just a short quick update, basically, the Spooky has some baggage 😉 ouch.
low and behold this year for my birthday my family actually got me a bike part! this is a fairly new experience for me, so please let me revel in it.
anyhow, the Spooky now has a medium Revelate Tangle Frame Bag and Gas Tank bag to make commuting possible.
lastly i got some matching leather Brooks Violet bar tape.
that’s it for now, hopefully more soon 🙂
-peter
so i drove up to Seattle today to get the Bianchi Volpe back from R+E Cycles in the U-District, as they finished one to two weeks early! wow, what a difference getting rid of those cable guides made! looks so much sleeker and more modern, i’m swooning 😉 anyhow, lots of stuff to do…. in…
Long time no see right? Sorry about that, it’s been crazy with work, life, and this jeep project I should have posted up months ago…. Anyhow, here it is in all of it’s moldy glory! The “Waggy” had been sitting for a number of years, it has a little rust here and there, but overall…
so it seems that i have a mixte build-up in the works, someday i’ll get back to the pre-war schwinn i swear! anyhow, back to the subject at hand, a mixte build, what’s a mixte you ask? well the late Sheldon Brown explains it as such, A style of lady’s frame in which the “top tube” consists…
thought they’d look cool in a harsh b+w… 😉 -peter
trying to figure out the size of spacers that are going to be required for these ’08 1000rr tokico calipers. -peter
well i finally broke down and bought the saddle i’ve always lusted after, a slick Black Brooks Swallow, and it looks damn fine on the Trek 950 Singletrack if i do say so myself 😉 other parts are starting to trickle in, with the snow pounding us this week the delivery’s have been sketchy at…