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Friday
October 17
2008
 
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Friday
October 17
2008
 
So the temperature here in Los Angeles has lingered between 90 and 100°F for most of October. I know we're a desert town, but we do have the moderating influence of the Japan Current flowing just off our bikini-spattered coastline, and it is, anyway, October.

Perhaps the weather's mocking us by mirroring the movem ...
 
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rickrise
 
Monday
October 13
2008
 
Though I have no objection in principle to multispeed bikes, and am likely to own one again someday, all (that is, both) my present bicycles are fixies. If you've read this blog before, you know how I love 'em!

What I don't love is the compulsion too many apparently insecure multispeed riders have to diss fixies as ...
 
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Thursday
October 09
2008
 
Riding on Willoughby through the backlot studio district of Hollywood, crossing Cahuenga, an intersection I've passed through literally three or four hundred times, as it used to be my route home from work.

Feeling lazy, and distracted by a dizzying array of family and financial issues, I reach up absently to adjust ...
 
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