This previous weekend I finished for, uh, essential causes and famous a strongly-worded sentiment in addition to a crude rendering of a hand with 5 fingers and no opposable thumb making an obscene gesture:

Actually? Who might really feel that manner a few world so beguiling?

Although possibly he was simply referring to all of the senseless sheep who reside in it:

See?

As beautiful as this present day was, it was additionally bittersweet, as I used to be taking a farewell trip on the carbo-tanium LeMond…or so I assumed:

I advised myself I’d lastly return it to Basic Cycle as soon as the Roaduno arrived, since I might actually use the area:

[I have so little space I had to cut the legs off all my pants.]

However by the point I returned residence I’d modified my thoughts but once more.

Bikes have a humorous manner of constructing you discover each area and cash for them that you simply don’t even have.

One other method to unencumber some area could be to return George Plimpton’s Y-Foil, a.ok.a. the Charity Journey Destroyer, a.ok.a. the Pumpkin Spice Nightmare:

Arguably no person wants even one wildly extravagant bike from The Nice Trek Bicycle Making Firm, not to mention two. However I suppose it was solely a matter of time earlier than I become the Lone Wolf:

I additionally derive a way of satisfaction from driving a joke from my very own weblog come to life, which implies my subsequent Trek should be the World’s Best Madone:

To this present day it stays each the best commuter bike ever curated and the rolling embodiment of the Simply Purchase A Rivendell Already ethos…although arguably it’s not likely a JBARA bike because it doesn’t actually have a stem riser on it:

A real JBARA bike has a minimum of that, and normally an adjustable stem, too:

As we age our bars steadily skyward in a course of just like phototropism.

I notice I must also stress that I’m solely kidding about wanting a real-life World’s Best Madone:

After keen the Plimpton bike into actuality I ought to most likely be extraordinarily cautious.

In fact the Plimpton bike has its share of quirks, such because the Zero Gravity brakes:

Few parts could possibly be much less related within the age of discs than a pair of aftermarket weight-weenie brakes, again within the day folks used to really pay massive cash for stuff like this, and I take pleasure in studying their quirks:

So dainty are these brakes that I used to be watching a video about set up them and also you’re not even speculated to squeeze the pads collectively along with your fingers. As an alternative while you’re centering them you’re speculated to do it like this:

Apparently squeezing the pads collectively can injury the titanium spring, which…how is that even attainable? Anyway, I’d stopped to make a brake pad adjustment, therefore the above picture, and as you’ll be able to see the bolt for the pad is so tiny I didn’t even have the suitable measurement on my multi-tool. So I figured I’d swing by the useful public restore stand to see what it had:

And it had no hex keys in any respect as a result of somebody had stolen them:

Should have been the “Fuck The World” man.