Epic tale of young fixed-gear freestylers on the run: Vertical Dropouts
Sordid tale of 20-something fixie riders pretending to be high-school aged vagabonds: Forged Dropouts
The first all-drag-queen fixie crew: Campy Dropouts
Hipster cosmetologists: Beauty School Dropouts.
Horizontal Dropouts 2: Quick Release
In which the girls go on the lam after escaping from reform school.
Horizontal Dropouts 3: Chain Whip
After running afoul of the law in a small town in Georgia, the girls wind up on a chain gang in a women's prison, where they must deal with the tender mercies of the dreaded Warden Locknut.
Horizontal Dropouts 4: Rear Shock
In which -- never mind.
Horizontal Dropouts 4: Back in the Saddle
Still on the run, the girls get more than they bargained for when they pedal into the middle of a dispute between BMX riders and ranchers in West Texas.
Horizontal Dropouts V: Seat Tube Reamer
Horizontal Dropouts VI: Something Vaguely Dirty Relating To Bicycles
Switching to Roman numerals did reinvigorate the series, but most critics agree that the salutary effect quickly wore off.
Switching to Roman numerals did reinvigorate the series, but most critics agree that the salutary effect quickly wore off.
Was it Jaws II that started that trend? Prior, they had to come up with an actual title like Return of the Thin Man, or Son of Dracula.
I really thought the first 15 sequels had burnt out the concept entirely, but the Stalag series still had some life to it.
Horizontal Dropouts: Crank Puller
Released at the same time as Horizontal Dropouts: Bat Chain Puller, starring Don Van Vliet as the chain. (Sort of like Octopussy and Never Say Never Again.)
On the topic of general bike news, my brother got me a pair of thes pedals for my birthday.
They still seem extravagant to me, but I suppose that makes them a good gift. I haven't put them on my bike yet (and it's been raining), but I'm looking forward to trying them.
Darn linkrot: These pedals.
And, I see, the price has dropped significantly compared to the last time I checked.
Horizontal Dropouts X: Spokes and Nipples
21: now you need holdfasts!
Indeed I do.
Though it may be a while before I get around to it (changebad), they look very cool.
I am really not looking forward to Spike Lee's Malcolm XI.
26: Totally. Popular or not, the zombie-movie craze does not need to go there.
OT: How long, driving, does it take to get from Austin to College Station? Google Maps says 2 hours. I am revising my Austin plan -- I have to be in College Station on a Sunday afternoon in a few months, and am thinking of flying into/out of Austin, staying there, and driving to CS for the day.
26: I thought it was going to be called Malcolm X 10.2 "Jaguar".
A significant source of referrals to my blog is lfgss.net. What? London Fixed-Gear and Single Speed...
I'm not sure whether this is good.
31: come to think of it I think I've seen them link to you before.
28 - depends whether you are driving a la Captain Slow, or Jezza on the autobahn.
re: 28
I can't speak for the US but in the UK the Google route planner significantly over estimates how long journeys take. I don't know if it's programmed with some dumb average, or what, but Google maps will say 2 hours, the sat nav will say 1hr and 15*, and it'll end up taking me 1hr and 25.
* for long journeys the cheapo sat nav I have seems to assume you are going to break the speed limit by a shit-load, or something. I've never beaten its estimated time.
35: My little GPS unit seems to assume I'm going to drive ten miles under the speed limit, with the result that time keeps getting shaved off. This made for great entertainment on a recent trip to DC to drop my roommates off for a 10pm bus. Time was really tight, so there were constant updates. "We're down to 9:49 ETA. No, wait; traffic! Back up to 9:50. ACK!"
(Lest I leave you in suspense, they made the bus with time to spare, time to find five dollars even.)
ITYM "they made the bus with time to spare five dollars".
re: 36
Yeah, I usually check the estimated time on mine when I leave and then amuse myself as it ticks up and down when I hit traffic, etc. But I don't think I've ever significantly beaten its starting estimate on long journeys; and like most people I drive fairly quickly on the motorway [i.e. freeway] so it's not that I'm hovering along 10mph under the speed limit.
How long, driving, does it take to get from Austin to College Station? Google Maps says 2 hours.
Sounds about right to me.
I'm wondering what one of these GPS/sat nav things would do for a longer drive, on the order of 8-9 hours.
Gah! Heavy traffic for the next 100 miles! 8 hours becomes 9.5! Oh, wait, alternate route, recalibrating ... alternate route also heavy but not as bad: 9.25 hours!
Yet drat! Snarl-up for the next 40 miles, recalibrating: let's call that 10 hours now. Remain calm ....
I think it might drive me batty to be looking at the estimate throughout the drive. Going from Baltimore to central Massachusetts here can take anywhere from 6.5 hours to the horrible, awful 11-hour occasions. In the latter cases, you emerge from the car (auto) staggering and spent, not really wanting to talk about it. To have a device talking to me about it throughout the trip itself would be, let's say, not good.
I love that in 35 it is assumed that trip of 1 hr 25 min is a "long journey." Though if I remember right, that's the length of ttam's commute, no?
(I know, it would be better for the environment if we all thought that way.)
To have a device talking to me about it throughout the trip itself would be, let's say, not good.
This is why you select the sultry Spaniard, who calms you throughout your journey. En thincuenta metros, doble a la ithquierda.
"Oh, Juan Carlos. I would doblar any which way for you," you'll be thinking.
As long as this movie has a mavic fixie dream girl, I'll watch it.
42: You can select a voice?!? Awesome.
Can you select the nature of the dialogue? I'd want to cycle through: Yep, okay, no worries. There are snacks, right? Sure, how about some grapes? That's good. Oh! And we're in the NY vicinity, let's check for that excellent radio station. Ah. Ah, yes. (6 hours to go.)
To: Fuck this shit. Alright. At least the landscape is improving. That is one awesome cliff, nu? Also more evergreens, smells better. Don't drink too much water, dummy, 'cause you'll just have to stop to pee again. (2.5 more hours to go.)
To: Hey! I have always been in this car, I will always be in this car, this car includes snacks and radio and, I dunno. (45 minutes to go; elapsed time, 11 hours.)
Shorter 44: Wow, I can relive those drives at the drop of an eye.
I didn't really intend to go in that direction: rather, as I was putting dinner together, I's been thinking of Laurie Anderson.
You can select a voice?!? Awesome.
"Claire, you have left the road."
Tonight is the first real fall-ish (or non-summer-ish, at least) night at my house. I am ecstatic. Oh, my, I even have the windows open.
I've been ecstatic over the weather lately as well. Wait until you decide to don comfy socks of an eve, Populuxe: it's wonderful.
(The typo in 45.last made me laugh.)
I only wear sox about two or three months out of the year. But, yes, it is delightful.
History and Logic Dropouts
"This Statue of Liberty was gifted to us by foreign leaders, really as a warning to us, it was a warning to us to stay unique and to stay exceptional from other countries. Certainly not to go down the path of other countries that adopted socialist policies," Palin said to cheers from the crowd.
Horiztontal Dropouts MXLLI: Granny Gear
Horizontal Dropouts 2.218 x 105: Two Girls One Fixed Cup
Horizontal Dropouts: Dandy Horses and Boneshakers
Horizontal Dropouts Too: Spandex On The Banana Seat
The Statue of Liberty, by the way, was donated by the people of France by public subscription, not by political leaders.
(Public subscription as a way of paying for art was common-ish in 19th century France.)
55: Fools! We'd have sold it to them as a 144-part series of commemorative plates or some shit.
re: 57
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3473/3252321989_08e13ef7da_b.jpg
57 is awesome no only for its self-referentiality.
Didn't they already make a schoolgirl/fixie crossover? BMX Bandits?
55: was donated
Was "gifted" Keir, "gifted".
