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We can get some but there are not as many export only options. But it makes touring Speyside much easier. :)

Never seen 23 y/o Rip. It's not the good wine shop in Marlborough is it? There's a great one there.

No, this place has two locations, one in downtown Boston and one in the South End (I can't say I've actually been in, my father is friends with one of the owners, judging from the locations and having met her I'd imagine it's very yuppie, not that that's necessarily bad).

Which wine store is in Marlborough? I can't say I make it out that way often, but one never knows.

Bourbon's getting a bit ridiculous, so trendy they can sell anything from cheap swill to pricey bourbon bordering on cognac. Admittedly the renewed interest has its advantages.

I'm going to have to dig up some excellent photos of bikes not owned by myself in order to make up for all my gabbing about non bike subjects.

But Tennessee Whiskey doesn't have the same qualities as Bourbon, and does not have the same complexity. Sure you get the odd decent Single Barrel from JD but on the whole, Bourbon has more character.

If you have anything you can recommend to change my mind, please, recommend away.

PS - we're not all Brits, some of us are in the 10% with passports

Sorry to divert from bikes for a moment (btw, what the hell happened, this thread used to be incredible, I stop paying attention for a few weeks and it goes RW and ugly-crap).

Anyway, I'm afraid I'm a bourbon drinker myself... so I wouldn't be much help on the Tenn-whiskey front. I imagine the geographical limitations on TN-whiskey play a role in there being very few offerings in that category.

I'm working on a magnum bottle of Eagle Rare (the owners of a local fancy wine shop went down to the distillery and selected a few barrels which were bottled up for them. This is in Boston, Massachusetts, so don't get too excited), which is quite nice, and trying not to consume a bottle of 23 yo Old Rip Van Winkle (wow, amazing).

While I imagine the bourbon offerings are a little slimmer over there, I suppose you must have access to some of the export-only offerings?

Silly Brits, Tennessee usually = Whiskey (Tennessee Whiskey in particular)... Bourbon is usually associated with Kentucky (although it can be made anywhere).

that is definitely a fantastic beach cruiser.

i really like the purple and white thing, sorry for having such bad taste ;)

Purple?

I don't see any purple?

D'ya mean the unpainted Ti section?

Isn't that black Rossin pista Jussi's bike?

(Jussi from fixedgear.blogspot)

The funny thing is, when I see an ANT... I'm not sure I'm thinking functionality. Or if I do, I guess I don't see much in the way of versatility, which in the ends lends itself to broad functionality.

Anyway, they are pretty, and frickin' expensive!

I wouldn't kick one out of bed, although my wife would likely give the bike and I the old heave-ho.

Surprised none of you beltdrive-crazies haven't posted this yet... also from NAHBS

^^^^ Oh my, you found him... I was trying to find that photo a week or so ago.

I've always thought he looks like Mickey Rourke.

It's not the creepy Mickey Rourke lookalike with the crazy GT or whatever, is it?

Funny, I was examining the details of the Takhion, and for some reason noticed the Subaru wagon in the background, which led me to notice the buildings.

And then I recognized the street... Beacon Street in Brookline Massachusetts. I'll have to keep my eye out for that bike once the weather improves.

cant remember see them before...

love the Rossin "Quatro" with the Audi rings... will it be two wheel-drive?

If I remember correctly the owner has said, on flickr, that it was produced as a promotional item in conjunction with Audi.

Apparantly the act of going topless, save some nipple tassels, is called a pastie.

That not how we define pasties in devon unfortunately.

How do you define pasties?

Pasties are the things you put over the nipples, not the act of wearing them (or, that's the way it's used in the US anyway); because they stick to the nipple one would imagine.

Yes you can run it as singlespeed, as said before.

Who cares whether it's "wrong" or not, as said before.

Why not just ride it fixed, as said before.

It this over yet?

Nuknow are you an American? Edit... apparently not. Ruins my theory thank you very much!

$2995 USD seems a bit steep, even if it is a NAHMBS cast-off.

Pengy meep!

This doesn't seem funny to me, what with the PTSD a large # of vets came home suffering from.

Not to mention tsetse flies live in Africa, not South East Asia.

Comedy = Tragedy + Distance and all, this just doesn't sit right with me.

QuickVit, I'll wager you're too young to remember Vietnam. Nam was my college, son. It was where I learnt what i know. Sure, you've seen the movie, read the book, hell, maybe you even played the videogame But until you've been there QuickVit, until you've stared death in it's yellow face, you'll never know. A picture won't bring it all back for you in inglorious techni-colour, QuickVit, not like the blood-spirting yankee-doodle horrorshow scrolling like a neon Nintendo wargame 24-7 across the face of my brain. Sure, you've had the Falklands, Iraq, and, shit, i'll even give you Hastings, Belfast and F'ghanistan. But the momma freaking superior of battles was Vietnam. One time, and i don't mind admitting this... you do what you godda do in the heat of battle. One time i shat my pants. Straight out shat my pants. Now that's the worst thing a man can do in the jungle. In no time at all, a million stinkin' tsetse flies were buzzin' towards me. And let me tell you, to a man who's not seen a woman in months, to a man who's rifle has the only butt he's held in his hands in four freakin' months, the 1,000 calibre flirtation of a swarm of tsetse flies is better than his first Prom kiss and a Big Mac landin' on the freakin' moon on the 4th July. But i didn't dry hump them wrigglin' bastards, QuickVit, I tamed em and I trained those li'l fellas to play Hendrix and Stravinsky sweeter than apple pie on a tittie, and when Pappa Jackson bought it at the Tet offensive, my band of flies delivered the sweetest rendition of Livin' on a Prayer you ever damn heard. You'll never know the horror, QuickVit. The horror's all I'm left with.

^^ The Paris is sort of "Flying Gate-esque"

That photo does make you seem pretty suave...

I was largely being facetious, but whatever... I think he comes across poorly on the internet, you don't.

Will no one ever learn to just ignore DW?

There's got to be some way to get him to tone it down on the net (while continuing to build what I imagine are excellent bicycles from a functional standpoint). Personally I wouldn't call them porn-worthy in a LFGSS way, but to each their own.

Ok fine I'd admit it, there's probably no getting DW to tone it down... heh.

Anyway, seeing there were shots of a Masi track bike I reckoned I might post these... not the best shots, sorry!

@James Alexander: The Super Course is actually brown... but thanks, it will remain that color. I'm probably going to build up some sort of singlespeed wheel... I hadn't considered the possibility of doing a double sided free... who knows?

Thankfully I'm near a shop that regularly deals in Sturmey Archers, regardless of whether I build a new wheel (just found my truing stand after several years) I reckon I should fix the S5 anyway (and who knows, with it working properly perhaps I'll come to like the high-low range option enough to offset the weight issue).

I haven't quite figured out what to do with this yet... it's my wife's late grandfather's old Raleigh Super Course of an unknown year (I'd guess it's from the late 60s but it has non-standard downtube decals for that era, or any era of SC for that matter).

So anyway, it's probably 531 maintubes at the very least. He converted it to a Sturmey
S5, which needs some work. The bike itself seems to be in very good shape, having sat in a basement for the last 15 years.

I am thinking about making some changes: one I'd like to switch (back) to drop bars and either go single-speed or come up with some light-touring friendly arrangement (I need a touring bike, I tend to commute on my trackbike as it's already been through a number of winters).

Anyway, I never seem to post photos here, and it is British and all. Feel free to chime in with advice

Honestly, much like this year's Giro, I found this go-around rather dull (despite claims that this would be the most exciting race ever). The most exciting thing I can remember was Contador forgetting which team he's on (currently) and helping the Schleck brothers.

More people on the internet under the spell of the late Sheldon Brown (RIP)... what a shocker.

The bike - from what I can tell - appears to just be a fairly normal conversion. Nothing porn or anti-porn about it. In fact, it looks fairly similar to Muna's (sp?).

Looks to be a Vitus 979 (road). I don't know how well it'll hold up to the stresses of fixed gear life, but they made a track version, so who knows?