I’m going to go around and phoneshoot assorted things around here fast, because we’re shortstaffed and there’s not a lot of time. I may throw in some black-and-white for fun. I don’t know where this is going.
pictures! some phonetos of photos, other things
HAMMERS! OAK on left, ELM on right. I used Elmer to pound out a bump in the car’s trunklid joint, so now it opens smoothly.
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The main Headquarters for Charlie Kelly and Gary Fisher when they were messing around with pre-mountain bikes. It’s in … either San Anselmo or Fairfax. Kind of on the border. It’s #21, I forget the road. The original house is gone, and this mansion’s in it’s place.
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For MUSA shirts coming up on November. I wanted the pink, but it was quit. So we’ll go with the normal blue (which we were going to get all along) and that green above it–which may be a little too Springy for some, but come on, let’s have some fun, OK? Super duper Japanese cotton poplin, each color a non-intimate blend of two. Really neat. Please consider…
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I showed this before in the blag, but I just found it again on my phone. Owner Eileen had her Cheviot professionally parked at an event, and when she handed in her ticket for her bike, they brang it out all deep-dinged, so I filed the dent epoxyputty, put two NITTO stainless steel shims over it, then wrapped and twined and covered it with clear bathtube caulking. Looks better than new!
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This 1890s light ins on an 1890s bike in the Marin Mountain Bike Museum in Fairfax. If you come to SF area for biz or vacation, you should go. Open Th thru Sun everyday. Joe Breeze, his wife Connie, and Charlie Kelley are usually there.
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Work in progress, please don’t ask.
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Boxes of lugs, fork crowns, dropouts. Bad picture, sorry.
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Our clock in the showroom. It’s a real record, too. Both sides.
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My favorite newspaper photo of all time. It’s been up here before, but I never get tired of it. The Israeli riot cops arrested this Jewish guy because he was occupying the West Bank…and as he was being hauled away on what seems to be some kind of cot or cart, he dropped his glasses, and another of the Iraeli cops noticed and is running with them for the handoff. From Aug 8, 2007 NYT.
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This has been here before, too, but I assume that we lose all of our longtime followers and customers for some offensive remark I make about carbon fiber, so may you’re new here and haven’t seen this one. Let me explain: In the old film-only days, this would sometimes happen. The last photo on the roll would get printed with part of the film can on the negative. I don’t know how that happened, but I’ve seen it twenty times at least. This was taken off the television during the 1984 Olympics, during track racing. I shot a bunch of photos, then the camera went to the bleachers, and I clicked off this one.
It’s been 24 x 35″ mounted on foam board and in or near my work area since about 1988. (It took a few years before I was comfortable enough at Bridgestone to put it up.)
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We don’t sell this pump. Spencer’s afraid, as am I, that you’dall buy it from Amazon after hearing about it here. It’s the SKS AIRCON. High volume for fat tires. If you ride tires 38mm+, get one.
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The maker of the CLEMS made me a stainless one (not the fork). I didn’t ask…I’m not into stainless…I like paint, the way it ages, scratches, chips, gets touched up..the colors, all of it. But it was still nice to get this frame. We put on a normal CLEM fork, a funky cheap modern crank, and parts we had laying around. It’s a loaner-outer or tester or something.
..and it’s totally lugless (boo!), but nicely made. All the Tig-welds on CLEM are this way, this perfect. Is BETTER even possible? Nope.
But there is or was a problem threading stainless BB shells, so it has this ultrawide threadless shell. I wouldn’t do a production model this way, but it’s basically fine,
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This is a phonetograph of one of my favorite photographs. I bought it from a street vendor in NY, I don’t know the story, but the kid is drinking water from the fire hose. Note at least three bikes in there.
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I love this photo! Shot with a 25mm lens and a flash at night maybe 12 years ago on an S240. THat’s John–now of Rivelo– and Andrew, now a mechanical designer guy in Portland. It was one hot night, about 88 degrees, and we were in no mood for frivolity. Up about 2300 feet on Mt. Diablo.
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THis is a phonetograph of a photograph of riders in Central Park as reflected in a window of the Museum of Modern Art. Photographer is a guy named Bob Sacha,
Suave finance dude with an offensive question in a fish can.
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Pal Jeff gave me this about 20 years ago. In the early T de Frances, they couldn’t use derailers even if they were available, and this guy’s just changing his gears by flip-flopping the wheel to get at the cog on the other side. You can see the zero derailer.
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Sorry nothing here to sink your teeth into or raise hackles… but the Israeli/Jewish photo has that potential, doesn’t it? I just like the helping part.
OK!
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Everyone should follow @rivbike for their posts like this that will brighten your day. Knowing that they exist makes me think that the world will be okay after all.
And buy a world’s most beautiful bike from them the moment you can afford it.
Or build your own and buy parts from them if you cannot (like me).
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