Colin B

@colin_b
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Bikes, DC stuff, driving is climate denial, etc.
@colintbrowne on twitter.
biiiiiike riiiiddeee
i mean it's probably fine
strategy session in the mayor's office last week, probably:
@swiderski hey is this the project you were telling me about earlier this year?
#bikedc @bikedc (claimed): project/nerd bike. I built it up specifically for skidding around on the Fort Circle Park trails, but have found that I am too lazy for single-speed riding.
- 88 Rockhopper Comp frame, rattlecanned with a tan spray.bike
- AMP Research fork
- OnOne Midge bars
- Shimano coaster brake
- Monē bikes coaster brake cooler (coolest and least useful thing on the bike)
- stock V-brake on the front
- Panasonic Smoke tires
- Hite-rite dropper
theory: this is culturally the same product as those old Grateful Dead bike jerseys Primal made, but with a little extra helping of divorced, fragile masculinity energy

ugh some sort of car culture funeral procession just rolled past my house

probably 50+ cars , fully half of them with modded exhaust systems. Even the funeral marshals were driving these micropenis murder trucks

like, yes, let a community grieve how they see fit

but ugh I hate how "loud machines that kill people" is a whole identity now