tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135525692011-11-23T07:44:29.792-08:00This is a log of Reverend Phil's bicycle tour from Portland to San Francisco and beyond. In Phil's own words, "i am leaving may 31st, biking to SF, then training to LA, then Flying to NY, then returning to PDX in August. I think. while gone i wanna make some changes around here. I am hosting a bike rally in LA. so i am gonna use my little guy here to help me remember what ive done" If you want to comment on this blog, send an email to "revphil" at the domain "freegeek.org".revphilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13464195050127493156noreply@blogger.comBlogger401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13552569.post-1124788953266905692005-08-23T02:21:00.000-07:002005-08-23T02:22:33.273-07:00

my helmet camera worked good i think, maybe another polo movie. mykle lives on 27th and Killingsworth and has my mini from the MtBomb we did the day before. We strap it down to DuffNumbaFive.Killingsworth is fast. there is on street parking.A car is parked ahead, I will check behind to see if someone is coming. yes... I wait, they pass, and another... and there is a break in the metal waves. I

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ZBolympics05 Originally uploaded by revphil. bring me your hot, blinging, swaggering masses yearning for free fun

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Q: Where do you go when you are depressed and you are already at the bar?Could I be surrounded by people about to get laid?These women, they wine ya, they dine ya, they cheese ya. Then you are alone and waiting for something cool to happen. At least i have bike videos. Off to Jersey City... It's like a bat cave. only with good lighting. Wait, is that possible?The rest of the week I spend time

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The next couple days I'm content to just Maxin and Relaxin. that's the plan.Sunday I ride out with my PDX FREEGEEK friend Matteo. we have, for the last several months planned on tearing some shit up in nyc. Sunday is BlackLabel ride day and today's destination Is a booze cruise. ive been meaning on spending more time at boat parties. then some techno bike dorks roll up on us and instantly show

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Friday starts @ 8:30am and apparently it goes all day.Matt is working dispatch again for Real and is running me raw. I gotta get my camera back from Corey's and meet with Agitha. It was so odd the way I ran into her yesterday.Im biking behind a sexy biker gal coming up on Dupont Circle. Well I had better tell her about polo... and then, my confidence snapped. I was just frozen behind her... and I

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Well depending on how you define "best" and "polo" ... "ever" is not up for debate however!The DC kids who braved the downpour to play... damnI told folks that I would buy a beer for anyone who beats me. In fact, i asked people to spread that rumor, i Had 2 6-packs and a travel jug, aka a "handle" of Canadian whisky. should be some good polo, no?I took Crusty/angry/violent joe (someday perhaps he

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Sometimes the day sneaks up on you. Sometimes you are just chillin on the bench when shit gets crazy. After getting only 1 tag yesterday I was preparing myself for another painfully underemployed work day. On the verge of chillin with Judge Judy and Brown with Kirkland I narrowly avoided sweating on the sofa all day.Fuck this weather, It's making folks go crazy. I head down to the financial

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I've been working for a day now. Thus far I'm uninspired. only one tag on my first day. My dispatch has a really think newyork accident add to my already substantial confusion. Plus since more of DC is an Alpha-numeric grid I feel it should be easy.NewYork Matt of Real Courier feels me out over the radio. I don't try to BS him, but I don't let on to how green I really am. I have biked is a lot of

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THIS IS SO GREAT! im getting emails from all my friends who are on bike tour... watch as i entertain you all with someone else's work:well hello everyone, today is july 9th I've just been told, and I am at the Public Library in Cortez Col. I've seen and done alot since the last email, that I don't even know where to start. We made it across HWY 50. and then into Utah, thank god. As

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When i wake up i notice i am surrounded by feet. Not happy shiny feet, not sexy delicate feet, not even odd-but-funny monkey toed feet.stank feet.No cause for alarm but I can hardly breathe. As I rise it occurs to me that part of my knee's swelling is due to odd sleeping positions. I wonder if my health would have been better served by staying in the alley I passed out in last night. More room to

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You party as long as you can, then you drink on the train on the way back home watching your friends trackstand on a moving subway while you borrow someone's Triple Antibiotic Ointment (thanks Austin) and then you go home and there are people still parting. What's that Rick James said, "Cocaine is a hell of a drug."I retort: mehDoyle and BLBC crew are up. So it makes since that I not sleep. I

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Megadittos to Steve from bike TV and Chris from Teamspider for putting me up. Thanks guys, ill be back to stink up your homes soon! Plus its great to edit video while on the road.Drinking with Sommer and Sara in the "TimesUp New York" space, grillin and illin with some of the best enviro bikers anywhere. They tell me how sad they are not to have a PDX connection (Shift was almost "Times Up

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Lets try this at a greatter speed.July 4th eventually I make it across the bridge back to the chicken hut, I colapse but I am not able to stay long.To velodrome or not to velodrome, my body hath made the answer.It says go ahead and try. Stupid body, my mind knows that if i get out there by 3pm ill still have to bike from deep queens back down to south brooklyn. Last time I did that the Black

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This is sunday. this is race day.Last night i was out at the bar watching burley girls tackle and wrestle the drunk boys to the streets. My heart wants to wrestle, but my knee is happy. it hasn't been an issue in months of riding so i think ill keep it. They kinda posted results, my number was not among the top 10 riders in my manifest. I felt like i was close, like i really had a shot.This

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for posterity, i have no idea what "my shwarma is loose" is supposed to mean. I did write this while at this awesome Lebanese place, Oasis (massive $3 falafel), so im sure that has something to do with it. maybe i was feeling the sacrificial lamb.It was the best $3 falafel ever.

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It could be late. I reclaim some street for the polo gods. Perhaps they will protect me tomorrow during the qualifying race. I want to ride in the main race on Sunday, but qualifying at 1030 am is a death sentance. Nevermind the world class bikers who are gonna kick my ass. Of 700 riders, only 125 will be allowed to move on to the FinalsMy wheels are fat and underinflated, my rear brake sticks (

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Last night was the gold sprint qualifiers. Totally a retarded way to ride a stationary bike. But those that are good enough to spin out their legs as fast as possible for 500 meters looked good. A much more productive time happened outside where drinks are cheaper and polo more appropriate. Grass is for potatoes, Street is for polo. We angle the cones so that we are not chasing the ball

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NYC I come on the scene like a frantic solder. Blazing eyes, nostrils, blunts, stewardesses. My flight delayed, my LA connection of EL Jimmy and Orlando are nowhere to be found. They waited an hour... so I have most of the tools i need to build my bike, with the exception of the big allen i need for the crank arm. So i leave it in the box.and i go, carrying it when i can dragging it when i cant,

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email from PDX:i got my bike half-stolen this weekend. i screwed up andleft it locked outside oak st. friday night, thinking i wasgoing to make another errand and then take it backupstairs before leaving for a couple days.when i got back today it was gone. mega-drat! afterhating humanity for a while and concocting baitbike schemesto retaliate, i look out missy's window and notice my

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monday is a sore, sore day.my body is spend even pen strokes are challenging but I must try while i rememberZoobomb Presents: Bikesummer in LA... WTF?7am I jolt out of bed having dreamed someone told me it was already noon. Typical. I am anxious, and understandably so. I have been given the task of hosting an event that is supposed to be the "chunk-type" event of prior bikesummers. no small

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on the verge of completing everything i am now relegated to ONLY being able to use the internet. I mean normally i would be pumped about this kinda thing, but due to a coridnated effort of stupidity on me and Summer's parts I have managed to lock up my keys in the shop.this means:i cant finish my tall bike (which only needs its chain broken to be rolling, though it could use brakes.)i cant get to

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every time im drunk in a park i ask myself why i ever go to bars.Tall bike got wheels, gears, cransk, handlebars, a seat... its like a bike! only no chain or brakes, but whadda ya do? i mean i couldn't be late for gin and tonic in the park! hosted by some uber sweet SF cats who teamed up with the Times UP! New York folk and appear to me to be some sort of bikesummer illuminatti. No one really

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"will it ever stop? Yo I don't know." Vanilla Ice, describing biking in LA.Finally I go to the beach. Damn, its a long friggin ways. The ride out on Venice takes me about an hour with a strong head wind. But still there's actually a bike lane! whoa!I meet Luigi who is hosting the other event on Sunday, a BBQ at the Beach. Alas the beach is south of Venice which is a fair ride... unless we pull

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hot times, during the LA Gears Bike Gang ride we came upon a stool for the shop and a ski pole for polo... just need 7 more or so, but the supplies are coming!MIG wire - checkPVC - checkmegaphone - checkminibike - checktallbike - checkhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/51612385@N00/20959818/The ride took us over the LA river which acutally had water flowing though it! whoa!!!no one drives downtown

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hey you great and overworked bikers, I am super stoked to be able to share some Cascadia bike love with yalls this coming sunday.Some equipment we will need to make it as intense as it should be:4 or more large traffic cones3 or more mid sized stuffed animals1 roll duct tape7 or more ski poles (as soon as possible, i need to work on them in the shop)3 (three) 6-10 foot lengths of PVC pipe1

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-----------monday i start the preps for more welding this afternoon and getting my shit together for my event this sunday its gonna rockvideo editing tomorrow. maybe i learn how to share a file over this, TheInternetSumers called me out on my lame inability to maintain a proper bathroom. He walked up to my bathroom window with broom and with his endless torso was able to snag my abandoned roll

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- I am so popular -that is to say tall bikes are popular. I ride with the kids from the Bicycle Kitchen "Earn a Bike Progam" http://bicyclekitchen.com/earn.html downtown. nearly everyone is smiling waving or saying something supportive. the street poles are not very close to the curb making life challenging when i have to wait on lights, when you are rolling with the younguns you should avoid bad

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3am I arrive. The city is electric... and by electric I mean its really bright, there are lights and twinkiling palm trees (amtrak has bling?!? who knew?). I think back to the blind groaping I did a week ago while in the darkness of night under a red wood canopy. Moments later Somer arrives and give the bicycle "whoop!" call. I grab my gear and we head out quick, the security has started to close

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Finally i have found my way out of SF. Just 1 hour until i roll the rails down to LA. its a 10 hour train/bus ride (the train dont go all the way into LA... sigh) almost no sleep again last night, at least nothing useful. Damn these women and their friends who need to use their beds when i wanna use their beds!I am wearing my contacts again so that is mighty exciting. I decided that if I was

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woke up in a strange, comfortable place, she offered me a shower. I dont know how much i drank but sometime after playing some cage match bike polo sweets and I were taking shots of BlackVelvet and peanut butter. delicious but deadly."we are alcholics addicted to protien drinks"so that kept us rolling long enough to get to the zitgist, then at some point we left, stella hit the 1 way streets the

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what just happened defies even my best attempts to understand the human body.I just slept 12 hours. i still feel the need to colapseover and over i keep asking myself."How did we do that?"but we did and we arein san fransisco.wow.We came, We triped, We freaked. A word of advice for anyone who wants to make great time biking down the Pacific Coast. Drop the shrooms, and let your body go. Adam and

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we are in crescent city and me might just stay. lovely accomidations nearly make us forget our harsh mistress: the road.I change a tire and rest. and internet. lord i hate me some internet. i spend most of the day blabbing about a movie about me. did i mention someone made a movie about me?nevermind the fact that i am now connected to more media sources than i care to counr. I tried to explain

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WednesdayGet up early: 6am and bike. It's been 28 miles and it's not yet 11am. Not great, but not bad. We hope to make it to Crescent City today. We'll see!"Crushing the road that lies beneath". 94 miles. It shouldn't have been that long, but when you go, you go.We went.Considering the gear we were hauling and that there was still headwind, I consider this day to be epic. Likely no one with

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Tuesday: BandonWhat a great city! I mean it has the typical annoying things that every little city has got, but then they actually have some great stuff too. Like their libraby kicks ass (in fact it makes the one in Gold beach look like crap.) Folks are freindly too. alas we are all distreacted by things (me: internet; Adam, robin: vegan huckleberry pie) and we dont leave until nearly 3pm. Not

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"hey, you guys have gotta clear out" comes the voice from inside the previously locked building."uh ok. we're moving" I say. Crap! i have already gone against the game plan. Luckly we are all awake and just waiting for the rain to clear. It does we do and no one is the wiser. Robin is reluctant to get up cause he is worried about his dog Kansas."She is getting a lot of rain and no cover."The

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"We shoudda gone to Church" Woke up next to a dog and a Robin. Rain falls then stops long enough for us to believe it's over. It's not.We happened to camp a block away from a Curve's fitness/laundromat. We spend the morning drying the cloths and recharging devices. We own this mutha friggin Curves! No one freeked out about their being a dog inside and Kansas behaves very well with radom folk

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We hit the Newport bike shop. crazy. so much better than the Tillamook. It had nearly everything in 1/10th the space. Plus a drill press and a welder and machiene shop out back. Its part of a Motel, strange. but it works. the worker is nice and lets me film.We take Hwy 101 right though the city. The bike route tries to get you off the road every chance it can, but if you are rolling several

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Day 3 Early rolling, Hight hill climbs, Mt bombing down is such fun. There was a sweet hairpin turn that we got to watch each other go down because it was so steep you were practicaly right above the bikers 200 ft ahead.Continuing in our excess of anticapalism we hit up the Grocery Outlet (bought some wine - stole cheese), Goodwill (bought 90s girl B.U.M. Equipment socks for biking - stole

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I get up early pack my shit, eat, wait. and then decide i can wait no longer. I am on the move. They will catch up soon anyway. Will we make it to SF together? Will I go to big Sur with the crew? Will be come upon the other team?who knows? but timimook has a nice internet cafe at the librabry.The Bay City Slug which is a sweet weekly paper/zine. "The Paper that hates progress" and "tough,

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Entered at: Tillamook County LibraryMust tell story about the Forest Grove Shop homophobe who is violently insane.Camped in the Tillamook forest last night. Nice little rock wall over looking a rushing creek with heavy moss draping all the trees like a shall on a tipsy woman. 5 of us left PDX on the 1st around 10 am. we had planned to catch the 730 max at the Rose Garden, but the traffic made

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