Rivendell Bicycle Works - Blahg - Grant's Blog

Look at the bicycle rider.

That's a prototype of a future SILVER front derailer.

That's a fairly easy to read and pleasant watch-face, and the second hand puts all other second hands to shame. ===== This has made the rounds before, but it's in the restroom here, so I see it everyday, and it's always worth a glance. ======= ========= r…

I’ve been working on a new catalog and wanted it to be—and KNEW it was going to be in paper.

They're dead trout, killed either by ospreys or eagles.

That was a contender for a Bridgestone poster in 1992.

Kind of low blood sugar.

We were and are still hoping to find the woman in the picture, or a relative.

A customer came by and we started talking and he owns five or six bike shops in NYC and has a penchant for getting kids, especially poor kids, on bikes.

I lost the first part of this Blahg, and it was long enough ago that I forget what it was, so I'll just start here, with some "technical stuff."

That up there is a rampant Cheviot, with wings and crown.

I like the lead photo for this story, but it makes me uncomfortable, and no, it's not the short skirt.

That's part of what might be a final new derailer.

This is not real, I'd never do that, I wouldn't come within a light year of this cheesy hokey gross stuff.

Charles ("Charlie" to his friends) H.

I put this up a few years ago, but I am sure that 90 percent of you weren't around then, and I just remembered it, so here.

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========= On the surface, it's meh, but I like the woman's expression and her use of "afore."

On the same bikenhike, we found this: It's a nice way to memorialize somebody.

Not so sure this'll work, but what a link it is: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/business/elon-musk-children-compound.html?

Trump won, which is depressing beyond words.

UP: Post WWII SunTour derailer, prob 1947 or so.

Chairmaker Dewey, 22 minute video.

The verdict is in, and reminded me of Trump and this song: It's a true story, too.

FROM TIME TO TIME we've had anagram contests, either for fun or, in the case of the Gus Bootls-Wilson, to come up with another name for basically the same bike.

I just read this finished Blahg and I don't love the tone of it.

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This will be a short Blahg.

I write the blahgs hastily, don't assume typos and grammar problems mean I have no respect for the craft, etc. ====== Salmon are my favorite nature, or however you want to put it.

This is a BUMMER ALLAROUND: https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/giant-facing-legal-claim-of-over-pound200000-after-bike-collapse-causes-broken-back It will continue to happen, because the sheer ubiquitousness of material misuse inspires unwarranted confide…