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In 2008 I spent some time in Odawara , Japan cycling amongst other things. ridejapan.blogspot.com could be worth a look if you want to see what one part of Cycling Heaven is like... Don't forget to click on the 'Older Post' link at the bottom of each page...
John Welshford 'Walkabout' |
The problem was the lack of space, tools, and water access… in the end I had an epiphany…!
Why not practice Epoxy Plywood construction simultaneously satisfying another burning desire that I have been converting since stumbling onto my all time favorite site bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com …
That of 'rejoining' the ever-growing list of smug hipsters tooling around on all manner of fixed wheel expressions.
That of 'rejoining' the ever-growing list of smug hipsters tooling around on all manner of fixed wheel expressions.
I say rejoining because I still savor the faint glow of 'smugness' from back in the 80’s 'plying' forgive the pun, the streets of Sydney on my track bike.
Some might even still detect a kind of cock-sure swagger in the way I stroll into bike shops and the like that only a fixed wheeler has…
The lofty heights of this 'fixation' was audibly appreciated in the form of countless horn blowings I received one sunny summer Sydney Saturday when I decided to pick up a double foam mattress destined for my camper van trip around OZ… on the track bike!
Call me green/orange... I just couldn’t see the point of missing out on a perfectly good 10k ride.
The lofty heights of this 'fixation' was audibly appreciated in the form of countless horn blowings I received one sunny summer Sydney Saturday when I decided to pick up a double foam mattress destined for my camper van trip around OZ… on the track bike!
Call me green/orange... I just couldn’t see the point of missing out on a perfectly good 10k ride.
I declined the offer of delivery, mentally reserving the funds for more Baba Ghanoush and to the dismay of the shop staff, preceded to tie the mattress up on the shop floor into a somewhat large awkward roll, hoisted it over one shoulder and spun on down the Pacific Hwy wearing noting but 80’s high cut runners shorts…you know the ones split up the side too almost the waist band….
When I say ‘spin’ I’m talking courier like, ‘stand aside or bare a child’ pre-Hipster shit!
When I say ‘spin’ I’m talking courier like, ‘stand aside or bare a child’ pre-Hipster shit!
Just now, I’m wondering about ‘smugness' that Snobby is so acutely aware of, it’s probably like energy, you can’t destroy it …It just reverberates through cool stuff like bikes and high cut running shorts and places like NY.
And it can be created in the first instance in a naive sort of way...
I think also that smugness can 'pop up' on the planet when some is created elsewhere... which leads me to the thinking that maybe, just maybe I was a precursor to of all that, out of hand Triathlon smugness... riding around half naked, crusted in salt water, in running shorts.
And it can be created in the first instance in a naive sort of way...
I think also that smugness can 'pop up' on the planet when some is created elsewhere... which leads me to the thinking that maybe, just maybe I was a precursor to of all that, out of hand Triathlon smugness... riding around half naked, crusted in salt water, in running shorts.
That bike by the way, ended up being thrown off the100m high cliffs, in a sacrificial burial at sea to join numerous other vessel in the cold Southern Oceans watery grave site of the Great Australian Bight.
It had inadvertently been crushed behind the Roo Bar of my 'mattress on wheels' during an all-night dash across the desert..! That must have hurt...! The karma of which I'm still living with...
Is there a syncopation emerging here with bikes and boats?
Some say bikes and aircraft, with the Wright Bros and the likes of those Aerospace backgrounded, titanium wielding Oregon frame builders.
But for me its bikes and wooden boats!
But for me its bikes and wooden boats!
Just to have built my own frame, rig it up and then ride it is probably very similar to the satisfaction of sailing or rowing off into the distance in your own hand made boat...
So satisfying that I think all call this creation ‘Sperm’
So satisfying that I think all call this creation ‘Sperm’
'Blow it out ya Ass' although a satisfying feeling and undoubtedly 'propelling'... would stand to be miss understood and doesn't have the depth of meaning and synergy that Sperm does.
Sperm epitomizes the feeling of satisfaction and the feeling of having finally created some smugness!
The sperm's tenacity in competition and ability to propel itself at amazing speed are 'bikeable' qualities. Did I hear somewhere that if a sperm was the size of a whale it could swim across the Pacific in a matter of hours…! …! Obviously more marine syncopation.
The sperm's tenacity in competition and ability to propel itself at amazing speed are 'bikeable' qualities. Did I hear somewhere that if a sperm was the size of a whale it could swim across the Pacific in a matter of hours…! …! Obviously more marine syncopation.
Kamikaze Sperm, although unproven, congers up visions of Bike Lane Salmon, and fixed wheel riding, testosterone laden, 'Bike Messengers' types darting about the wombs of our cities are obviously sperm expressing their desire in the real world …!
Apart from all these wonderful connotations, undeniably a ‘woody’ of this magnitude could be a real Chick Puller!!
Well I have probable said enough so I will leave you with the details to make your own decision whether Plywood is the new Carbon...
'Sea Trials' will begin as soon as I get a chain and a befitting Maiden Voyage undertaken.
Stay posted Buccaneers!
ridejapan.blogspot.com shows some of the build... and a couple of post from ridejapan...
ridejapan.blogspot.com shows some of the build... and a couple of post from ridejapan...
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