Just a quick documentation of my first big ride on the new bike. Besides needing a new (comfier) seat, it was awesome. 14.4 miles total.
I know this panorama could use some work, but its my first one so give me a break.
I've been wanting a new bike for a long time, and I finally indulged this afternoon. I have a Cannondale mountain bike, but the frame is too large for me (20"), and it has been slowing falling apart over the last year. I didn't really want to spend the money to fix the derailleurs and the brakes, and replace the seat the was stolen (by worthless bastards). So I have been kicking around the idea of buying a new bike, but what I want is way out of my price range at the moment.
Today, I found this beauty on Craigslist for $100:
It is a mutt, but I love it. It has an Azonic 16" downhill/slalom frame and a Marzocchi fork. It also has an XT rear derailleur and disc brakes. Everything from the headset (FSA) to the cranks (Truvativ) is high quality, after-market stuff.
It also doesn't have a front derailleur, which means I probably won't be powering up South Mountain any time soon, but for tooling around town it is perfect - simple and fast. In a couple of weeks, we are moving to an apartment in Phoenix, which is just about 9 miles from my office. I am going to start biking to work after we move in, and I am going to give it a test run this weekend. Here is the route I plan to ride:
Nice work from Swedish graphic designer, Jens Nilsson. Check it out!
Seriously cool custom lettering from Alex Trochut. Take the time to check out the work on his site, you will not be disappointed. Unless, of course, you don't find incredible talent to be interesting. In that case, you might have bigger problems than wasting time on a website.
This guy has some great visual work that you should check out. Everything from websites to graffiti. I like how the creative characters found in his graffiti carry over to his design work, as can be seen in this piece, titled "best wishes 2008".
Well, I guess I can't just leave well enough alone. I decided to re-design the site yet again, and I've still got a few tweaks to make here and there, but I was satisfied enough with it to post it up, so let me know what you think. One thing I wanted to accomplish with the new design was to have a "dashboard" style homepage instead of just the classic blog listing. I have been doing a lot more web design recently, and I wanted to showcase some of the projects I have been working on, as well as bits and pieces from across the site. Right now the homepage is just displaying one featured project, but I plan on building that out soon to include a few more projects, as well as recent posts, etc.
