Red Lounge Bikes
Yes, there really is a red lounge. And yes there's really a disco ball and deer heads. And antique radios, traffic lights and guitars and red couches and chairs.
It's a sanctuary, it's asylum, it's tranquility.
It's quirky and idiosyncratic.
Maybe a little trite and clichéd too.
Furnished piece by piece over the course of years.
The fun is in the journey.
SOMEC vintage Italian road bike
Trek 6500 SL 21"
red lounge
I found this as a frame in the 1980's in a kid's basement. Neither him or his parents really knew what it was. But being just a frame, it was worthless to them because the kid needed a whole bike.
At the time it was painted yellow and the paint was coming off.
But it was a beautiful aero frame made from Columbus SL tubing.
So at some point I took it to a powder coating place, where they gave me the choice of black or white.
I chose grey.
It didn't matter, the paint started to flake off anyway.
And after a few years I started to realize a couple of things:
-I didn't like the constant flats and delicate virtues of skinny tires. This is NYC, where potholes are as legendary as mutant rats.
-Riding with drop racing bars is impractical, painful and dangerous. I spent too much time with my head down.
As you can see, I went with touring bars, but moderately bigger tires won't clear it. It's too tight.
So I went back to it's racing pedigree and sold it to a good friend in May 2016.
