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An homage to a bicycle toro

Posted on 19. Aug, 2009 by admin in Retiring Your Bike

(the intro image is from etsy http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28572549)

shoddy treatment of a good friend

I have yet to recover from not recovering any of our files. The only thing I can do is distract myself with other interesting topics. So, to that end I am spending some time trying to figure out what to do with my ‘Engagement Bike’.  As the name implies, this was my engagement ring and so I feel like I should do a little more to honor it that hoisting it up into the rafters of the garage.

However, I am hard pressed to know what to do with it. Should I break it down and just commemorate the frame with some sort of trendy storage device like a Cycloc? Or should I apply some artistic vision to it and make a toro? Or should I just leave it hoisted in the rafters of the garage.

Here’s a Cycloc. The bike is pretty old by mtn bike standards – 13 years. So, this little plastic bucket does not seem entirely ‘vintage’ enough.

Appropriate ring-bearer?