10 days in New Jersey – Sounds like the name of a pop culture film where a bunch of teens get lost, sedated, beaten and escape in a fast car from the 70′s to Vermont.  Anyhow,  my 10 days in New Jersey were anything but a movie,  more like a reality check,  from a few different angles – laughter, excitement, tears, disappointment, sorrow, reflection and many goodbyes,  some hopeful and some permanent. 10 days ago I started the process of saying goodbye to my grandmother a young 94 years old whom passed on October 19th from old age.  A mind and body tired from so many decades and so many experiences. From 1916 to 2010 – that is one hell of life and her eyes saw a ton. I sit here in Manayunk,  a small yuppie berg just west of Philadelphia in SAXBY’s coffee shop, a place and town that is all to familiar, many years spent here sipping coffee,  pedaling bikes and chatting about life.  What a perfect place to end my journey.  A journey that is new to me – saying goodbye to one of the most important people in my 36 years of life. Something so permanent. The 10 days started off in Newton, PA,  a place that is now dear to my heart,  the resting place for both my grandparents.  I will be back there to visit,  it is only right and important. From there I ventured to Northern New Jersey to Boonton, New Jersey where [...]

As a young lad I skateboarded – ALOT, one thing that gets ingrained into young skateboarders is the ability to look at everything with an eye towards skating it. Perhaps in today day and age with tons of concrete skate parks and pre-made, predetermined skate spots the young have not learned this but it is something that as a skateboarder one does and often times without even knowing it. The ability to look at a concrete ledge and recognize the potential, staring at a loading dock at 40mph from the back seat of a moving car and rejoicing at a drainage ditch as if the holly grail was just stumbled upon – with or without board the joy and emotion of coming up upon a new, unrecognized skate spot with tons of potential (even without) is something of beauty. As a cyclist I have brought that thought process over to this lycra clad sport and look at certain aspects of terrain with the same excitement be it on a road bike, mountain bike or cyclocross bike. I do however think it translates a bit more for me to the cyclocross bike – it is pure, it is expressive and there is some sense of style to racing and riding cx. I went home and pieced together a map from Google maps and did some course layout, this could be an awesome venue. I am currently in Northern New Jersey, my home town nestled away 30 miles from Manhatten. A hustle [...]

Color of the orange ink is PMS 1505 – a bright orange. I finally got all the shirts done – 50 Bicyclenerd #1 T-shirts. They are organic cotton, pre-washed black t-shirts with PMS 1505 matched ink. So basically it is really bright orange on black which is perfect for the fall months. The artwork is all hand drawn by me, with some custom serif type. There are bunch of small, medium and large sized t-shirts. I am offering free shipping on all orders.