A Fixie for MAD!

Hello Friends,

Last night my dear MAD accidentally found her Valentine's Day gift. Personally, I was thrilled with this early surprise, because I was dying for her to see it, have it, love it... It is a Redline 925 flip-flop. It can be set up as a single speed or flipped around to be a fixed gear. The fixed gear is the ultimate hard core cyclist ride right now, so we shall call her the "Fixie." (All 10 of MAD's bikes must have names, of course.)

We saw this coolest of bikes in a local Sacramento bike shop a month or so ago. She wanted it then, but would not allow herself to buy another bike. While she never mentioned it to me, she had been fantasizing about it all this time. Her mental vibes must have reached me, for when I put my mind to cooking up a great Valentine's gift, the Redline floated up into my mind. (Hmmm, I wonder if she's been secretly playing recorded subliminal messages to me in my sleep...)

The detailing in the paint is wicked cool. Like tats on a bike!

MAD was in stunned awe for quite a while, just gazing on her Fixie... (Note Max on the right and our neighbor's dog, Buddy, on the left.)

This was the look on her face for nearly half an hour...

And she's off to work this morning, riding in a light rain. The Fixie has cool fenders with little mud flaps.

This bike gift is not precedent setting. I gave her a cute cruiser (a Schwinn "Nancy") for Christmas. Again, it was a bike we saw at a local shop. She fell in love. We decided we did not need yet another bike. Then I bought it as a gift. She was so gobsmacked with the Nancy - I think I wanted to recreate the fun with the Fixie.

A happy girl on Christmas Day.

Sweet fenders and chain guard on the Nancy. She also has coaster brakes (very trippy - I haven't experienced those since I was a kid) and an automatic 3-speed. You'll be cruising along and when you pick up sufficient speed - whoa - you suddenly pop into a higher gear. It is very fun to ride. BTW, Schwinn calls the boy version "Sid." I had no idea that Schwinn was so punk rock...

Our next cycling adventure will be this weekend in the Santa Cruz area.