one less car news

I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything or process anything, as a career ... I don’t want to sell anything bought or processed or ... buy anything sold or processed or... process anything sold ... bought ... or processed ... or repair anything sold, bought or ... processed, you know, as a career ... I don’t want to do that.

Ride me


check out our new shirt!

Other news: we have discontinued the long sleeve shirts and hoodies,so were going to be having a sale to get rid of the stock we have,check back soon. I also just updated to the new version of blogger and found all the comments everyone posted about our blogs, thanks and sorry i was a little slow on approving them.

cole

this past thursday it started snowing; by saturday night this is what things looked like (whiter than beverly hills). cole and i bundled up and got back on our bikes at about eight o'clock in the evening to ride around and take some pictures, documenting the storm from our perspective. i'm impressed that cole's camera even worked, with the weather being as cold as it was. on this particular night the temperature dipped down to a mere three degrees (fahrenheit), with a wind chill of minus seventeen degrees or something like that. you may notice the blowing snow throughout these photos. i'm pretty sure that this 'effect' was brought on by the thirty mile per hour gusts (they brought more of a hot stinging sensation to the face rather than the typical icy cold cheeks and nose). all in all it was a pretty interesting ride around town. there were very few cars out on the road (mostly pizza delivery drivers), so we pretty much had things to ourselves. the few people that did pass by us all had the same look of disbelief on their faces. i think they felt bad for us, having to travel by bike on a night like that. if they only knew how fun it was. . .

after bailing, headlong, into a snowbank cole's camera hit the snow covered pavement at a high rate of speed and failed to turn back on. at this point we're still hoping that minus seventeen degrees was just too cold for the battery. (fingers crossed) hope, hope.

hey everybody! a while back we met a truly amazing person from the u.k. by
the name of anthony. anthony runs an online magazine called "citycycling"
and he decided to put up an interview with us in the newest issue that came
out just today. you can find anthony's "citycycling" check it out if you've got the time. and if you don't
have the time right at this very moment than make sure to come back when
you've got the time to check this out – he put mad amounts of time into this
and it's awesome. thanks anthony!

we're putting five random shirts on sale for the next two weeks, starting today. the sale prices are $13.00 per shirt. check the products list to see what five shirts made the cut.

we got an email today from Lane at CETMAracks, a one man racking crew! Lane makes some sweet looking heavy duty racks for the front of your bike and these things look like they can handle quite the load. check out his website at www.cetmaracks.com. he's sending us a rack, as we speak, to try out and run through the gauntlet. look for a review of the CETMAracks on our review page real soon. this guy sounds super nice, genuine and willing to do anything to lend a hand. check him out.

this is the first time i think i've used capital letters on any post of any sort. go me!

- derek

we've finally managed to eat enough ramen and rice to afford some advertising, i think. the plan is to advertise in d.i.y. /indpendent print media, that way we can start building working relationships with (and in turn help support) more underground publications, rather than handing things back to the over-abundant faceless corporations that dominate our landscapes. yes, the mom and pops still exist among the strip malls packed with barnes and nobles, starbucks, and best buys. anyway, we're compiling a list of various zines and independent newspaper types, even some websites and we're looking for help in adding more to that list. if you have any ideas, or have a zine or paper that has ad space for sale let us know. i put something up on our myspace about it and people were pretty quick getting back to me with a huge range of ideas that i hadn't thought of. i figure if two heads are better than one than 300,000 are better than everything! you can get back to me at derek@1lesscar.com or true_till_what@hotmail.com too. thanks for wading through this. we appreciate it. take care out there.

- derek

we got so excited about our new hats we forgot to mention our new sticker,so here it is.

we did it. we took the plunge. uh huh. they'll be up on the website soon, so keep an eye out. what you'll see is a military hat, in black and khaki-kinda olive green, with a one less car patch hand sewn on. since we have two different colors to choose from we figured we'd offer two different patches to choose from as well. you can get the classic one less car design or the chain ring logo. cole's going to put the pictures up in a few minutes and like i said, once we get the details taken care of they'll be up on the website and read for ordering.