If you’ve read about my night-time trips to the hardware store you may wonder what I’ve been up to.
Well, it’s no secret that I purchased a new bike a little while ago and I’ve enjoyed riding it around. The trouble is that the bike didn’t have a rack to carry anything like groceries or luggage. Whenever I took the Flying Pigeon out for a spin I’d have to take a backpack to carry things with me.
Thankfully I remembered that there’s been a front rack living on my garage wall for about a year now. I bought it intending to place it on another bike but it ended up not fitting quite right. Since then I’ve held on to it, hoping to find it a home.
After the trip to the hardware store, and some fiddling with scraps of metal, I’m happy to say that the rack fits nicely on the front of the Flying Pigeon.
The installation is a bit rough around the edges. I had to use scraps of metal I found lying around from an earlier project to bolt the rack to the handlebar mounts. Sometime soon I hope to replace the jagged metal with cleaner metal bars.
With the rack installed I thought the bike might deserve a new moniker.
It’s a Flying Pigeon, which is a bird known for hanging around urban areas. Now that it has a rack on the front it’s more of a “work horse” than it was before.
So I have a flying work horse that likes to hang around urban areas.
Does that mean the Flying Pigeon with a front rack is actually an Urban Pegasus?
Urban Pegasus is too nice a name for the current incarnation. Functional yes – but those bars, not so nice! Maybe they hide behind the cargo being carried?
When it’s loaded, yes, the bars are blocked. The ultimate plan is to get a couple pieces of nice, flat aluminum or steel (depending on what’s available at the store), drill a few holes, and then install them in place of what’s there now.
I like the first shot of your “tools”. Because the most essential tool when one needs to work on one’s bike is beer!
I completely agree! Having a delicious beverage helps facilitate creative repairs.