Schools are closed for Midwinter Recess and that means this blog is too. However, since 2024 is The Year Of Paring Down, I am taking advantage of the downtime to inventory and assess my velocipedal holdings as they currently stand. So between Monday and Friday I will make a thorough accounting of all my bicycles, not including the ones belonging to other members of my immediate family, or parts and frames stuffed deep in a storage unit, which is to say it won’t be very thorough at all. Nevertheless, it will be a more or less complete picture of all fully-assembled bicycles currently owned, operated, and regularly ridden by me. This will allow me to determine whether or not I need to continue divesting or acquiring as the case may be, and is entirely for my own edification. So while you’re welcome to read and comment don’t expect to be entertained, though honestly you shouldn’t be expecting that anyway.
See you back here Monday, February 26th.
I Love You,
–Tan Tenovo
Rivendell Platypus
Use: Errands, schlepping, around-town riding, family riding, lunch dates, riding to the beach, mixed-terrain riding, light trail riding, all kinds of riding
Wardrobe: Regular clothes
Miscellaneous notes: A person could make do with either a Homer or a Platypus but fortunately I don’t have to make such decisions and can have both. While I’ve come to prefer the Homer in more “sporty” guise, the Platypus is all about comfort and convenience, though not at the expense of moderate off-roadability. It’s possibly the most versatile bike I have in the sense that you can spend the whole day with it without feeling like you have to or want to switch bikes–like, you want to go for a ride purely for pleasure, but you also need to pick up various things at various stores, so you just take the Platypus, go ramble around for awhile, and then make all your stops on the way home. Or you’ve got to shoot a video in Williamsburg, and you want to be comfortable getting there and back, and able to carry everything you might need to carry, and have a lock on board so you can stop for lunch or whatever, and basically be ready for anything that might possibly come up save for a paceline or a criterium. Also, there’s an argument to be made that you should always have at least one bike with a basket, and this is my one bike with a basket.