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I guess this is for people who want the clean look of a fixed gear but don’t want to rely on sheer leg power to skid their way to a stop. Or it’s for those who just like to coast. Granted you don’t get that “connected” feel that you do with a fixed gear or a big wheel and you can’t pedal backwards and do cool fixie tricks, but I think the coaster brake has enough nostalgia points for me to make this post.

i was looking the closet the other day and realized 95 percent of my clothes were second hand.  except my carharts and underwears.

but right now i am about to go to a fancy restaurant to try to convince a forensic artist to make sketches of people from my past that i dont have photos of, and everything i am wearing is second hand and it smells like 3 different mens colognes.

hot!

unlike my house, which has run out of oil for the past two days, leaving us with only the option of continual tribal dancing or peeing in nalgene bottles and stuffing them down our pants to keep warm.  also, doing taxes works up a sweat like sitting at a pep rally.  FYI: mel is applying to an art teacher type job at damascus high.  go hornets and shit.

So recently I’ve been looking at handlebar bags like the Sunlite Bartender 4 and thinking about how useful these can be. Albeit generic looking and not at all unique, which is something someone like me is often concerned with when deciding on bits and parts that will have no overall cohesiveness nor rhyme or reason in how it matches the bike. I got thinking about wacky ideas for handlebar bags and instantly the vision of a clunky metal lunch box found itself in my minds’ eye. So I started looking on eBay for rad lunch boxes and found all sorts of cool ones…eh, cool to me. Stuff like “The A Team” or “The Dukes of Hazzard” were obvious choices, but not cost wise. I found a repro KISS lunch box that rocked! Then came the thought of drilling holes into them…or drinking from a 1983 thermos…YUCK!

So I reconsidered and settled for a compromise of space and functionality over pure aesthetic. Which as you can see is definitely not an issue here. An Einstein Bagels lunch box with handle removed.

Then I got working on a high-tech mounting system that will securely hold my lunch box and it’s payload while riding over bumpy terrain and not be clanky and loud…

Now the fun part….drilling holes with precision and exactitude…

I then secured the lunch box to the mounting system with superior stainless hardware for easy removal at rest stops and so noone steals it while I’m inside a liquor store shoplifting…

So now I can carry my three PB&J sandwiches and a can of Mountain Dew safely and within easy grasp while I’m riding. Plus, I can tape the queue sheet to the inside of the top of the lunch box for easy reading at busy intersections. I’m also going to trick it out with bottle cage mounts on either side for a couple cans of Sparks.
Here’s the finished product!

There’s just enough room for my hands to comfortably grab my dialed BMX brake lever in case of emergency. So there you have it. Seven dollars worth of hardware and a one dollar lunch box from a consignment shop…and I’m rollin’ deep. I tested it (with four innertubes in boxes) around the backyard and it rattles like crazy and clanks and jiggles….perfect.
Rob

How To Properly Walk A Goat

I can only assume this is how Cory and Veronica train while out in the Republic. When they race goatless it’s like a 50lb. goat has been lifted off of their shoulders.

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I’m a little offended that he didn’t include segways in his analysis. I’m also suprised that he’s the chairman of the EFF.

Biking’s better. The average-diet cyclist is getting 85 miles per gallon of fossil fuel. Still better for 2 to share a Prius. The beefeater is, as before only 1/4 as good. At 21mpg he’s better than a Hummer, but not that much better.

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I’d be more impressed if he was riding on of those stupid tall bikes

Looks like the tall bike disease doesn’t discriminate against Canadians.

then eats yellow snow.

iron-E seems to have johnson pinned to the cold hard facts of reality wet soggy ground.

our hero can hardly breath under the weight of such literary deviciveness

but victory is never far, and johnson stands triumpant, yellowing iron-e

savagely

what what? victory

mmm yellow

Seeing as I’m mildly illiterate I don’t write essays about bikes. I barely write at all. I ran across this site with some essays targeted at bicycles and stuff.

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That pretty much sums it up. We rode at Patapsco today and Gary rode his surly as a fixed gear with no brakes. This is the second time I’ve seen him ride fixed cross country, the first was at the 24 hours of Seven Springs and Nick convinced him to use a front brake. All in all it was a good ride, weird weather, started out with a little sleet / snow but the sun came out for a bit which warmed things up and Gary didn’t die.