Freedom

The kids are getting bigger,

and after the short July 4th bike ride,

I realized it was time they move on to big boy bikes.

Jaxon was easy,

he'll fit onto one of my 3 now vintage mountain bikes.

Jakob was a little trickier.

After a critical mass bike ride last summer,

we found a small mtb frame/fork on eBay.

Perfect fit and decent quality.

Then in December,

a friend Matt moved to Maine,

and I scored his old salty bike.

A weird South American brand Calois aluminum frame,

 with all deore XT parts.

It was a tough decision to tear it apart.

 That was until it sat for 7 months unridden.

We tore into it,

and in 4 hours had the new jake-mobile.

Cool to have his help swapping the parts.

He even shortened the bars to fit.

Am I teaching him to never buy anything new?

In typical PB&S fashion,

we did finish to the single light bulb.

Their first ride up to the Point was flawless,

and they realized they could go 9 miles in an hour,

not an all day cruise.

Freedom!

Stay tuned as the donor will become a super-light single-speed.

TP