Trixie on Howard St. Circa 2012

The alternate title to this post could be “Please Help Me Feel Okay About Parting Ways With an Old Friend.” Even looking at the photo above makes me feel all kinds of ways about this bike. She was an integral part of my life for the better part of a decade. The bike originally belonged to one of my best friends (yes, an actual human) who left her in my care prior to decamping to Italy for work, shortly after the onset of the great recession. My friend and I met as colleagues in the early aughts and quickly learned that we enjoyed many of the same hobbies, including cycling. When the bottom fell out of the economy he shipped over seas to work and I was charged with the custody of ‘Trixie’ (the fixie), an SE Draft that my friend had purchased on a whim from one of those bike shops on Grand St. that has been around since before they started construction on Sty-town.Continue reading→