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Best comment on a YouTube review of Brooks bicycle saddles:
"I bought a Brooks on the recommendation of my octogenarian neighbour who used to ride 200 mile days in the 1950s. It was pretty uncomfortable to start but thankfully after 6 months of perseverance I permanently lost all feeling in my nether regions and any chance of fertility and now swear by the brand."
@hollie as the owner of a brooks saddle I laughed heartily.
Best comment on a YouTube review of Brooks bicycle saddles:
"I bought a Brooks on the recommendation of my octogenarian neighbour who used to ride 200 mile days in the 1950s. It was pretty uncomfortable to start but thankfully after 6 months of perseverance I permanently lost all feeling in my nether regions and any chance of fertility and now swear by the brand."
@hollie 😍 I just started customizing one in “rose spritz” - so fun!
I am so tempted to get these for my 💜 p-line: https://www.brompton.com/p/1587/colourlab-colour-touchpoint-set-a-c-p-line?Colour=Purple
@SarahFrumento Yes! I love those, the little pop of color is so fun!
@SarahFrumento Looking at Lady Amalthea's purple loveliness, reminds me that I was going to post how last night I discovered that Clever Cycles has a Brompton Design Studio where you can build a bike - for real, they'll build what you make if you process the result as an order request.
So I went in there and decided to try and make the lightest, most purple bike I could. I chose a Titanium frame, and every section or component that could be selected that had color options, I chose, and then chose purple! 😅
The end result was a very lovely, very purple, Brompton T Line, that cost:
A little over 13k. :blobcatrainbow:
https://clevercycles.com/collections/custom-brompton-design-studio
@hollie 😍 I just started customizing one in “rose spritz” - so fun!
I am so tempted to get these for my 💜 p-line: https://www.brompton.com/p/1587/colourlab-colour-touchpoint-set-a-c-p-line?Colour=Purple
I did it! I rode my bike for the first time in 30 days! I used lots of assist and just went a short distance. I’m glad I did it and I’m also glad I kept it short because it definitely felt more effortful than usual — but it’s a new start on this road to recovery that I’m traveling.
@SarahFrumento Looking at Lady Amalthea's purple loveliness, reminds me that I was going to post how last night I discovered that Clever Cycles has a Brompton Design Studio where you can build a bike - for real, they'll build what you make if you process the result as an order request.
So I went in there and decided to try and make the lightest, most purple bike I could. I chose a Titanium frame, and every section or component that could be selected that had color options, I chose, and then chose purple! 😅
The end result was a very lovely, very purple, Brompton T Line, that cost:
A little over 13k. :blobcatrainbow:
https://clevercycles.com/collections/custom-brompton-design-studio
I did it! I rode my bike for the first time in 30 days! I used lots of assist and just went a short distance. I’m glad I did it and I’m also glad I kept it short because it definitely felt more effortful than usual — but it’s a new start on this road to recovery that I’m traveling.
I did it! I rode my bike for the first time in 30 days! I used lots of assist and just went a short distance. I’m glad I did it and I’m also glad I kept it short because it definitely felt more effortful than usual — but it’s a new start on this road to recovery that I’m traveling.
It’s vitamin B12 tonight — Bike Ride No. 12 on Bea the Brompton (I love night rides 🌕). I’m still madly in love. I didn’t intend to keep track of every ride, I just happen to be using a great analog system that works really well for me (Traveler’s Notebook!), and marking that stuff down is easy, so it’s becoming fun to track.
For many months I’d been saving for a Rivendell, and this is the “Rivendell World Champion Stripe Sticker” on the website. It was $2 and I ordered it ages ago, as a fun little motivational reminder of how much I wanted my Riv. And then I got….a Brompton! So I put the sticker on Bea as a little joke to myself. And a reminder that all dreams that nourish us are good, and it’s okay to exchange one dream for another if the new dream works better.
@hollie
Inspiring conclusion! ✨
Hooray! My physio said I can do short, flat, rides with my little folding bike (Lady Amalthea). It will be a little while yet before I can go out with my big cargo bike (Dorothy) again but I’m just happy to be able to ride any bike right now!
But, also, I’m super tired after physio so I’ve got to rest a bit first. My husband suggested I wait until tomorrow but I might go this evening, if I feel up for it (just for a teeny tiny ride down our street and back).
@SarahFrumento Yay! Congrats!
It’s vitamin B12 tonight — Bike Ride No. 12 on Bea the Brompton (I love night rides 🌕). I’m still madly in love. I didn’t intend to keep track of every ride, I just happen to be using a great analog system that works really well for me (Traveler’s Notebook!), and marking that stuff down is easy, so it’s becoming fun to track.
For many months I’d been saving for a Rivendell, and this is the “Rivendell World Champion Stripe Sticker” on the website. It was $2 and I ordered it ages ago, as a fun little motivational reminder of how much I wanted my Riv. And then I got….a Brompton! So I put the sticker on Bea as a little joke to myself. And a reminder that all dreams that nourish us are good, and it’s okay to exchange one dream for another if the new dream works better.
@hollie it was. I put it in the class with the Grand Canyon. All the hype, all the photos, and one thinks “There’s no way this can live up to all that.”
Then people see it first hand and they think it wasn’t hyped enough or perhaps could never be hyped enough.
Collette was telling everyone we met that we are doing this because it's on SCOTT’S bucket list. Mid transit up the first set of locks, she tells me it’s way cooler than she imagined.
@jswright61 That's so great! 😁 I love that she had low expectations and then got blown away.
@hollie I feel like perimenopause has made my anxiety worse. Other people have said the same thing. 😑
Hooray! My physio said I can do short, flat, rides with my little folding bike (Lady Amalthea). It will be a little while yet before I can go out with my big cargo bike (Dorothy) again but I’m just happy to be able to ride any bike right now!
But, also, I’m super tired after physio so I’ve got to rest a bit first. My husband suggested I wait until tomorrow but I might go this evening, if I feel up for it (just for a teeny tiny ride down our street and back).
I'm seeing a new therapist today who specializes in the type of anxiety I'm experiencing (the type that keeps you from living your life normally). I just reminded the household of this appt.
Housemate jokes, "I hope he has a calming voice. Like Barry White."
Barry White happens to be one of my faves and my favorite song of his is Can't Get Enough of Your Love Babe, so now I'm picturing it, Barry White as my therapist, holding a mic, wearing a polyester suit, serenading me in a tiny carpeted office with that song intro...
I've heard people say that
Too much of anything is not good for you, baby
Oh no
But I don't know about that
There's many times that we've been calm together
We've shared calm and made calm
It doesn't seem to me like it's enough
There's just not enough of it
Oh babe.....
(How many panic attacks could survive this serenade, I ask you)
@hollie I feel like perimenopause has made my anxiety worse. Other people have said the same thing. 😑
@jswright61 This sounds AMAZING! :D
@hollie it was. I put it in the class with the Grand Canyon. All the hype, all the photos, and one thinks “There’s no way this can live up to all that.”
Then people see it first hand and they think it wasn’t hyped enough or perhaps could never be hyped enough.
Collette was telling everyone we met that we are doing this because it's on SCOTT’S bucket list. Mid transit up the first set of locks, she tells me it’s way cooler than she imagined.
