The Little Red Car Edition. As of Monday, February 3, 2020 at 9:00 PM pacific time:
| Track | Daily | Crush |
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| 1969 Alfa Romeo GTV | 1970 VW Karmann Ghia | 1966 Toyota Publica |
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| The gold Panasports just sell it. | I like hardtops better, but I’d take this ‘vert.. | Even the early Toyotas were dull looking. |
First go read Requiem For Bob, I’ll wait…
Seeing as the bike was no longer rideable it was hung upside down in the garage at Boardman Road. Then we had this bright idea to hang it from the cathedral ceiling on the screened porch right in front of the life-size B & W screen print of a vintage bicycle.
I removed the modern brake levers/shifters off, along with cables in hopes of finding some old school just brake levers. I took the pedals off to put them on the Bianchi to replace the Celeste Green clipless pedals that I didn’t really like. But when I tried to rebuild one that was not turning smooth, I lost a vital part (which of course is not available separately) somewhere in the garage, so the Celeste Green ones went back on the Bianchi and Bob’s went in the trash. This was OK because the screen print had rat trap pedals and toe clips, so I needed to source some of those too.
But the project never got off the ground, literally, because we could never figure out how to hang it up there in a manner that would not permit it to move in any kind of wind, look good and be cheap all at the same time.
Bob was still hanging upside down in the garage when it came time to ship our household goods to Oregon. I thought maybe it was time to discard the bike, but Donna talked me into bringing it along figuring maybe we could still turn into an art piece, either indoor or garden. Unfortunately we can’t find or think of a place to utilize it here at Pacific Terrace, so it was doing nothing but being in the way in the garage. Even after I got all the storage locations for the working bicycles settled Bob was just in the way.
We found a perfect place for Broken Bob right here in Klamath Falls though. There is a place in downtown called RAD Used Bikes that accepts used bikes and parts as donations to help get people who can’t afford a bike out riding, be it for fun or needed transportation. Today being Saturday, we drove down and donated the almost 40-year old bike. We even dropped off a bunch of old bicycling specific tools I’ve had for years because maybe I should be getting out of the mechanicing business (see the pedal fixing fiasco above.)
We headed out on a Home Depot run early this morning and serendipitously stumbled on a pretty sunrise. Stopped just off the Foothills Parkway and took this picture.