The Hawley Blog

More unusual product tomfoolery from Interbike. Today’s offering is the latest bit of yumminess from Clif, the Clif Rock! Jim plunked it down on my desk and waited for my usual bout of verbal diarrhea associated with weird nutrition products. Well it didn’t happen because for once, I was speechless…without speech. My first thought was, [...]

Not much going on in the hallowed halls of Hawley today. The purchasing crew arrived back from Interbike with glazed looks and tired brains, feeling the effects of 20 hour flights and interminable delays of Satre-ian levels. Want to hear an entertaining tale of airline travel gone horribly awry? Just ask Brian or Dave, although [...]

Well, it’s the end of another week at Hawley and we’re all here, alive, and in one piece. That was a confusing sentence because it sounds like all of us are conjoined in some sort of massive Borg-ish (Borg-esque, Borgnine?) bicycle entity, a group collective of sorts. I can’t give you a definitive answer to [...]

Another week in Columbia, another bicycle related accident. This time however, the driver was not at fault and it appears to be “non-fatal”. However, a blog must wonder what some folks are thinking when they spit out nonsense like this (from the “comments” section of a local news channel’s coverage of the incident):

With so much going on within the nooks and crannies of the Hawley company in addition to the Interbike hysteria, today’s post, in all honesty, lacks “quality” bicycle content. Nevertheless, the “quality” music-loved-by-the-blog content is through the roof. First of all, even though I’m a day late with this, it appears My Bloody Valentine has [...]

Sunday was the inaugural (I would assume so) running of the Vista Grand Prix in the affluent and overly gentrified Vista neighborhood in Columbia. Hawley cohorts Teenwolf, Kyle and Will decided to put their money where their collective mouth is and sign up for the always exciting and always sketchy Cat 5 race. Teenwolf was [...]

The Interbike winds are blowing the Hawley crew to Las Vegas next week. Well, some of the crew as those of us in the trenches are left behind to fend for ourselves: cold, tired, naked..alone! But are we really alone? The simple answer is of “course not”. The complicated yet duplicitous answer is “they have [...]

Teenwolf mentioned something about a bike race this morning. Well, the race wasn’t this morning, but his mentioning of the race was. Where was I? Oh yes, so it seems the powers that be have decided to “throw” a crit this Sunday in downtown Columbia (the glorious Vista neighborhood to be precise). It’s got the [...]

The Sockguy bomb dropped at Hawley last week. Reminiscent of those grainy test footage films from Los Alamos showing a giant mushroom cloud and a white washed building being flattened in super-slow motion as a slack-jawed Army private gives a thumbs up, the Sockguy explosion left the entire receiving department flattened in addition to its [...]