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Dilworth Playhouse on South Blvd makes one awesome caramel latte. A couple of them & a couple rides have fixed me over the past few days. Now all I need is some sushi finally. That won’t be happening until next week I don’t think.

Rode with Ben again this morning. Riding a route I had only plotted out on a map ended up pretty good fun. Roughly 30 miles. I don’t have a computer installed anymore & I’m relying on Ben for the info. “Our average was low” as he said but I’m happy to be on the bike going any speed for more than 15 miles. Tomorrow I have another route marked out to ride over to Mount Holly and up to Stanley, NC. Another 30-40 miler so nothing to write home about.

“Dear Mr. Toilet, I’m the shit.”

In one of those foul moods. The kind you can’t shake & you simply want to get away. The morning sucked. People being people & customers being customers. Seems like I rubbed a couple wrong lately which is causing some soul searching.

I had a long post about what is going on but I realized I don’t really want to share & it will only upset me more. It has simply been one of those days that I am printing this up and using it –

Morning road ride tomorrow — hopefully some happy long boring alone miles. Maybe I’ll drag Ben along. He seems like a good guy. Doesn’t care too much that I’m a roadie, and doesn’t give me a shit about it either. We bust each others balls and laugh about it. Isn’t that whats life is about anyways? People need to stop taking themselves so serious, stop being hypercritical & leave me alone if they can’t.

7:30am is the time I woke up this morning. I’ll be up till atleast 9pm today. That is pretty good for me if you look at my schedule for the past month or two. Normally I have been getting 12 hours of sleep & being awake for 12 hours. Today will be a challenge for me, but I will try and overcome it. I’m a bit drowsy for my 8:30am road ride but hopefully the guys won’t mind riding to Starbucks or Dilworth coffee for a small latte.

Today is a busy one. Ride, single speed clinic with the Dirt Divas, and then worky. We are having another single speed clinic on March 18th for men & women. For more info check out this link for now. I need to throw up info on the Black Sheep blog too. After riding..

Have a swell day!

Working out the details but a fixed gear is back on my radar. Been having weird dreams of doing centuries on one. Weird but fucking great none the less. Don’t know if I’ll ENO the Cannondale, or ride a true Vicious pista.

Either way I hope to have one in the next month to get some roadie miles on my legs. I’ll keep you updated as I’ll have better info tonight I should think.

Another bike oriented thing – rode the 1×1 today with it’s 2″ riser bars. Another weird thing. To go from the Mary bars to standard bars feels very weird, in a very bad way. Guess I’ll be purchasing a set of Mary’s for the 1×1. Well that is whenever I get my fat back on a single-speed off road.

Looks like my boss is starting to ride again. I’ll drink to that. Better to be a shop that rides than a shop that talks a buncha crap. Speaking of the shop. I’ll be there till 8pm tonight so stop by & give us some loving.