Tuesday, May 19, 2009

The Cyclery of Bikes

Well everyone, I'd like to thank you for your contributions (or aspirations to contribute) to a new bike for me. My current one is on its last spokes. I bought it for $40 a couple summers ago, and I estimate that I've ridden between 1000 and 1500 miles on it now. At four cents a mile, I think that's about as cheap as transportation comes. With your generous gifts, rest assured that my next bike will be obscenely expensive and nowhere near the cents-per-mile ratio of my last.

I don't have the new bike yet, though I would have loved to post a picture. Being a shrewd blogger, I know that photo posts attract the most readers. Here then are two bike-related pictures that I've been meaning to post. The first is from 1992. The second, 2007. Fifteen years and the bike has come full circle again. Lest Ben think it was abused during the years outside his care, I'd like to remind him that the bike received a comprehensive tune-up around the Christmas of 2002.



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7 comments:

  1. AnonymousWednesday, 20 May, 2009

    This is like those pictures where you're supposed to find ten things different in the second picture from the first picture. to be quite honest, they look exactly the same to me

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  2. AnonymousWednesday, 20 May, 2009

    I take that back. In the first picture, Ben is wearing the ugliest coat known to mankind

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  3. MomThursday, 21 May, 2009

    I kind of like that coat; in fact, I think it's still hanging around the house, or in a box! Ben still has a lot of hair! So...do you have this bike, David? I thought you had one from Gus Barkett. Is the one pictured the infamous Christmas bike where that's all you got, and then couldn't even ride it, because of the time of year? Alas, an old and deeply embedded grudge has resurfaced, perhaps? Thanks for the post...neat pictures!

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  4. MikeFriday, 22 May, 2009

    The question is- when is Ben due for a tune up?

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  5. Steve BarnhartMonday, 25 May, 2009

    Hey! Is this trick photography or what? That's clearly not the same bike. The bottom bike has its chain on the opposite side and the decals are reversed. I suppose you'll explain that they painstakingly removed the decals during servicing and applied them backwards? Not only that, I think the bottom Ben is a phony, too. Since when does he part his hair on the right? Still, you had me for a minute.

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  6. MikeTuesday, 26 May, 2009

    Your right Steve, something is wrong about that picture, but I don't know what. And Lisa, I agree with you on that coat, if I find it hanging around the house, I'll burn it.

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  7. BenSaturday, 30 May, 2009

    It certainly does seem that some trick photography has been employed here. Good eye, Steve. I'm not sure who that old man in the bottom photo is, and why he's holding a dirtier, broken-down version of my old mountain bike. It seems that someone's Photoshop skills have gotten a little out of control.

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