Notices by smellsofbikes (smellsofbikes@mastodon.social)

@jwz this post, without context, is quite a post.

@clarity this is not what you need but slime forest adventure is closer to Ultima 2 than rogue, and all the interactions are hiragana or katakana in the version I played. I believe you can set it up for kanji but am not sure. It was designed to teach written Japanese.

So THESE lunatics play bike polo on singlespeeds at a local park on Wednesdays and guess what I'm doing next Wednesday.
Carbon fiber disc brake guard.

Elf cyclecar, some diy welded frame outside that was very nice, and a big pile of frames with ski mods.

Ok I'll stop now and chortle over the rest of my pics on my own as I know nobody else is as obsessed with stuff like this as I am.

Whole display of vintage carbide and kerosene bike lanterns converted to LEDs.
This is amazing.

@slothrop There were so many people saying "We don't need it either, that's why we're selling it!"

S-works with rear end damage and a spare chainstay set, mostly because the owner was offering to change the size using a hacksaw. Cool large capacity water carrying setup that I'm going to implement in titanium for my bikepacking friend.
Softride four bar suspension stem on a vintage world cup raced Volvo/Cannondale.
People were giving so much stuff away. Someone gave me brand new gloves because "I smiled nicely"

Well y'all Veloswap was wonderful and my favorite day of the year exists again so I can be happy and have hope for the future.
So I'm gonna post a bunch of pictures.
There are loads of bamboo bikes out there. @attoparsec has a lovely bamboo cargo bike. But the AluBOO was a weird side quest using bamboo main tubes in an otherwise light aluminum frame.
Crazy titanium design, reminiscent of old softrides, where the seat boom flexes slightly for cushioning.

I DO NOT NEED THESE.
Those Kleins. Arrrgh.
There were so many bikes that were practically at giving away prices. It was interesting to me this Schwinn was dated to the month of its production.
Another booth had a whole run of lugged steel Schwinn Paramounts that had never been painted, unfinished, right off the production line when it shut down.

Some of these parts are ridiculous and I cannot justify dropping that kinda cash even though I quite fancy them.
Campy high flange: gnarrrrr I mean I already have a fixie wheelset with these I don't need more.
Crazy power meter crank with adjustable crank length. Terrible idea, even for $500, which is a fraction of the new price.
Mag wheels yo.
And the tiniest Regina FW it is so cute I just want to squeeze it

Wee bikes oh my heart

Some really amazing seats. I was particularly impressed that the skelly one was $20. But I do not need it.

I absolutely do not need another unicycle. Particularly not a tall one.
Nor do I need a lowrider or oil slick pedals.

All that is amazing and astonishing: a Blacksheep truss fork 36" wheel. James Blacksheep is a genius at titanium welding and this is flawless. absolutely otherworldly. It was a giant among the other bikes.

@ATLeagle Out of curiosity, what makes you like them better than helmet cams?

@futurebird He's building something expensive and flashy to suck up lots of money that would otherwise go to actually effective, real-world public transit. It's infuriating.

@WarnerCrocker I think it's a movement: there is a wu tang forever sign near where I work, with a pretty funky top hatted skeleton behind it

@Gargron also the case with dogs and parrots, at least.

Portland cat statue, one of a series. I like the rose irises.

@WarnerCrocker evil, stupid, and very ambitious.