Check Em' Out

At long last, another post! Things have been hectic, my old high school friend Laura came for a visit - it was great hanging out and laughing about old times and friends. We were walking through the Meat Packing District on Friday night and noticed that there was a film shoot in progress. I made Laura put on her sunglasses and pretend to be a celebrity bitch in the middle of a freak out. She was making nasty faces and swinging her purse around while the roadies (or whatever they call them in the movie industry) laughed and tried to walk past her without getting whacked.




I have been meeting a lot of interesting bikes lately - this one was going over the Williamsburg bridge a few weeks ago. I managed to pull out my camera while riding and catch up to the woman on the bike, but just as I got alongside her, she stopped riding. When I asked if she would ride some more so that I could take her picture, she said "sure", jumped on the bike and took off up the bridge. It wasn't easy to catch her again, but I got the pic! It was just dumb luck that she was so perfectly aligned with the bicyle stencil on the path.




This lovely bike was at the Johnny Coast shop a few weekends ago. Johnny was nice enough to invite a group of us over for a little tour and lecture on frame building and several nice bikes showed up. I love how the seat post is supported by the little arced pieces of tubing.




Last weekend Roscoe and I noticed this side-by-side bike at Bicycle Station. The owner, Mike Rodriguez, took it off the wall and let us each have a quick turn riding it with him. The son of the patent holder works in the shop and his father happened to have enough parts sitting in his barn for Mike to put this together. It is was an odd feeling to ride with no frame between my legs and with no control of the steering. By the way, Bicycle Station is a real jewel of a bike shop, it is at 560 Vanderbilt Avene in Brooklyn's Prospect Heights neighborhood. Stop by if you are around, Mike and his crew will treat you right.








If you look really carefully you can see Roscoe concentrating (I wonder if that counts as a track stand).




Taliah Lempert finished painting my rain bike - Taliah did several paintings and etchings. There is a feature I didn't know about on her website - if you click on the date at the bottom of one of the above pages, you can watch a short video of the bike's owner removing it from the studio. Cool.