Additional to yesterday’s submit, I’m unsure what occurred with the Hyundai business. It was the precise business after I watched it, and the outline matches…
…however the precise video embedded within the submit now exhibits a unique business.
Anyway, little question you’ve moved on, however should you completely should see the hapless Freds working that gentle it appears as if you are able to do so right here.
In the meantime, greetings from the financial institution of the mighty Hudson River, simply throughout from the primordial New Jersey Palisades:
Whenever you strategy the water you count on frozen stillness, however the chunks of ice drifting within the present creates a sensation of motion which makes you are feeling type of seasick as you have a look at it:
Although to be truthful the bike doesn’t assist in the nausea division:
I actually ought to improve to a carbon fiber bicycle, which might in flip give me an excuse to improve to carbon fiber pants:
Lastly, a pair of pants that’s 15 instances stronger than metal!
Harrumph, as a retrogrouch I’ll keep on with my metal cuisses and greaves, thankyouverymuch:
Cuisses & Greaves goes to be the title of my new artisanal bikepacking bag firm. I additionally actually like these these sabatons. Positive, they give the impression of being a bit of cumbersome, however I guess they had been nonetheless simpler to stroll in than highway bikes sneakers.
Naturally I used to be intrigued by the pants, so I headed over to the clothes firm’s web site, and I made the very same facial features because the mannequin after I discovered that they had been $595:
[“Say what?”]
Although that’s nonetheless a greater deal than the Colnago garments, which might’t even stretch in any path concurrently:
Weighing simply 350 grams, the pants can stretch in any path concurrently, whereas withstanding the identical exams as our 100 12 months gear – making them the strongest pair of light-weight, stretchy, on a regular basis pants ever constructed.
I’m having a troublesome time envisioning a situation during which I’d stretch my pants in a number of instructions concurrently, wanting having one other particular person inside them with me who’s attempting to run in the wrong way.
In addition they have “army grade” t-shirts, that are a comparative cut price at $145:
It’s so robust it’ll outlive you!
Engineered with a mix of army grade Japanese Cordura and cotton, the 100 12 months T Shirt is simply as smooth as an everyday cotton t shirt, however it’s 14x stronger. The problem for the 100 12 months T Shirt was easy – construct a t shirt that’s robust sufficient to survive you, however snug sufficient so that you can need to spend the remainder of your life in. The truth of most t shirts is that after just a few years they begin to break down, then they’re thrown out. The 100 12 months T Shirt is totally different. Whereas it appears to be like like an everyday cotton t shirt and seems like an everyday cotton t shirt, it’s constituted of a fabric so robust it was initially developed for army fight uniforms.
How is {that a} promoting level although? I actually don’t desire a t-shirt that’s going to survive me. I’d get depressed realizing I’m going to die earlier than my shirt. Sporting out a t-shirt is a part of the pure cycle of life, like watching the seasons change or dropping your hair. Positive, you would possibly suppose you need your t-shirt to final perpetually, however it’s most likely like wishing for immortality, in that when your want is definitely granted you understand it’s really a residing hell. Why deny your self the method of getting a t-shirt, breaking it in properly, sporting it till it’s gossamer, after which getting a brand new one and beginning the method anew? Actually, the one scenario during which I’d need my t-shirt to survive me could be if I get inducted into the Gravel Biking Corridor of Fame and after I die they put my physique on show like Lenin:
No offense to any of those intrepid gravelliers talked about within the article, however as I’ve talked about earlier than, that is by far The World’s Most Untimely Corridor of Fame. The brand of the Gravel Biking Corridor of Fame ought to be an image of a horse with a cart in entrance of it. Plus, I wished to know the place the Gravel Biking Corridor of Fame was situated so I might be sure to by no means go to it, and I came upon there isn’t even a bodily one in any respect:
A bodily presence ought to be the very first rule for the institution of a corridor of fame. Like, they couldn’t hire a barn someplace and fill it with wax collectible figurines and troughs filled with various kinds of gravel?
Convey the children, it’s a tactile sensory expertise!