I just lost my drain of thought

I have fallen in love…with a bicycle! I saw this really cool vintage bike on Craigslist and decided that I had to have it. I have yet to take pictures but I will soon. I’m a little reluctant to name it just because of all the possible innuendos, but I will decide on that later. For now, it will just be my Royce Union. It does not look too dissimilar from the bike on this site (In fact, it’s probably the same model but the seat is a little different.). According to the site, it was probably made in Germany in the 1970s. I believe mine has all its original organs, except maybe the tires because they look kind of new. I’m not sure if I want to change it at all, because I like that it’s so original, even though it’s not shiny. I do have an affinity for shiny things… Anyway, the best part about it is…that it folds! YAY! I’ve been wanting a folding bike for quite some time now and I was looking to get something more modern, compact and lightweight (this thing is heavy!), but once I saw this, I felt like I had to get it, especially since I negotiated for such a good price. It’s not quite as compact or lightweight as I’d like it to be, but it looks awesome and it’s a really smooth ride. I also love that it does not make me hunch over like some bikes do nowadays because that just makes me more tired than I need to be. The only modification I want to make to it right now is adding a bell. Ding ding!

Getting it was kind of tough, because Meeshella and I had to go to Torrance to get it. Getting there wasn’t that hard but once we got there, Google maps led us the wrong way and we ended up in Compton or something. Eventually we opened the window and asked this lady where the street we were looking for was and it turned out to be quite far. I eventually called the guy with the bike and he gave me completely different directions from the ones I got on Google. We got to his place, I tried the bike out, and then life was great. After that we went to this place called Albertitas (not Albertos), which had awesome carne asada fries. Delicioso.

I rode to the school’s bike shop today to see if I could and man, was it tiring. The other reasons I went were to see if they sold bells and to ask for a bike map. Unfortunately, they did not have any bells and unfortunately again, I forgot to ask for a map. I went over to the local bike shop in Westwood to check out their bells but what the frag, they’re expensive. I really only liked the sound of two of them because the other ones made this annoying, mind-numbing, dragged-out diiiiiing. But alas, they were all like ten bucks, which I think is redonkulous, because, if my memory is correct, I saw some at Target for 2 bucks. Anyway, the ride home was nice for the most part, since it’s downhill, but I almost killed myself because I didn’t tighten this nut thingy tight enough, I guess, and it came off because of my extreme biking, so my bike started folding while I was riding and it was quite freaky. Luckily, I could see the piece I was missing from across the street and it hadn’t rolled down a storm drain or something, because that would’ve totally sucked butt, but I had to wait for the crosswalk sign to change back to the walking guy before I could go and pick it up. I’m just glad no one thought it was pretty enough to pick up during that time.