Notice: Persons attempting to find a "text" in this [story] will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a "subtext" in it will be banished; persons attempting to explain, interpret, explicate, analyze, deconstruct, or otherwise "understand" it will be exiled to a desert island in the company only of other explainers. †

Swobo Sanchez

In the interest of simplified terrestrial locomotion, I recently shed two old bicycles and acquired an urban boneshaker made of galvanized CroMo with low-profile road tires, a single fixed gear, and no brakes.

Thanks to the Fixed Gear Gallery and One on One Bicycle Studio, I’ve fallen unashamedly deep into single-speed dementia. Bikes are meant to be simple, and this is about as simple as it gets—I couldn’t be happier.

For those who are interested, the two bikes I sold were: (1) a 2001 Schwinn Mesa GSX mountain bike, and (2) a 1987 Peugeot Corbier (P4) road bike. Also, I have more photos of the Sanchez on flickr (slideshow) if you’d like to see more.

3 July 2007