Check this nutty shit out! The Parker Brothers have built a Green Machine chopper. Holy crap. Some of my best and first memories of this world were formed while storming the west suburban streets on my green machine, slamming one bar forward and one back so i could flat spin like the bad mother fucker [...]
Category Archives: Motorcycling
Adult Green Machine!
Also posted in Biking, Event, Gear Tagged Chicago, Green Machine, Monster Wheel Grand Prix, Parker Brothers Leave a comment
This Video is Amazing
I need to start every morning with this video on Shinya Kimura by Henrik Hansen.
Also posted in Biking, Gear, Instructional Tagged Chabbot Engineering, Henrik Hansen, Shinya Kimura, wimp.com Leave a comment
My V-Star Is Fucked
For the second time in 3 months the starter clutch on my Yamaha V-Star Classic is fried rendering my bike unrideable. Apparently, this problem is not uncommon and is, at the same time, not eagerly solved by the fine criminals at Yamaha. According to this somewhat comprehensive address of the v-star starter clutch problem Yamaha [...]
Also posted in Review Tagged CycleTherapy.com, David Sumner, Starter Clutch Issue, V-Star, Yamaha 5 Comments
Octoberfest at Destihl September 25th @ 4pm
We met the nice guys from Destihl at the Beer Hoptacular in Chicago back in June. They were one of the lone stand outs at that event, both in their seeming genuine enjoyment of their hobby cum job and also in their beer – they offered the only sour at the event and, sour or [...]
Also posted in Beer, Event Tagged Beer Hoptacular, Destihl, Marzen, Willard Skynard Devotionliner Leave a comment
Animals, Whores & Dialogue Now Available!
This is a little off-topic for us here, but who cares, it’s an exciting release and I designed the packaging for the project so I can talk about it here all I want. Wayne Ewing has released a wonderful sequel to his 2003 work “Breakfast with Hunter”. “Animals, Whores & Dialogue: Breakfast with Hunter Volume [...]
Also posted in Event, Pyro, Review, Shooting Tagged Animals Whores & Dialogue, Breakfast with Hunter, Harley Davidson, Hunter S. Thompson, Roaring Fork Valley, Wayne Ewing 1 Comment
Jolly Pumpkin La Roja
My wife and I went over to Bluebird last night for a few beers to celebrate – I’m not sure – the ever grinding wheels of time as they continue to where down on the thinning teeth of our souls’ cogs, forcing us to move slow and want to move even slower? Yes, that’s probably [...]
Also posted in Beer, Review Tagged Bluebird, Chicago, Hot Chocolate, Jolly Pumpkin, La Roja, Michigan, Saison D'Epeautre Leave a comment
Winter Sport in the North Country
I recently got back from a trip up to northern Michigan and on the way we drove through a few small towns built on the shores of lakes. It drifted me back across the frozen landscapes of my childhood, staring out at tiny little houses dotting a barren white expanse, hard water as they call [...]
Also posted in Biking, Review Tagged Ice Fishing, Ice racing, minnesota, Snowmobiling, South Dakota, trapping, winter sports Leave a comment
Full Outsider’s Almanac Website Still Coming
Don’t lose hope dear internetting ones, we still have every intention of launching the full Outsider’s Almanac website in the near future, it just won’t be quite as soon as we had hoped. We’re pretty insanely busy these days, between writing projects, client needs, body/mind/spirit rehabbing and the pursuit of winter in it’s many splendered [...]
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New Glarus, The Grumpy Troll, and the Tutelage of the Open Road
As I mentioned the other day, WSD and I decided to celebrate this unexpected Indian Summer by making our way into the Great White North on Saturday in search of open roads and delicious craft brew. And, while our adventure took some acceptable, though unforeseen, detours, we were served some of the finest riding and [...]
Also posted in Beer, Review Tagged Lake Zurich, Mt. Horeb, New Glarus, New Glarus Brewing Company, The Grumpy Troll, Tom Waits, Wisconsin 2 Comments
Motorcycles to New Glarus
“Some people paint, some sing, others write … I brew.” -Daniel Carey, Brewmaster, New Glarus Brewery, Wisconsin I was planning on hitting the AHA Teach Your Friend to Homebrew event at Brew & Grow tomorrow, I figure it’d be a good way to find those bits of information that only experience can offer a person [...]
Also posted in Beer, Event Tagged AHA, Brew & Grow, Madison, New Glarus, Teach a Friend To Homebrew, Totally Naked, Up North, Willard Skynard Devotionliner, Wisconsin 2 Comments