I don't have the skills (or maybe patience) to take any pictures when my hands have been greasy. My bicycle -The frenchie- has taken sometime to be at the place she is now, and it took me a long patience pushing-period at first to get her rolling smoothly (stripped rear quick release anyone?! disaster)
We, as self-propelled people are also self-sufficient in many aspects. Okay, bike mechanics are needed sometimes - right.... The sense of getting things done, whatever getting your hands in the dirt means to you, fixing things will always be empowering. /♥xo.meligrosa
Mechanic's hands by busbozo
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Lovely pictures. I actually enjoy getting dirty from time to time. Tells me that I'm not completely helpless and can maintain my lifestyle ;-).
ReplyDeleteagreed!! that's why i love the bike kitchen. they have the space and tools for SF to fix bikey things. i felt really empowered after fixing my brakes on WTF (women/trans) night and then pounding out my bent basket to be just sorta bent one random saturday. :)
ReplyDeletethese pics rock my socks.
Amen to the poster in that second picture!
ReplyDeleteI still have grease under my nails! I can't say it looks terribly hygienic : )
ReplyDeleteThe poster is correct. Unless we all learn how to do for ourselves, with tools and hands and brains, then we will have no future as a people.
And bicycles are the ideal machine on which to learn simple repair. They're really not that complicated.
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