Particular
a.k.a. CNNY, disassembler
Sticking with the bike theme...
A friend organized this screening of Bike Gangs of New York, which is a 24min documentary by Cheryl Dunn (who also directed Everybody Street). The title is self explanatory. With a little luck she will be at the screening.
It is on May 26th at 7:30PM at the HI-Hostel on 103rd and Amsterdam.
It is Free! Bring your bike!
Bicycle Gangs of NY - screening
Bicycle Gangs of NY - Trailer
A friend organized this screening of Bike Gangs of New York, which is a 24min documentary by Cheryl Dunn (who also directed Everybody Street). The title is self explanatory. With a little luck she will be at the screening.
It is on May 26th at 7:30PM at the HI-Hostel on 103rd and Amsterdam.
It is Free! Bring your bike!
Bicycle Gangs of NY - screening
Bicycle Gangs of NY - Trailer
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Christian,
Thanks for posting this. I'm definitely in bike mode. I just ordered a custom built rear wheel for my Ti-IBIS. Funny thing is that for a I am using an Answer Pinnacle Pro rim that basically is a BMX racing wheel that is the lightest rim I could find at 420 grams. It features 36 holes for spokes so some added durability comes in via extra spokes, but otherwise I'm building a lightweight wheel with double butted spokes and alloy nipples.
Will likely loose about 1/4 pound of rotating mass, and the Ti IBIS will get down below 17 1/4 pounds. Funny thing is that I have a retro looking mustache bar that I had custom made for me out of titanium. A little out of place on such an aggressive bike, but know that I had it made of heavy wall tubing to basically be able to use my bike like a Stairmaster
to jump on the pedals.
Also am also building my steel IBIS into something crazy. I found a Middleburn Pro Trials bash guard that can mount a 20 tooth to give me 30 gear inches trials gearing. Yesterday I bought a set of used cranks that will allow me flexability to set up my steel Ibis as a two speed hammer bike. Understand as a mountain biker I tended to stand a lot and pump big gears. This is my style, and most people spin while seated, and use the gears for torque, where I use the strength in my legs to basically do intervals.
Another biking event is these unicyclists have a meet-up at the Cloisters the first Sunday of every month.
I'm thinking of doing the NYC Century on Saturday September 10th on my Ti IBIS (single speed). Just sounds like a dumb thing to do: ride a bike at 15-16 MPH is 6-7 hours of being in the saddle. Usually it is on a Sunday, but out of respect for September 11th it is being held on a Sunday.
Cal
Particular
a.k.a. CNNY, disassembler
Cal, I took some tourists on a tour the other day for 7 hours. It was at a dopey pace, and we took breaks on the staten island ferry, but it still is a long time to be riding. It is doable though.
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Christian,
I figure 15-16 MPH is a gentle sustainable pace. When I raced part of the early training is "long-slow-miles" that build's dividends. Back in the day when I raced I was doing high mileage where I was riding 3-4 hundred miles every week and I was puting more milage on my bike in a week than my car. This is when I lived in the suburbs and drove around 250 miles a week. At one point my resting pulse sometimes was below 40 BPM, and my blood pressure was so low that my doctor asked if I felt O.K. during a checkup.
I'm trying to engineer a way to take Beagle-Face on long bike rides. Since he is Miniture Pincher with that famous Beagle-Face along with his required muzzle he is a rather famous dog, especially in my ghetto neighborhood. Yesterday the ex felons at the halfway house down the block that use to be called "The Parole Transition Institute" engaged with me asking why the small dog requires a muzzle.
I explained that he has a recorded history of biting people and if it happens one more time the police will take him to a shelter and he'll get a lethal injection. I explained his aggression was due to fear and being scared because he had been abused and had a hard life.
One of my new friends petted Baby-Dog, but for some unknown reason the tail stopped wagging and my ghetto dog went off into one of his fits where he can't control himself.
Anyways I'm going to try and train my 9 year old dog into being a Bike-Dog so I can try to remain young. Walking all day is not the same.
I'll be at the screening. Pretty close to where I live.
Cal
Particular
a.k.a. CNNY, disassembler
Cool, I'll see you there.
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Other bike events: I believe it is the first Sunday of every month at the Cloisters all the uni-cyclists have their Meet-Up.
Also Tuesdays and Sundays I was told that there are bike polo torn-E-ments held in that park that is in the Lower Eastside that is near Bowlry.
NYC Century is September 10th this year.
Cal
Also Tuesdays and Sundays I was told that there are bike polo torn-E-ments held in that park that is in the Lower Eastside that is near Bowlry.
NYC Century is September 10th this year.
Cal
Damn, can't make this....going to see Battles. 
Any other screenings?
Any other screenings?
Particular
a.k.a. CNNY, disassembler
Damn, can't make this....going to see Battles.
Not that I know of. It may be watchable online.
The bike tour company that I'm involved with rents space at the Hi-hostel. The deal involves organising a couple of community events related to cycling in New York.
Shelly, who is the new owner is featured in the film. There will be another documentary Shown that he is also in.
Cal,
It will be projected in the garden, so check the weather!
That's too bad.
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Christian,
I think it is suppose to be mid 80's so unless its a downpour I don't care.
I think I have "Louis Mendez Factor" because I am already well known by many already because of my rare retro/strange bikes.
I was walking to the bank without any bike, and this guy recognized me on the street making a comment that he still strongly remembers me and my IBIS from a bike shop because of the rear cable hangar for the rear brake is this brass investment cast fist.
Affectionately known as an IBIS trademark from around 2004 before there was the invention of Vee-brakes, it was called by Scot Nicole the founder of IBIS, "the Hand-Job." LOL.
On my front brake I use this vintage cable hangar that is an eyeball. Everybody asks where they can get one. Back in the day you had to get one, and even back then they were not a mass popular item.
My steel IBIS dates back from 1989 and at this point is an antique bike over 25 years old, and it comes from a time when mountain biking first started. In the bike shops my battle scared retro bike spreads "Mojo," and I get repeatedly asked when I got it. When I tell them 1989, and that I bought it new it adds an exclaimation point of being retro and cool.
I await delivery for a lightweight mountain bike tire for my steel IBIS, and delivery of a new lightweight rear wheel for my Ti IBIS.
I think I will be riding the Ti IBIS tomorrow night. The rear wheel delivery is expected to be Friday, and with this new wheel this bike will be all tricked out and will weigh under 17 1/4 pounds. The Ti IBIS is a very quick and fast bike with agile handling due to a 40 inch wheelbase. Kinda hyper unless you are use to the fast quick steering.
Cal
Phil_F_NM
Camera hacker
Particular
a.k.a. CNNY, disassembler
I look forward to meeting that crazy bike.
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Phil,
The wheelset on my steel IBIS came from my Ti IBIS which I bought off EBAY that came set up for bike polo. These wheels are hand built 32 spoke heavy straight 14 guage with Sun Rhyno Lite rims and brass nipples.
I suspect that the owner was a "Clydesdale" because the bike also came with a set of 180mm cranks. The rear hub is an early Surly 1x1, and the front hub oddly is a 1989 era period correct Suntour XC Pro with Greaseguard. Anyways I am using this wheelset on a bike that I have set up with a Middleburn Pro Trials Guard and 20T-16 for 30 gear inches (Trials Gearing).
The steel IBIS was designed around a Koski tandem fork; the Middleburn crankset is also designed for both tandems and trials; and the Pauls Components front brake is basically a brake for a tandem. The rear brake is a u-brake. The bottom bracket is a FSA Platinum ISIS that features a Ti spindle and quad bearings for stiffness and abuse.
I kinda made this bike sturdy like a pickup truck. Though use of some trick parts this bike is very close to 22 pounds even with a heavy wire bead Schwalbe Big Apple that will be replace with a Rocket Ron for about a three quarters of a pound of weight savings that is rotating mass.
Currently I have a 32 spoke 24 inch Sun Chinook that has a weight of 450 grams on a White Industries standard Uno hub (black) that has straight 14 guage and brass nipples. This wheel will be replaced with a lighter 420 gram 36 spoke Answer Pinnacle Pro that features a machines braking surface and is basically a BMX racing wheel that will be built with 2.0-1.5mm double butted and alloy nipples on another White Industry UNO hub.
The front wheel is borrowed from my Ti Basso (Litespeed) and is a Mavic 231 32 spoke double butted with alloy nipples on a White Industry hub.
Today 29'ers are the rage, but the old 26 inch bikes tend to have lighter wheels that have less flywheel effect, and are easier to accelerate. I also think disc brakes require heavy wheels which exaggerate the physics mentioned above.
Anyways I think of mountain biking as the study of physics in real time. Building a great bike, especially for racing requires a pretty good understanding of engineering. I expect my new wheel to be about 5 ounces lighter, so the response to open acceleration of my even smaller wheel that is stronger than larger diameter wheels is an advantage that I'm exploiting.
The Ti IBIS is very quick to accelerate and with 15 1/2 inch chainstays it climbs like a MoFo and is built for hammering a large gear out of the saddle. Offroad about half your time riding is standing. Also because of the 40 inch wheelbase (very short) and the agressive geometry the handling is hyper fast. I may wire the rear wheel for added strength and lateral stability because this bike exploits standing and pushing big gears.
Cal
Particular
a.k.a. CNNY, disassembler
Cal, thanks for coming. Next time we'll play the better film first.
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Christian,
Ran into your cousin Shelly yesterday in Central Park on my way home.
Sunday rode to Yonkers and Mount Vernon. Interesting to note that there is no distinction between Southern Westchester and the Northern Bronx.
Growing up Hook Creek Blvd. was the boundry between Nassau County and Queens. One side of the road was fresh black top, and the Queens side had pot holes large enough to swallow a bus. Further south on Hook Creek Blvd. near the 5 towns area got swampy.
It was a place where cars were abandoned and stripped, but there were herds of feral dogs. There was a report that some motorist got stuck in that forsaken place and was attacked by the herd of feral dogs.
Anyways I guess I'm exploring and longing for urban wilderness, but it seems that it is gone.
Cal
Ran into your cousin Shelly yesterday in Central Park on my way home.
Sunday rode to Yonkers and Mount Vernon. Interesting to note that there is no distinction between Southern Westchester and the Northern Bronx.
Growing up Hook Creek Blvd. was the boundry between Nassau County and Queens. One side of the road was fresh black top, and the Queens side had pot holes large enough to swallow a bus. Further south on Hook Creek Blvd. near the 5 towns area got swampy.
It was a place where cars were abandoned and stripped, but there were herds of feral dogs. There was a report that some motorist got stuck in that forsaken place and was attacked by the herd of feral dogs.
Anyways I guess I'm exploring and longing for urban wilderness, but it seems that it is gone.
Cal