Last night the air was wonderfully crisp, cool and comfortable. Kate wanted to walk to the arena from her parents house to pick up an devents schedule. As she was tying her shoes she looked to me and said "Are you coming with me or do I have to walk alone?" I went. It's not a long walk, but we did plenty of talking on the way. When ever we're walking or exercising we seem to talk about health. She made the comment that it would be cool for someone to walk here every day of the year, and to write about it. Here not many people walk, even in the most comfortable months of summer. People will drive four blocks to get milk if it's twenty-five degrees and calm as could be. We agreed that is not a healthy lifesyle. After talking more and some thinking about it I decided to take the challenge. It's not a big deal, I am simply deciding to use a more sustainable way of commuting. I am not giving up the use of all vehicles entirely. If we decide to go out of town, say to Waskesiu or Saskatoon, I will drive with Kate rather than walk along side her. That being said this coming spring/summer I am planning on riding my bike to Waskesiu and Hopefully Saskatoon. What rules I have are flexible, as the goal of this is to show people that walking is both practical and possible all year long, I am not using this a protest against crude oil or anything like that. I am simply encouraging a healthier lifestyle, and would love to see people join me in this. Now, origionally I was planning on making it my "New Years Resolution", which Kate replied to with "Don't be such a wuss, if you don't start now you know you never will." So Today I walked.

--November 2nd

Check out Jackson at Evergreen coffee if you ever happen across Waskesiu. I just worked my first shift for him and it was easily the lowest stress shift I've ever worked. Super dedicated to a good cup of coffee is all I need to say.

http://evergreencoffeewaskesiu.blogspot.com/

Prairie dream

I took this shot during the stretch of wheat fields on our way from Twisp to Spokane during our cascade loop trip. Even without the corners and gnarly mountain passes this was my favorite section of highway by far. Just before this we went through an area that was just like the Baja, nothin but desert, adobe structures and mexicans. If you've never heard of the cascade loop it's in Washington, look it up, it's one of the must drive roads.

Jockey Shift

I think Jockey shift is pretty much the sweetest thing ever, and it's even cooler without a front brake and no cables to the bars. And then Even cooler than that is Indian Larry doing a burnout on that kind of bike.

Repainted me helmet for the trip tomorrow, it's just some cheap black pearl paint and then a blue lightning bolt. Looks pretty sweet for how little effort actually went into it.

Crystal Myth

This bike is soooooo unbelievable perfect.

Two Weeks

2150km sweet

New york times article about Skateboarders and Biking, I can't decide whether this is a good thing or not.

Skateboard Aesthetics on Two Wheels

This is a bike I saw while I was in Vancouver, owner was just as awesome

forever rotten from robotboot on Vimeo.

Progress

Here's a few pictures of the progress we made over the last couple of days, we finished the seat and built new handle bars. No pictures of the completed pieces until tomorrow though.

http://positiveapeindex.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/awesome-and-destroy-nagano-japan-august-09/
some cool photos from some event in japan

New Helmet, looks cool, it's a little darker red in person.

Road Riders

Here's some cool photos of some Cranbrook history, real cool.

This was the shop shirt from the 70's designed by the almighty ManWoman



Cranbrooks first Half Pipe 1975

Seat Pansy

We finished the seat pan today, turned out real good. It lowers the bike a lot more than it looks, can't wait to get some cushion on it and the sissy bar built. It's feelin more like a chopper than a street bike now, gettin real real sweet.

Started to build a new seat pan, I can't quite make up my mind if I like the new position yet, I'm not sure if it's low enough.

1:25-2:10 most impressive thing ever, Norton Buffalo is the best

I've been listening to two things lately, Chuck Berry and Gregory Isaacs. Here's some to listen to




If you don't think you know Chuck Berry already then your being dumb, because you do.

That's it right there