Metal Cowboy

Articles

Why I Ride

By Joe Kurmaskie - The genesis of my entire life was experiencing the complete control, abandon and ecstasy of that first afternoon on a bicycle.  Even the streetlight's flicker couldn't bring me in. It opened me wide for everything after; love and reaching for things real and...
Fall 2017
2
min.

Biking Through The Dog Days Of Summer

By Joe Kurmaskie - As I grow older, I grow younger... let me explain. The ice cream truck rolled by the pool as I swam...
August 2017
9
minutes

Farewell To A (Cycling) Friend

By Joe Kurmaskie Alejandro Alverez had a way of moving a bicycle through space so effortlessly that, even though I stood half a foot taller...
July 2018
4
minutes

Tour of the Gila

By Joe "Metal Cowboy" Kurmaskie I'm just another traveller On another winding road I'm trying to walk some kind of line I'm trying to pull some kind of...
March 2019
28
minutes

Southern Accents

That was Tom feckin’ Petty leaning against the bar with his sweaty, contorted cowboy hat pulled low, drinking a beer from Texas.
Metal Cowboy
5
minutes