- Bad Idea Racing – HAS LEFT THE BUILDING

Like most self-involved bike geeks I’ve been frittering away my spare hours (and wasting some of my useful hours) scanning all the Interbike coverage on the net to see if there’s a product coming out next year that will revolutionize my world.  You know it’s gonna be a bit disappointing when some of the biggest news to come outta the Dirt Demo is the color brown.  Well the show moved indoors yesterday, and I have a feeling that a lot of journalists are loathing the immediacy of the interweb audience.  Back in the day they were probably enjoying carefree drinking benders, but now you gotta get that shit posted stat or people will be looking elsewhere to see close-ups of the color brown.

Speaking of Interbike drinking benders I did find this photo of Karen Brooks (Dirt Rag editor) and I believe that is Manuel Maqueda (writer, photographer, man of honor) standing next to her:

They happen to be standing in front of the very issue (that’s actually a novelty size mock-up of the actual issue) of Dirt Rag that Manuel’s article on last year’s La Ruta appeared in last month.  That would be the same article that stated that I am an EX-messenger.  While I have already busted Karen’s balls in Napa at the SSWC08 and Manuel’s balls via email I would appreciate it if you are at Interbike (and if you are at IB you shouldn’t be reading my blog) could you please represent and bust their respective balls for me.  Perhaps if you see them across a crowded room you could shout “Quit spreading lies about Dicky!”, or “I’m on Dicky’s side!”, or perhaps even “Dicky never did anything to you!  Stop the hate!”… that would be nice.

In the event that I have incorrectly identified that man as Manuel, and he in fact is not, please go ahead and yell at him anyways.  I haven’t seen Manuel since we were hanging out in the jungle last November, so my memory is a little jumbled.  Before he smears anyone else’s reputation let him know (or whoever that guy is) that this injustice shall not continue.

I gotta admit the most disappointing thing about being me during this time of Interbike glamour (there’s lots of disappointment in being me the rest of the year too) is that there’s not alot of new things I can expect in the world of rigid single speeds.  What can really change?  Spot’s belt drive?  Whoopdefreaking do.  Rigid forks that are more rigid and even more forkier?  Single speeds that use black magic to tension the chain?  And what would it matter anyways?  I’ve already got a narrowed down list of frames I might be riding next year, so what if I found a bike with a more rigidder, forkier fork and black magic chain tensioning?  I wouldn’t be riding it next year anyhoo. 

Interbike??  I still wish I woulda went.  I’m getting boobs next year.  I gotta have boobs if I want the full ride.

Late Edit:  Syncros has 31″ bars at Interbike (according to bikerumor.com).  Assuming that Tyler wasn’t drunk and looking at the metric side of his tape measure that seems like something to be excited about.  I am an American after all, and here in the Colonies “bigger is always better” (especially debt).