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thirdraildesignlab posted a photo: The Velo Crue seatpost design is brilliant. Hinged!These photos document my Carpetbagger project, a fixed-gear build fitted with S&S Couplers to be used as a travel bike. The general details of the build sheet are:1. SOMA Rush frame, 56cm: stripped, coupled, then powdercoated in a color to match my sweet, sweet MINI.2. S&S Couplers: break-away coupler set to allow the bike to be packed in an airline compliant case and avoid bike shipping fees; assembled by Tom at 41303. SOMA Sparrow bars4. Odyssey finger lever5. Shimano medium reach brake with Kool-Stops6. Handmade wheels by 718c.com with Velocity Fusions and All-City hubs in bright polished silver.7. Panaracer Pasela 700x23 tyres8. Elkhide by Velo Orange, hand stitched9. Custom bar end caps made from vintage typewriter keys.10. Velo-Orange Stem and Seatpost11. Brooks Swallow, Honey12. Sugino 75 drivetrain: 72 inchgearLove it. Team Lope Tyre Clubbe

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The Past, Both Glorious and Fleeting

David Clinger Photo Gallery

04/06/09

Posted in: TLTC Items to Amuse by wrongrobot | Comments (0)

38656e0b14dec29bf235ee206d7e3beb David Clinger Photo Gallery

Yeesh.
This rider made news a few years ago when he went on a bender and had his face done up in unfortunate Maori tattoos. Now we learn, not surprisingly, that he was having the addictions. So he’s now in rehab, which is good for him. And getting what I imagine are years and years of laser removal surgery, so he can trade Maori tattoos for pink/white doily patterns of scarring. In the grand scheme of things, there are far worse outcomes to addiction-fueled bad decision making, many involving bikes, most involving the deaths or the maims. So he’s definitely int he green there. But the worst irony of his predicament is that neither he, nor his wife at the time, was Maori or even from NZ. Yikes. He saw it on a documentary.