Yay! Free bike season is back!
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On my way to work at 8am:
During lunch hour, 12:30ish:
Coffee, 2pm:
Also, FREE BIKE!
You can tell these are old because there’s no snow. Though, weirdly, the snow has MELTED. There’s basically none outside anymore. The fort is no more! Pictures later, probably, when there’s not a cat sleeping on my lap and I can stand up and take them.
UDPATE!!
The brief and wondrous life of a fort:
Saw this in the crime report section of the college newspaper!
Coolest free bike ever:
Well – okay, it doesn’t look like much in the photo. But it had this really great leather, like, lunch bag strapped to the handlebars. Maybe that was what I liked, honestly.
Also, this totally counts as free. If you can lift the lock over the top of the post that you’ve latched onto, then your bike is free. This chain is so long, I wouldn’t even have to strain myself by lifting the bike itself: just the lock! Plus – LOOK at that lock! That’s one of those 30-pound NYC locks like Ian has! And they’ve basically just sort of left it leaning against something.
Also vaguely bike related: I was just riding around in public like this, like it was okay or something. For shame.
This bike is locked to its own wheel, which I understand is some kind of a system, at least – but I have to point out that it is LEANING AGAINST A BIKE RACK. If you have a lock, and you’re going to take the time to lock your lock, and you’re going to do it in the vicinity of a bike rack, why not lock your bike onto the bike rack??
And I’m willing to concede that, fine, this does not count as a free bike. But does it count as a free toilet?
Ian has decided he’s into the Tour de France. We’ve been watching like six hours of it a day. The most interesting part is pointing out when someone’s butt- or balls-pillow gets misaligned and forms a funny bulge. Sometimes they spend a few miles readjusting it.
It looks like I’m trying to crop this one sneakily or something, but I swear, I wasn’t. It IS under an overhang, but it wasn’t, like, near any people or anything.
And this one even had a super-cute horn on it!
(NOTE: Not as cute as mine, but still.)
Ian claims that some free bikes don’t count as such because there’s something wrong with them. Like maybe they’ve got a flat:
or they’re missing a part or two:
or they’ve got a particularly unfortunate paint job:
But I say it doesn’t matter with bikes, because you can still fix a free bike up. It’s at least free bike-parts.
I remember thinking, when I first got this new blog, that tags were awful. They seemed not only sort of braggy in the way that, like, Facebook is braggy (does anyone really care to read all of my posts about “tv?”), but also particularly useless (would you prefer to read my “neat” posts, or my “fascinating!” posts, both of which are unfortunately actually real?). And now lately I find myself wishing I had a certain tag, but realizing that if I wanted to implement it, I’d have to go back and find all the other appropriate posts to add that tag to, which seems both disingenuous and also like a lot of work (like, I should have a “fangirl” tag for zombie things and HMS things and Buffy things, but…really?).
Anyway, today I am pleased to announce the exciting advent of two – TWO! – new tags!
Tag one: “Found Fruit.”
(I was originally planning on making that “fruit found on the ground,” but thought it might in the end turn out to be too limiting.)
Tag two: “Free Bikes.”
Both of these two phenomena are, for some reason, certainly abundant enough in Providence to warrant their own tags and collection of photos.
Excitement!
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