Tall Bikes at the Dead City Alleycat... that David O La for your help with the Tall Bikes and several other aspects of this event...

 

David is so Punk that when he is at work he often looks like the cover of LONDON CALLING by The Clash...

I met David a few years ago at a DC Alleycat... 

we rode and raced together a few times and became friends

in our various discussions I kept returning to the notion that I wanted to build a tall bike

David also wanted to build a tall bike

David's being a welder who has built tall bikes before gave this notion promise

so... David and I met up and built some tall bikes

it was a team project

the Tall Bike is often a FRANKENBIKE

these bikes were a meld of many different bikes

we ended up building two bikes

one with a sloping top tube bike on the top

the other with two light weight frames

the two bikes could not be more different

the bike with the sloping top tube is a lead sled

both the frames are lower end bikes

the wheels are 26 inch wheels that are non pneumatic

those TIRES ARE SOLID

while the other bike has all sorts of parts that belong on a road racing machine 

the frames are light weight

Cervello Brakes

Carbon Seat Post

etc. etc. etc.

in the end...

we had two wonderful tall bikes

a great addition to the DC Cycling Community

thanks Bennet at Big Wheel for the Green Schwinn

thanks Christian of Velocity Bicycle Coop for the ladies Columbia three speed 

those bikes together made a wonderful lead sled with random parts off an abandoned Lime Bike 

David not only worked on building the Tall Bikes with me...

David was also involved in the design, printing, and hanging the wheat paste posters of Ghost of the DC Streets 

then of course...

David helped with marking the course from Embassy to Embassy

all the way down to XXX Line Line on the streets which were do not enter for the route 

SICK!

then lastly... David along with Angel ran the Tall Bike Check Point at Sherman Circle 

at the end of the evening as I was scoring the manifests...

yes... it took a long time to score the manifest

I realize that... I was scoring those manifests

David had to leave

before David had to leave I passed of a bag of SWAG that I felt that David had earned...

it was a tote bag from SMASH Records in Adams Morgan

in that tote bag there were a variety of items

there were some CBD Items from Floyds of Leadville

a long sleeve Giddy Up Courier shirt from Pro Tested Gear

and lastly...

a mug and coffee from Lamplighter coffee...

there was a nice presentation and hand off that gave me a chance to highlight the products

unfortunately... I lost the crowd

by the time awards were done

the mischief of Halloween had set in

so many things left the table without authorization

that is frustrating

but unfortunately... such behavior is too common 

like leaving a full bowl of candy out on Halloween

don't be shocked if one person takes all the contents of the bowl for themselves

Marvin racing in costume rocking it on the Tall Bike!!!

SWEETNESS!!!

thanks for the photo Andy Zalan