I’ve noted previously, in my ongoing saga regarding transporting large coffee drinks by bike, that Wrongbike, with the basket set up on the front, carried a coffee quite well when lashed to the sidewall of the basket. I figured that was primarily due to how much vertical height the basket had for lashing. However this time I tried Rapscallion (in non kid-carrying mode) in the same way, and that worked pretty good too. The short side rails of the Gamoh rack made it a little more unstable, but the key to both, I’ve come to realize, is the use of web netting. You just lash that puppy up, and use a tightly sealed tumbler or thermos. Like so.

Welcome to my life. Pretty simple pleasures…

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So wifebot(tm) stumbled across this product in one of those Grouply type deals where you get a huge chunk off one-day only. I snatched it up for the purpose of Zoe’s future Critical Mass ride o Plenty. Now, I originally intended her first CM (and this would be an infrequent occurrence) to be Halloween, but as we are expecting our second botlet pretty much ON Halloween, that seemed infeasible. But the idea is that this would go around the front of Rapscallion’s rack and up the sides of the baby seat. For science. Bold, brand-aware, pulsing science.

It’s a long tube connected to a power pack that glows in the color you purchased.
It’e envisioned to be wrapped around the frame to make you look like a bike-shaped glowing space something when riding at night (which is the exact opposite of Tumbler) but I want to just make the front end glow like a red-hot poker. But not the red-hot poker that got men into this mess in the first place, ha.

Anyway, inexpensive even at full price. Full report when it’s actually used…

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I’ve been going through a lot of photos in some general Aperture cleanup, as well as reading through some stuff, and I’m really struck with the pang of not doing Aids Lifecycle this year. I think I’m going to campaign internally with the fam to do it for next year. Anyway, as it happened I was also going through some of my sites under the TRDL umbrella and noticed my forgotten-about Twitpic account. My TRDL Twitter account takes it’s content from FB status updates, by design, so it’s automated. But the Twitpic account was used on ALC to send daily photos and the like. Unfortunately, thanks to the EXIM business, many showed up sideways. Nonetheless, what a great day this was. I’m still filled with admiration and envy for Lung’s concept of holding Tumbler one handed by the bottom bracket shell. Sure, things could have gone terribly wrong, but what a shot!

http://twitpic.com/1vciwn#

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Crook Type 2′s owner Jake just sent me picks of the frame, now rockin the same Cinelli cockpit Lung uses on his Leader, the Tumbler.

Good taste, has he.

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Not that I would fit a U-Lock tumbler into my MASH bike… but still. Imagine if it’s a rotating component of the top tube somehow. Seems like a structural integrity issue, but maybe not…

http://www.milanofixed.com/invenzioni-c … o-la-vita/

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Sure, I tease Lung about his ranting over wanting to carry bowie knives and revolvers and compound bows on the Tumbler ‘for protection’ * I DO still think these, which i posted about last year I think, would be the coolest bike bolt-on accessory to have in the stable ever. You could use these, and copious numbers of bungies and such, to carry just about anything. Anything being generally untoward, around these parts. But still.

*Of course, my slinging scalding hot coffee and piles of loose meat and small children to my bikes is of course reasonable.

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So I spent literally YEARS developing a DIY coffee carriage system for the bike. I bought several weak products. I bought one GOOD product. I even have a workable system you’ve seen me post about.

But it occurred to me the other day: when it’s warm, i wear shorts, and my shorts have big cargo pockets. It’s an efficiency thing: i often stuff crap in there at the grocery stoe or on walks with Wee Z or what have you, I often have one or more bikery tools in there… anyway, I suddenly became aware of a barely-thought-about habit I had formed:

I carry my coffee tumbler in a side pocket when I have both the tumbler and the pocket.

Kind of funny.
Anyway.

Moving on…

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Sometimes the path to good design is the simplest one. Certainly Occam would agree.
I was stymied that my new 20 oz. awesome coffee tumbler, when placed in my gimbal carriage system, caused the top-heavy container to flip over and of course spill searing hot coffee all over my underself. Lung suggested a hiking carry harness, which would work. But then just now, I was looking at the bike, and at my tumbler, and thought, you know, the thing I liked about my original homegorwn designs was the shock absorption of an elastic material. If only there was a means to…

Ohai.

And it works, too. Just tested it. And thanks to a 20 oz coffee in the late afternoon, we can discuss it further at 3:33am!

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WR came up with the brilliant topic IDEA of a "snobSum index." the idea is that we subject our bikes to a fictitious review by the bikeSnob, using what we know about his likes and dislikes to add and subtract points from our bikes, ending with a completely arbitrary and made up number that represents the snob’s outlook on our bikes.

thus, my leader 725TR build. the bike i ride every day. the bike i rode to los angeles in the AIDS lifeCycle. the bike-shaped hole in the universe. the stealth bomber known as the tumbler…

personally, i think WR shortchanged himself by snobbing a -1 for riding a track frame. i’ve never gotten the impression that BSNYC dislikes or even disrespects track frames being ridden in the city. in fact, i can remember several posts in which he’s expressed great joy at riding his own track bike in the city. it’s brakeless hipsters in flatBrimmed caps doing BMX tricks on the brooklyn bridge before slowing down right in front of him that seems to bother him more. so i’m NOT giving myself a -1 for riding a track bike.

unfortunately, i get a -3 for riding a track bike in this PARTICULAR city, whose main geographic identifier is HILLS. ordinarily, that’d be a -1, but i’m bumping it to brand-aware for having ridden it to LA. DAMMIT!

i don’t know if i get a +1 or a -1 for my waterbottle cage. on the one hand, it’s very lone-wolfish. on the other hand, it’s a long-distance accessory on a track bike build. so we’ll cancel it.

i do know that i get a +1 for the rear fender. snobby’s big on using "wheel eyebrows," because "it’s probably urine."

+1 for the brake.

while i was inclined at first to give myself a -1 for my outlaw bandana around the headtube (in what might be misconstrued as a fashion statement), i’ve decided that he would actually give me a +1 for making my bike look less desirable to thieves by covering the headbadge. plus a bonus +1 for debadging the whole thing.

whoops, -1 for rocking an obviously $200+ cockpit.

another -1 for no tape on my bars.

final tally? -1.
totally hosed.
AYHSMB.

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Lung is in the market for replacement pedals for Tumbler. Hopefully before one falls apart, as recently happened to me on Redcoat. While searching for elusive 1/2" thread old timey ghetto pedals, I came across the section at Harris on folder bike accessories, and saw the quick-release options. Lung was all over these a few years ago, and I have to say, I still think it’s an effing AWESOME idea for a theft deterrent on your city bike. Unclip and bring those pedals in and the thief can’t ride away with your bike. Of all the stuff he’s bringing with him for the score, spare pedals aren’t one of them I’d wager. Sure, if they have a pickup nearby, as was the case likely with my first Look, it won’t matter, but that’s an A for effort anyway. This at least prevents that snatch and ride scenario at cafes or licker stoes, whatever the case may be.

The ones above are MKS and aren’t really SPD standard, just look like it. But there are SPD versions too.

Pretty rad!

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