Glen (Ashley’s dad) and I are headed to the skate park to test another Gnarly Bar prototype. We’re taking Rodney, the prodigy kid. And the new and improved Gnarly Bar. The Gnarly Bar is Glen’s invention, forged in the lab of the Wired Ride Shop. I have a fisheye lens today and it’s going [...] Continue Reading »
Gnarly Bar testing. phase two
0wired ride shop presents the Gnarly Bar
1This is the latest innovation of Glen Addair and the Wired Ride Shop: the Gnarly Bar. The Gnarly Bar is a tool that gives an action sport rider a key advantage to their development: the ability to measure. Place it on the flats, or place it anywhere. The advantage of the Gnarly Bar is specificity, [...] Continue Reading »
good organ tone can save the shortcomings in life
2The Mr. J’s sign came down yesterday and two fresh coats of white covered over the tuxedo man stencil. Passersby stopped momentarily to mourn his memory and a Murray institution of fine formal wear and limousine service is history. What exists now is a blank slate of fine office space where your good neighbor State Farm [...] Continue Reading »
some heroes of the road
5Our upcoming adventure needs a model and some kind of basis. What we don’t want is to be living in a Walmart parking lot, our existence going down the gas tank, having become a family of bums who embarrassingly tote a flashy airstream up to McDonalds bathrooms. Sorry, a modern Kerouac is not the [...] Continue Reading »
black mold
2Ashley’s dad got some free drugs and his legs shaved today, then we all left and went to a basketball game. The Johnson City Medical Center discovered black mold in the operating room and the open heart surgery was postponed. Meanwhile the Addair family had settled in for a week. Ashley was watching Twilight on [...] Continue Reading »
rocks
6An old mountain stream spills through the community of Papermill, TN and it contains a quiet link to an ancient mystery involving the ruined pyramids of Mexico’s Teotihuacan. This elucidation seems at first to be completely random, however you will see that it is not. The capitol, Mexico City was once the capitol of Colonial [...] Continue Reading »
voices of a Cajun sheriff, the president, and Jay Z
4One day, when I am a famous musician, whose trade presumes a marriage to the endless and ageless passage of road and country, my map pages will have long been feathered, my jeans wrinkled behind the knees, and my nose sighted between the rim of my knuckles. I was swerving through Baton Rouge when a [...] Continue Reading »
make your own noise canceling helmet
3We want Wired Ride Shop to be a hangout. There had always been plans for a lounge but when we inherited salon hair dryers with the lease, we considered it our biggest break. So what are noise canceling helmets? Like headphones that suspend around the entire circumference of your head, impelling you into an inescapable [...] Continue Reading »
Wired at Muddy Creek
4Wired set up shop at Muddy Creek Raceway for the weekend and the AMA Area Qualifier event for the Southeast. We were there to sell our wares and consider some riders to sponsor. Ironically, we may have decided to sponsor Ashley. Two things you may not know about Ashley: 1. she was partly raised in [...] Continue Reading »
standing by peaceful waters
4(by Levon who is listening to John Prine, Standing by Peaceful Waters) Tomorrow and a day until we are no longer nomadic couch dwellers. Our lease will be up and Knoxville will be home again. Ashley said yesterday something like, “remember how New York drove me crazy because I never had my space for an [...] Continue Reading »