Monday, November 24, 2008

This Just In: Recess!

Once again, the time has come for me to take a short leave of absence.  This one will commence immediately at the end of this post and will continue until Monday, December 1st, at which point I will return with regular updates.  If this displeases you, I implore you to at least take solace in the fact that there are encouraging signs from the Chris King Headset Composite Index.  When we last checked on November 14th the CKHCI was at 71.53, and it is now at 72.21:


Or, to put it another way:


As you take your seat at the Thanksgiving table, I hope you will join me in not only giving thanks for this uptick but also in praying for the CKHCI's continued growth.  Hopefully, this bodes well for the retail orgy that is Black Friday, as well as for the regular orgy that is Sepia Saturday.

I hope you will also take solace in the fact that I will not be squandering my recess.  I've long known that you can build a custom fixed-gear over at Pedalmafia (home of the tiny fixed-gear models), but until Stevil Kinevil of HTATBL sent me this mind-blowing creation I simply did not appreciate the full potential of the application:



As such, I will spend at least part of my recess virtually fabricating my own "whip."  Personally, I wanted something less Dr. Seussian and more practical, and I'm already off to a ripping start:



As you can see, though, I still have a long way to go.  You'll note from the pile of top tube pads and grips on my worktable that I'm still deciding on accessories.  Note also the Look Ergostem, which I'm using in order to dial in my position.  (I think I can get the front end lower, though I'd hate to ditch that Cinelli Alter stem since it looks so sweet with the lime green Skyway Tuff Wheel II.)  Still, I think it's pretty sexy.  And it's even sexier in sepia:


Then again, everything's sexier in sepia:

And yes, this image is perfectly safe for work--not only because it's sepia-toned, but also because it's pre-20th century.  While sepia alone can't always legitimize a photograph, any art historian or porn-monger will tell you that pornography automatically becomes art after 100 years, no matter how explicit it may be.

So if your nationality and/or disposition compels you to observe Thanksgiving, I hope you enjoy yours.  If not, you may still feel free to take part in Sepia Saturday.  And regardless of how you choose to spend this week, I'll see you again on December 1st (otherwise known as "Mauve Monday").

Many thanks for reading,


--BSNYC/RTMS


120 comments:

Anonymous said...

first

jon beard said...

yabai orlando!!

Anonymous said...

holy shit Iv/e been reading this stupid blog and its comments for seven months now and I always hated the podium bastards.

now I love them, because I just won.

Brendan said...

that's not safe for work!

Unknown said...

Have a great Thanksgiving, BSNYC!

Anonymous said...

That sure looks like a Cinelli Alter to me.

Chris O'Hearn said...

A naked trackstand with one leg and a whip - that's art.

Anonymous said...

ATTN BIKE SNOB PLEASE START A FOR-PAY E-MAIL LIST WHERE YOU ANNOUNCE AN IMPENDING POST SO THAT PEOPLE LIKE ME WITH MORE MONEY THAN SENSE CAN FINALLY ENJOY THE PODIUM. ALL THESE FAST-DRAW MCGRAWS CAN SUCK MY BALLS.

Anonymous said...

Top Ten!!

rammhallen said...

topp tio!

rammhallen said...

äh

ant1 said...

Question:

Does anyone have any experience/thoughts on putting TT aero extensions on a fixie?

I took my new one out for a couple of rides this weekend, and felt as if aero bars might be beneficial, especially when trying to keep up with gearies on the flats.

Mark said...

Damn! Missed the podium. My HO status is failing me! Keep the bike porn coming!

Gnarles Darwin said...

14th is a respectable finish for someone who was drinking all night!

Bluenoser said...

Pack Fodder.

-B

Anonymous said...

Ha! I'm glad I'm on vacation today.

Your definition of Safe For Work and mine differ (although just by a nipple or two).

Happy Turkey Day, all.

Anonymous said...

Ant1, I was pondering the same question, but in my case I was thinking of putting the TT bar on my P-Far. If anyone has experience/thoughts on that too, I will be glad to know.

Anonymous said...

Damn! The index is up, just when I need a headset.

Anonymous said...

another hiatus??? slacker.

Anonymous said...

thanks1st!

Anonymous said...

do I feel a "All you podium bastards suck my balls" aerospoke coming on???

Anonymous said...

Sweet! Pedalmafia even has hipster cysts!

Anonymous said...

That sepia picture could be my Bubbie, thanks Snob, as if I'm not F-ed up enough already.

bikesgonewild said...

...leroy...any truth to the rumor that this is a forced recess due to a digital impairment on the snob's part...

...unlike the the sylvain chavenal oyster shucking incident wherein a wound was sustained w/ a sharp pointed object while trying to get the calcified shell of a bivalved mollusk to release it's pearly flesh, i heard mention that bsnyc/rtms may have simply gotten a finger caught in a crustacean carapace cracking tool (ie: a nutcracker used for lobsters) while trying to bring the succulent, tender meat of one of those mandibulate arthropods to the table...

...too ornery (& hungry) to stop squeezin' even though his own finger was caught between it's serrated jaws...

...just speculatin'...

kale said...

Save some Lo Mien for Xmas, don't want to run out of energy!

Have fun storming the castle!

Benjamin Callaway said...
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Sprocketboy said...

Safe for work? Not when your workplace is in 1908!

spokejunky said...

Say it isn't so. BSNYC is now mainstream.

Anonymous said...

"Say it isn't so. BSNYC is now mainstream."

Not really because technically Lance is a has-been.

Anonymous said...

What? No pie plates!

leroy said...

I dunno BGW, that sounds like a wild rumor.

I doubt that RTMS would be so shellfish.

I suspect the hiatus is simply a road trip to visit relations for the holidays.

I picture him motoring down the pike in his salmon colored barracuda merrily dialing the AM/FM tuna with no chance of getting scrod by running out of bass.

Either that or we've lost his signal because his digits are experiencing the syndrome one encounters while driving through the Carp Al Tunnel.

Ride safe this week. Unless, of course, you are racing cyclocross. In that event, drink.

Have a good Thanksgiving all.

Matthew Reamer said...

Damn, It will only let me add one front and one rear hipster cyst, and only in white. I wanted to coat my fork in cysts of every color.

Anonymous said...

some non-sepia, 21st C. but still safe for work thanksgiving reading:
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=665847

(though i'm canadian and it ain't thanksgiving up here)

bikesgonewild said...

...well wahoo, leroy..it's a holy mackerel shame that elusive, slippery ol' eel has to clam up for a week but hey, when yer the king crab of cycle blogging, i guess ya just need a few breaks to recharge...

...for all we know, it could be a skate down the highway for the sole reason of floundering w/ his mullet...

...i only hope the ironic orange julius bike isn't riding roughy...& speaking of which, perhaps we should buy him a selle italia turbot saddle for christmas or hannaka or festivus or whatever he celebrates next month...

...anyway...mahi-mahi or whatever they say in the islands...this shark is gonna hitch on his cod-piece, mussel up & go out looking fer some snapper...

...& despite all these oceanic references, i hope everyone's thanksgiving includes some fowl prey...

Anonymous said...

miss you!

Anonymous said...

BGW, interesting theory, but lobster is not kosher, doncha know.

Anonymous said...

Seussian is a good adjective to describe that "whip." That is the bike I imagine if I imagine that the Blue Man Group rode bikes.

bikesgonewild said...

...wishiwasmerckx...my dating techniques aren't particularly 'kosher' either but that hasn't precluded my having dated jewish chicks, in the past...

bikesgonewild said...

...& jeezus...i'd better post a qualifier...

...don't read to much into my last statement...i simply meant that by "not kosher in my dating techniques" that i don't stand on ceremony...

...any verbal utterances coming out a' my mouth just may not follow the usual "proscribed dating rules of engagement"...i'm nothing if not unique, which, depending on yer "point of view" can be a good or bad thing...

...i am a gentleman, madam...a bit of a sleazy gentleman but a gentleman, nonetheless...

Luck E. 7 said...

Don't worry BGW, it's a freakin sausagefest in here and frilly thinks that sort a thing is funny. I would watch out for AnnaZed though, wherever she may be lurking.

Have a good Turkeyday all! I've gone fishin with Red...


A

bikesgonewild said...

...lucky 7...fishin' w/ red, huh ???...

...good lord, man...who knows where those worms have been & yer gonna give innocent fish the opportunity to put them in their mouths ???...

...ah, ok...but i'd have reservations...

Luck E. 7 said...

Yeah, I have reservations.

I reserved a table at Che Guevara's House of Tacos for dinner after I feed Red to the fishes!!

Got a little historical reenactment planned for our pal to celebrate the season.

he he he . . .


A

Anonymous said...

Watch it, A. Not sure I like the insinuation that I'm okay with impropriety.

I sorta like to think I'm a lady. Or at least I did until 5 minutes ago.

Anonymous said...

Not that you're OK with it, frilly, only that you find it funny.

Still very much a lady in my book, thanks.


A

Anonymous said...

Now there's irony for ya--me bitching about impropriety.

Ha!

Anonymous said...

That old suburban myth of oysters being an aphrodisiac may have caused poor Sylvan to get all shaky with the prospect of some non bicycle related riding and vertical non compliance. Those French are so suave and new age slick, lucky he did not get his eye walloped by an errant Dom Perignon 1992 Vintage champagne cork

So Frills what exactly were you doing at 5.04 US time... just curious

Anonymous said...

I propose a contest!

Readers of this blog are to submit there Pedal Mafia, Pedal ID creation to Bike Snob who will judge them on their artistic merit and/or gag factor.

The winner will get to ride on the pegs of the Ironic Orange Julius Bike as Bike Snob takes him or her on a sightseeing trip along the Great Hipster Silk Route.

Offer not valid in New Jersey or to anyone with a knuckle tattoo.

Anonymous said...

Having thoughts very similar to Sylvan's. Lucky for me no sharp objects nearby, unlucky for me no Dom either.

Anonymous said...

What ...regrets that he did not spend a few more dollars and get the professionally shucked ones

Critical Ass said...
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Critical Ass said...

Okay, so with Snob gone for another week we need some material.

Ever want more insight into the OC's twisted delusional specialness without watching one of his rambling videos? Who ever makes it through one of those anyway? Bikesnob, it's very clear that those videos are for bikesnob and bikesnob only, bikesnob.

Now you can enjoy the OC's prose on his own web site. It's more digestable and a little edgier than his videos, but not safe for work. Then again, if you don't care to visit his site, I'll summarize...he's still stewing about Douchebag Jim and his station wagon comment, plus he also found a comment on Jim's blog from a female commenter that has really upset him. Professional cyclists are so tempermental.

Anonymous said...

Hey Frills you internet get about gal, you have cracked it big time now along with Jim on the OC's site *&^&%^&&%** ( cannot get myself around saying words like that cos I will blush). To date it is BKW, BSNY, Fatty and now OC.I bow to your greatness and recently acquired fame

Gunn said...

so I know I am way behind... I finally got to fridays post after working all weekend. but i am going to comment on fridays anyway...
you might recall the little snippet about how long island is legally a peninsula... with a link to an article about whidbey island and long island
.... well, I happen to be from that "picturesque getaway" of an island... and, well, thats all i got. so here's a shout out for the the longest juridically defined island in the lower 48! woot woot!

bikesgonewild said...

...awww shucks...

...critical ass...i find it offensive & insulting that so many of us insulted "oc" & yet he reserves his vitriol for (douchebag ???) jim...

...& lord no, personally i don't wish to extend or expand my knowledge of the "oc's" world...the simple fact that the man went on about green beans for so long has put me off those normally lovely little legumes...

...i'd also venture to say that the guy is plenty of mental & not so much well tempered...

Anonymous said...

Given the recent spate of outed drug cheats perhaps the UCI should get a self proclaimed professional cyclist ( retired or recouperating) to be the face of drug abuse and its dangers

Critical Ass said...

OK...now that I looked back on the OC's INADFMM site looking for the reference to Frilly, I noticed something else. The link to one of the items suggested you could buy it new or used. Now who would want one of these USED? And for only $1.10 off the price of a new one? I know the economy sucks and we have to save money any way we can...but still

Anonymous said...

Fame or infamy? Wow.

rusty said...

I wonder if Erik K, Bikesnob, and Stevil Kenevil all get together for Thanksgiving and create some kind of super-blog? Erik K did say he was "heading east" for a week.

AH said...

Snob--
Don't pitch the Alter stem from your virtuafixie just yet. Where else can you place pin-up girl photos, a la Cipo? Who knows, maybe you can even shrink down the picture of commiecanuk's Bubbie and fit that on the stem...

Shiny Flu said...
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Anonymous said...

Rusty: Erik K, Bikesnob, and Stevil Kenevil all get together out East for an 'economic think tank', something like all the 'economic think tanks' currently quoted in the press that tell us of this long upcoming unavoidable, unforeseen, recession, but not like the think tanks that actually think up ways to avoid recessions, or otherwise prove that their heads are not up their overpaid ivy league asses.

But hey, I'm just bitter that Citi group is still going to pay $400M to rename mets field. I think, "taxpayer's field" has a nice ring to it.

bikesgonewild said...

...man o' man...i think the snob is getting lazy...

...today's blog seems just like yesterday's...& that's so uninspired that even the comments seem the same as yesterday...

...apathy be thy name...

...just sayin'...

Anonymous said...

you know what bike snob? the Tuff II was ok, but nothing beats the ACS Z rim...

Anonymous said...

Commie, is Davos this weekend?

Anonymous said...

BGW's a gent?

Damn! I thought I was hanging out with a bunch of chicks! Where's genderanalyzer again?

ant1 said...

Snobby needs to pull a fatty and give someone else the task to entertain us while he's gone. What the hell am i supposed to do all afternoon? Work?

bikesgonewild said...

...anon 2:30pm...

...i refuse to defend myself when the charges are so insignificantly weak...

...i'm going for a 'manly' ride, bitch...bwahahahaha...

Aaron "Bliss" Schreier said...

I thought you might appreciate this discussion.

http://www.pdxfixed.com/discussion/1064/1/fixedgear-apocalypse-the/

Rage on!

Anonymous said...

its deer season no time for posting but speaking of indexes i say yankees are fools

putting money in stocks and bonds you dumasses look where its got you now they aint worth nothing

i gots my money locked up in those handpainted plates with pictures of barns that have see rock city painted on them

them suckers never loose there value

AMR said...

Thoughts on putting TT bars on a fixie, ant1?
Yes... Don't!

No Thanksgiven celebrations around here either.

Enjoy your time off work!

AMR

Anonymous said...

Snob's gone one day and already I'm bored. And it's not fun kicking OC down the block; I guess I never was much good at being a bully.

kale said...

Just put this on repeat.

It'll numb the pain of having to actually work this week instead of constantly refreshing for the podium.

Critical Ass said...

Looks like red got himself in a little trouble:

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/85115a8700/steves-riding-lawn-mower-dui-arrest-video-from-marc-ryan

rusty said...

Critical Ass,
That new OC site is fantastic! Thanks for pointing it out. Now everyone is going to be trying to get themselves noticed by OC. How will he know if they're sincere in their belief that he's a whore murdering mini-van driver?

kale said...

Rusty-

Station Wagon and Hooker... there are subtle differences.

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Anonymous said...

roast beef curtains smothered in sepia...mmm happy thanksgiving.

Anonymous said...

as for roast beef curtains...

"I know them pretty well and she's a solid dude and has been riding bikes for a long, long time for whatever thats worth."

Anonymous said...

"beef curtains" is such a crude term. I prefer the more civilized and refined "meat drapes."

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bikesgonewild said...

...double up on the knuckle tats...

VELO LOVE
LOVE VELO

...w/ props to velo-retro...

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

Dunno. Needs more ... Finn.

bikesgonewild said...

...anon 2:32pm...
...yaa, shuure...yumpin' yimminy...

...but hey, that is actually pretty damn cool...& i like the "spoke wrench" that goes w/ it...

kale said...

Don't miss This Cervelo from a couple Thursdays ago.

On that note... has anyone submitted their Pedalmafia artwork to FGG yet?

Anonymous said...

NO TURKEY

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NO PROLLY

Anonymous said...

I get a not so cheerful, odd feeling in the pit of my stomach when I read the OC "website". I feel it's much to real for that strange young man. I wish for you all to be very careful. Laugh if you want but something is not right...

He might be just doing this to keep the hits coming but something about him makes me nervous.

bikesgonewild said...

...anon 2:19am...

...so yer sayin' ya won't be sharing any warm fuzzy's w/ the old 'oc' over the holidays ???...

...i do agree...there is a certain very real 'edge' there, beyond the norm...

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Anonymous said...

BGW, I think I may have shared too much already, if ya know what I mean.

Each post with a reference to him will feed whatever that is.

bikesgonewild said...

...anon 9:27pm...

...i'm just quietly nodding my head in agreement...i don't wanna say anything aloud...

Anonymous said...

What is the term for a person who uses someone else's well blog to drive traffic to their own, usually "new" blog?

Anonymous said...

BLOG LECH

Anonymous said...

I meant BLGL EECH

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SHIT HEAD

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