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thirdraildesignlab posted a photo: Elkhide, hand-stitched. It gets easier each time you do it.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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wrongProduct of the moment – book caddy

01/27/10

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

1264630344 wrongProduct of the moment book caddy

i should state straight away that i get it. THIS is for use on a stationary bike or a bike that’s on a trainer or rollers. fine. actually seems pretty great.

HOWEVER.

we know where this is going. so many people are getting involved in cycling these days that the number of idiots on the road is increasing at an exponential rate. it used to be that you could be reasonably confident that anyone out on the road on a bicycle had at least a half-decent idea of how to ride. in the days before bike lanes and city cycling advocacy, we HAD to be good at it, just to stay alive. but now that every kid in town is careening around with no idea how to stop their factory fixies and late-bloomers are hopping on their bikes for the first time in 20 years, there’s an EXPLOSION of people carrying over their shitty car habits to their bikes — texting, phoning, and bullshitting around, as distracted as any car driver out there, and 33 times more dangerous. do we REALLY need to add fuel to that fire? i mean i can see it now man, some recent eco-convert weaving around on their electric bicycle — reading the fucking times.