Paint Tomorrow Blue

This is my super awe­some bike. I use it to travel to super awe­some des­ti­na­tions within the city…at least when it isn’t a sig­nif­i­cant risk to my life to do so.

It spent the win­ter chained to the fire escape in the back of the house, mak­ing me wish that I had a garage or a shed to keep it safe and dry, or that I had at least thought to throw a tarp over it before the snow started. Not that it hasn’t seen bet­ter days, but it would be nice to min­i­mize the damage.

I took it out for a test ride.  The Har­ri­man office cam­pus is per­fect for this sort of thing since hardly any­one dri­ves on it dur­ing the week­end. The ride wasn’t bad…shorter and less event­ful than my very first test ride with this bike, but the ver­dict was worse. 

It looks the same–paint is in good shape, but the metal parts are sort of rusty. I’ve added a rear view mir­ror since tak­ing the above pic­ture, which I really like. The rear brakes barely work, which is prob­lem­atic, and I can’t shift gears, which is even more prob­lem­atic even though it’s only a three-speed.