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Tom Sherman writes: Here most of the newer and larger grocery stores in the US have lanes where the customer can scan or weigh items, bag them, then pay by inserting cash or with a debit or credit card. Yeah, next we'll have UPC barcodes beginning with 666 tattooed onto our foreheads/hands. If you have to scan it yourself, make an effort to not look into the laser beam. Personally, I don't believe the testimony of John the Revelator. I think he just accidentally ingested some ergot or something. I hope there's a discount for self-service. Anyways I love shopping by bike, and I highly recommend it. Any other transportational medium renders shopping an odious chore. The best part is heading homeward with a bikeful of good stuff. It feels joyfully replete. cheers, Tom -- Nothing is safe from me. I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca |
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Zoot Katz writes: On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:26:12 -0600, "Kevin" wrote: Just curious... :-) It looks more like an ebay store front. Riding cuts into posting time Today was a beauty for riding, and the world & his wife knew it. Riders swarmed the streets. It was beautiful. According to the forecast, tomorrow it's back to March showers, April showers bring forth May showers. and I've lately been spending more online time bantering in a local forum with people I know and on a "social networking" site for bicyclists: http://www.meandmybicycle.com/ They want Flash and newfangled JavaScript. I'm excluded (again.) Oh, well. My "new" bike is a work in progress. It's the sweetest looking kids' bike for 20" wheels. The frame is a Canadian made "Free Spirit" with a curved down tube and twined top tubes matching that curve. Kind of like a mixte but the twin tubes stop at the seat tube. It has curved seat stays too. It's really just a rusty POS right now. I'm setting it up with a Sachs 3 spd. coaster brake hub, alloy rims and a mini ape hanger to get enough rise. The only missing ingredient is a 25mm seat post at least 50 cm long. The plan is to finish it black and chrome with a front basket, folding rear baskets, fenders, generator lights and flat pedals for quick utility trips. I just luvs curvy tubes! She's gonna be purty. 'Specially if, during painting, you could get a crimson underlay and a black overlay to make a sort of subtle garnet/Coca Cola effect. I noted down at OCB they have a Twenty up for sale. The poor thing has seen the worst for wear, though. Nevertheless, I think a right-minded person could fix 'er up. Twentys make excellent shopping bikes. At least, as long as they have durable brakes. As for rise, and as I noted in a previous post, I'm told OCB is getting-in some super tall stems. There's a new bike shop incipiently opening up at Main & 55th. If you go there and they're not open yet, you can go to Uncle Ming's Kitchen for Singapore chow mein, or across the street to Wo's for a good bowl of hot 'n sour soup w/ all kinds of stuff in it, so the trip would still be worth it. Klahowya, Tom -- Nothing is safe from me. I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca |
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On Apr 11, 9:26*am, "Kevin" wrote:
Just curious... :-) *It looks more like an ebay store front. Kevin Chinese and Russian ebay. J |
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Zoot Katz writes: On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:17:08 -0700, (Tom Keats) wrote: The plan is to finish it black and chrome with a front basket, folding rear baskets, fenders, generator lights and flat pedals for quick utility trips. I just luvs curvy tubes! She's gonna be purty. 'Specially if, during painting, you could get a crimson underlay and a black overlay to make a sort of subtle garnet/Coca Cola effect. Montana, the graffiti paint specialists, have a colour named "Coke". I was thinking more along the lines of Tremclad glossy black since I already have a couple cans. Well at any rate, black & chrome is always a winning combination in my eyes. Especially with those retro- looking, bullet-shaped generator headlights. I'm also enamoured with nickel plate in lieu of chrome; I find nickel plate has a warmer and less severe look to it than chrome. And the matte black seen on so many Euro-style bikes has an allure of its own. But I'm sure whatever you do with it will work wonderfully. I noted down at OCB they have a Twenty up for sale. The poor thing has seen the worst for wear, though. Nevertheless, I think a right-minded person could fix 'er up. Twentys make excellent shopping bikes. At least, as long as they have durable brakes. As for rise, and as I noted in a previous post, I'm told OCB is getting-in some super tall stems. So far this project has cost $18.40 for the frame, handlebar, longer crank and bigger chain wheel. The steerer tube takes a 21.15mm quill stem that I was able to scrounge. The seat post out of Yorick fits so they'll share it until another exercise bike with a 25mm seat post shows up. Yeah, I dunno why longer 1" seatposts are so hard to find. The apehanger thing intrigues me, in terms of my own purposes. Having a lot of handlebar real estate can be nice. Contemplating whether to braze on some cable guides and chain guard mounts. Sure, why not? I'd be inclined to seek out The Perfect Chainguard first, though. Unless you already have it. With also a skirtguard I think it'll become a lovely, petite/pixie-ish women's city runabout. Small calibre shell casings might make interesting cable guides/stops. Especially if they have an Iraq history. Just to make a positive statement about beating swords into ploughshares. On the other hand, that might be construed as morbid. The fenders and baskets will be the items driving up the budget. The bike shouldn't cost more than seventy five dollars when it's done. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Heh. You say that now ;-) It would be kewl if our indigenous artisans would weave bike-specific baskets while integrating traditional Native motifs & themes into them. Bike baskets with local appeal ... hmmmmm ... A large enough fishing kreel might also make an interesting & practical bike basket. Maybe stick some sort of insert into the hole in the lid, to make a cup/bottle holder. cheers, Tom -- Nothing is safe from me. I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca |
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On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:03:47 -0700, (Tom
Keats) wrote, in part: The seat post out of Yorick fits so they'll share it until another exercise bike with a 25mm seat post shows up. Yeah, I dunno why longer 1" seatposts are so hard to find. The apehanger thing intrigues me, in terms of my own purposes. Having a lot of handlebar real estate can be nice. I have a long 1" seat post. It's too large. This one's twenty-five point zip on the caliper. A petite artsy tall-biker nerdgrrl I know did this abstracted version of an inosilicate molecule with her extra real-estate. http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r...monkeybars.png \ The fenders and baskets will be the items driving up the budget. The bike shouldn't cost more than seventy five dollars when it's done. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Heh. You say that now ;-) I scrounged 3 doz. 12ga spokes off Donald but have yet to see if they fit the hub drilling. A-1 had black plastic fenders for $19.95 including GST. Folding rear baskets are going to be thirty (less 15%) so that leaves less than ten bux in the budget for a front basket unless I use one of the news-boy baskets kicking around. I've not yet looked for a front brake. The headlight will probably be a fork mount uni-block generator just to keep me legal. It would be kewl if our indigenous artisans would weave bike-specific baskets while integrating traditional Native motifs & themes into them. Bike baskets with local appeal ... hmmmmm ... A large enough fishing kreel might also make an interesting & practical bike basket. Maybe stick some sort of insert into the hole in the lid, to make a cup/bottle holder. Bike-buckets and a milk crate haven't yet been ruled out. Nor has wrapping the whole frame in rattan or hemp twine. Returning the plastic fenders and buying bamboo to fabricate fenders, chainguard and rack. Then use some natural material baskets from Chinatown to complete the look. I'm afraid with a creel on the front I'd want a rubber fish tail sticking out of its lid. -- zk |
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Many of the ideas presented here, including yours,
have influenced my thinking about cycling protocols. =v= Who, me? But I was being a jerk (and even spelled your name wrong). I always figured that the half-naked women with chocolate got the message across much better than I did. ;^) _Jym_ |
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Zoot Katz wrote:
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:26:12 -0600, "Kevin" wrote: Just curious... :-) It looks more like an ebay store front. Riding cuts into posting time and I've lately been spending more online time bantering in a local forum with people I know and on a "social networking" site for bicyclists: http://www.meandmybicycle.com/ Interesting... My "new" bike is a work in progress. It's the sweetest looking kids' bike for 20" wheels. The frame is a Canadian made "Free Spirit" with a curved down tube and twined top tubes matching that curve. Kind of like a mixte but the twin tubes stop at the seat tube. It has curved seat stays too. It's really just a rusty POS right now. My new 'Sunny Day' bike was actualized from a parts pile into a real wooden boy^W^W^H functioning bicycle by the death of another CrossCheck frame. I'll see if I can't post a few pretty pictures of it. It's shiny and yet wrong. I'm setting it up with a Sachs 3 spd. coaster brake hub, alloy rims and a mini ape hanger to get enough rise. The only missing ingredient is a 25mm seat post at least 50 cm long. I suppose you could look in the unicycle universe for that sort of thing, I know they have ridiculously long seatposts available. 25.4 I thought though. -- Dane Buson - A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention. |
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Jym Dyer wrote:
Many of the ideas presented here, including yours, have influenced my thinking about cycling protocols. =v= Who, me? But I was being a jerk (and even spelled your name wrong). I always figured that the half-naked women with chocolate got the message across much better than I did. ;^) All messages come across better from half-naked women with chocolate. HNWwC: I'm going to hurt you now. DroolingMale: Okay... hurhur... Pretty lady. -- Dane Buson - "I figure if I kill the first one, the word will get out." - Charles Barkley on handling his 12-year-old daughter's future boyfriends. |
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