OK, Enough About the Bikes

But first, you must see the Speedster's recent fashion adventure. I think you will agree it is quite special.The photo doesn't do it justice. The Speedster was essentially wearing the dollar store. A pink hula skirt and plastic stegosaurus (that roared sporadically) on the handlebars, a reflective (bike safety!) "Es Nina!" banner, a yellow bumper sticker that says "Beer: Now Cheaper Than Gasoline. So don't drive, drink!", a plastic lei wrapped around the seatpost and a plastic bat dangling from the seat, various ribbons and pipe cleaners twirled around the spokes and bars. 

What was the occasion, you ask? Seeing as one's birthday and/or April Fools Day (which, depending on how cool you are, might actually be the same day) would be the only two holidays where you might suspect any sort of rogue decoration to take place, you can imagine my surprise (or look at my face in the picture below) when I saw this spectacle on September 19. 

Had Diana and Crystal simply walked up to the marina and surprised me at work on a Friday afternoon with a hot chai, it would have made my day, but not as good of a blog post. 

P.S. I found a crank and a right pedal, and my ghetto singlespeed commuter bike is working now, just in time for the rainy season, although it looks even more like a Frankenstein bike now with mismatched pedals and an inferior crankset.