Scraper bike Remix

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HONK!

Bike Porn Tonight

Just a quick reminder, Reverend Phil Sano's Bicycle Porn tour is making a stop here in Vancouver tonight. He'll be hosting at a space in Strathcona. Come on out and bring your sexy bikes!

Ultimate Wheel

Thanks Alan.

Not only can I not ride a unicycle, I cannot ride a unicycle off road. ...and not only can I not ride a unicycle off road, I cannot ride a unicycle with no seat off road. dick. Thanks for putting things in perspective once again.

I once saw a vid about a crew of off road unicyclists, being interviewed about never getting chicks and doing their thing. I'm gonna try and find that now.

Empire - wrapping up

Here's the 'final teaser' of Empire, a film by Luke and Chris. They started this project when I was in NYC, and I've got to see the progression of it and it's riders through the NY boards. It makes me miss the sounds and smells of hooning through NYC traffic.



Of course, its got all the Gothamist readers panties up in a twist again. Check out the comments.

I'm so glad New Bike Day truly exists here, in the real world.

This is just crazy. A bike I've lusted after for some time. I don't know why, I just love the downward sloping TT combined with an elevated chain stay design. Today was an incredible case of the right place at the right time. Here's how things went down.

A couple days back, Jesse commented on one of my flickr photos.

Today out on a business errand I decided to stop into OCB, to check out this Full LX Sexdream.. err Extreme. I go in there and Jesse is not around. Johan and Gen are wrenching on some Italian Job.. Avanti I think. They said that it was actually Avan-Ti. Anyways, they don't know where this Extreme is. Gen thinks she saw it.. "Its got that floating bottom bracket, thingy. It may have gone to the Pedal Depot."

So I'm just about to head out, and out of the blue this girl who was in the shop wrenching on a single speed townie comes up and says, "Did you say you liked Haro Extreme bicycles?" in a strangely sincere voice. Amazingly my crippled sense of facial recognition kicks in and I recall meeting her as our paths converged on a Saturday ride.

"I have one in my car parked a block away."

Jaw.
Floor.

...really?

After chatting a bit while she installed new cones in her hub, she handed me her keys and said to go check it out. I take a tape measure from the shop. I find the Seafoam Honda Civic and pop the hatch. Its there. Metallic blue, on the folded down rear seat. Near mint paint. I measure the seat tube. 20" to the binder. I remember to breathe.

With the bike inside OCB, we discuss it some more. She won't let me give her anything for it. Not even lunch. Thank you SO MUCH Naomi!

I just cannot believe it.

Later in the day (with the bike still on my tarckfiets' rack) I head to the Pedal Depot to see Jesse. He's got things super tidy down there. Very organized shop at 1830 Ontario Street. (They're open 3pm to 6pm Monday through Friday to sell some new parts/accessories and help people to fix their bikes. It is set up similarly to Our Community Bikes just on a smaller scale and with slightly limited capacity.)

He does indeed have a Haro Extreme, and he pulls it out of the rack so we can take a look. Its a smaller one, measuring 18.5" to the binder. As well, the paint is a chocolate and eggplant splatter... not as stunning as what I stumbled upon, but still a decent ride. Its in beautiful condition too, all original Shimano LX components.



Anyways, I'm absolutely elevated with my new bike. There are more detail shots on Flickr. I don't think I'm going to go too crazy with the build on this one. I'll use parts I've got around here, probably retiring the Shasta WMDTB. That bike treated me well, but it was never a Sexdream.

Record Breakers!

Its interesting that he's got a holder, and some kind of BB anchor holding the bike down.