Bikes! - Page 37

Griff · 07-13-2014, 07:18 PM

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

monster · 07-13-2014, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Griff

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.

monster · 07-13-2014, 07:47 PM

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

)

xoxoxoBruce · 07-13-2014, 10:24 PM

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

xoxoxoBruce · 07-19-2014, 04:46 PM

Going fast...

xoxoxoBruce · 07-25-2014, 07:42 PM

Got legs?

Griff · 07-25-2014, 08:33 PM

Got body fat?

xoxoxoBruce · 07-25-2014, 08:38 PM

Methinks not.

monster · 07-27-2014, 09:52 PM

needs some ivy leaves tattooed on there.

Just dropped off two bikes for recycling....

xoxoxoBruce · 07-28-2014, 12:32 AM

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.

xoxoxoBruce · 09-11-2014, 10:44 PM

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...

Griff · 09-12-2014, 05:01 PM

xoxoxoBruce · 09-12-2014, 08:33 PM

Uh Oh, Mom's gonna kill you.

BigV · 09-12-2014, 10:03 PM

motor and transmission, nice.

lumberjim · 09-13-2014, 12:08 AM

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

07-13-2014, 07:18 PM	#541
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	I flatted today and finally got to use my co2 inflator. Too cool for school. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

07-13-2014, 07:47 PM	#543
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	(we also take all done-with bike to him for "recycling" ) __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

07-13-2014, 10:24 PM	#544
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Excellent move, he's the man to make sure it, or at least it's parts, will live on. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

07-19-2014, 04:46 PM	#545
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Going fast... __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

07-25-2014, 07:42 PM	#546
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Got legs? Attached Images __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

07-25-2014, 08:33 PM	#547
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Got body fat? __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

07-25-2014, 08:38 PM	#548
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Methinks not. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

07-27-2014, 09:52 PM	#549
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	needs some ivy leaves tattooed on there. Just dropped off two bikes for recycling.... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

07-28-2014, 12:32 AM	#550
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	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. Attached Images __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

09-12-2014, 05:01 PM	#552
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Attached Images __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

09-12-2014, 08:33 PM	#553
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Uh Oh, Mom's gonna kill you. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

09-12-2014, 10:03 PM	#554
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	motor and transmission, nice. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

09-13-2014, 12:08 AM	#555
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	You give me hope, Griff. I need to get in shape. I wanna have muddy legs. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

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