Moving

As of today, I'm moving all posting over to The Sara and Donald Blog. There's no reason to keep two blogs. All two of you update your bookmarks/RSS feeds accordingly.

Bicycle Tool Roll

I have a Rivendell Bike Tube (except unfortunately mine's not the vegan version - I got it before they offered that one) on the front of my bike. I love this bag - it's exactly like they say (paraphrased): "once you put it on you'll never find a reason to take it off." That's exactly how it's been for me. I put it on my bike when my bike was some different bike. The bag stayed on the handlebars when the handlebars moved to my new ride - a Raleigh Touring 18. I store my tools, my poncho, granola bars and trail mix, phone, wallet, keys, whatever needs storin' and accessin' in that bag. I also usually ride with panniers but I've found that the front bag is the one that I use because I love the easy accessibility.

I installed the bag over a year ago, and amazingly it only occurred to me last week that I could use something to keep my tools from rattling around, being unwieldy, getting things dirty and occasionally breaking shit in my bag. So I sat down at the ol' Sailrite sewing machine that we have at work (for some reason) with some heavy-duty cloth and whipped out this marvel of engineering:

 

 

 

 

I think the bike strap holding it all together is the essence of "hey, like, i'm pretty great because not only did i like make this bag myself but i also like used this strap i had hanging around to hold it together and even the strap is bike-related because that's the kind of guy i am. the kind of guy who makes things and has bike parts laying around."

In retrospect, I might have designed in some things like loops to hold the strap, and maybe some velcro. Oh well! Maybe I'll do that in a hundred years when this one wears out.

Went for a Bike Ride this Weekend

For everybody hating on bike-riding in Dorchester, I just want to let you know that I spent all afternoon and 16 miles riding (slowly) up and down the coast of the ocean on BIKE PATHS in DORCHESTER. It was nice and you'd like it.

 

Recent Fixed-Gear Project

Can you tell I'm going through my old photos and uploading them to Blogger? Here's a fixed-gear project that I finished a few months ago. This frame started life with me as a piece of junk, and I put the parts that you see on it. It's now serving as the office fixed-gear so that people can pick up their lunch on it. Thus far, it's converted two people to the fixed-gear life - not bad for a beater bike.

 

 

 

Does Anybody Want a Motorcycle?

Because I'm selling one...

 

 

Small Bicycle

A friend went to Japan, and came back with this for me (and my wife):

 

I think we can all agree that it's pretty great.

This Bike

... is the first bike I've seen on Fixed Gear Gallery that looked better before the conversion. And I've been looking at that page for years, folks:

damn, what a shame.

I've been collecting photos of my various bike projects, and I'll be posting them here soon.

I've Been Bloggin' Around

I've been posting to another blog as of late:

Donald and Sara get Married!

So, you know, update the feed reader. I'll leave this one up for now, until I decide where I want to go, blog-wise.

The Consolidated and All-Inclusive Theory of the Internet

Al Gore is actually from the planet Nebulon in the year 3030
and he invented the internet at that time to amuse Tipper (who is actually named Screechulon Maximum Gore)
but then the internet got lonely
it wanted geeks to calm and nurture it with blog posts
so it invented sci fi
THEN the internet placed sci fi on the earth in the early 1900s to cultivate maximum geekage
geeks were born, multiplied, and then invented vacuum tubes, which they had read about from Asimov
vacuum tubes led to the internet and to awesome guitar amplification
then Al Gore came back in time and across space to earth to reclaim the internet
but he hadn't counted on the newfound strength of the internet
which caused earthling geeks to discredit him as their rightful king
which is why he's not president.
it all makes perfect sense.

My Bike is Famous

I got my bike posted on FixedGearGallery - check it out!