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Usually on my day off I am busy doing web related work and riding test bikes and parts. Well, my co-worker, Craig had told me that he wanted to go check out Cedar Bend Park and well…….it was too nice out to work!
So I rode a bike just for fun!
I decided to give ol' Grimace the call up today, the 2007 Salsa Cycles El Mariachi with the Gun Kote finish and the purple Chris King head set I was gifted by George Wissell. As always, it rode awesome!
Craig and I had a great time riding, and Grimace was behaving well, climbing up all the steeps and handling like a champ. Funny thing about this bike is that it is a medium. Salsa Cycles did things a wee bit differently back then, and I prefer the old medium over a large. (I'd definitely ride a large now!) It reminds me a bit of how things were sized in the 90's. A bit shorter top tube, a bit longer stem. I slapped on the 47mm offset On One fork on this too. Makes the Salsa come alive, and this bike just rips single track. The Industry 9 single speed wheels are great, and the free hub sounds like a cicada in August. Amazingly buzzy and loud. Someday I may upgrade to a titanium seat post, but this ThudBuster is a great post on this bike. Makes my back happy, it does!
Anyway, Craig and I decided a stop for something to drink afterward was in order. We pulled into the Janesville convenience store and what to my surprise did I see but my old “Dirty Blue Box”! I was floored! Someone decided it was worth fixing up and driving. Cool! It even had all my old cycling related stickers still on the end gate too! A little worse for the wear, perhaps. It was missing the entire rear bumper, and the right front fender was wrinkled, but when the lady who was driving it started it up, she sounded like a champ.
Don't get me wrong! I am waaaay better off with the “Truck Without A Name”, but it was cool to see an “old friend” that I had spent tons of hours and thousands of gravel miles in still alive and kicking.
I spent the rest of my day with Mrs. Guitar Ted, who also had the day off. We had lunch, and then I took her to the jewelry store to look for something special. See, Mrs. Guitar Ted has completed all her course work for her B.S. in Nursing at a local college, so I am going to get her something special to commemorate her graduation, which takes place in August.
Star Wars fandom and Internet videos — if there are two things more perfectly suited for each other in the universe, I've yet to figure out what they are. I lost count of how many hilarious/bizarre videos have been inspired by Lucas' sci-fi saga ages ago, but I suspect I'll always remember Patrick Boivin's AT-AT Day Afternoon — if for no other reason than because it features the greatest use of a Jabba the Hutt action figure I've ever seen.
If the title doesn't give it away, Boivin's short takes a toy AT-AT from the Hoth battle scene in Empire Strikes Back and turns it into a dog. He then follows the toy as it spends an afternoon doing dog-like things — chasing squirrels, playing with other dogs, relieving itself …
I'm not sure how Boivin did it, but the AT-AT motion effects are good. The toy really appears like a dog and makes me want my own AT-AT puppy.
Check out Boivin's latest video (following on the heels of such classics as Bruce Lee vs. Iron Man) after the jump.
[via /Film]
