When I introduced final week that George Plimpton’s Y-Foil was in the marketplace I had no concept I’d be competing with maybe the one bicycle in existence that’s much more culturally important:
Pee-wee’s bike is predicted to fetch between $30-$60K:
I don’t know what’s crazier–paying $30K for Pee-wee’s bike, or paying $13K (sorry, $12,999.99) for a plastic Specialised:
Most likely the Specialised, because the Pee-wee bike may at the very least maintain its worth. In the meantime, try the depreciation on an S-Works:
It’s type of superb how a lot bike you may get for therefore little in case you’re keen to place up with the primitive know-how of the very current previous akin to mechanical drivetrains with solely 11 speeds and (shudder) rim brakes.
And extremely the additional again you go, the cheaper they get:
No pesky tariffs, and also you don’t even should plug them in to shift!
Wonderful.
Then with the cash you save you possibly can lastly take that dream trip to New York Metropolis, the place you’ll get caught on a tour bus that has collided with a NYPD site visitors enforcement agent:
I didn’t witness the precise collision, however my guess is that the site visitors enforcement agent and the tour bus driver have been racing to see who may block the bike lane first:
[Who else watches “The Last Of Us” and thinks about which bike they’d most like to have with them in a post-apocalyptic scenario?]
In moments like these you’re lucky to be on a bicycle since site visitors instantly backs up for blocks in each path, however you should even be additional vigilant as drivers will flip abruptly into your path as they desperately try and flee the site visitors jam like they’re making an attempt to flee the Apocalypse:
As a lot as I’ve been having fun with my spring bicycle commutes I used to be fairly relieved this weekend to experience away from the town as a substitute of into it:
And as a former skilled bike blogger turned semi-professional bike blogger now turned principally leisure bike blogger it’s recumbent upon me to supply the occasional product overview, and I’m formally declaring my new tires implausible:
Actually the entire goddamn bike is implausible–so implausible I’m not permitting myself to make any extra adjustments to it in any respect, regardless of (or actually due to) my predilection to tinker. The bike is so good proper now I solely want I have been capable of bodily lock myself out of it fully (other than using it, clearly), as a result of making an attempt to enhance it any additional can be to fly too near the solar, and naturally everyone knows what occurred to Icarus:
[Did Campagnolo seriously not read the story before naming a component group after Icarus?]
Actually, there needs to be a pre-packaged equipment for fool mechanics like me who’re unable to go away effectively sufficient alone, the identical method they’ve units for drunks that require them to cross a breath check as a way to begin their automobiles. Principally what I would like is a set of these theft-proof bolts, solely with no direct entry to the important thing:
If I do need to use the important thing I needs to be compelled to pay a minimal non-refundable price of $500, which needs to be enough to at the very least make me suppose twice earlier than implementing some pointless change or, Lob forbid, “improve.”
Talking of Rivendell, I occurred to note the A. Homer Hilsen pre-sale opened yesterday:
As all the time I’ll subject my commonplace disclaimer that Rivendell didn’t ask me to say this, and I merely share it as a extremely happy Hilsen proprietor who was intrigued to see that the newest iteration just isn’t solely accessible on this sensible inexperienced shade but in addition includes a pump peg on the seatstay:
I’m psychologically extra snug with conserving pumps underneath the highest tube, although when it’s time to hold my bike down the steps I do contemplate the deserves of alternate pump placement.
By the best way, in case you’re questioning what the distinction is between the Roadini and the Homer, the semi-official line from Rivendell is that it’s not a lot:
My very own Homer is a bit more completely different than my Roadini because it has 650b wheels, however now these are relegated to the smaller Homer sizes solely, so finally your resolution may merely come all the way down to your private emotions about kickstand plates (the Roadini doesn’t have one and the Homer does) and whether or not or not you thoughts having to lean your bike towards indicators while you’re not using it:
I made the simple alternative and bought considered one of every.
