Autumn by no means has a foul hair day–even if the elements is rainy and foggy it seems implausible:
Alternatively it’s additionally shedding that hair, and in every other week or two it’ll be bald:
In fact autumn additionally approach Halloween, and I’m going as any person two decades more youthful through using a fixie:
That creaking isn’t the ground bracket; it’s what’s left of my cartilage.
When you’re in search of your individual last-minute Halloween dress, I humbly counsel combing my archives for inspiration. Sadly for you, the Diminutive Frenchman is taken:
Having been claimed–if now not owned outright–through Paul Johnson of Vintage Cycle:
[Photo: Jamie Amador]
I imply certain, you should all the time do the Diminutive Frenchman x Jobst Brandt “collabo:”
[Image by BKJimmy]
Which you’ll in finding it at Spirit Halloween proper subsequent to the “Alien Retaining You” costumes:
And naturally as Paul rings a bell in my memory there are many different choices from which to select:
Talking of Vintage Cycle, I’m in fact their Outdated Crap Check Pilot:
And it’s a duty I take extra significantly than another, which is why I’ve been logging as many miles as imaginable at the Nishiki Cervino:
[Yes, it can gravel. Tubulars are the new tubeless.]
This Viner-made bicycle is so uncommon it makes the Rock Combo (of which, no less than in line with legend, simplest 500 had been made) look like a Surly Go-Take a look at when put next:
And between the 2 motorcycles I in finding myself making an allowance for beginning a choice of extraordinarily uncommon bicycles bought through extraordinarily mainstream corporations–and after I say uncommon I imply as a result of simplest only a few had been ever made, now not as a result of they made shitloads however all of them fell aside:
Sure, I had one, and sure, it fell aside. All of them did–regardless that extremely right here’s one on eBay with a kind of bonded Shimano cranks:
Now that’s dwelling at the edge.
Anyway, I’ve an extended historical past of ironic accumulating. As an example, as a early life I had an ironic baseball card assortment made from my brother’s cast-offs and primarily based completely at the avid gamers’ names:
I couldn’t care much less about batting averages and ERAs, but when, say, a participant’s final title was once Beard but he was once clean-shaven (in an generation when just about each self-respecting ballplayer had no less than a moustache) then so far as I used to be involved that was once a keeper. Unfortunately that assortment is misplaced within the mists of time, but when I may just create a motorbike assortment consisting of extraordinarily uncommon motorcycles from extraordinarily uninteresting corporations it could start to fill the void in my middle. As for which motorcycles the ones could be, I don’t know, exactly as a result of they’re so uncommon–I imply I didn’t know in regards to the Rock Combo or the Cervino ahead of Paul despatched them to me both. So I’m open to tips. In fact there are motorcycles just like the XO-1, however that’s extra of a “cult” motorbike, which is an entire other factor, and Bridgestone isn’t just about boringly mainstream sufficient, anyway. And in the event you’re questioning, there are not any X0-1s on eBay, however there’s an X0-2:
Most likely any person will step up and provides it the alt-bike Celebration Tempo remedy.
Anyway, talking of the Cervino, to start with I wasn’t loopy in regards to the top-mounted shifters, however now they’re certainly one of my favourite issues in regards to the motorbike. No longer simplest do I infrequently even hassle to make use of my left hand to shift the entrance, however on occasion I even shift the entrance and rear on the similar time:
I suppose new motorbike tech isn’t all dangerous in spite of everything.