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cabinporn:

Smokehouse on Brighton Beach, UK.
Jack Mills, a retired fisherman, and his wife Linda opened up their little black smokehouse on the seafront fishing quarter of Brighton over a decade ago. The couple can be found daily smoking fresh caught fish in the traditional way, using just oak, applewood, and salt.
Contributed by Ondra Loup.

@eldang you never told me about this!

cabinporn:

Smokehouse on Brighton Beach, UK.

Jack Mills, a retired fisherman, and his wife Linda opened up their little black smokehouse on the seafront fishing quarter of Brighton over a decade ago. The couple can be found daily smoking fresh caught fish in the traditional way, using just oak, applewood, and salt.

Contributed by Ondra Loup.

@eldang you never told me about this!

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beatonna:

when does a serious looking face not mean something like this

Me too. You can pretty much count on it being Kenny Rogers or some damn thing in there.

beatonna:

when does a serious looking face not mean something like this

Me too. You can pretty much count on it being Kenny Rogers or some damn thing in there.

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My brother-in-law passed this BBC4 special along to me and Eldan. It’s all about this fellow building his dream bike, and visiting the various people who make bike parts along the way. It’s worth watching for that (especially the Brooks factory tour), but three things made it really exceptional, in my mind:

  1. What may be the first snot rocket to air on BBC4
  2. Joe Breeze eats it sliding out on a bike that was definitely not made for mountain biking
  3. Boris Johnson claims that cycling will make you have “ideas coming out of every orifice”.
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ridepdw asked: Your Sweetpea looks awesome!

Thanks, it is! Natalie did a totally amazing job with it.

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ridepdw:



Our friend Natalie at Sweetpea powder coated one of our Payload racks a while back to match the color of a frame she was building. Looks like candy!



Here it is in action:

ridepdw:

Our friend Natalie at Sweetpea powder coated one of our Payload racks a while back to match the color of a frame she was building. Looks like candy!

Here it is in action:

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It’s shitty outside today and the weather is more windy than I want to ride my bike in, so I took a trip down memory lane this morning.
Eldan took this in August.
(The Sky Octopus turned 2 a couple of weeks ago. It’s still awesome. I most recently used it to take 6 dozen cookies to an exchange, and the next day, shoved 40 pounds of groceries on the front rack because I forgot to bring panniers to the store.)

It’s shitty outside today and the weather is more windy than I want to ride my bike in, so I took a trip down memory lane this morning.

Eldan took this in August.

(The Sky Octopus turned 2 a couple of weeks ago. It’s still awesome. I most recently used it to take 6 dozen cookies to an exchange, and the next day, shoved 40 pounds of groceries on the front rack because I forgot to bring panniers to the store.)

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I write letters

Governor Gregoire,

I’m writing today to ask you to do something small that can make a big difference to a lot of people and families in Washington State. As you know, we just decided to make marijuana possession legal here, and I’m sure I don’t need to remind you that you’re leaving office soon.

I’d like to ask you, before you go, to pardon the people who are in jail and prison here for marijuana possession. I’m not asking for a pardon for violent criminals- just nonviolent offenders.

It seems to me that we have collectively decided that having some marijuana is okay. It is unjust to keep someone in prison for something that Washington voters have decided is acceptable behavior.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Feel free to steal this wholesale. You can get ahold of her here: http://www.governor.wa.gov/contact/default.asp

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kaipai:

SIGNAL BOOST


FYI. Voter fraud.

kaipai:

SIGNAL BOOST

FYI. Voter fraud.

(Source: fallen-unicorn, via fixedwhilefeminist)

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JENS. JENS. JENS. JENS.
cranktastic:

Saw his data for this stage on velonews. At this point I will just say ‘Holy crap. Legend’ and move on. 
fuckyeahcycling:

BEAVER CREEK, CO - AUGUST 23: Jens Voigt of Germany riding for RadioShack-Nissan-TREK waves to the crowd as he approaches the finish as winner of Stage Four of the USA Pro Challenge from Aspen to Beaver Creek on August 23, 2012 in Beaver Creek, Colorado. (via Photo from Getty Images)

JENS. JENS. JENS. JENS.

cranktastic:

Saw his data for this stage on velonews. At this point I will just say ‘Holy crap. Legend’ and move on. 

fuckyeahcycling:

BEAVER CREEK, CO - AUGUST 23: Jens Voigt of Germany riding for RadioShack-Nissan-TREK waves to the crowd as he approaches the finish as winner of Stage Four of the USA Pro Challenge from Aspen to Beaver Creek on August 23, 2012 in Beaver Creek, Colorado. (via Photo from Getty Images)

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rhodeskc asked: Have fun riding the Olympic peninsula. Do you have any specific plans there? e.g. Hot springs + camping?

Since my better half isn’t sure that he likes bike camping, we’re credit-card touring and staying at bed and breakfasts and Olympic National Park lodges. We’re also setting a pretty chilled-out pace, since I want to have lots of time to fart around and enjoy the scenery.

It’s going to go something like this:

Evening 0: Take the foot ferry from Seattle to Kingston. Stay in Kingston for the night, have dinner at the nice bar there.

Day 1: Kingston -> Sequim, stay on the Dungeness Spit.

Day 2: Sequim -> Port Angeles, gaze up at Hurricane Ridge, save it for next time :D

Day 3: PA -> Forks. I have already found a restaurant that serves pancakes larger than my head and I am excited about it.

Day 4: Forks -> Kalaloch. Also my birthday. We left plenty of time for playing on the beach on day 4.

Day 5: Kalaloch -> Lake Quinalt

Day 6: Lake Quinalt -> Montesano

Day 7: Montesano -> Yelm

Day 8: Yelm -> Home, which is actually something like 85 miles all told, but we really only have to get to Tukwila in order to take the train from there. I plan to ride the whole thing, though!