Sunday, October 19, 2008

A Minor Modification

I was never comfortable with this set-up, the way Merle was when I bought it at the flea market + the brakes & clip-on aero bars from my old tri-bike.

Before

Before

So ... with some creative eBaying and about an hour of time.

After

After

Much better. Stylish, functional and most importantly, CHEAP!!!

Now this doesn't necessarily mean that I'm returning to triathlon anytime soon; no, no, no!

It just means that I have another, non-emabrassing ride option to take around D'Neighborhood with D'Girls. If, somehow, I decide to take a longer cruise by myself, and my elbows happen to find their way into a slightly more "aerodynamic" position, then that's just a coincidence, then, innit?

Yes, those ARE Victory Golden Monkey bottle caps/cages on the bar ends

Riding with the Monkey

They are very likely to be illegal.

2 comments:

Stephen said...

Nice, but why try to not embarrass the kids? I thought that is why we had kids to begin with [grin]

Anonymous said...

Did you do triathlons??? How cool.. I've just this weekend had the thought it might be fun to try one, if I can get my swimming sorted.