The Steampunk World

Being the continued explorations of a living steampunk.

The steampunk world is all around us, lying just out of sight, in a continuous thread of steampunk builders and culture that extends from the Victorian era to the present. You'll find no science fiction here: This is real life steampunk.

Tuesday, September 02, 2003

My latest creation is a triple-high tallbike, Janeane Gartallfalo. It's a mixte stack, three Raleigh mixtes. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem tall at all up there. Maybe I need to add another frame.

Though I've only had it a few weeks, I've already had a crowd of 12 or so thugs try to chase me on it, one morning at 3 AM. Fortunately it's pretty fast, though I usually don't go any faster than I have to. I guess the thugs were trying to push me down and take it, but they underestimated my potential speed. Though I frequently have rocks and bottles and golf balls and whatever thrown at me, and am often chased by pedestrians intent on killing me and taking my bike, they fortunately never realize that so long as I know I'm being chased, I cannot be caught. I fear the day that some asshat
gets the bright idea to pretend to be friendly until he's close enough to push me down.

But as I always yell to my attackers, if I fall, I'm landing on them, boot-first.


0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home