Stewart’s Quest for the Sensible Bicycle
A trip to the Toronto Islands yesterday got me thinking about the perfect bicycle for me — and why nobody makes it. In Scotland I had nearly the perfect bike. It was a ridiculously solid Pashley...
View Articlea sensible bike from a car company?
Flipping through the Hedonics fallout (you know, the slick catalogue selling semi-useful battery-operated tat that falls out of your weekend newspaper; cf Sharper Image, Innovations and — for both of...
View Articlenot sensible, just lovely
uh oh, indeed. On Sunday, I bought that beautiful Dawes Super Galaxy that they had in Cyclemania on the Danforth. Reynolds 531 ST frame, SunTour Cyclone M II gears, Maillard hubs, and a Brooks saddle....
View ArticleI (heart) languagehat
languagehat, on begging the question: This is one of those issues that is catnip to the adolescent language-lover but which a sensible person grows out of. I too used to enjoy tormenting people with...
View ArticleÅrhus, in the middle of our street
And so our Danish Wind Odyssey draws to a close, after visiting Rinkøbing, Lem and Randers today. We’re up at an unsensible hour tomorrow to fly to Copenhagen. It was a great trip. Will post photies.
View Articlehis & hers superbes
The small image doesn’t do them justice, but I saw two Raleigh Superbes locked together near Dundas on Yonge. These were the deluxe ones with the locking steering column and the front dynohub. Lovely...
View ArticleI think I’ve found it …
I was at the Dutch Bike festival last weekend, and I think I found the Sensible Bicycle. Curbside were showing the Batavus Personal Bike. It’s lovely. At $1400 for the 3-speed, though, I’m not just...
View Articleno, this is really the Sensible Bicycle
Inspired perhaps by seeing Dianne‘s very nice Bachetta recumbent last night, I went looking for the state-of-the-art — and I found it in the form of the Flevobike GreenMachine: fully enclosed chain,...
View Articlerather a new wearer of clothes
So my quest for the Sensible Bicycle is over; I found it. Or rather, it found me, for bicycles have lives of their own. Curbside Cycle had a sale. They also had, for reasons known only to the...
View ArticleThe Cleland rides again!
Geoff Apps dropped a comment in an earlier post to say that he’s updated the Aventura for the 21st century. I’m going to have a hard time justifying not buying this bike. I wonder what the good people...
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