Nicely, I’m midway into my second week of consecutive rides on the Vengeance Bike:
That is much less a couple of life-style change and extra about my present schedule requiring me to experience early within the morning and a street bike being the best means of banging out just a few miles. (Additionally, the Vengeance Bike is the one one I maintain inside my precise residence, and I purchase myself extra using time by not having to go all the way down to the basement.) I don’t maintain monitor of these items, however I feel this can be probably the most time I’ve spent on a single bicycle since my ill-fated New Yr’s decision of 2018:
In that case, I used to be having fun with the Marin Pine Mountain 1 a lot I figured I might decide to it for a complete 12 months just by swapping wheels relying on whether or not I wished to experience “street” our “mountain,” which in flip led to the curation of this monstrosity:
Trying again, a bicycle like that is clearly a cry for assist, and like most individuals using ungodly bikes which were twisted into one thing they’re not, what I used to be calling out for was a Rivendell. On reflection, had I had one on the time to decide to, I’d have had a a lot better probability of seeing the decision via. Then once more, I’ve two Rivendae now and have been using a plastic street bike for 2 weeks anyway, so clearly I’m a misplaced trigger.
Talking of Rivendell, right here’s one thing:
Please word that no person at Rivendell requested me to put up this, I simply seen it whereas visiting their website. Actually, I’m fairly certain at this level Rivendell would favor I cease mentioning them altogether, since by now any affiliation with me is a legal responsibility. Nonetheless, it is a bike weblog, and you may’t cease me from speaking about bikes:
This bike is principally a less expensive Platypus with out all of the lugs and curlicues. which can be of curiosity to you too have come to understand the various virtues of the step-thru efficiency bike:
Whereas the Vengeance Bike is technically on mortgage, I’d say that of all my bikes no two complement each other higher than it and the Platypus, in that every is every part the opposite just isn’t.
Lastly, the native smuggies are predictably delighted by the New Yorker’s newest bit of caprice:
That is their most cloyingly urbane bicycle-themed cowl since this one, by the identical artist:
Helmets on the seaside, bicycling in face masks, really utilizing the little foot restrains on the kiddie seat… Nicely, they definitely know their readership, I’ll give them that.
