This previous Friday I discussed I’d be freely giving a motorcycle*:

*[Not this bike.]

You could be questioning if that’s nonetheless occurring.

Sure. Sure it’s. In actual fact I spend fairly a little bit of time this weekend prepping the bike,** which I’m happy to say is in a state of whole and full rideability and awaits a winner who’s worthy of it, which after all no one actually is, as a result of it’s simply that superior:

**[Also…not the bike.]

I’m not prepared to provide it away fairly but although, so please include your self for simply awhile longer.

In fact, simply as using begets extra using, engaged on bikes begets extra engaged on bikes–or at the very least it does for me. Sure, I used to be on an actual tear with the ol’ Allen® wrenches, and so after tending to the Giveaway Bike I turned my consideration to the Jones:

As a lot as I used to be having fun with the Tosco, I used to be on a tinkering binge, and it appeared like a very good time to revive the Jones to full Jonesness by placing the outdated bar again. Additionally, for the reason that lengthy throw of the Silver2 shifter isn’t the perfect match with the Jones bar, I sucked it and put the unique listed (gasped!) shifter again on there too. Little question I might hunt down a special friction shifter that may work higher with this specific drivetrain whereas additionally sustaining my retro-cred, however since just about all my different bikes even have friction shifters it appeared extra smart simply to make use of the superbly good clickety-click shifter I had sitting in a field.

Nonetheless, I wasn’t completed puttering round after that, nor was I completed with the Tosco, not by a protracted shot. In actual fact, I loved my final outing on it a lot that after re-Jonesing the Jones I put the Tosco again on the Platypus:

That’s the bar it had initially began out with; I then switched to the Choco, which I appreciated very a lot on this bike because it gave it type of a “street” really feel, comparatively talking:

For awhile I assumed perhaps I appreciated the Choco higher than the Tosco for this bike, however now that I’ve put it again I believe perhaps it’s the Tosco I like higher…or perhaps it’s simply the feeling of distinction I’m having fun with, like while you eat one thing candy, then you definately need one thing salty, then you definately need one thing candy once more, and so forth till you descend right into a snack spiral.

Each bars do each sound fairly snacky, come to think about it:

Additionally, in case you’re questioning how I photographed each bikes on the identical time in entrance of the Son of Sam spot, it’s as a result of I used to be using with my elder son. (He was using the Jones, and he says he appreciated the friction shifter higher. He doesn’t significantly take care of entrance derailleurs although. So primarily based on my one-person survey of Era Alpha, I predict friction shifting will survive into the longer term, however multi-ring cranksets is not going to.) Situations had been nice if a bit of buggy–however not so buggy that we had been tempted by the communal insect repellant somebody had positioned alongside the path:

Having simply executed three consecutive handlebar swaps I’m wondering if these items could be helpful for putting in grips.

I’m unsure how one may “play” oneself in a help-yourself-to-some-bug-spray situation because the tile warns in opposition to, however I suppose when one comes throughout such a profound show of magnanimity one shouldn’t look a present horse within the mouth–or a present deer for that matter:

Typically while you really feel such as you’re being watched it’s since you are:

I could should make a donation to the repellant station: