Short and sweet: BEST PANTS EVER MAN
I love em love em love em
soft and ultralight so it’s like hardly there when riding, yet warm. No annoying friction or bumps like with jeans or dickies sometimes. Super comfortable.
I will say they wont take a beating like a proper pair of Dickies would, but they’re not for that sort of abuse. But I love em 1000 times.

http://www.chromebagsstore.com/apparel/ … icker.html

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This was a custom build by Stanridge that Prolly posted like 33 years ago. I found it in my concept file for bike builds. Just gorgeous work.

http://prollyisnotprobably.com/2011/03/ … _the_g.php

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I remember when Cadence teased the Megane glasses, fabricated in Japan on a limited basis. I remember when they were ‘about to drop’ in March of last year. And you know what? I’m not certain they ever did. I can’t find evidence of it online. I’d think the lucky buyers (let’s assume it was a very small number, since apparently they were going for $300-500) would blog the living shit out of it.

Sure, I was in it just for the three dot motif, but what can I say. Dork is as dork does.

http://www.collectlondon.com/blog/2011/ … xhibition/

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Dig these photos of a BLK MRKT NSF as shot by Nick Brandreth.
This was the model for what almost became Ghostal, before Ghostal stayed white and became Ghostal in the first place, let alone the future Rapscallion, which will actually be a lot closer to this then you’d think, in the end. But what a gorgeous build.

http://blackmarketbikes.blogspot.com/20 … ersey.html

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Jason at Superb has shared that he is continuing the prototype glow int he dark everything project he started at Cambridge. Sounds reasonable, I suppose, but uhm.

http://superbbicycle.com/2011/12/28/glo … ark-bikes/

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On Raposcallion, my baby/cargo carrier, I keep changing bars as I experiment with finding a sweet spot between the moon bar upright riding position and the pitched-forward fixed-gear position when the kid seat is removed. I tried shorty arc bars I had cut down for Wrongbike at one point, and the latest is Sparrow knock-offs twisted up sort of like risers. I’m finding a bar position that will be fun when the kid seat is gone, but also allow me more of a conventional riding position even when Zoe (or Matteo, eventually) is on there. So, anyway, an aside to all that: I keep pulling grips off. Kind of wasteful when you don’t have an air compressor around to blast the grip off from within. This is the only bike I have that uses actual grips, the others all being tape-wrapped.

So, I got it in my head to look for grips that were removable. Beyond the usual shop methods, of course. And so I eventually found my way to these: Speed Metal by Portland Design Group. They aren’t the only grips out there using compression bolts to hold into place, but they would match the eventual look of this bike aesthetically, so why not.

It’s a pretty cool system. The inner ring is actually the outermost layer, contoured for your thumb, and the outer tube, the grip itself, slides up under it.

Each end point is secured with a tiny allen (of different sizes, interestingly) and overall it feels quite secure. In my case it’s only half-successful because the grips are too long for the curve point of the bar. So the outermost edge and that clamp ring are really just hanging out. But I secured them with plugs I fashioned and we’ll see how it works out. I tried putting blinkies on the ends but it looked kind of awkward. I may return to that anyway, just because I like having an outboard blinker when kids are on-board.

Pretty cool product!

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This pic is actually about a week old, but since I was up climbing over the hill again this morning on Crook Type 3, I was again reminded that I need to get some time set aside to finally commit to the slammed stem position. I’ve spent about 6 months now gradually decreasing the stack on this bike, with the intention of adjusting to the lower reach slowly enough that my back/pelvis recovery wouldn’t be adversely affected. I really like it now, so I need to get this spleen-killer off of the front end of this thing.

Great ride morning: cold but not frigid, energy stores despite only having coffee, burning legs and chest after getting to the summit… what a great way to get to work!

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You may recall that some months back, I came out of Peet’s, and discovered that some hooligan had stolen my bar ends off of Crook Type 3, My CinelliXMASH. Not the bike, which was unlocked. But the bar ends. I had used sweet black crank bolts. You never know, right?

Anyway, yesterday, I stopped about two blocks from where Peet’s is, to tie my perpetually untying Sambas (even with double knots)… and I spotted something in the foliage by the sidewalk.

YEP. One of my stem bolts, still wrapped with electritole tape, now rusted from exposure.
That’s a trip. The hooligans abandoned them after the theft. And trippier still, I found one.

Crazy.

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Maynard posted this to his FB and I thought I’d repost here, because it was amusing. It caused me the amusements. I’ve done several of these. The aggressive stuff like the slow clap, or my preferred version, the slow-nod-yes-transition-to-slow-shake-no-complete-with-smile-to-frown-detail, I have only used occasionally, because it may further lead to the deaths.
But I actually do the point-at-light or point-at-tire thing often. Heh. Bastardos cut me off in a crosswalk!

Here’s a higher rez version, for your studies…

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I’d feel sorry for the fictional customer, being sold a bike with ‘top-spec gears’ and a ‘super light frame’, as it’s a steel fixie. But hey, I’m running short on sympathy for fictional characters. Especially cashing in on the Willamsburg Way.

http://www.rubenomalley.com/commercial/ … ike-store/

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