As I mentioned to Lung earlier this week, I got to ride wrongBike(tm) on both days this past weekend, on city jaunts. It’s really refreshing switching between bikes in the stable, when you have both bikes and a stable. Especially when they are different enough to notice. It used to be that I would switch off between fixie and road bike and be stymied by the differences each time (in a good way) but now it’s even just between fixies themselves. I’ve been riding Villain, and it’s road geometry and big gear, for the last several weeks, so hopping back on this bike was a trip. I do ride a similarly geared fixed gear at work during the day, but only for short hops to get coffee or lunch or whatever. This weekend, I got to tool around on this guy for several miles, and it was AWESOME. It’s always nice when you can do your errands by bike, especially downtown. No parking issues (other than general bike thief dodgery), noodling through the throngs of tourists and shoppers, and just enjoying the otherwise annoying experience. For guys like Lung who ride a bike exclusively, they know no other way, but I’m always bound to the MINI, either because I’m taking wifebot(tm) around, or hauling crap from here to there. Any chance to do it by bike, I take it! And of course, this time next year, I hope to be hauling both groceries AND babies in a cargo bike.

Anyway, good stuff. The shorter bars and easier gearing made it feel absolutely acrobatic compared to the Villain.

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Also, update:

WrongBike(tm) now sans rear brake. It was an interesting experiment, and I got used to having both in operation, but I still tended to only use the front most cases, and decided to abort. Amazing how dumping the rear calipers makes the whole bike look different.

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