Bit off topic but has anyone got a belstaff brooklands/mojave jacket in size XL?
I'm unsure what size D3o back protector to go for...

 

Lol, no shame in that. Great job, congrats!!!

My LBS sorted out my issues. It seems my spokes on the left side of the wheel were about 5 Kfg less than those on the right. This was likely my fault from repeated eyeball truing of the wheel. Live and learn. As a consolation prize, I knocked 2 seconds off my PR on the local hill sprint, so there's that.

 

Ranxerox?

 

At last an evening with OK weather. Slow ride on my old French tourer with my brothers hunting dog running along.

 

I usually ride the levees around Sacramento on an Innerlight single speed built by Kimo Tanaka in Davis. Today I took a ride down to Old Sac. Here's a pumping station on the Sacramento River:


Here's a view of Sacramento from the pumping station:


And here's the water fountain at the pumping station:


Every time the city installs a new fountain here, people rip out the copper and brass to sell as scrap. They had to close the public restrooms at nearby Discovery Park a while ago because folks would tear out the copper wiring for the light. Pretty sad.

 

And pretty scary. I haven't seen anything like that happening here in NY. I remember seeing a few stories here and there about people pulling mongo out of old/abandoned houses, but nothing from public works.

 

It was a great evening to ride fixed gear so I called up my FART buddies. FART = Fixed Alternative Riding Team. We formed about 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 years ago...not really sure. Team protocol is FIXED GEAR ONLY (no single speeds or multi gears allowed)...steel frames are preferred but not a requirement...if you ride a lugged steel frame, YOU AUTOMATICALLY ROCK! If you ride a lugged steel frame that you built...well, that's just FREAKING SEAN KELLY KOOL! I think we have about 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 dudes on the team...not really sure. We're all old guys in our 50's and 60's...but there's no age requirement. I'm the official FART Administration Officer because I have a really good laminator to laminate all the official FART cards (see pic below). We (FART) joined up with a pussyfoot multi gear group ride tonight...we (FARTers) like to bring knives to gunfights...AND DOMINATE!


Getting ready to go FARTing tonight with my trusty 2010 Schwinn Sprint fixed gear bike (Reynolds 853 track steel main tubes, track geometry but not a true track frame)...Dura-Ace 7700 Track BB/crank/chain ring...50/19T(69 GI)...and Dura-Ace 7700 Track HF hubs laced to Mavic Open Pro hoops...





The official FART card on my Schwinn Sprint...held on by magnets...because steel is real, bitches! I'm in charge of laminating the official FART cards because I have a really good laminator...





The official 'Patron Saints' of FART are on the reverse of the official FART card. The reason they are the 'Patron Saints' of FART is because they are track racers and therefore rode FIXED GEAR. Pictured below on the official FART card is my Uncle Bob (left) and my Dad aka 'The Dirty Racer' (right)...both were top amateur track racers in the mid to late 1920's in Newark, NJ (Bay View Wheelmen)...Uncle Bob went on to be a pro track racer. I believe the pic is from 1926 or 1927 and is located in the Newark Velodrome...





The three FART members on the ride tonight...left to right: Jay (FART Co-Founder and Co-President), Pete (FART Co-Founder and Co-President) and Mad Dog (FART Administration Officer). NOTE: Jay built the steel frame/fork of his fixed gear bike himself (that's just FREAKING SEAN KELLY KOOL!) at frame building school...it is an unpainted lugged steel frame/fork and the dark grey finish that you see is the raw steel finish of the tubes...he keeps it from rusting by applying wax to the finish...





Meeting up with the pussyfoot multi gear riders at the church...





We (FART) brought our knives to the gunfight AND DOMINATED (as usual). The pussyfoot multi gear riders had to stop for ice cream near the end of the ride...can you believe that shit? Mad Dog is in the back of the group pic sporting the 'two thumbs up'...because he took the KOM tonight...which really isn't fair because he's the only active road racer (CAT 3) in the group...BUT Mad Dog doesn't care (like Honey Badger) because he, as well as the other FARTers, get really tired of hearing the pussyfoot multi gear riders saying crap like, "Hey you stupid FART guys, didn't anyone tell you that there's a BIG ASS HILL on the ride tonight? You've only got one gear...and you can't coast...you'll blow up on the climb...you'll spinout on the descent...you'll get dropped and we won't wait for you...you FART guys are sooooo stupid!" Blah, blah, blah...

 

Hooters bike bottle!

One left!

Better snatch it!

 

Did some biking on my Trek yesterday (my particular Kona was considered too delicate for this terrain...) not too far from my home in Kenya
Lovely day, turning into heavy rains and 13 degrees.
Wearing my ever-so-robust-and-I-do-not-care-if-I-get-robbed Swatch....

 

We had our post race season masters team ride today...perfect weather...we did 90 miles averaging 20 mph...good times.



Mad Dog with his trusty Schwinn Paramount Series 9.

 

Took this one for a spin today.

 

Gold Medal for the most Farts in one post

 

You young guys are starting to make me feel a bit old and creaky

 

Not in the UK it is raining here.

 

Porn alert!

Porn alert!

Porn alert!

If I were a betting man, I would bet that's not one of your rain bikes.

Cool Masi...I've never seen a chain stay like that...very cool.

 

Me and Merckx. And there the similarities end.

 

So... We are into candid photography, are we ? Plenty photographs here. Come here into the alley, Sir, and let me show you...







The first taste - the first samples are always for free...

 

Well gee whiz...after seeing @styggpyggeno1's super clean vintage hot rods, I started feeling a little guilty...so I cleaned my not-so-vintage (and not-so-valuable) '11 Schwinn Paramount Series 9 road bike...jamming to Molly Hatchet...sipping Dunkin' Donuts coffee...

 

Were you Flirtin' With Disaster while washing your bike?

On of the best driving songs ever IMO!

It will be stuck in my head all day now.

 

@Archer...you know it, man...in fact, the in-laws gave me "The Essential Molly Hatchet" CD a few moons ago. It rocks!!! Even though I'm a Yankee from Wisconsin, I went to college in Georgia...and gained a HUGE appreciation for Southern Rock while there.