Mumonkan

crows foot wouldve let this go to porn, snowflake twisted spoke fixie foo puts it here. theyre rainbow Ti spokes too.

soo much good retro mtb on https://mbaesthetic.tumblr.com/

seau grateau

So close that I'm kinda sad now.

Sherblock

this is making me so pumped for my mtb/commuter/thing. great blog!

Mumonkan

haha me too, mine should be here today after i get home from work!

Paulfs67

That Klein is awesome, someone with some good wheel building skills to do that spoke pattern

SquidPuppet

Look how badly bent the spokes are where they exit the nipples. I'm surprised the wheels don't collapse just from rider weight, let alone any off road sheenanigans. Too bad....I dig the paint.

50voltphantom

Holy cow that Klein.

prooftheory

prooftheory

Unkle Rico

I kinda actually really want to ride that

prooftheory

Yeah, but click on it and you will want to hit the woman riding it.

Mumonkan

no WAY!

when youre wearing an ancient utility belt that affords you constant access to a pincushion, maybe you can realize why technology advanced from your precious victorian era textile manufacturing processes.

seau grateau

They're probably not much fun at parties, but the sideways trike is still rad. I'd ride it to the bar.

Ratzinger

If that lady loves the Victoria period so much she should try riding that trike to the coal mines to work 16 hours a day then die early of black lung.

jlafitte 

She's mimicking the Victorian %1, obviously

SquidPuppet

I couldn't do the whole lifestyle thing, but the architecture and furniture are killer.

Huffandstuff

Their parents must he pissed they are wasting their trust fund on buying all that crap. They should go full bore 1800s and stop using the internet.

Noli Timere

After reading that, a little bit I wanted to punch them in their Victorian faces.

seau grateau

Everybody so mad.

SpeshulEd 

"I just love the victorian period", blogged from her macbook at starbucks.

SquidPuppet

Mumonkan

because these people choose to live an alternative lifestyle than us. they must be burned at the stake!

Noli Timere

They are perfectly able to live the lifestyle without telling everyone about it and how glorious it is. They don't seem to have any interest in that particular approach.

Ictoanta

I've read the article, seems to me they do something they enjoy, without actually hurting anyone. They don't claim anyone else needs to do it, they don't claim it's a "better" lifestyle. She points out some advantages (awareness mostly) which I can see as well. Actually, living more "consciously" is somewhat of a trend anyway, so they are hardly unique in wanting that, they just go about it differently. But it's really no different from people buying local organic vegetables, using a record player, having an app monitor their electricity use, or even riding a fixed gear bike...

Yes, she has a website dedicated to the experience... so? I don't see her claiming she shuns all modern technology. Anyone is free to ignore her website if they don't like it. She does explain it is an ongoing project to study the lifestyle as well, would be a bit silly not to share the findings, wouldn't it?

Frankly, I was amazed at the end of the article, where she points out the abuse they receive for how they choose to live. Sure, if I saw someone dressed like that, or swimming in a victorian era bathing suit, I'd be a bit baffled too. But why anyone would take offense, even to the point of harassing them about it, is completely beyond me. But reading your reply, I guess wanting people to conform (or at least be quiet about not conforming) is very important to some people...

Regulatori

Yeah, I don't see the issue. Just seems like two individuals role playing to the extreme. Of course they're going to see that society through a historical perspective aka rose-tinted lenses...but that could be said for any of the people that take reenactments/cosplay super serious. It's not like organizers at the Renaissance fair bring plague rats to run around or force everyone to use straw (or their hands) instead of toilet paper in their wooden latrines/trench. It's an idealized version of history.

They seem to be doing their own thing and enjoying it. I would rather see these types over the typical younger technology obsessed crowds that have their faces buried in cell phones 90% of the day...just walking down the sidewalk in major cities can be challenging since so many people have their faces engrossed in a screen/not looking at the world around them.

Yes, that couple is a bit extreme but they're not harming anyone. To each their own.