you know, for as clearly japanese everything’s-a-fetish as THIS is, i have to give them props for actually teaching her to do everything correctly. well, she didn’t grease any of the bolts, but still. the point is she’s doing it right.

my favorite part is where she adjusts the seat, then while she’s tightening the bolt it shifts, but she doesn’t even bother to re-adjust it.

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Perhaps we should make some…

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3T is sort of the business. Sometimes.
Disclosure: I used 3T stemmery on my look for awhile. ha

http://fixthecity.es/post/9245590191/pa … cles-japan

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When we had the first MINI I used to dream about carrying around a folder bike in the boot for quick secondary stage vehicle access, such as in traffic jams or on the lam.

Now, 5 years later, not quite as compact (the bike OR the MINI) but I never cease to appreciate having a coupler bike in back on my meeting days. Drive in, throw the car in valet, leave it with wifebot(tm), bull the bike out and ride it back over the bridge after the meeting. Same with splitting up errands on the weekend in the city, etc. It’s just very much teh awesome.

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So I’m happy to report that my healing continues, or rather my incidences of re-injury are less frequent, whichever. I’ve been hitting this back route to my house almost all ride days now (whenever I don’t have Zoe on the Rapscallion) and while it’s always a leg burner, it’s thrilling to have a short steep effort as a commute. This is an example of one of the steeper switchbacks.

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So awhile ago I noted that I set out to do a bike rebuild for my loving wifebot(tm). She has a Bianchi road bike but also wanted something old school, upright, more mellow to ride around on our future family rides. So I found this amazing catch at Re-Cyclery in San Rafael. It’s some townie from the Southeast Asian market, complete with inexplicable wheelguard detailing, amazing pie platery, and pushrod brakes. I love it.

So a few weeks back, I took a break from a deadline and tuned it up enough for a size check. My wifebot(tm) is 5′-1" and has shorter legs so often even small women’s bikes don’t fit. So, I got it sorted for her, complete with brakes and gearing adjusted, air in the tyres etc and it worked great. She’s excited. Unfortunately she won’t be on it until next summer, with the baby coming and all. But it’ll be ready for her.

I did end up, at least for the test, pulling Redcoat’s front wheel. The wheel looks OK on Jaunty, but it had no tube and the rubber was a bit cracked, so since I didn’t have any spare balloon tyre tubes, i just did a wheel swap for the time being.

Anyway, it’s excellent. I love those pushrods (Thatswhatshesaid)

More to come…

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Slowly… but with great experience.

Chop of the Day Award!

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I feel like we posted this before, but I couldn’t find it. Anyway, GREAT invention.

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At first I thought it was a weird map stand or something, for the freshly minted messenger. But it’s like clamped up IN there. So I thought perhaps a poor man’s steerer compressor, like the compression bolt failed or something, so it might have been added redundantly alongside the stem… but that didn’t make sense. I was working on a third theory, but then I saw THIS ride by and was distracted:

Not really, but similar.

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Srsly.

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