Colleges are closed for Midwinter Recess and which means this weblog is just too. Nevertheless, since 2024 is The Yr Of Paring Down, I’m profiting 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 gained’t be very thorough in any respect. However, it is going to be a kind of full image of all fully-assembled bicycles at the moment owned, operated, and frequently ridden by me. This may enable me to find out whether or not or not I must proceed divesting or buying because the case could also be, and is totally for my very own edification. So whilst you’re welcome to learn and remark don’t anticipate 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, mild path driving, all types of driving
Wardrobe: Common garments
Miscellaneous notes: An individual might make do with both a Homer or a Platypus however happily I don’t must make such selections and may have each. Whereas I’ve come to choose 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 could spend the entire day with it with out feeling like you need to or wish to swap bikes–like, you wish to go for a trip purely for pleasure, however you additionally want to select 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 best way dwelling. Otherwise you’ve acquired to shoot a video in Williamsburg, and also you wish to be comfy getting there and again, and capable of carry every thing you would possibly want to hold, and have a lock on board so you possibly can cease for lunch or no matter, and mainly 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 must at all times have a minimum of one bike with a basket, and that is my one bike with a basket.
