If you’re going to use an engine, at least do it in style.
MASH style.

http://blog.mashsf.com/post/7796196323/out-there

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Welcome to Panama…
And you know, I rock a horn as LOUD as an air horn, i can dig that part…
http://www.kk.org/streetuse/archives/20 … _baiks.php via Urbanvelo

I love subcultures, mods and randomness, so.

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I’m not sure what I like more: that the skin slippage is a further reminder of the sheer volume of weight loss he’s had over the last few years, or that he has the confidence to ride in shorts ANYWAY. And probably very fast.

RAD.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar … l?ITO=1490

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I had heard from an associate that there was a cool back way to get to downtown MV without dropping down into Tam Junction and getting tangled up with the cars and such. It involved climbing, but that’s a good thing, right. So, the other day, I went looking for it a little early before work.

About half way up this relatively short but steep grade, I stopped to catch a breath. Prolly shouldn’t have done this with a loaded backpack of computers and small gifts… and on Crook, a fixed-gear MASH… but onward!

I got to the top and looked back and it was surprising how steep that was. Up and over! No perceived damage to my spine, either, which was good. I haven’t done much STEEP climbing since my injury, so it’s a bit dodgy. Feels weird. But anyway. Whoa!

Then it was a bunch of tight rollers and then switchbacks to the bottom, and your’e basically out at the start of Ethel, back behind Whole Toles. Cross Miller and you’re almost at my office.

This is the kind of thing that’s tough the first time, and easier every time you do it. But it’s GREAT to have another route to work that gets in climbing and effort and gets you way away from most traffic*, without having to go up Tam and down the other side.

*excepting speeding Mercedes SUVs swerving through these little residential roads, of course. I was very inconvenient for them, and they let me know it.

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LOW BICYCLES is the baby of andrew low, an SF native and cyclist. he’s been fabricating for most of his adult life and in 2009 started low bicycles, his SF-based framebuilding business.

recently, he HOOKED UP massan with one of his frames, which massan is currently testing. if all intel comes back as positive, i’ll be rocking a LOW before long, too. you know how i feel about buying local, and if i can roll an SF-handmade aluminum pursuit frame, you can bet your sweet ass i will.

fingers crossed.

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YEP.

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even though i tend to be an old-school guy who prefers friction shifters to indexed, or a fixed drivetrain to a multi-gear drivetrain in general, i have to say, THIS is fucking sick to me.

the toyota prius project concept bike is a collaboration between toyota and parlee cycles, in which several forward-thinking concepts were developed and executed. dig the front brakes integrated in the rear of the fork. the cyclist stat readout integrated into the stem. lots of really cool shit, but the crowning achievement is without a doubt the thought-activated wireless shifting integrated into the helmet. an array of sensors placed at various points on the cyclist’s head pick up the places where thoughts of shifting take place, and viola! you shift with your fucking MIND.

the most comprehensive overview is at prolly (first link above), but you can go to the project’s dedicated SITE for more if you like.

amazing.

also, beautiful…

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sooo, THIS just happened.

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I was reading an amusing note on boingboing, then was mired in senselessly bitter, judgmental anti-fixed-gear ranting in the comments of the piece, atypical for boingboing. One light in the dark, so to speak, was a post about the commenter’s fixie conversion, built off of a 60′s Frejus road bike. I followed over to David Forbes’ site, and marveled at the conversion. This is what it’s all about: not necessarily stripping a well-functioning road bike for no reason, as some detractors say, but rather giving new life to old gear and learning a fun, invigorating ride style in the process. His father lost the bike off the roof of their family wagon and the rear derailleur post collapsed. So the bike, now in the hands of the grown son, was converted to fixed-gear and enjoyed a new existence. Now, what I love, beyond the fact something that might have been landfilled is on the road today: he really scratch-built the hell out of it. Hand modified front chainring, handmade wheel, and my favorite detail in the bike’s evolution, an internally routed headlamp wiring assembly to batteries within the handlebar ends with a toggle in the bar end plug. SO AWESOME.

Sadly, nearly no one in that comment string bothered to read through and see that bike, as it was the absolute perfect counterpoint to all their whining. For me, the answer is even simpler:

HATERS GONNA HATE. No reason in this life to criticize the personal choices of others.

Anyway, great build, David!

http://www.nixiebunny.com/frejus/index.html

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Most guys might have a scuff-ring of a condom in their wallet (or several if they go through them)… but I have a dorky scuff-ring of… a valve extender.

Nice.

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