{"id":1614,"date":"2008-08-31T08:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/31\/pinky-tuscadero-2\/"},"modified":"2011-05-09T01:41:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T07:41:15","slug":"pinky-tuscadero-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/pinky-tuscadero-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinky Tuscadero"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally published at Kickin’ the new Kuh-nowledge<\/a>. You can comment here or there<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ve been having some problems with my bike lately.\u00a0 My commute to work has been great, but the downside is that I fold and unfold the bike several times a day.\u00a0 My current bike, a Giant Halfway, wasn’t really designed for this type of abuse.\u00a0 It’s more of a keep in the trunk of your car and ride occasionally kind of bike.<\/p>\n

The hinge on my current bike is starting to fail.\u00a0 Basically, it will work itself loose every now and then.\u00a0 I was on the sidewalk the first time it happened.\u00a0 No injuries…\u00a0 just embarassment.\u00a0 It’s happened a couple of other times since.\u00a0 I have a new hinge on order, but the issue goes beyond that…\u00a0 while the bike is a snap to fold and unfold, it simply wasn’t designed to have that action performed multiple times per day.\u00a0 A new hinge will just yield the same result eventually.<\/p>\n

I started researching and searching for a new folding bike.\u00a0 Most of the searching was done online, but I also made it out to a couple of different stores to test ride some bikes too.\u00a0 I tested Dahons<\/a>, a Brompton<\/a>, a Bike Friday<\/a> and a Birdy<\/a>.\u00a0 I thought about the Xootr Swift and the Strida.\u00a0 For a moment there, I even considered going back to my car.<\/p>\n

At some point I passed the threshold from researching, to actually shopping.\u00a0 I started scouring eBay and Craigslist for a good deal.\u00a0 I found several, but either I didn’t win the auction (eBay)… or the seller wasn’t willing to ship the bike (Craigslist).\u00a0 One of the folks I contacted via Craigslist in Eugene, OR got back to me a week ago.\u00a0 He hadn’t had any luck selling his Bike Friday Tikit<\/a> locally, and wanted to know if I was still interested.\u00a0 We agreed on a shipping price, and the bike was sent out to me on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

It arrived yesterday.\u00a0 Here are the pictures to prove it…<\/p>\n

\"Whats<\/p>\n

What's in the box?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Getting<\/p>\n

Getting Warmer?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"That<\/p>\n

That Can't Possibly Be a Pink Bike?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Presenting<\/p>\n

Presenting Pinky Tuscadero!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Oil<\/p>\n

Oil Is for Sissies!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Showing<\/p>\n

Showing Off My Bling!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Most likely, the Oil is for Sissies is going to be removed or replaced.\u00a0 If you have a better slogan for Pinky, please let me know.\u00a0 So far I’ve heard…\u00a0 “Real Men Love Pink”, “Pink Panther”, and of course, “Pinky Tuscadero”.\u00a0 I’ve also had some vulgar ones that I won’t repeat here because my dad reads this.\u00a0 ;-) <\/p>\n

Interesting tidbit on the name Pinky Tuscadero…\u00a0 it appears that Happy Days has been out of syndication so long that people under 30 do not generally get the reference.\u00a0 I’ve said it in mixed groups of people.\u00a0 The under 30’s look puzzled, the over 30’s groan.\u00a0 LOL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Originally published at Kickin’ the new Kuh-nowledge. You can comment here or there. I’ve been having some problems with my bike lately.\u00a0 My commute to work has been great, but the downside is that I fold and unfold the bike several times a day.\u00a0 My current bike, a Giant Halfway, wasn’t really designed for this…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20,21,132,131,33],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commute-bike","tag-bike","tag-bike-friday-tikit","tag-commute","tag-folding-bike-2","tag-pinky-tuscadero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}