About

Cycleboredom?

First question I have to answer when anyone hears the title of this site is, “What, don’t you like cycling?” On the contrary, I LOVE cycling. The “boredom” in Cycleboredom or Artboredom is a desire to do something yourself and look for ways to do it better and do it differently. I’m a fan of a majority of sites out there broadcasting the word of the bike, but many are simply doing the same thing. I love pro cycling (done), I love riding the fixie (done), I love new product (done), and I love making fun of dopers (done), but thats’s simply not enough. In the past year, the work I’ve done for Revolution Cycles has opened my eyes up to the world of cycling advocacy. I want to see the bike widely accepted as a legitimate form of transportation. I want to keep pushing for a stronger bike infrastructure in our cities and towns. I want to see cycling culture grow locally here in Arlington to the point where we see people riding cargo bikes to pick up groceries or carting their kids off to school. I want to be a part of that change, and I want to promote all of those ideals and passions here; on a site named boredom.

Warnings, liabilities, and other crap.

I’ve got quite a mouth when I type. I’ve formulated a lot of opinions on cycling in general from a wide range of experiences. I’m a fan, a rider, and a former bike retail insider. There are going to be times when I step on some of your toes – hard. Remember this is just one point of view—if you don’t like it, just don’t visit. If you still have some sand in your vagina then start your own damn site and blog about how much of an ass I am.

In all seriousness

I may from time to time disperse information that I’ve gathered from trusted, respected sources. Some of this may be nutritional, mechanical, or physical in nature. I am not an expert, and I am not responsible for any accident, injury, sickness, hospitalization, or (good god) death resulting from you people acting upon what I write here without consulting your physician, bike mechanic, yoga instructor, or tarot card reader beforehand.

These opinions are my own

It goes without saying that the opinions and statements posted on this site are mine alone and don’t necessarily reflect the views, positions, or opinions of my employer. But it goes without saying that it should be said regardless. Wait… what?

Don’t you design websites?

Yes, this is a theme, or template, or whatever you want to call it. I call it temporary. Someday, when I’m not struggling to pay the bills with legitimate client work and I’m able to code a site specifically for myself and cycling then we’ll all have a party and toast my success. Until then, this WordPress theme is doing a lot of what I want using custom fields, tasty PHP, and the almighty jQuery.

If you’re interested, check out my web/graphic design site as well. I do work for small to medium sized businesses. I could for you too! My professional sites aren’t templates. Each project is built from scratch using WordPress as a CMS. I love me some WordPress.

STATE OF THIS SITE (8/23/10)

Yeah, it’s needs a ton of work.