I have decided to match my bike builds to birds that I like through colour similarities. This one to the left gets its colouring from the male Pine Grosbeak. It is actually a matter of convenience because the frame is red and I ordered parts that just so happened to match this bird. I could not lay claim to starting out with a bird I like and building a bike to suit. That said, I will build a snowy owl some day. It is just a matter of time.
My plan is to make cool license plates that have the image of the bird. Something more interesting than just a print out of the bird.
I also need to get a much better camera (it's on the list) as well as take better pictures than cramming myself in the entryway of our townhouse.
I am loving the simplicity of single speed, which this one is. I have flip/flop hubs, which allow me to go fixed should I desire, but I just don't know about that. Not as hip as I should be, I guess.
This is the Pine Grosbeak - a large member of the true finch family, Fringillidae. It is found in coniferous woods across Alaska, the western mountains of the United States, Canada, and in subarctic Fennoscandia and Siberia. This species is a very rare vagrant to temperate Europe; in all of Germany for example, not more than 4 individuals and often none at all have been recorded each year since 1980 (Mahalo, Wikipedia)
JB
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