Comments on: American Badass | Audwin P. McGee http://www.acontinuouslean.com/2010/07/30/american-badass-audwin-p-mcgee/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:23:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Eric Channing Brewer http://www.acontinuouslean.com/2010/07/30/american-badass-audwin-p-mcgee/#comment-33809 Eric Channing Brewer Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:20:27 +0000 http://www.acontinuouslean.com/?p=16623#comment-33809 Two men, two bikes, two days, 200 miles and three legs between us. I was the one often riding in the back. Ibrahim Wafula = badass. It's the most succinct way to describe him. He taught himself how to ride a Black Mambo (steel Chinese made utilitarian 45 lb bike) with one leg and eventually began training so that he could race his Black Mambo in a mountainbike race against western riders with suspension equipped mountainbikes. I helped him get a prosthetic leg in the U.S. and he entered the Leadville 100 mountain bike race 6 months after learning how to walk and ride a bike with it. http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20070809/NEWS/70809018 Two men, two bikes, two days, 200 miles and three legs between us. I was the one often riding in the back. Ibrahim Wafula = badass. It’s the most succinct way to describe him.

He taught himself how to ride a Black Mambo (steel Chinese made utilitarian 45 lb bike) with one leg and eventually began training so that he could race his Black Mambo in a mountainbike race against western riders with suspension equipped mountainbikes.

I helped him get a prosthetic leg in the U.S. and he entered the Leadville 100 mountain bike race 6 months after learning how to walk and ride a bike with it.

http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20070809/NEWS/70809018

]]> By: Yaun http://www.acontinuouslean.com/2010/07/30/american-badass-audwin-p-mcgee/#comment-33782 Yaun Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:48:14 +0000 http://www.acontinuouslean.com/?p=16623#comment-33782 that makes no sense - I mean sewing machine pedal in back that makes no sense – I mean sewing machine pedal in back

]]> By: Yaun http://www.acontinuouslean.com/2010/07/30/american-badass-audwin-p-mcgee/#comment-33781 Yaun Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:23:59 +0000 http://www.acontinuouslean.com/?p=16623#comment-33781 Some of these comments are unreal, especially the one about biking from Kenya to Tanzania with a one legged Kenyan...I have visions of a tandem bike tour - two pedals up front, unicycle in back. Some of these comments are unreal, especially the one about biking from Kenya to Tanzania with a one legged Kenyan…I have visions of a tandem bike tour – two pedals up front, unicycle in back.

]]> By: Lizzie http://www.acontinuouslean.com/2010/07/30/american-badass-audwin-p-mcgee/#comment-33774 Lizzie Mon, 09 Aug 2010 06:15:47 +0000 http://www.acontinuouslean.com/?p=16623#comment-33774 holy shit holy shit

]]> By: Eric Channing Brewer http://www.acontinuouslean.com/2010/07/30/american-badass-audwin-p-mcgee/#comment-33732 Eric Channing Brewer Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:35:13 +0000 http://www.acontinuouslean.com/?p=16623#comment-33732 My first, middle and last name makes for more accurate google searches for anyone interested. There's the badass crossdressing mayor of Cleveland, the badass UC Berkeley professor/ tech start up wiz and the badass professional hockey player among others who share my first and last name. My first, middle and last name makes for more accurate google searches for anyone interested. There’s the badass crossdressing mayor of Cleveland, the badass UC Berkeley professor/ tech start up wiz and the badass professional hockey player among others who share my first and last name.

]]> By: CP http://www.acontinuouslean.com/2010/07/30/american-badass-audwin-p-mcgee/#comment-33717 CP Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:58:46 +0000 http://www.acontinuouslean.com/?p=16623#comment-33717 their their

]]> By: CP http://www.acontinuouslean.com/2010/07/30/american-badass-audwin-p-mcgee/#comment-33716 CP Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:58:26 +0000 http://www.acontinuouslean.com/?p=16623#comment-33716 I wonder if this guy ever gets tired of hanging out with a bunch of people who all go by there first and middle names. I wonder if going by your first and middle makes you more badass? I wonder if this guy ever gets tired of hanging out with a bunch of people who all go by there first and middle names.

I wonder if going by your first and middle makes you more badass?

]]> By: Richard Austin http://www.acontinuouslean.com/2010/07/30/american-badass-audwin-p-mcgee/#comment-33707 Richard Austin Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:42:17 +0000 http://www.acontinuouslean.com/?p=16623#comment-33707 And I thought the Miller High Life debate was intense! Want a strange recipe? Show some beautiful pictures of blood sports to a forum of folks with liberal art degrees.... my fave pontificator being sule, of the "I've hunted with guys like him before in the American south" comment whose great observation was "What’s sad is when they leave out the unfortunate bits, keeping things unnaturally superficial for the sake of a narrative of nobility in a simpler time." Dude, it's a military surplus duffle bag I put my laundry in, but wait its Viet-Nam era... is there a meta-narrative there or wait over here, I mean the fact that we are all on the web, reading a site dedicated to helping us make aesthetically responsible choices with our disposable income while somewhere on the Bayou a man who failed his GED is choking on Chinese-farmed shrimp.... doesn't that really prove we aren't real folk so should What was I saying? Oh, yeah. Do we have to overthink everything? Guy has style, btw. Thanks for the site. And I thought the Miller High Life debate was intense! Want a strange recipe? Show some beautiful pictures of blood sports to a forum of folks with liberal art degrees…. my fave pontificator being sule, of the “I’ve hunted with guys like him before in the American south” comment whose great observation was “What’s sad is when they leave out the unfortunate bits, keeping things unnaturally superficial for the sake of a narrative of nobility in a simpler time.” Dude, it’s a military surplus duffle bag I put my laundry in, but wait its Viet-Nam era… is there a meta-narrative there or wait over here, I mean the fact that we are all on the web, reading a site dedicated to helping us make aesthetically responsible choices with our disposable income while somewhere on the Bayou a man who failed his GED is choking on Chinese-farmed shrimp…. doesn’t that really prove we aren’t real folk so should

What was I saying? Oh, yeah. Do we have to overthink everything? Guy has style, btw. Thanks for the site.

]]> By: janelle http://www.acontinuouslean.com/2010/07/30/american-badass-audwin-p-mcgee/#comment-33704 janelle Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:15:38 +0000 http://www.acontinuouslean.com/?p=16623#comment-33704 mbwahahaha....you've gotta love it. my grandfather was a nasty colonial hunter, my dad was one too, although managed to walk the walk into post colonialism, and am presently married to a hunter today. (i can't shoot a gun but i can sure ride a horse) i reckon he's one of the world's best conservationists, informed and intellectual. no sentimental gush. i wear ivory. (it was my mother's. she died a while back. it dates back to 1970 zambia). except not at the markets. everyone can tell its real and they want it. i'm an african. today i would safely confirm that governments generally don't give a shit about wildlife. or environment. until people at grassroots level have education, health and clean running water this ain't gonna change, no sirree. the level of poverty is astounding. how can anyone care about elephant or hard woods when your kids are starving and you're scraping the dust to make it into the next day? until government becomes responsible to people, kiss it all goodbye. as one old man i met the other day said (he was a dead ringer for mandela) "isn't it amazing that there is a bomba (pipe) all the way from dar es salaam to zambia filled with oil but no bomba here (near arusha) with clean water for people?" great blog by the way. toodely. janelle mbwahahaha….you’ve gotta love it. my grandfather was a nasty colonial hunter, my dad was one too, although managed to walk the walk into post colonialism, and am presently married to a hunter today. (i can’t shoot a gun but i can sure ride a horse) i reckon he’s one of the world’s best conservationists, informed and intellectual. no sentimental gush. i wear ivory. (it was my mother’s. she died a while back. it dates back to 1970 zambia). except not at the markets. everyone can tell its real and they want it. i’m an african. today i would safely confirm that governments generally don’t give a shit about wildlife. or environment. until people at grassroots level have education, health and clean running water this ain’t gonna change, no sirree. the level of poverty is astounding. how can anyone care about elephant or hard woods when your kids are starving and you’re scraping the dust to make it into the next day? until government becomes responsible to people, kiss it all goodbye. as one old man i met the other day said (he was a dead ringer for mandela) “isn’t it amazing that there is a bomba (pipe) all the way from dar es salaam to zambia filled with oil but no bomba here (near arusha) with clean water for people?” great blog by the way. toodely. janelle

]]> By: Nick. http://www.acontinuouslean.com/2010/07/30/american-badass-audwin-p-mcgee/#comment-33647 Nick. Wed, 04 Aug 2010 06:13:27 +0000 http://www.acontinuouslean.com/?p=16623#comment-33647 oh, wow... just read the comments. scratch that 'exhausting' remark; also 'without the activism.' which makes me think, some of these posts might benefit (and the comments section might clean up its act) from an extra paragraph each about the ethical ramifications of, you know, stuff. i mean, the workwear revival in fashion is in large part a fraught proposition, you must agree. you create a wide, deep gray area when you start to "honor" the craftsmanship of coal miners by creating a replica "Coal Bag" for $100 or whatever, to sell to people who essentially package mortgage-backed securities and are currently foreclosing on coal miners' houses. i mean, fashion is really weird, man. design, slightly less so. a paragraph on Mr. McGee's conservation efforts in this post, and his general attitude about making a difference, may have made douchebag internet naysayers think twice. (although having lived in Cape Town for a year and taken a month's worth of walking safaris in Hwange Park in Zimbabwe, i understand that Africa is even more complex racially, economically, and environmentally than the American South, so you just have to expect a bit of disagreement. a LOT of people have been deeply hurt on all sides.) just a thought. it's like, when you read Hemingway's biography, you get a human perspective. the guy had some real problems and hurt most of the people he loved, and had a deeply weird childhood. his talent and the beauty of his work is starkly opposed to the fuckedness of his middle age and later life. i still read him all the time, even the bad stuff, love it, it's beautiful, and then try to appreciate the whole person. anyway thanks again for the great material. oh, wow… just read the comments. scratch that ‘exhausting’ remark; also ‘without the activism.’ which makes me think, some of these posts might benefit (and the comments section might clean up its act) from an extra paragraph each about the ethical ramifications of, you know, stuff. i mean, the workwear revival in fashion is in large part a fraught proposition, you must agree. you create a wide, deep gray area when you start to “honor” the craftsmanship of coal miners by creating a replica “Coal Bag” for $100 or whatever, to sell to people who essentially package mortgage-backed securities and are currently foreclosing on coal miners’ houses. i mean, fashion is really weird, man. design, slightly less so. a paragraph on Mr. McGee’s conservation efforts in this post, and his general attitude about making a difference, may have made douchebag internet naysayers think twice. (although having lived in Cape Town for a year and taken a month’s worth of walking safaris in Hwange Park in Zimbabwe, i understand that Africa is even more complex racially, economically, and environmentally than the American South, so you just have to expect a bit of disagreement. a LOT of people have been deeply hurt on all sides.) just a thought. it’s like, when you read Hemingway’s biography, you get a human perspective. the guy had some real problems and hurt most of the people he loved, and had a deeply weird childhood. his talent and the beauty of his work is starkly opposed to the fuckedness of his middle age and later life. i still read him all the time, even the bad stuff, love it, it’s beautiful, and then try to appreciate the whole person. anyway thanks again for the great material.

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