Meet Scar

[Cataboo]

My 60 year old mother rode Scar to work this morning. She called me to tell me all about how he rode like the wind and it was the best bike she'd ever ridden. and to ask me what gears to be in on hills. She refused to go on a ride with me when I brought him & Betsy the flaming surly by to see which she wanted to ride. She didn't like the seat all the way up and Scar had a lower top tube, so she picked Scar. And indignantly told me that she knew how to ride a bike.

It's kinda sad 'cause I need to repack the bearings in Scar's back wheel and he needs a better rear derailleur with stronger spring tension, 'cause shifting's squishy in the back. But she's happy.

After I get him back and fix him up a bit, I might have to arrange to leave him at her house permanently for a bike for me to ride when I'm there, or tell her that I don't want him anymore 'cause I'm too good for him. then she'll lecture me for being a wasteful consumer and a spoiled bratt, and ride him to make sure he doesn't go to waste. She does that with a ski jacket, a rain jacket, a fleece, and a down jacket of mine. She won't take things if I buy them for her, but if I give her a bag of clothes to donate to the church, she'll take the good things out and use them. She still tells me what great jackets I was just throwing away everytime she wears them.

the next bike project is taking shape - 15" columbus steel marin mountain bike frame. Beautiful dark red to red fade. I think it'll be built up touring style with 700c wheels (but a set of 26" that I can swap on her), mountain bike rear cassette, road triple front, bar end shifters, etc. - if it fits better than the surly, the surly will go. Right now I pretty much have all the parts except for a fork and a bottom bracket. I don't want to steal parts from the surly yet until I know if I'm selling her whole or what. she's mocked up with a mountain bike fork because that's the only thing the parts pile has spare other than a 700c carbon road fork... so she may start off as a mountain bike mostly until I find a steel fork for her:



These are crappy cell phone pics, but you can see the fade in this one better:

[tulip]

Scar and Miss Plum would do mighty fine to add Down Low Glow to their wardrobes.

[Zen]

Miss Plum would never attire herself in such garish accoutrement.
However, her pilot is very fond of this handy dandy little item

[Cataboo]

Scar, the cad, has found a new home in between my mother's legs. She's been riding him to work for two weeks and has decided she doesn't want to give him back.

[malkin]

Way to go, Mom!

[Melalvai]

Ouch, dumped for your mother!

[badgercat]

Ouch, dumped for your mother!

I literally laughed out loud at that one. Well played.

Glad to hear your mom's having fun, Catriona! Maybe it was meant to be.

[Cataboo]

Ouch, dumped for your mother!

It's like a bad soap opera plot.

[Bike Chick]

Ouch, dumped for your mother!

Go Mom! Scar is such a bad boy!