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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • I have a fixed gear from state that cost a bit over $500 3 years ago.

    It’s my beer and dinner fetching machine. I ride it everyday (the longway) to my local store for ingredients for dinner

    3 years and 3000 miles later

    I have had to replace 2 chains, 3 rear hubs (my own mistakes… check your lockring or blow up a hub), saddle, grips, cog, lockring, Pedals (went from flats to cages and am now on SPD), replaced original brakes with Shimano brakes and have gone through A LOT of tires.

    I think I am in it at like $1500… Tools I don’t want to calculate but building and truing wheels is a very relaxing thing to do

    Here’s a picture of it loaded up. I think that I was getting ready for a party

    Its pretty anti-fixie



  • The top three are used in California.

    I mainly stick with Dude and Buddy (Buddy being my go to for strangers “Thanks Buddy”)

    In my office a few years back I started ironically calling people “Homie” and that overtime morphed into a gender neutral term of endearment we all used for each other.

    I really wonder where “Homie” fits into this