Bikerscum - Patrick St. Jean

I'm playing around with a new project. I've registered www.wherestheride.at and set up a bulletin board so that bicycle and motorcycle riders can post ride announcements and discuss them. It's an experiment but since it just seems to be a pain to publi… more »

I ended up at REI today and managed to snag a Hydrapak Overflow 3l camel pack on closeout for a steal. Since I've been riding the mountain bike a bit more and Texas summers get a little on the warm side it'll be nice to carry some hydration around with… more »

I finally got back to Bikes, Inc. and got the cleats attached to my shoes this morning. This is really going to be a learning curve, and I think I'm going to have to tweak the clips to release a little easier. I almost fell over trying to get my foot o… more »

I picked up a new bumper from Creeper today and put it on. Now I've got somewhere to put the bike rack as well, so things are starting to fall into place. There are pictures of it in the gallery on my non-blog site. more »

Well, I turned 31 today and spent the morning fighting with ALSA quirks in order to get the line-in jack on my sound card to work. It's the next step in the hamshack rebuild, since I'm going to be moving away from Windows. After that I headed out to… more »

Tonight was the LSJC christmas party, and it was a blast. I watched some pretty cool wheeling videos of a trip to Moab, UT. The gift exchange was fun, and I ended up with three rolls of duct tape and a Chili's gift certificate. Unfortunately, I didn't… more »

I just picked up a 2004 Specialized Rockhopper Pro from a friend. I've been itching to get back into mountain biking, and this is the perfect excuse. But it really is like starting over because so much has changed. This thing's got disc brakes, indexe… more »