HD online video. In order to view the full, 720p glory, you'll need to click the little button with the X on it in the lower right corner of the video.

Check it out:


Virginia Beach Cyclocross from Wes Cheney on Vimeo.

Shot at the Virginia Beach Sportsplex, 1/18/09 with a Nikon D90 on a monopod and a variety of lenses, including a Lensbaby 3.0.



Mashup soundtrack by Lenlow, "Bjorn Slippy."

Cyclocross at the Beach

There was a bit of whining about the temperature dipping below freezing. Yeah, I know it's Virginia Beach, but come on folks, this is Cyclocross we're talking about here. It's supposed to be crappy weather!

I shot some video with my new Nikon D90. I might have to repost since some of the audio screwed up towards the end, but overall I'm pretty happy with what I got:

I feel so...validated?

Unbeknownst to me, Bike Snob NYC declared my forearm crank tattoo to be "really excellent," although of dubious "toughness."


I'm glad that Bike Snob was able to take the time to count the teeth on my chainrings, something I haven't bothered to do myself. For the record, it's a touring setup- 36 teeth to get up the hill slow & easy, and 54 teeth to scream down the hills...

Thanks go out to Rob for giving me the heads up! Initially I was aquiver with fear & loathing to hear that I had made it onto Bike Snob. Luckily, though, he wasn't ripping me for a lame attempt at appearing tough...

As for "toughness," try randonneuring.
Boston-Montreal-Boston? Paris-Brest-Paris? London-Edinburgh-London?
Twelve hundred kilometers in less than ninety hours?
Now that's tough.

Need More Cowbell?

Coming soon from Park Tools,
courtesy of The Bike Doctor:




The Park CB1.
Available only at an alley cat near you!

More Alley Cat Pix

Kevin posted some pix on his Picassa site...definitely worth checking out!