A quick-release skewer on your new mountain bike is a bug, not a feature:
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Posts Tagged ‘Wheels’
San Francisco Must Be the Bicycle-Stealingest City in the World
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013OMG, the BIggest Mountain Bike I’ve Ever Seen – It’s the “DirtySixer” with Wheels One Yard Tall – “Lebron: Call Us”
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013Have you seen Lebron James on a Cannondale? It’s not pretty.
So, to solve that kind of problem, here comes The DirtySixer MTB with 36 inch tires.
There it is, parked at Erin Sherbert’s favorite bike rack - it’s next to the very same rack but look how different the bikes’ tires are:
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Looking at this thing freaked, me, out.
Now myself, I’m 6 foot 1 and a ton of fun so you’d figure one of these rigs would be great for me. But no, I’m not even close to qualifying for the DirtySixer club. You gotta be like 6 foot 5 or taller to fit proper.
Perhaps District Eight Supervisor Scott Wiener could use one of these rides for Bike To Work Day 2013 tomorrow? Why not?
Oh, the expense, what must be the crushing expense. I can only imagine what the MSRP is. That’s real titanium for the frame, BTW.
Now myself, I’ll have to make do with the MTBs sold for $200-something at the Marin Bikes Warehouse at 7th and Folsom in SoMA. (Fulton Street in 1st gear: Fuck, why can’t 1st gear be lower? Broadway Tunnel eastbound (scary scary): Fuck, why can’t 21st gear be higher? It’s like I’m being punished by Shimano for not spending enough or something.)
Anyway, contact Dave French if you’re interested.
Outrageousness: Eighth-Generation Buick Riviera on Conestoga Wheels – What are These, Twenty-Eight Inchers?
Thursday, November 15th, 2012The secret is to make your super-tall aftermarket wheels thin, the better to allow your whip to, you know, turn left and right:
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Conestoga Wagon Wheel Fever – Catch It
The Biggest Wheels You’ll Ever See on a Camaro – Market Street, USA – Rolling in My Aught-Four – Is This Real Life?
Thursday, November 1st, 2012Hurry! It’s Halloween 2012 on Market Street, so grab your camera and go click:
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Yes, that’s a real car.
Oh here it is, gliding over the MUNI Metro grates of Monkey Station:
Thank you, drive through.
Celebrating the Return of Dog-Dish Hub Caps: New VW Beetle with “Heritage” Alloy Wheels
Friday, October 12th, 2012You see in my day, people’d be putting wheel covers to make simple steal wheels look like aluminum or magnesium alloys.
But these days VW is offering wheel covers on top of alloy wheels to make them look like old-school hub caps on steel wheels.
See? Here are your 17″ heritage alloy wheels on a 1013 VW Beetle:
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(In Soviet Russia, wheel cover you!)
Scissor Fight! Dallis Willard Shows Us What an Off-Road Segway X2 Looks Like on a San Francisco Sidewalk
Tuesday, September 4th, 2012Check out the huge tires, the better for off-roading you at 12 MPH, my dear:
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This kind of thing might be legal in some parts of the world, but not in the 415.
Oh well.
You’re too young to remember but the Segway Personal Transporter was supposed to have “changed the world” by now.
Let’s close with an action-packed 90-second clip of classic Segway accidents. I still feel sorry for the face-planting mall Mom who just wanted to have fun with her friends. 
Riced-Out “Survey Vehicle” From New Jersey: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
Tuesday, June 26th, 2012As seen on Masonic:
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My favorite touch is the aluminum foil on the exhaust tips.
Here’s the Right Way and the Wrong Way to Lock Your Bike on the Mean Streets of San Francisco
Thursday, June 7th, 2012Here’s the right way to lock your bike in the NIMBY-infested Alamo Square part of the Western Addition.
See? A hefty chain for the frame and front wheel plus a U-lock for the rear:
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Now here’s the sitch just 12 feet away:
See? Neglecting your wheels is a sure-fire way to total your bike.
So here, the owner comes back to the bike and sees that it’s not going anywhere anytime soon, so s/he just leaves the bike there to rust away, for days, weeks, months, and, possibly, years.
What’s it going to be like when “bikeshare” comes to San Francisco and your credit card gets charged $1000 when you “lose” the bike you rented? I know not.
Our City Family wants to encourage cycling in San Francisco, but it does nothing about this sort of thing.
Oh well.
North Beach Update: Princess Leia’s Three-Wheeled Motor Scooter, Darth Vader’s Three-Wheeled Motor Scooter
Friday, June 1st, 2012Here are your new, three-wheeled Piaggios, you know, dall’Italia.
The first one’s kind of cute but the other one is pure evil – just look at it:
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Oh, and the prices? About double what I expected.
Anyway, which would you prefer?
Leave us close with the Piaggio Girls, direct from Italy:
Don’t forget your helmet. Safety first:
Esaminilo, madre! Nessun mani!
The tragedy of helmet hair:
