After a miserable sleepless 8 hour flight, I've made it to the older country of NY. I made it just in time to send off my younger brother to the real old country. Nevertheless, I slept til 2 thanks to a sleepless nights and was able to dial in my dad's bike in time to venture out into the 50 degree fog (great weather for this time of the year, although it was 65 and sunny in SF, damn). Here's some pics of the bike I'll be tramping about on for the next couple weeks.
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| It's a mid-80's Bottechia mid-level racing bike. My dad put some Cat-5s into it, it is faster than my Cross-Check for sure. |
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| Columbus SL tubing, yum. |
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| Cinelli bars, my dad had some profile aero bars on it at first, but I took those off. No need for them. |
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| Full campy drivetrain. |
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| 12 speed, some say that's 11 too many. |
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| The sexiest brake levers ever. I love vintage Campy brakes, but they were tough to reach on this setup, I think they need to be pushed down some on the drops. |
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| Low angles. |
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| 24mm! Yikes! The rear was balding and cost me a tube . |
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| Building at the end of the block. |
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| Gazebo. |
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| Curbs. |
It was a quick ride to the docks and then back home. I wanted to get the coffee shop and liquor store, but a flat cost me. Oh well. Looking forward to logging miles on a different style bike in a new place.
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