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I flatted today and finally got to use my co2 inflator. Too cool for school.

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Originally Posted by Griff (Post 904552)

A useful man. :)

Hell yeah. He fixed my bike after beest broke it, helped Thor "build his own" bike, helped Hector overhaul Hebe's old pink bike and respray it green and helped hebe with a working model for her science fair project "how do gears make bikes go faster". He also builds supremely lightweight electric bikes for fun.

We figure we should rename pottery "ceramics and cycles" -everyone there gets bike help at some point.

(we also take all done-with bike to him for "recycling" ;) )

Excellent move, he's the man to make sure it, or at least it's parts, will live on. :thumb:

Methinks not. :haha:

needs some ivy leaves tattooed on there.

Just dropped off two bikes for recycling....

This project might be good for bragging rights at the bar, but I think it's a horrible thing to do to a little girl.

Collectors Weekly has an article titled;

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The Hippie Daredevils Who Were Just Crazy Enough to Invent Mountain Biking

It's a pretty interesting story about how it evolved. It starts out...

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On October 21, 1976, a small group of cyclists and a dog named Junior gathered on Carson Ridge, which rises just west of Fairfax, California. It was mid-morning and the sky was bright blue, a beautiful day for racing 50-pound vintage Schwinn Excelsior clunkers down Cascade Canyon Road, whose winding dirt surface plunges 1,300 feet in less than two miles, past serpentine outcrops, low-lying chaparral, and scattered oaks on its way to the confluence of San Anselmo and Cascade creeks.

Among the bike riders assembled that Thursday morning, at an hour when most folks were dutifully toiling at their boring 9-to-5s, was Fred Wolf, an early off-road cyclist, and owner of Junior the dog; Charlie Kelly, a roadie for a beloved local rock band called the Sons of Champlin; Larry and Wende Cragg, who carried her trusty Nikkormat 35mm camera almost everywhere; and an airbrush artist and vintage-bicycle customizer named Alan Bonds, whose recorded time of 5 minutes and 12 seconds that day (average speed, about 23 mph) was good enough to take first place in a race that quickly became known around the world as Repack.

Then the Lord looked down and saw it was good...

Uh Oh, Mom's gonna kill you. :thepain2:

motor and transmission, nice.

You give me hope, Griff. I need to get in shape. I wanna have muddy legs.