As you may have heard, the skies above New Jersey are supposedly teeming with mysterious drones. Are they part of a secret military project? Are they being deployed by a foreign power? Are they aliens? Or is there a far more pedestrian explanation?
By the way, note the following response:
Okay, so Gary Fisher Y-Foil Mark II coming in 2025, you heard it here first.
Anyway, my ride on the Ferl this morning was perhaps ill-advised inasmuch as it was like 20-something American Freedom Degrees and I haven’t warmed back up since.
[“Woosie!“]
Also, in the middle of the ride, I noticed this:
I’m pretty sure that’s the inner tube sticking out of the casing. Fortunately it held and I made it home, because I don’t think I’d have survived stopping long enough to repair it.
By the way, it was ironic that I’d chosen the Y-Foil despite the frigid temperatures, because as I headed out with it I found a package from Classic Cycle leaning jauntily beside my front door. It contained this:
Can you guess what it is? George Plimpton’s Softride perhaps?
Good guess, but keep trying.
Here’s another clue:
And another:
Yes, that’s right, it’s a Rock Shox Ruby road bike suspension fork!
As we now know, the Y-Foil is suspension-corrected, and with George Plimpton’s Rock Shox now I can finally transform it into the cobble-conqueror it was meant to be.
So stay tuned…or look away in disgust, whichever works for you.