Blissful Judeo-Christian Vernal Ritual Interval! Sure, it’s that point of 12 months after we do bizarre stuff like nibble on giant unleavened crackers and paint hard-boiled eggs, relying on our respective faithways. However irrespective of which group we experience for, there’s one commandment we’d all do nicely to observe, and it’s “Don’t Fuck With The Easter Bunny:”
Hey, I believed we banned DIA, what offers?
Talking of the season of rebirth, a extremely astute reader was form sufficient to remind us all the following:
Wonderful! It looks as if solely yesterday that the game {of professional} biking was actually going to destroy the world:
I admit I do relate to local weather protesters, however solely as a result of they’re precisely like me once I threaten my youngsters:
“Do [thing] proper now otherwise you’re gonna be in hassle!”
[Kid doesn’t do thing.]
“OK, you’re in hassle now!”
[Thing still doesn’t get done, we all forget about it, and the world continues to turn.]
In the meantime, yesterday I discussed Bentonville and the Wahlberg household:
[The Wahlberg Family: Marky, Donnie, Debbie, Michelle, Marky, Joey, Dee-Dee, and, uh, Pip-Squeak]
Anyway, the Wahlbergs are additionally behind bicycle producer Allied Cycle Works, which I point out not as a result of I care the place they make their frames…
…however solely due to this:
I’m sufficiently old to recollect when having the ability to change your stem rise without having to re-cable your bike was true of BASICALLY EVERY FREAKING BICYCLE.
Is that this picture sufficiently old that we are able to begin utilizing it once more?
By the best way, right here’s that stem:
So easy! So elegant! And far, a lot simpler than flipping a daily threadless stem or [gasp] elevating or decreasing a quill stem.
Simply ensure you use an internal tube inflatable tubeless tire insert whilst you’re at it:
Spring really is the season of rebirth.
As for me, I’m taking advantage of the season by commuting through bicycle, since in New York spring represents the 2 or three weeks in between freezing your ass off and sweating your ass off:
Ours is a metropolis of bridges:
And by sheer coincidence the Homer’s hues match the Manhattan Bridge virtually completely:
There’s additionally enough daylight to see me all the best way dwelling:
And as a lot as I complain about this metropolis, the brand new bike path over the Henry Hudson Bridge is nearly sufficient to make me forgive it for, nicely, every thing else:
Not a foul view:
Not unhealthy in any respect.
