Bicycles

[dukeofdelridge]

Spring is semi-sprung, it's time for bikes again. I will ride a bike to work today (greatest benefit: avoiding Opening Day Mariners' traffic). I want you all to get on a bike in the next few days. Bike path, dirt trail, trip to the bar, whatever. Pop a wheelie if you can (ayo). Thanks.

 

[mrmatthew]

At first, you sounded like yr from Portland.
But mariners = seattle. Close enough.

Bikes are fun. everyone should have one.
And if you think you are too broke to buy one, you can seriously find nice 10-20 yearold road bikes at thrift stores for under $50.
Dont be a hump.
Go for a ride.

 

[dukeofdelridge]

mr matthew: may all your gears shift flawlessly and may your shiny side stay up.

 

[Almond]

I ride my bike a lot. It's not that fast and one of the breaks has been broken for a year, but it still does the job.

 

[dukeofdelridge]

Almond: may you skid or stoppie your way (whichever is the working brake) to happiness on your two-wheeled fun machine.

bike fairy out

 

[HairyBelafonte]

Bikes are fun. everyone should have one.

Any bay urry famalam that needs bike advice, hollerate.

 

[tripledouble]

for some reason i got 25 bikes i the shed. hard to pass up when i see them for a good price. used to get them to the highschool kids i worked with, but now that im not there all the time, theyre piling up.

gonna sell a bunch at the clark park flea market this weekend and buy a $500 bike trailer with the proceeds.

 

[Horseleech]

I was an NYC bike messenger for 7 years, '87 - '95 - any other former/current messengers here?

 

[gravelheadwrap]

I ride for riding bikes


I'm on a one speed cruiser mountain bike w/ 29" tires. Seem to be the popular thing to have anymore.

 

[phongone]

hell yeah, bikes are the best! I ride road and mountain. Here's a pic of me bustin air off a rock.

 

[tripledouble]

daaaaamn dude! shreddin it!

only pic i got...an old beater that unfortunately got stolen. that basket was real handy.

 

[HairyBelafonte]

damn tony, you gots some big nuts.

 

[tripledouble]

and of course

 

[phongone]

That's a sick bike. I dig the fenders. You could've blinged it out if it didn't get stolen.

 

[street_muzik]

Here's mine.

 

[dukeofdelridge]

these my dudes right here!

The local trails open up tomorrow (there'll be sneaux up high, but we'll see), and I'm ready to get radical. Totally radical. Bros. I just rallied the neighborhood and I'm ready for beasting on some shit.

I'll put the big double racks on the back of my bike path jobbie this weekend...

"get on yer bikes and ride!"

 

[clint_torez]

I was an NYC bike messenger for 7 years, '87 - '95 - any other former/current messengers here?

Current messenger here. This winter was murderous to say the least.I peddle a total of 36 hours a week.

 

[Jimster]

Heh... old mountain bikes are kind of a fetish I've had for a while. Down to just the 4 now... Thing is, there's always something you can "Upgrade" on them.

This site -> http://www.retrobike.co.uk is like the strut for bike raers.

The current gang:

1998 Bontrager, complete rebuild with red ano, inc. red ano Maguras. Red ano is the truth:

Bontrager paint (black metalflake - jyeah!):

Cannotdale in commuter form:

Cannotdale in attack form (3M reflective decals baby):

Mad 5-man bike I rode the London > Brighton on:

Newest addition (needs rebuild, with purple ano. Purple ano is also the truth):

29" Singlespeed I will do next.

 

[JustAlice]

http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=0&Number=1127773&page=0

This thread from last summer may be of interest.


I have a bike, but it hasn't seen the light of day in a minute.
I think I just need to get it tuned up to be road ready again, been thinking about it more and more lately. The weather is finally starting to get nice so maybe I'll finally get aroundtoit

 

[Horseleech]

I was an NYC bike messenger for 7 years, '87 - '95 - any other former/current messengers here?

Current messenger here. This winter was murderous to say the least.I peddle a total of 36 hours a week.

Yeah, this winter must have been a bitch.

My last summer on the job we had 39 days over a hundred degrees, and the last winter I rode we had almost 6' of snow (at once). I rode through all that shit.

Too wimpy for that now, though.