The Hawley Blog

For those of you too busy or too poor to attend the NAHBS, you can follow it here and look at all the pretty frames. Sorry for the brevity, but The Blog had a rough ride into work this morning. Why is there always a headwind? Why? So tired, so very tired. So whiny, so [...]

Gabe (inside sales) reminded me of Scotty Cranmer and the fact that he is a Jedi and is also Dave Mirra’s daddy and well, see for yourself in pixelated glory. A word of warning, turn the volume down. The music is disturbing, to say the least:

This interests Joshie:This interests Kyle:(from Pedal Consumption) This interests The Blog:

The above statement is one hundred percent fact. Do not attempt to disprove it through empirical means. It shall be a fruitless undertaking. Instead, please stimulate your near-dormant lump of tissue you call a brain with a simple child’s puzzle (the puzzle is simple, not the child). This one is simply called “Backyard Adventure”. The [...]

Poor, poor David Zabriskie. The professional cyclist, bon vivant, man-about-town, cosmopolitan playboy and proprietor of DZ-Nuts came home from the Tour Of California to find his house ransacked. What is the world coming to? And to think this happened in the Beehive state, a place where moral and ethical righteousness permeate everything! So in conclusion, [...]

Parr Road that is! (insert crickets and tumbleweed). The Blog gladly participated, at gunpoint, in a 4 hour ride along the fabled Parr Road route in the hinterlands of Northern Columbia. Leading the ride was local yokel and cycling enthusiast Toby Porter. Toby is a good, honest, morally-dubious gentleman whose riding skills are matched only [...]

Mark (shipping overlord) takes 6 seconds out of his schedule to give The Blog a little taste of his new mixtape, “Red Bankonia Drive By: Reckless Eyeballin’ Confessions”. Not sure what sort of critical response these new beats will get, but when it’s comin’ at you that hard, and that raw, how can one not [...]

Take a cassette tape of an adult speaking English. Now reverse it and you have a perfect replication of the Dutch language. Now add some dudes on bikes in the mud and you have televised cross racing! Visit this site, sign up for free, make some waffles and “expand your minnnddddd”. That is all.

The history of the headset spacer is lengthy and colorful, if not somewhat over-aggrandized by the modern media. The history of the new Eleven81 white headset spacer has yet to be written, but when it is, the Blog thinks it shall contain at least one reference to David Bowie. The reference (written in ancient Sanskrit) [...]