Colleges are closed for Midwinter Recess and which means this weblog is simply too. Nonetheless, since 2024 is The Yr Of Paring Down, I’m benefiting from the downtime to stock and assess my velocipedal holdings as they at present stand. So between Monday and Friday I’ll make an intensive accounting of all my bicycles, not together with those belonging to different members of my rapid household, or components and frames stuffed deep in a storage unit, which is to say it received’t be very thorough in any respect. However, it will likely be a kind of full image of all fully-assembled bicycles at present owned, operated, and recurrently ridden by me. This may permit me to find out whether or not or not I have to proceed divesting or buying because the case could also be, and is completely for my very own edification. So when you’re welcome to learn and remark don’t anticipate to be entertained, although truthfully you shouldn’t expect that anyway.
See you again right here Monday, February twenty sixth.
I Love You,
–Tan Tenovo
1982 Nishiki Cervino
Use: Street rides
Garments: Bikey, wooly
Miscellaneous notes: No less than 75% of the time Paul from Basic Cycle sends me a motorcycle to strive I find yourself falling for it. I fell for the Cervino as a result of it’s such a gorgeous instance of a basic street bike, and regardless of the tall gearing it’s very snug and a pleasure to experience. It’s the one bike I maintain inside my precise residence, and whereas I’m liable to decide on it any day of the week it’s my favourite bike for a Sunday experience. The Sunday street experience is an act of devotion, and to don the normal Fredly vestments and lash my ft to the pedals simply as generations of cyclists have carried out earlier than me makes me really feel at peace with myself and at one with biking dorkdom.
The Faggin
Use: Street Rides
Garments: Bikey
Miscellaneous notes: If using the Cervino is a ritualistic act of communion, then using the Faggin could be very a lot a cosmopolitan, carnal affair, like indulging in wealthy food and drinks and all that comes with it. Don’t let the pink paint idiot you; this factor is a race bike, and with the lengthy and low cockpit it definitely acts like one. Just like the Cervino it’s additionally a basic, however in contrast to the Cervino it’s nicked and dented, with little rust spots and a hodge-podge of elements from deep within the components bin. Two sides of the identical coin, yin and yang, the angel and the satan on every shoulder, Abbott and Costello, yadda yadda.
Total I believe the paring down went fairly good!
