What if something is both beautiful and kludgy? Is it beauludgy? Barf On Apr 7, 10:34 am, CycloFiend <cyclofi...@earthlink.net> wrote: > on 4/7/11 8:53 AM, PATRICK MOORE at bertin...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Just for the record: my interest in the text and my reason for > > referring to it was not the writing style but the message: don't > > obsess over the looks of your bikes, they are meant for riding, though > > riding has no quarrel with looks. > > > I am surprised by the many photos I see of bikes that are showroom > > floor clean. Either they are not ridden, or, more likely, the owners > > spend as much time cleaning them as riding them. Now I do live in a > > dry climate, but mine get washed about 3 times a year. (I am very > > careful about keeping the drivetrain cleaned and lubed.) I am too busy > > fixing flats to clean them more often than that. > > The other thing that happens is that when I actually wrangle my sloth and > clean the bike, I end up wanting to document that. So, I end up with images > from the squeaky clean end o' the spectrum. A place just north of > Brigadoon. > > Dirty bikes. Clean drivetrains. > > Each bicycle increases exponentially the possibility that none of them will > work properly. > > - J > > -- > Jim Edgar > cyclofi...@earthlink.net
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