Leah
I will not be going wild in that way. I will, however, brace myself for a forthcoming scolding for the cultural references implied when using the phrase "to go wild". :-)
"Did you get this inspiration from the My Little Platy?" I was on oil-slick much earlier, and your Platy did not put me off the oil slick. It started with the wrench. One of the local bike shops that I sometimes visit is The Pedaler in El Sobrante. They have a pretty nice BMX and fixie case of things, and the compact "Affinity" brand 15mm ratchet caught my eye. The guy said they got the oil slick treatment special from Affinity, and he had it in black also. I sprung for the oil slick because it was cool.
In parallel, I've been waiting for an opportunity to use Vans grips. I grew up in Orange County and I am of a sufficient age that my grade school used to tour the Vans Factory there in the city of Orange. Back then, a pair of Vans was $20, and for an extra $1 they would build your Vans in whatever custom combination of their colors that you could think up. You'd just walk into the Vans store and pick your color way.
Then, when curating the color way for my forthcoming RoadUno build I was looking at various purple grips, and discovered that one of the numerous grips available in Purple is the Vans offering, and that grip featured the oil slick treatment on the clamp. So, I decided the grip matching the wrench was just meant to be. While I ordered the Purple ones I also got a set of the traditional gum color also, so they really look like the Vans soles that I wore throughout my youth.
In my communications with Will, I did confirm that his crack "at least one maniac will..." was aimed at me. So as to not let him down, I've got a unique drivetrain configuration in store that will earn the title and freak out the traditionalists. I even went on Custom Ink and designed this T-Shirt. I haven't ordered it yet:
https://www.customink.com/designs/alom/mzf0-00cw-2gh6/rsdfu/?utm_content=lsdimg&utm_source=RSDFU%20%28SNB%29&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=rsdfu_savers_day21%20%28NbhxDx%29&_kx=NXF_6Lml056J_AH2BzBbymb1-qXdxA063E_tUUQ9xu1TNQ5y-8PreOKuIj_8jDWG.Q4AcEH
I'm counting on having it set up for a September Diablo Summit
Bill Lindsay
El Cerrito, CA
On Thursday, August 15, 2024 at 4:45:32 AM UTC-7 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote:
Oil slick! Did you get this inspiration from the My Little Platy?! If you really want to go wild, I will send you all the links for all the oil slick you can handle. They even sell oil slick bolts for the bottle cage mounts/rack mounts on Amazon… I do love eggplant and silver. This will be great. APPROVE.Leah
On Wednesday, August 14, 2024 at 7:58:37 PM UTC-4 Bill Lindsay wrote:
I'm eagerly waiting for the container to get to Walnut Creek. Today my grips came in. I'm going with a Silver RoadUno, which features purples in the graphics. I bought purple Vans Lock on grips, whose clamps match a very cool oil slick purple Affinity 15mm mini ratchet wrench that I already had. In front of the brake levers I'll run eggplant Newbaums, which I'll wrap over a layer of ESI silicon tape.
I've started an album to capture the build.
Bill Lindsay
El Cerrito, CA
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