Colleges are closed for Midwinter Recess and which means this weblog is just too. Nonetheless, since 2024 is The Yr Of Paring Down, I’m profiting from the downtime to stock and assess my velocipedal holdings as they presently stand. So between Monday and Friday I’ll make an intensive accounting of all my bicycles, not together with those belonging to different members of my quick household, or components and frames stuffed deep in a storage unit, which is to say it gained’t be very thorough in any respect. Nonetheless, it will likely be a roughly full image of all fully-assembled bicycles presently owned, operated, and usually ridden by me. This can enable me to find out whether or not or not I must proceed divesting or buying because the case could also be, and is fully for my very own edification. So when you’re welcome to learn and remark don’t count on to be entertained, although truthfully you shouldn’t expect that anyway.
See you again right here Monday, February twenty sixth.
I Love You,
–Tan Tenovo
Rivendell Platypus
Use: Errands, schlepping, around-town driving, household driving, lunch dates, driving to the seashore, mixed-terrain driving, gentle path driving, all types of driving
Wardrobe: Common garments
Miscellaneous notes: An individual may make do with both a Homer or a Platypus however happily I don’t should make such choices and might have each. Whereas I’ve come to favor the Homer in additional “sporty” guise, the Platypus is all about consolation and comfort, although not on the expense of reasonable off-roadability. It’s presumably probably the most versatile bike I’ve within the sense that you could spend the entire day with it with out feeling like you must or wish to swap bikes–like, you wish to go for a trip purely for pleasure, however you additionally want to choose up varied issues at varied shops, so that you simply take the Platypus, go ramble round for awhile, after which make all of your stops on the way in which residence. Otherwise you’ve acquired to shoot a video in Williamsburg, and also you wish to be snug getting there and again, and in a position to carry every little thing you may want to hold, and have a lock on board so you may cease for lunch or no matter, and mainly be prepared for something that may presumably come up save for a paceline or a criterium. Additionally, there’s an argument to be made that it is best to at all times have not less than one bike with a basket, and that is my one bike with a basket.
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