The jackass who got me to finally subscribe to Bike, but that didn't happen till they tanked and then well I jumped on BETA because i was optimistic that it would carry on, but of course that tanked too...
And I was left without the MF content. That guy MF. Mike Ferrentino. We are similarly aged, he was writing about wrenching while I was wrenching, he was always that guy, on the short list of writers about bicycles that I related most to.
He's on the IG, selling a house and land, traveling all over the place, making fun of overlanders and all the other good shit. But his writing seemed to have vanished.
Except it didn't and he's still putting words together but that motherfucker never told anyone and who the hell reads North Shore MTB?
I mean hopefully a ton of people so they can generate revenue and pay for his words but I wasn't among that group.
https://nsmb.com/articles/back-handed/
There ya go.
And yeah, I put sunscreen on the back of my hands if I put it on my arms, always have, always will. I watched my dad's hands go through hell. It was the skin but also the nerves. He had lost all feeling in them basically. Not great when stuff is too hot or too cold, but we all got our thick leathery skin from him, some of us have developed it a bit more than others (the twins mostly).
I like Mike's writing because EVERY FUCKING TIME it gets me all introspective and shit.
He's like a blogging catalyst, I look at my hands and they are small, fingers don't look that big and yeah I'm in that 30%... but I also know XL gloves usually don't fit my hands (too small). Just like everything else. choices are limited and brands all fit differently and such is life as an outlier.
Anyway, guess I'm gonna dive deep into NSMB and see what I've been missing.
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