Simple Come, Simple Go – Bike Snob NYC
Once more in Would possibly, I was the lucky recipient of a Marinoni, which I set about rehabilitating to the most effective of my meager skills:
The highest finish end result was a bicycle I very quite a bit liked driving:
Nonetheless as I’m doing my best to keep up the entire number of bicycles I private in confirm I lastly decided to public sale it and give the proceeds to the Star Monitor Biking program, as they’ve been elevating money to ship kids to Junior Monitor Nationals:
It ain’t quite a bit, nevertheless I ain’t a number of a human being, and selling beat-up bikes I acquired for gratis and gifting away the money is about as philanthropic as I get.
“So who gained the bike?,” you’re more than likely not questioning. Successfully, it was some man from upstate who you may know from the suggestions as “Some Man From Upstate,” and this earlier weekend he received right here downstate to collect his prize. Out of respect for his privateness I averted sticking a digicam in his face to grab the second, so instead proper right here’s a random picture of someone receiving an award:
The plan was to do the ceremonial Passing On Of The Bicycle after which go for a visit, so we headed over to so-called “River Freeway,” the favored roadie route correct all through the George Washington Bridge:
[River Road in autumn]
After days of rain the local weather was positively spectacular, nevertheless we shortly found the arduous method that River Freeway was closed, which I may need acknowledged had I assumed to confirm beforehand:
Typically when River Freeway is “closed” you merely go throughout the boundaries and maintain driving, nevertheless this was unhealthy adequate they’d people standing there to indicate you away and each half:
Clearly we utterly may need ridden that on gravel bikes, nevertheless since we have now been on mere avenue bikes we circled and instead headed over the mighty Extreme Bridge and into the Bronx for an impromptu tour of the city’s most chronically obstructed bike lanes:
[The High Bridge many, many years ago]
On the conclusion of the journey I then tried to steer him to take George Plimpton’s Y-Foil As a substitute, nevertheless being possessed of bizarre restraint he insisted on sticking with the Marinoni:
[Subtlety On Wheels]
That’s more than likely an excellent issue, since there’s clearly a market for George Plimpton memorabilia:
And definitely his Y-Foil will solely proceed to increase in price until in the end I’ll do an public sale with Conventional Cycle and we’ll use the proceeds to assemble Star Monitor a mannequin new indoor velodrome which we’ll title the “Plimptonium:”
[Architectural plans for The Plimptonium, a.k.a. “The House That Wife Oil Built”]
Nonetheless pending that, because of Some Man From Upstate for not solely serving to Star Monitor however as well as liberating up a slot on my bike rack and bringing my full number of primary lugged metallic avenue racing bicycles proper right down to a additional manageable two, these being the Faggin:
And naturally the Cervino:
Of the two, the Cervino is the (principally) period-correct one, and being barely greater than the Faggin it affords me a significantly additional age-appropriate driving place:
Because of the voluminous tubular tires it floats over nearly each half:
And whereas it could possibly be lacking throughout the low gear division the refreshing simplicity of working a six-speed friction drivetrain with one hand makes up for it:
Six-speeds are the model new singlespeeds.
