My moratorium on looking at bikes and thinking about bike stuff came to an abrupt end. My wife asked me a little bit ago about what kinds of things I’d like for my Birthday and Christmas. Being a patriotic consumer, I know I SHOULD immediately have something to say to that, but there really isn’t [...]

So I was talking with the wife today, and I blurted out this cockamamy scheme I had to give me incentive to hit my next goal weight. I’d already settled on splurging on a few parts I’d really like to have, but couldn’t justify actually NEEDing in the purest sense of the word. Today I [...]

There’s something about knowing that something I crave is not going to be available any more that whips me into a frenzy. I would be very poor if I hadn’t learned to deal with it by now. Part of the reason I’ve been able to go for 12 years without actually purchasing a flat-panel tv [...]