Backward Mutters

Category: cycling

  • Feedback Loop

    Got back just in time. Got out just in time, too. I’ve been thinking about feedback loops — the ear-piercing, loud noise that happens when a sound system begins to amplify its own noise. The system picks up it’s own sound and amplifies it, and continues to do so until…

  • Classic CX

    NC Cross BooneGot to hang out with my in-laws today. Papapilk is doing great recovering from his cycling accident. He’s up and walking which is amazing considering that two months ago a Ford Ranger rolled over him after he overcooked a turn descending Poplar Grove Rd from the Parkway. His…

  • Fall Riding

    We’re in the transition. The colors are really popping. And even this camera phone picture almost does reality justice.

  • Slow Twitch, Final Phase

    It’s ALIVE!!!!! Today it was time to tackle the shifting. I had cut the cable housings to the correct length last night and realized that I needed barrel adjusters for the housings to fit into on the down tube. A quick stop at Bicycle, Toy, and Hobby this morning and…

  • Fall Riding

    Frost is on the pumpkin, hay is in the barn, goose has gone to fly…. Out riding south out Teague and who do you think I met up with? The Good Doctor and Frau Jan going for an afternoon spin. Rode with Frau Jan back to Haavenstatt, and then rode…