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The Grimy Handshake

Mike Ferrentino
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Online archive of Grimy Handshake columns, 27 years of the damn things. Thoughts on those columns, musings on bikes, publishing, mortality. Podcasts too!

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From Where I Stand

Volume 6, Issue 5, June 1999

Time has a way of tempering us all. I am relieved to report that most of the derelicts I refer to in this article are still alive, but most of us have also mellowed somewhat since this was written in 1999. Gott...

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And Hell Froze Over

Volume 6, Issue 4, May 1999

Sometime late in the summer of 1998, Mike McCormack contacted Willie Bullion and I, and asked if we wanted to be part of a cyclocross team he was putting together. The vision was grand, from inside Trek, he was...

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Mi Madre

My mother turned 97 in March. She lives in Loreto, BCS, and has been down there for a little over 30 years now. She moved down on a hunch after visiting a friend who had a seasonal place there, and fell in love with the town. She’s been the...

24 days ago
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Wheel Meet Again

Volume 6, Issue 3, April 1999

I try not to dwell on the stupid shit I have said in the past. Lord knows there’s been plenty of that. Nor do I derive much joy from Itoldyousoism. But here, in this space where we are revisiting things writte...

25 days ago
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Satan In A Brown Suit

Volume 6, Issue 2, March 1999

It’s a strange thing to look back on bubbles in the short time just before they burst. They are so shiny and tight and positively buzzing with energy. With mountain biking, and the larger cycling world as well...

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