shinyhappyrainbows

THIS! ^

I'm building up a restomod 90s mountain bike, a 1995 Giant Sedona "Full Butted" frame I found on hard rubbish a decade ago. Bit of a trend at the moment, I know, but I have connections to that era and brand. My fifth adult bike was a 1993 Giant Iguana that lasted 20 years and would probably have lasted 20 years more had the quill stem not rusted itself solid inside the steerer, making it impossible to recondition without ruining the paint. The problem required the stem be "sweated" with a gas torch, which would have likely ruined the fork as well as the paint. So it got put on hard rubbish and was gone in minutes. It went to a home that valued it, I hope. "Iggy" was metallic forest green with silver lettering, an 18" (46cm) framed, chromoly 26er and it rode like I was sitting on feathers. "Sedon", the current project is a 16" (40cm) butted chromoly frame with 1 1/8 inch steerer compatibility, it was stock with the A-Head system, the...

the social trike riders ride I was training for a few weeks out from Christmas was rained out, but I'd turned up and did it solo anyway. then I got so much grit in the stock, mechanical disk brakes it tore the pads up. Now, I've been riding mechanical disks since 2017 and then TRP HyRd cable pulled master cylinder hydraulics after my first winter gacked up the rear brake cable. Master cylinder disks are a good compromise on a road bike where hydraulic dis road group would cost more than the bike, and my invention, Dryline, helped beat winter cable blues. On a recumbent trike that cost me 4 grand before I added the Bafang mid drive, how can Greenspeed (Terra Trike) justify $1 OEM mechanicals, when a pair of Meroca M4 front hydraulics only cost me $80 retail?! so today, I fitted them, finally got a breather from Christmas, caring for a friend recouperating from heavy surgery and being my youngest's live production manager for her DJ career. (Check out RJay on the grams, she...

I've been riding an electric cycle for 2 years, now, and I'm convinced I was right about electric bikes all along. They're a disability aid being co-opted by the able-bodied. They're also a major pain in the arse! The touring bije I rode for 8 years was converted to 250w euro-style electric assist (Australian street legal) and it gave me back my pre heart attack urban range. but it handles less well with the electrics onboard, and comes with a heap of logistical considerations if I wanted to go outside of urban spaces - which was always my first love of riding, rural rambling, the wide-open road. Electric motorists need to look to e-cycling for the reality of range anxiety! A big, heavy battery, just above the bottom bracket, 50km range if you sip it at a constant 50w boost, 15km if you hit the full 250w pedal assist. The above mentioned battery barely leaves you with room for a single water bottle, only toptube bags need apply for the job of holding fuel for the ride...

Listen to Tad, read his book , follow his advice. The rat bastards are never punished by history, they all write the framework they're remembered by. Look at how the US rightwing nod to the Nazi playbook. Look at how ICE are "embracing their purpose."

The "Sustainability Solution" to the Fermi Paradox. Big text, right? But it's a big idea. For those who may been under a rock for a few decades, the Fermi Paradox, first suggested by the physicist, Enrico Fermi, asks, "If the universe has so many stars with potential for habitable planets... where is everybody?!" The "Sustainability Solution," and it's complimentary opposite companion, the "Eschation Hypothesis" suggests they are living within their replaceable resources and are, therefore not emitting strong enough signals to be easily detectable against background radiation of their star, and all the others around it. The Eschation Solution complemtarily postulates that, when the do stick their heads up above the background noise of space, they'll be using so much energy, they will be bleeding their planet dry to do it and will be extinct by the time we detect that signal. Think nuclear war, or a runaway matter/antimatter explosion...