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Chicago and Home

The last few weeks have been great. Wrapped up an Amtrak trip to Chicago with my mom, spent a bunch of time at the shop and did some nice riding.

One advantage of taking the Thruway bus instead of BART: the view.

The Embarcadero from the Bay Bridge

Lot’s of nice scenes riding this month.

The understructure of the Golden Gate Bridge
The Golden Gate Bridge, at night

We got these adorable hats in, they’re Adam’s hats, which we’ve loved for a long time.

Green, blue and pink Slow is Forever hats at Scenic Routes

It feels like the Page Slow St Parklet gets cuter every day, I love the guerilla yarn bombing going on in the city, curious to see how this stuff will hold up with our humid (read: foggy) climate.

Page St yarn sign on a tree at the parklet

Happened upon this adorable minivelo in Hayes Valley while heading to the Peak Design store to warranty my Mobile case and pick up a Slide Lite for my new Fuji X-T30 II before date night at Delfina.

Adorable blue minivelo locked up in Hayes Valley
Tricolore salad at Delfina
Two pizzas at Delfina

And a customer has a bike with the same paint scheme as Blueberry, though it’s a 1420, not an 1100.

A trek 1420 bike painted blue and purple/pink in the back of Scenic Routes

We’ve got some funny stickers in. The yellow stickers are meant to cover the MIPS label on helmets. Vibes at the shop have been great, it’s been nice to chill out and get into a focus state working on a bike.

Fake MIPS stickers saying funny things
Goldberv in Sarah's lap
Handlebar wrap display
The shop phone
The bike corral out front

We’ve got this awesome contraption in right now. It was brought from India, and requires zero cables or housing. The brake system is fully rigid, which I think is super cool. These Bheem bikes are really popular in India because they’re reliable, low maintenence, and cheap.

Rigid brake system on a Bheem single speed bike in the shop backyard
Rigid brake system closeup

The headless horsemen. We’re building up the red and purple hardrock for my friend!

The headless horsemen

Maddie came by! Check out her beautiful new Mash in in the latest issue of Calling In Sick mag.

Maddie's beautiful red Mash