Spandex tights, Mastodon and left-side-drive make me the hardest dude on my way to work. So do long-skid contests.

My lock ring fell off, but I put it back on. You can do anything with a pocket knife/screwdriver and a u-lock for hammering.

Fedora might be powerful, but it sure is a fucking pig. Greenstone [link] is unbelievably snappy. Also, apache2 seems nice.

Holy fuck there is way too much caffeine in my blood. Meeting in 18 minutes. Fuck!

Walking the leafy path by cloudlight, with a sense of purpose, of inevitability. Nathan chimed slowly on the harmonica. We were on the move. Hunting zombies.

Bosa get an email address / gmail is dead / here is a copper bike: http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2005/may/AaronCary.htm / here is another one (only this guy is an idiot and laced his rear wheel radially: Read more... )

I fell off. Riding fixed is hard. Begin with no hands, hit a pothole and lose your footing, and you are likely to find yourself on the ground sooner than you are prepared for. Bicycle helmets are useful, at least for invalids like myself.

Ouch.

I have a fixed-gear bike! Victory! Due to the distinctive appearance of the bike, I am bound to name it 'Mantis', despite how awful that sounds. Also: riding is really hard. No, really. Also: riding is hard on the knees. My knee hurts a lot.

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Somehow a lecture on the history and extensive collection of the library of The Queen's College of Oxford University was mildly interesting. And moreso, it somehow turned into drinks on a patio on Bloor with my dad and a bunch of his way-back friends who remembered me as a six-year-old, and it was great. I must be getting old, because they didn't ( Read more... )

Oh yeah:
A few weeks ago I proved to myself that, if you have gear shifters mounted in the old style on the downtube, it is not only possible but in fact not very hard to shift gears with your feet. While riding hands free. Drunk.

Try it.
(This is next to impossible with handlebar-mounted shifters, believe me.)