Evening Lion's posterous - Filed under 'coastie'

I am in love with this bike. It feels so good to ride something that you actually put effort into creating.
Not that buying a brand new bike doesn't feel awesome too, but stripping your old bike down to nothing
and creating something new and unique from something old and just "okay" feels amazing.

Thats a coaster brake hub on the back, which is much crazier of an experience than i expected,
It will take you back to the good ol' days of your first bike, when you felt so cool when you learned how to hockey
stop on the gravel in your driveway. Except this time, its concrete and the bike lane, and traffic right next to you
a bit un nerving at points, i'm still learning control over it.

I think this is the key to why i've been so un-productive lately, i've had no balance with exercise and computering.
therefore i've just been procrastinating all day long every day. Damn i feel good, and i'm going to be very sore.
lets go one a bike ride, sometime, shall we?

stoked.

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The Fixie is Dead

Because i'm starting the Coastie revolution. Just as fresh, just as clean(no cables, brakes, derailleurs etc.), minus the fixed hub plus a coaster brake—you know, the kind you had when you were a kid? where you push back on your pedals and it starts to brake?
I'm picking up my rear wheel today, its going to be the dopeness.
still have to set up my cranks and and make my whole single speed chainwheel deal or whatever.
but thanks to the recent beautiful weather i finally got to put the finish on my frame. there are some discreppancies here and there but all in all the effect is pretty good. esp. for masking most everything off with duct tape.
Obviously i stripped my handlebars of everything, they looked like crap so i buffed them up with some steel wool and it made all the difference in the world.