Roaduno: The Bike So Nice I Had To Gear It Thrice

Usually I level the Roaduno away from the town, however yesterday we headed proper into its coronary heart:

The explanation for the journey was that I used to be engaged on somewhat video mission:

And no, I didn’t reap the benefits of the flip-flop hub and shoot a sick Rivendell fixed-gear freestyle edit on the imply gentrified streets of Brooklyn.

By the way in which, have you learnt Thomas Edison made the primary fixed-gear freestyle video in historical past? It’s true:

That video actually was filmed by Thomas Edison, too, although I’m fairly positive the soundtrack was added later.

As for the Roaduno, it was simply as glad on the roads of the town as it’s on the paths of the “nation” (should you take into account the northern suburbs the nation)–straightforward to rise up to hurry and capable of hold tempo with site visitors, but easy and secure on the town’s carpet-bombed streets:

I even took in some Bonus Gravel:

Additionally, I proceed to be very happy with the MicroDrive triple:

The 42×17 is a superb metropolis gear, and I shifted solely as soon as all day, and that was on the very finish of the journey once I acquired residence, as a result of I stay on the prime of a hill. (I insist on dwelling at elevation, so I can monitor the strategy of my many enemies.)

Talking of yellow bikes, yesterday I shared my newest Exterior column about George Plimpton’s Y-Foil, and since then naturally I’ve been checking to see if it’s having any impact on the Y-Foil Index:

[From here.]

That’s an enormous ask for the lesser Y-66 mannequin, and so I’m going to go forward and say my story is sending shockwaves via the beam bike market.

By the way in which, one of many many unlucky aesthetic side-effects of the Y-Foil’s design is that should you use a longish seatpost it stands proud the underside of the crabon beam, however this specific vendor has chosen to make lemonade out of the scenario by utilizing it as a spot to mount a light-weight:

It’s a testomony to the ingenuity for which we Y-Foil riders are well-known.

In different Trek information, somebody’s been charged for stealing a bunch of Lance Armstrong’s bikes:

I had no thought Armstrong had been the sufferer of a heist, and my first thought was that it should have been perpetrated by considered one of his many disgruntled and destitute former US Postal teammates. In reality, after wanting on the mugshot, I nonetheless assume this can be the case: