Colleges are closed for Midwinter Recess and which means this weblog is just too. Nevertheless, since 2024 is The 12 months Of Paring Down, I’m benefiting from the downtime to stock and assess my velocipedal holdings as they at the moment 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 instant household, or elements and frames stuffed deep in a storage unit, which is to say it received’t be very thorough in any respect. Nonetheless, it will likely be a kind of full image of all fully-assembled bicycles at the moment owned, operated, and repeatedly ridden by me. This can enable me to find out whether or not or not I have to proceed divesting or buying because the case could also be, and is solely for my very own edification. So whilst you’re welcome to learn and remark don’t anticipate to be entertained, although actually 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 fortuitously I don’t must make such choices and might have each. Whereas I’ve come to desire 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 probably probably the most versatile bike I’ve within the sense you can spend the entire day with it with out feeling like it’s important to or need to change bikes–like, you need to go for a experience purely for pleasure, however you additionally want to select up numerous issues at numerous 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 obtained to shoot a video in Williamsburg, and also you need to be comfy getting there and again, and capable of carry every part you would possibly want to hold, and have a lock on board so you possibly can cease for lunch or no matter, and principally be prepared for something that may probably come up save for a paceline or a criterium. Additionally, there’s an argument to be made that you need to all the time have no less than one bike with a basket, and that is my one bike with a basket.
