Portland, ahoy.

I have two or three things to discuss here today, and none of them is Tierra.

Firstly, I want to say how badass Shimano is, as I have recently taken delivery of an entire Di2 GRX 1X 12 speed group;

This is sitting on my office floor just waiting for a free hub body, or splined driver or some such nonsense from King, because nothing is just plainly swappable any longer, but I will likely see some of those folks this coming weekend at the Made custom bicycle show;

This is a person enjoying the smell of another person's farts which is essentially was bike shows are.

Also, one of the many hills I'm going to die on is calling it a custom bike show, and not a 'handmade bike show', because that implies that all bicycle frames aren't made my hand. It elevates the value of a honky in a V-neck t-shirt and a scarf over a Taiwanese frame builder and I think that sucks.

I saw some video edit of a crew going around and asking various twerps what they felt was the most overrated thing in the bike world and said twerps responding with absolute nonsense like 'dropper posts' or 'tubeless tires'. 

Certainly, no one asked me so I could wave my arms around wildly and say "THIS. ALL OF FUCKING THIS."

Or maybe that was by design.

Anyway, if you happen to be going, Bob Scales is putting a thing together on Friday evening featuring him, Chris McNally, Russ Pope, maybe some other people, and definitely me at which there will be books, and zines and prints, and all sorts of various output from your favorite art dorks who also ride bikes.

As of the time I published today's post I didn't yet have a flyer, so I made one myself;