zut alors! thanks to a tip from jeff, i saw this amazing over-oversized tubed bike on the velocipede salon.
it's a zanconato with the sax max lugs and a straight-bladed max fork!
some folks might not dig that fork, but i think it is just perfect on
this frame. this is a wicked fucking cool bike. max fork and oos
tubes. awesome.
good movie, so much better than any
judd apatow-derived piece of shit.
horrible bosses benefited from a nasty, cynical, and subversive outlook so missing from something like
bad teacher.
the characters were anti-heroic clowns, and the actors worked well
together. jason bateman has the phlegmatic jerk portrayal down pat; the
guy from the tee vee show with danny devito was excellent as well. you
know a movie is at least good if it can overcome the inclusion of both
the inexcusable colin farrell and the noxious jennifer aniston.
horrible bosses was not great, but compared to what passes for comedy in american cinema, it was a black-hearted revelation.
somewhere along the lines independent fabrication went way off the rails as far as my taste is concerned. their attempt at a custom carbon
road frame looked awful to me, cheap and ill-considered. now this
thing is their newest hot product, a carbon-ti frame that is inelegant
at best. that carbon tube is in exactly the wrong place, and i can
already imagine the worst-case failure scenario. mixed material frames
are stupid regardless, but at least a holland exogrid
looks cool and not like a piece of garbage. i'd never buy a mixed
material frame; the full ti and full carbon frames are much better in
every way, and i don't wanna pick on indyfab. they were a cool brand
once, and for a while there the indyfab hardtail was among the nicest
run of the mill handmade frames out there. i always preferred the more
dynamic designs like the eastern woods research,
but the indyfab hardtail was everything this abortion is not: simple,
straightforward, elegant. i understand that independent fabrications is
no longer that honest, worker-owned company that started in 1995, but i
don't know how they think this is a winner.
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