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All two wheeled things come in threes?
Or maybe this is just becoming a wee tad skosh ridiculous. It was a new day, so I went out and found another bike! At least this one was really close, about the same distance from home as the location where I was creamed by an automobile, albeit in the opposite direction, and of course, to the very opposite effect. I say, "YAY!" Did I mention I've never had a mixte before? Seems I can't say that anymore, although I will find a home for the child carrier. I've never had one of those before either, nor the need, and I expect neither of those will change.
And when I found the Panasonic, I was wrapping up my first ride on the same-road-find of two days ago. Having steadily morphed into a fan of straight bars with bar-middles (likely more on that later, or at least an explanation), I made the swap this morning and am very pleased pinkish with my choice. Good chance I more than doubled that bike's time on singletrack in my first ride on it today! Yay, it's sweet.
Things do come in threes! Usually crashes but that's a different story. Do you have a community bike shop around? The one in Asheville is pretty awesome, it's mountains of parts sorted by... well... part. https://the-asheville-recyclery.business.site/
ReplyDeleteThere's RAD bike down in Springfield, which is, well, rad, but I've been into only once. There's also for-profit Hampshire Bicycle Exchange, which has similar used-parts-by-part boxes in back. And finally, there is the Bike Lab in Northampton run by Ruthy of Pedal People, whom I just emailed about opening myself the first Saturday of months when she is away!
DeleteI just binge read all the posts since summer. Got teary eyed couple of times... If i could find a metaphor which combined a rollercoaster and a steady uphill climb I'd insert it here. Good work on the recovery. I never thought I'd be this happy reading about obscure free bikes.
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