farsighted, near delighted! » Bikes http://blog.lifeisnotaparagraph.com a constantly evolving personal blog, currently about being pregnant, soon about being a first time mommy, set in NYC Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:04:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 My stealthy bike http://blog.lifeisnotaparagraph.com/2011/04/28/my-stealthy-bike/ http://blog.lifeisnotaparagraph.com/2011/04/28/my-stealthy-bike/#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:32:06 +0000 CilSong http://blog.lifeisnotaparagraph.com/2011/04/28/my-stealthy-bike/

Although I take up two seats with my bike, at least when I need to I can stay at work late as well as keep surly people from sitting next to me.

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My receipt from a recent trip to Ikea Brooklyn

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A bike rack pole holding both my bikes off the floor

BIKE RACK – SPAREHAND

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I was able to take one other photo of my beautiful road bike during a rest stop:

 

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I actually woke up early enough today to have breakfast at home.  Then I saw my cat acting weird.  Lately I’m liking the look and process of adding fake film grain to my pictures.

I can’t believe I just spent 11 hours at work, 6 of them retouching?  and I come home and sit right back down at my computer.

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I just made this photo my Facebook Profile picture and now it’s also a blog post?  I guess I will have to categorize this one as a “Lazy Post.”

So I got new pedals for my bike today from Nashbar and they’re shaped as butterflies!  I now have the two butterfly pedals, and if you notice I also have a butterfly light reflector on the front wheel, and a Hello Kitty bike bell.  To top it off, the accessories and bar tape match in color and when I’m actually riding this bike I complete the whole douche bag fixter look as a little asian girl with a tattoo.  God, I hope the Bike Snob doesn’t spy me and make fun of me on his blog.

I swear to god though, these are all necessary.  True, it’s not necessary that they need to be pink and be in the shape of butterflies, but everything on this bike is entirely functional.  It’s not like I’m adorning my bike with baseball cards woven between the spokes or walk my bike as an accessory or only ever bike a few blocks at a time.  It does weird me out that my bike matches better than I do on most days, but I think it’s funny that my bike says, “I make no sense, but I’m trying really hard in the least technical way possible to create something cohesive.”  (I have two different types of wheels on my bike, and my back wheel is smaller than the front).

Nashbar also sells a guitar version of these platform pedals, which I think is absolutely ridiculous.  I don’t know why, I just think it’s dumb to try and make your bike representative of any other hobbies or skills you might have, just in case anyone was ever in doubt about how cool you might be.  It’s like sticking a big fat “Zildjian” or “Weezer” sticker on your bike.  The pedals are also a little on the heavy side, but I guess that doesn’t really matter since it’s mostly for looks anyway, right?  I’m not planning to do time trials at the Velodrome anytime soon.

p.s. okay I’ll admit, I have put a zildjian and weezer sticker on my mountain bike in the past, but I’ve cleaned that act up.

 

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