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I hadnt been on the Roadini in a little, but I corrected that yesterday:When putting this bike together, the idea was to take everything I love about my other road bikes and combine them into one lugged steel superbike, and I have to say I really nailed it:Though I guess Rivendell deserve a little bit of credit for, you know, actually creating the bike.Even so, Im disappointednot in the bike, but in myself. See, I figured once I had my superbike Id be totally satisfied and could move on to other things, like parenting and home improvement and finally working on that wine blog Ive been meaning to start.Maybe Id even get rid of some bikes and create some additional room for my expanding wine collection.But no. Here I am a year and a half later, and instead of paring down Im buying aluminum bikes with skinny tires on Craigslist, and instead of moving on to other things Im spending all my spare time scouring the globe for tiny parts for them:I suppose I need to accept it, and to tell myself its okay. Yes, I wish I could be like Jobst Brandt, who only owned one bike, which left him with plenty of time to insult people onlineand sure, Ive been insulting people online for nineteen years now, but if only Id had Jobst Brandts capacity for austerity I could have insulted so many more:But thats not who I am. Im not an ascetic like Jobst Brandt, and I cannot transcend my fascination with the physical object. But it could be worse. At least Im fixated on bikes and not something truly self-destructive, like drugs or gambling or analog audio equipment.[This makes all those super-expensive plastic gravel bikes seems reasonable.]Speaking of toys for adults, on my ride I found myself behind this vehicle:Please note Ive obscured the license plate out of consideration for the driver, though in post-congestion pricing New York it would not be at all surprising to see one fully whited-out like that.Anyway, while waiting for the light I happened to notice the license plate frame:Oh, interesting, I thought. I guess BMW still makes cars with stick shifts. But when I got a little closer I saw the car wasnt a stick shift at all. Now, it doesnt matter to me what kind of transmission people order with their sports cars, and what a man wants to do with his right hand while hes driving is his business. (At least as long as hes not within 100 yards of a school.) But I admit I did feel a little cheated by the license plate frameunless Im misinterpreting it and its a boast about having an automatic transmission, which I guess makes sense, since you dont shift it yourself; rather, the shift just happens.Moving back to bikes, the bike industry keeps creating new categories, and Allied recently introduced a new bike specifically for roads that kinda disintegrate into dirt. I dont know about any of that, but it did occur to me that the test of a good all-around road bike is that you can happily ride it entirely on the road without so much as thinking about the dirt (or gravel as it were), and yet youre just as happy to take an off-road detour on it when one presents itself. Thats not the case for, say, the now-departed PRJCT GRVL bike, which wasfine on the road, but a whole ride without any dirt on it felt like a day at the beach without going in the ocean:Conversely you have bikes like this one, where if you ride past a trailhead you just look away and keep on going, like its a bakery during Pesach:But the Roadini meets that all-around road bike critereon, which is to say I did cut through the woods Just Because. And Im glad I did, because I got to enjoy a pecker sighting:Unfortunately by the time I extricated my phone it was too far away and I only managed that fuzzy pinch-zoom shot, but if my research is correct thats a pileated woodpecker:[Photo: Joshlyamon via a popular user-edited Internet encyclopedia]Then later I was riding along the mighty Saw Mill River when in my finely-honed peripheral vision I noticed something lurking beneath the surface:This photos even worse than the pecker shot, but its a very large turtle:Heres another on the other side of the river:Im reasonably sure those are snapping turtles, which have been known to tear a Ren Herse tire completely off the rim:[Also from a popular user-edited you know the rest]Thats why the snapping turtle is widely known as Natures Tire Lever.Finally, I guess theres a new handlebar mirror from Spurcycle, and so far Ive come across not oneNot twoBut three stories about how theyve made handlebar mirrors cool now:To wit:Installation is tool-free, and swapping between bikes is incredibly easy. It fits 1420mm drop bars, and each one is backed by a lifetime warranty. Spur has really thought of everything with this, and for just $69 USD (nice), safety just got a significant dose of cool.To be clear, I like Spurcycle. Theyre the Chris King of bells. I have several of them in fact, both the original and the less expensive compactwhich I actually like a little better, since while the original is both nicer and louder its a little bit too loud in quiet settings. Like, its hard to give a gentle little ping when youre on a trail like the one where I spotted that pecker. But obviously if you need lots of tintinnabulation its the way to go.Furthermore, while I dont use a bar-end mirror, I have nothing against them, and certainly dont think theyre uncool. Certainly I could see a near-future in which I do use onethough not on the Roadini, since thats where the shifters go. But if the Spurcycle mirror is as good as their bells then its sure to be a fine product.Nevertheless, having checked out the other mirror offerings, Im simply mystified why this mirror is somehow cool whereas the others are not. Like, why is it cooler than this one?Or this one?Or even this one?I guess they all just must have read the same press release.

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