Wow - that was lightning fast. When ordering through the employee purchase system I’ve come to expect long-ass delays but the YAWP arrived in exactly one week. Fabulous. Not so fabulous was the end of my brilliant plan to build the bike myself. The shop manager nixed it. Damn. I was really looking forward to building the YAWP myself, ending with a triumphant ride around the store throwing up some Hanz & Franz poses.
I understand his reasoning completely - having a noob screwing around in the shop would be a) distracting to the mechanics; and b) potentially hazardous. I didn’t want to be a pain in the ass about it so I agreed to have them build it. I’ll take it home and tinker with it as I learn over at Phoenix Bikes. I’ll do a complete overhaul and swap out some parts before I leave so hopefully that will teach me enough to deal with most repairs on the road.
Long live YAWP!!
March 1st, 2009 at 4:24 pm
“YAWP”?
March 1st, 2009 at 4:58 pm
as in: “I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable. I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world.” Walt Whitman
It was either that or “El Jefe.” I think I like YAWP better.
How’d you get “the Goat?”
March 26th, 2009 at 5:58 am
From Whitman. Nice.
“The Goat” came from reading an article about mountain goats and how they can navigate long, hard distances easily. Being an early Big Dummy adopter, I snagged the simple name assuming no one else had been as vain up to that point.
Been riding?