The Grimy Handshake
by Mike Ferrentinoin 🎭️ Culture
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The Grimy Handshake
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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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- Access to Volume 1 and 2 (and most of 3) Grimy Handshake columns, weekly navel gazing about bikes and publishing and the junk we used to ride.
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About Mike Ferrentino
A life on wheels. It wasn't really intentional; it just sort of happened. Thoughts about bicycles and the arc of life, and trying not to take either of those things too seriously.
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