Not Blak Fridaying

If I were, I would be hitting this!

I actually have plans for such a thing. Sadly they include taking it on very infrequent kayak Trips and for some inter-modal commuting that would take well over twice as long as simply driving there. So, theres not  lot of actual need for such a thing and since I haven't been working due to a broken foot, there is little money for one of these things. Oh sure, there is the "wicked neat" factor. Of course to "fit in" in the greater boston blogosphere I need a Brompton. Like this one.

Now I have a soft spot for French Bikes, but these things start at eight hundred and fifty Pounds so, they are significantly more pricy than the Origami Cricket pictured above the above. Perhaps if I suck up to a local custom frame builder I can make my own. Make my own folding bike huh? I can't make my own pancakes with 100% certainty. I think home-made folding bikes are out!

Folding bikes.

Love them.
Want one.
Dreaming up reasons why I "need" one.
Can't afford one (even a cheepie).
Am not capable of manufacturing one of my own.
Accepting donations!

Dead Blogs

As I sit here recovering from my "incident" I have a lot of time on my hands. I have been catching up on a lot of the blogs that I had subscribed to when i first started to enjoy the pastime of Cycling and realized that most of them are dead! There is one particular fellow in Boston who I was convinced had or contributed to a Blog and it was him particularly that I was seeking out. I had the opportunity to sell him a frame for a project that he was thinking of a while ago but it didn't work out. I wish that it had! He is definitely the kind of guy the I would like to know better IRL, but since that opportunity has passed, I wanted to stalk his intern self. Nothing, There are a lot, like 10, of those old blogs that I found interesting that have one or two posts in the last year or none at all! Get Bloging people! 

What a pretentious twat!

I don't know why I keep reading her. It's like a train wreck. I can't look away. I value her opinion (sort of). I care about her, I have a crush on her at the same time I want to punch her right in her hipster nose.

My foot hurts something awful. It's broken. My body is breaking. I need to ride or die, but ride I can not! Hope that I can hold off on the dying for a month or so!

First day of Slavery for the Marthon

Hooked the old Raleigh up to the trainer today. Sad times.

My Ross Bryce Canyon

Since I broke my damn foot I am OOS when it comes to cycling these days so all I can do is dream.... Today I am dreaming about my "camp bike" that I leave up at my in-laws' place in case I wanna ride when I am up there. I actually bought the bike to strip for parts to fix a Trek 820 that I had but the bike was in too nice of a condition to chop and, after I looked into it some, I realized that I had a pretty nice and unique ride indeed. Apparently, although the only bike I ever remembered from them was the Apollo 5-speed (you know I had one of those!). I didn't realize that they were a founding force in the Big Name mountianbike scene back in the day or that they once made, here in the USA, competitive MTBs. This one isn't top of the line, by any stretch but I think that it is at least as well specked out as any thing form the other Big Players of the era. It doesn't get ridden nearly enough but I think that it rides pretty nice. I am a little leery of taking it on real rigged trails as it is a little too big for me but for the dirt roads and back streets near FIL and MIL, It's the bomb! 

I'm number one!

Ok, I'm not but my bike is! Recognize this bike?

Well, if you ever google Diamond Back Sorrento DX you just might because it's the #1 google image that shows up! And its my bike! Isn't that cool? Any way. I love the old girl. We have been through a lot together over the years since I bought her in '94 or so. She was a left over but brand new, the only brand new bike that I ever bought. I guess she's pretty much retired now but I'll never get rid of her. She has a special place in my heart and in my eyes, and on Google Images, she is number one!

My Honey got a new whip!

 With our pending house purchase looming, we set out to find, at her request, the "perfect" bike for her.We started out close to home. That makes sense right? She didn't like any of them. We tried a little farther and she didn't like any of them. Well, that's not true. She liked one of them but the clerk would not let he ride the thing around the parking lot because it was raining. A little. This was a shop that has long been known not as a "bike" shop but a "mountain bike" shop. I guess things are going so well there the they don't need our money. Off to the next stop. There is a bike shop in Middleton that had the up-dated version of the model that she rode on vacation that she liked so much. Sure enough, she loved this bike BUT not as much as the "real" one that she rented and rode on vacation. That bike, you see, had an internally geared hub and that model was no longer made. She was pretty sure that she was going to order one of them. Just the same, she wanted to check out what the bike shop in the nicest suburb around had to offer and there she found "her" bike. A 2012 Specialized Ariel. We all agreed that it was a bike that she would find less comfortable on the first few rides, but want to ride more often as she grew used to to it. Of course, if she didn't lie it right away, she would never get to that point. It was decided: she would order the Comfort Hybrid. The plan was set. 

So, of course the next day, she bought the Specialized Ariel. Between the day that she bought it and the first day that she got to ride it, she decided that she hated it. Oh great. That lasted about 15 seconds into the ride. She absolutely loves this bike. So much so that she is even contemplating allowing a bicycle rack placed on her car!