Showing posts with label bicycle love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bicycle love. Show all posts

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Kenny's Kids


Our pal Kenny (not pictured here) is an expert at trashing bikes! One of the best ever and proud of it. Here we have his hoopty that we converted with his pal because he was racked up in bed recovering from hitting a jay walker and then narrowly avoiding being flattened into his bike by a bus. We sold him a used front road wheel and new Cro-Moly 700c Chromed fork with a refurbished 39mm reach 1989 Shimano 105 caliper. Then we got him an affordable crankset that worked with his cartridge bearing Campy bottom bracket. Since his old Italian frame was Italian threaded we could not replace it easily to accomodate the Suginos. We gave him some track grips to go with his green frame. Some MKS Sylvan Track pedals with MKS single strap steel toe-clips and a KMC Kool Chain to hold him to the Dura-Ace cog and Wheels Mfg lock ring spun onto a Formula hub that was laced to an Alex rim by DT spokes.
We hope Kenny recovers nicely from his bumps and bruises. He helped us so much with our July 4th party where Japanther and Ninja Sonik played a benefit show for a local DJ. We had so much fun serving hot dogs and beers to our beloved customers and friends.

Monday, May 18, 2009

Flying


Thanks to my friend R2ue we have the dopest flyers around. I mean people can figure out how to dial a phone or do the internet-dot-com so why bother being too specific. If you ain't in the know, then you can't get to know.

Baby doing great. Starting to smile and laugh. It is interesting that people develop emotionally from the earliest times starting with the primitive emotions of boredom, frustration, fear and grief to wonder, curiosity and happiness and laughter. Moss laughed for the first time today and I wish I could have been there to see it.

Thanks again to all the loyal and thoughtful customers who have been supporting us. Last night one of our beloved customers came over with a couple six packs and got a wheel building lesson from Angel and I. His beautiful stable of bikes will be featured here soon.

Monday, April 27, 2009

The Results...



We overhauled Mina's sweet Suteki mixti so you can see the almost done photos. She was tired of riding in such a prone riding position so we replaced her drop-bars with a taller Nitto Technomic stem to have her more comfortable. The catch to raising your handlebars in style is; if your steerer tube is not tall enough to accept enough of the stem, you are left with a minimum rise that may be a little high for some people. You can see Mina's handlebars are now at leasat 4 inches above her saddle. Fortunately this is just where she wanted them.

After admiring and photographing Mina's lovely ride, I washed my hands and removed my wedding ring in the middle of it and there was a little greasy heart left in the sink. I could feel the love from the ring pulsing like Frodo, but it made me have to give props to the talented jewler who made my wedding ring, and produces more hand-made fashions than I can even mention with my wife.Yesterday we had a tag-sale ALERT and ran out the door like Firemen for a local sidewalk rummage sale where a Boricua sold us a load of bikes that are for sale today in our showroom. Angel got the trike out with the quickness and we gobbled up these bikes for your enjoyment and benefit.
I am happy and feel like I am living the good life here today. We shall get the word out that we are here, but many thanks to you all for recommending us to your friends, neighbors and loved-ones. Victorcito has arrived and is repairing one of his hybrids for sale here.