Hey, take a look at that, you’ll be able to pre-order an Appaloochy!
I’ve to say, they might venture a folksy picture over at Rivendell, however it’s type of insidious how each considered one of their bikes is nearly as good as the opposite within the sense that they’re all equally versatile, and but they’re simply totally different sufficient that you simply need to have all of them.
Diabolical.
By the way in which, I’ll remind you as regular that Rivendell didn’t ask me to say this presale. Additionally, they didn’t ask me to say they’re going to be on the Philly Bike Expo this weekend:
For that matter, the Philly Bike Expo didn’t ask me to say that the Philly Bike Expo is that this weekend both. However I’m anyway, as a result of my very own reminiscences of the Philly Bike Expo are bittersweet. Principally they’re candy, as a result of they used to ask me right down to do little talks, and I’m proud to say I even spoke on the very first Expo again in 2010, when it was nonetheless within the armory:
Sadly, the bitter half occurred in 2017, once they invited me to talk on the “Business Occasion:”
I discovered one thing crucial that day, which is that whenever you give a chat and folks come to your discuss they need to hear you converse, however when persons are having a celebration and also you come to their get together and also you attempt to converse at their get together, you’re mainly simply an asshole.
It was one of many extra humbling experiences of my life, however I don’t remorse it, as a result of it’s the kind of factor that builds character. Hey, in case you don’t really feel like an asshole each from time to time are you even attempting? Certain, they haven’t invited me again since, however I had an excellent run. I even gave away my outdated crabon Tramac one yr as a prize once I carried out a real-life quiz:
Ah, reminiscences…
Anyway, to be trustworthy, I’m very happy to remain put and trip, particularly now that indicators of spring are rising:
I don’t suppose I’ve ever been as excited to see issues rising out of the bottom–or to trip a comparatively boring bike path for that matter:
That is the trail that begins proper out my again door, crosses into Westchester County, and takes me straight to all the nice roads and trails north of the town with out having to cope with any motorcar site visitors alongside the way in which. How many individuals who stay in New York Metropolis can say that? (Properly, most likely no less than 100,000, which is roughly the quantity of people that stay within the instant neighborhood of this path.) Nevertheless, the county doesn’t clear this path, in order quickly because it snows it goes offline and that’s that till the thaw. This implies I’ve acquired to trip by means of downtown Yonkers as an alternative, and whereas that’s superb it’s not precisely inspiring. I imply you’d quite trip on the trail above than behind this, proper?
Certain you’ll. It’s just like the distinction between needing to make use of a shared toilet down the corridor or having your very personal en suite salle de bain. Easy accessibility to good driving is the principle cause I stay the place I do, and so it feels superb to lastly have my path again…even when issues do typically get somewhat bizarre there:
The opposite path upon which I rely closely is the Previous Croton Aqueduct, which is straight adjoining, and reconnaissance signifies we’re properly on the way in which to full rideability:
Sure, we did get somewhat snow once more yesterday, however I’m selecting to imagine that it’s merely a useless cat bounce and that the underside has formally fallen out of winter.
By the way in which, one or two of you lamented my alternative of tire for this bike. Hey, if the bike’s spending a number of time on the street, why not use street tires? And what, you don’t suppose I’ve knobby tires for it? Oh, I’ve acquired knobby tires for all of it proper:
Put that in your shoulder and portage it.
In the meantime, in professional biking information, persons are very enthusiastic about Jonas Vingegaard’s tights:
Which have been customized curated by a teammate who David Lee Rothified them by slicing out the crotch:
The now viral extra-long tights, Visma revealed later, have been worn over one other base pair of bib tights, their chamois surgically eliminated and waist reduce by Vingegaard’s teammate Victor Campenaerts, to make sure the group chief wasn’t floating a number of centimetres above his saddle.
The plan was to have them ripped off by two teammates later within the stage, so Vingegaard might take away the remainder of the tights as in the event that they have been a pair of legwarmers. However the chaos inflicted within the crosswinds meant that chance by no means arose, spawning arguably essentially the most iconic second of the 2026 season to date.
In different phrases, the thought was to do that:
Hey, Vingegaard seems to be fairly good, however he’s no Bret:
Don’t know who Bret is? Simply ask the AI!
Ooh, a “satirical archetype!” I like that.
I additionally stay up for the brand new line of crotchless biking gear, coming quickly from Pas Regular Studios.
