David's World

December 20, 2004

The Trick Bike

One of the first things I learned when I moved to the U.K. recently: to get things for cheap, go to your favorite Charity Shop. These are little stores that get donated stuff. Yeah. Stuff. That means: everything. Mostly old pants, shoes, shirts and socks, or furniture that needed to leave the apartment, because it was replaced by equally cheap, crappy but well-designed IKEA furniture.

Now, the Charity Shop brought an improvement to my life. In Dublin, where I lived until recently, there was no such thing as a "good deal". Here in Edinburgh, you might get lucky. For 35 pounds, I got myself a trick bike at a store that's in a basement underneath Edinburgh's Waverley train station. They only had three small bikes left when I got there on Sunday, so I got the one shown below. Since it's a trick bike, I'm trying to have some fun in my bedroom with it.

(To go to work every day, it's probably the least comfortable bike I've ever had.)

I feel honored to be the first to add a comment to your brand new baby blog. The "punk-ass teen" hoody is a nice touch -- now you just need a few more tricks in your repertoire and you'll be well on your way to the X-games. X-it-up in the hills of EdinB.