Monday·28·January·2008
I finally ordered //at 22:29 //by abe
After a three and a half week test drive during my last year’s summer holidays and much consideration about the configuration, I finally ordered a Brompton folding bike at Velofix.
Since the apple green was much nicer in the catalogue than in real life, I decided that I need a bike in colours that clearly mark it as my bike: Orange frame and black front and rear swinging fork. ;-)
It will have 6 gears (a 3-gear internal hub and a 2-gear dérailleur, both at the rear axle), a lowered transmission ratio for hilly Zurich and sprints in the city, a SON axle dynamo, Kevlar reinforced, reflecting tyres, and a bicycle luggage rack which also serves as kick stand when (partially) folded.
Options I thought about but then dismissed for miscellaneous reasons:
Schlumpf
MountainDrive (can’t say if will be really worthwile) and Rohloff Speedhub (not available although I already saw a Brompton
with a red Speedhub — funnily just in front of the place I live,
and probably also more expensive than I remembered).
Tagged as: Black, Brompton, folding bike, HPV, MountainDrive, Orange, Rohloff, Schlumpf, SON, Velofix, Zürich
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Thursday·02·March·2006
For those who care about memes, interior design or optical illusions //at 02:33 //by abe
Sorry, but I just couldn’t resist to at least once use FTWCA. (I guess it will become some kind of meme on Planet Debian and the Debian lists the one or the other way round… (And isn’t “meme” just another name for running gag? ;-)
Via dyfa I found a page with very impressive optical illusions in interior design
just resulting from the right perspective. Unfortunately my flat is
way to small for such a cool decoration. (These orange holes would fit perfectly regarding the colour. :-)
Tagged as: 70s, Debian, Design, FTWCA, Meme, Optical Illusion, Orange, Other Blogs, Planet Debian, SCNR
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