Sometimes it aint about the bike.

Let's hear it for our beloved garage sale bikes, dumpstered tires, and the fixie conversions with quick-release skewers. Hats off to the kickstands, the Dia-Compe brakes, and the stamped dropouts. Hip, hip, hooray for 27-inch "alloy" wheels, plastic flat pedals, generator lights, Biopace chainrings. Fatass seats with springs. Coaster brakes. Plastic "spoke protector" disks. Reflectors!

Three cheers for the bar-bikes of the world. You are loved.