My Son's Bike

My son’s bike has a reputation.

He’s very serious about his bike as his method for getting place to place. Gotta love his commitment to it. Rain, snow,subzero temps you will see him – on his bike. If he has places to go – his bike is what gets him there.

He picked up a rusted to heck green ten speed Schwinn, for $60 at Working Bikes Co-op. Someone had converted it to an 8 speed.  Already that’s a tad odd.  He switched it out to fixed gear, added an aerospoke so that he’d never have to true a wheel again.  Recently the bike got a new seat.

The thing is a mutt.

photographs by karen

0 thoughts on “My Son's Bike

  1. This cycle looks quite old but you have taken a great care of your son’s cycle. You are a supportive parent and your child is very lucky for having you as a parent.

  2. I noticed no mounting clamps for lights and no reflectors on that bike. The seatpost-mounted fender would block any seatpost mounted tail light or reflector. If you love your son, better get some real fenders for that bike and at a minimum outfit it with a front headlight and a red rear reflector (a red blinkie would be good too; a Cateye LD-500 is both a reflector and tail light). That is far cheaper than a trip to the emergency room or the morgue.

  3. how nice of of you to make suggestions for my son’s bike safey – he rides often at night and is properly luminated, reflected and blinking

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