I love the look of slammed aircooleds but they are totally less functional than a baja
After driving a couple slammed cars, never again. Catching air off expansion joints on the highway and throwing sparks on a steeply crowned road is cool. Getting stuck trying to pull into a driveway or parking lot and getting pulled over thinking I’m drunk for swerving to avoid pot holes is not cool.
I’ve never had those issues, I did have to avoid a few places with high ramps or speed bumps in my mk3 and at times would need to air up the front of my square. doing it again I’d probably run bags instead of static, or at least helpers. I miss it though
Bags are for groceries.
I’m bringing this to the death machines thread, I just found some old pictures on my photo bucket.
What’s everyone’s favorite way to store surplus wheels/tires? I used to hang them from hooks on the rafters in the old garage, but the new one has a finished ceiling rather than exposed rafters. I want to build some sort of rack to store them instead of just leaving them in a pile on the floor.
I like to fold my tires and put them in a plastic bin on the shelf. Wheels I throw in a pile in my basement until I forget they’re there. Which reminds me, I have like a dozen 26" wheels I need to get rid of.
I carefully lean my wheels against the wall near my bike nook, occasionally look at them and get annoyed that they’re there. Tires I fold up really tight in a plastic bag, then find them five years later, realize they had a huge sidewall gash, and throw them away.
It’s not a perfect system, but it doesn’t work.
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My garage has a bunch of nails sticking out of the walls so I hang them up on those
I hang them behind the bikes on my 2 stackers such as:
it doesnt look like it but this is a huge amount of progress. until now, i’ve been able to fit everything in the closet, or have stuff organized but not both.
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you have so much room for a printer somewhere in there
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Oh, Brooks. Oh oh oh oh Brooks. Buddy. You look like the American Cyclery Basement. Except with more Bar Mitts. And somehow more bottle cages.
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more purple overall
so many trigger warnings needed
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I showed Ash those pictures.
A: This is a single person right?
R: no he’s married. I think he’s in the process of…
A: Becoming single?
R: Reorganization
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Oh man, I wish I could find a picture of my bike mess from when I lived in apartment/got married. Most of it was in the garage closet but I had 2-4 bikes in the living room at all times.
God I fucking hate having bikes inside. I never want to carry a bike upstairs ever again. Or get tire water on the floor. Or ding up the walls.
If I ever have to do that I’m getting rid of my bikes.
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It’s weird but I sleep way more soundly If I’m nearby my bikes vs keeping them in a distant garage. I think the interrupted burglary a few years ago (thanks Finn the dog for heads-up) while I was sleeping scarred me permanently. I ran out my door 100% nude and no glasses to strangle the burglar that I could not see, I’ve never felt a deep primal emotion like that and acted so irrationally.
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this is fully organized to the best of our ability. we were using the tandem so much that it doent matter that its in the living room, and i’m not riding every day so there’s no commuter bike out
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