Raleigh Marathon – 1985


What a fun bike to ride.

This was a customization of a pretty boring Raleigh into something MUCH more fun. The old-fashioned downward facing riding position is absolutely hilarious feeling, you might think that it just rides like you are in the drops but you’d be wrong.

The big huge cream tires make the whole thing feel incredibly smooth, the color scheme being taken from Pashley’s Guvnor line.

I am going to really try not to slap cream tires on everything… but this bike looks so damn good that I don’t know how well I will be able to resist.

Stolen From the Internet.

“It doesn’t take talent to practice.”

AND

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.”

HOWEVER

“When talent works hard, hard work alone is fucked”

AND

“Sometimes talent can half-ass it and still beat hard work.”

Sounds like life is too complicated to fit in a soundbyte.

The Force Stumbles Out of Bed

SleepyForce

Sigh.

This is not going to be a happy review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

I did not like the movie, hopefully that helps set the tenor of what is to follow. There will indeed be spoilers, but I will put them down in the second section of the review, where I start talking specifics. That section looks to have gotten siginificantly more… colorful… in terms of language as well, but I’ll provide plenty of warning before we get there, don’t worry :-j

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