Seems similar to tennis racquet grip tape. Could it be for that or golf clubs or gymnastic batons?
It’s very unpleasant looking. Kind of cheap greasy rubbery
I must be some kind of masochist because I couldn’t resist bringing this bigass chunk of tree home with me.
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did rolli have to catch the bus?
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He was already at school when I found this beauty.
What does one do with tree hunk?
I don’t know. I’m not even a woodworker. I just stuck it in my yard with all the other tree chunks.
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innoculate it with oyster mushrooms?
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Baby seat in bike v1. I think I could do a lot better but I also think this was fine for the 1 mile ride to the wine bar on neighborhood streets. Little guy managed to fall asleep about 2 minutes into the 5 minute ride home later.
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From my experience the deliverista bike tape is for both protection and so it just looks like a crummy bike no one would want to steal. But it has since turned into a whole part of the culture unto itself with national flag patterns and such.
The tape is much more rigid and plasticky than you might think, it stretches a bit but it’s very thick.
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Cut it into a couple large chunks, let em dry out, get a wood turning lathe, and play around at making something?
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the ‘fixed gear, spinergy front regular rear, mismatched tires’ schtick, again, in a new way
The dream. I just stuck my 2nd on the longtail for the first double daycare/school dropoff earlier this week.
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Years of carrying ridiculously heavy loads has taken its toll on the yak. You may not be able to see it in this photo, but that oxygen tank is suspended from the top rails of the thing because when I loaded the empty to take back to airgas the last weld in the rear left corner went pop, leaving the left and rear sides of the deck waving in the wind (and since I laid my xtra up for a reframing I’ve not had anything else I’m willing to use to carry wannabe rockets around town with.)
Applause for the people at airgas, too. I stroll in dressed (in the orcish version of) full femme and almost a weeks worth of pre-electrolysis stubble and nobody blinks an eye or looks distressed at this huge old amazon of a woman shopping for compressed air.
Didn’t deadname me either; after I told them I changed my name to protect the innocent they called me Jessica and started the process of correcting the name on my account. There are days when I really love portland and this is one of them.
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Cargo bike appreciation, two kids and a weekends worth of groceries no problem.
@Orc, some o those very blue collar places like that have been some of the safest spaces I’ve ever felt in the the Bay too.
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Hell yeah
It’s so silly
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When I saw the first photo, I was like, “Fuck yeah sidehack!” The articulation might make it easier to dump with a big load in the front tack, though.
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Is it all just flex or is there a pivot somewhere? I realize that these photos might be all we know.
The connection under the steerer has a pivot
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