It will be canary yellow and I splurged for the Brooks leather bar tape to match the honey brown saddle. This could be the start of a product evangelism crusade for me as it is for many Bike Friday owners.
I'm also planning on heading up to the factory in Eugene, OR on the first of November to pick up my bike, meet the folks who built it, and do some day rides/light touring in the area (I'm thinking maybe a 3-day loop to the coast, over to Portland, and then back to Eugene and then ride Amtrak back home).
not my Bike Friday. imagine this one in yellow with leather accents...
If I haven't already gushed to you about it, Bike Friday custom-builds high-end folding/travel bicycles. The coolest part may be the travel case they sell for it which checks as standard luggage on airlines and has some add-ons that turn the case into a trailer you can haul behind you. Basically, this means I can fly anywhere and ride away from the airport car-free. Not that airports are the most bike-friendly places, but you get the idea. And its not some junky folder, either. I've ridden a couple of these and you forget you're on a folding bike until you look down. Feels like a legit road bike to be sure. This is something I've been getting excited about for months on end. I've never even owned a new new bike, let alone one custom-built for me.
Also, I treated myself to McSweeny's Book Release Club and Bowl of Cherries is a very entertaining read. Imagine--a funny book about a man awaiting execution in an Iraqi prison! Sounds like a laugh-riot, no? Well, the plot also involves an eccentric Egyptologist who is researching how the pyramids were build using sound waves to move the stones (which makes me extrememly happy as I recall an episode of Coast to Coast AM years ago while driving a mail truck at 3 in the morning in Iowa during which an eccentric Egyptologist claimed they moved the stones with sound and that a low F# is the frequency of the wobble of the Earth on its axis). That's right, I just gave a blog shoutout to late-night conspiracy theory AM radio.
About 8 people said they liked my sweater today, so that means I'm the freshest. This video is still the champion. It makes me wish I still had a copy of Lost Blues & Other Songs...which I can't find digitally anywhere. I may actually have to buy a physical CD! Totally stone age!
