I drove into lower Manhattan (for free, as God and Kathy Hochul intended) and nabbed this guy
BTW, every New Yorker should cry longing FDR Drive tears every time they see pics like this of Paris’ River Seine road shutdown
@bikepedantic Oh wow, nice!
@bikepedantic Thank you for driving, sir! NY's economy is almost entirely reliant on cars driving through manhattan.
I hope you stopped at one of our fine downtown diners while you were here.
@Andres4NY @bikepedantic or a hardware store 🙄
@SamUpstate @Andres4NY you all have some lovely roads for free driving, thank you for welcoming my single-occupant-vehicle and I to your city, where we did not spend a single cent other than removing a scarce cargobike from the NYC region. We will drive back again soon!
@bikepedantic @SamUpstate Phew, thank goodness. One More Car, One Less Cargo Bike.
@bikepedantic that is a Beast.
@bikepedantic The tennis ball on the stand gives it a definite Mr Fredricksen look.
@PipGowenlock why is there a tennis ball on one leg? Because the kickstand has somehow been ground down on one leg only. Also, the tennis ball has been worn down to nothing. This bike is such a disaster and I love it
@bikepedantic I petition for a 90s paint job that matches the colors of the stem and handlebars. Happy New Bike Day, I wish you make hours of joy and success restoring that whip.
@HayiWena this would be pretty awesome. My initial options were to polish it up and go with super fancy accessories, or leave it as is and keep it as sort of a steampunk one-less-cybertruck kinda thing
@bikepedantic It'll probably look pretty good when it's clean.
@bikepedantic @HayiWena Fun spray paint project w/kid…
@bikepedantic a friend of mine recently rebuilt my 12yo Bullitt. It was nowhere near as rough as this, though.
I highly recommend you go electric. I have been enjoying the Cyc Photon on mine.
When I first got my Bullitt, I stayed acoustic. But now I realize I would have ridden it a ton more, especially with my kids in it, if it had been electric from the off.
This bike is in *rough* shape! Both the seller and I are pleased that it will live out its pretirement years hauling kids and groceries in all-ages Cambridge, rather than cutting it up on NYC streets