3-6pm Fix yer Bike Happy Hour at the 3rd Ward Bike Salon

6-7pm Mass ride from 3rd Ward to Tompkins Square Park

7-??? Time’s Up! Garden Ride to Save the Community Gardens

“This Thursday, July 29th, garden supporters – dressed as Paul Revere-  will join a Garden Bike Ride organized by Time’s Up!, a direct action environmental group, to sounds the alarms and call attention to the new rules being drafted by the City that allows gardens to be legally transferred to development, risking hundreds of gardens being bulldozed. These rules replace the 2002 Preservation Agreement, expiring 9/17/2010,  that have allowed gardens throughout the city to thrive over the last decade.  Cyclists will ride “horse cycles”-bicycles with cardboard horse heads attached to the front – to several Lower East Side Gardens, before heading up to Mayor Bloomberg’s house where they will bring flowers, cucumbers and greens from endangered community gardens.”

Vness: Good morning

B. Willis: Morning

Troll: Meh

B. Willis: Thank you for having me.

Vness:  The pleasure is mine.  The first thing I’d like to clear up for the general public is the origin of your name Baby.  Baby is not your birth name correct?

B. Willis:  Correct.  It’s a name that has evolved.  I don’t know where the seed came from, but now, today, it is a widespread name that is used by people that I come in contact with, and it’s used when people are referring to me when talking to one another.

Vness: Yes yes I see.  It’s also been said that you are in some peoples’ phones as Dr Baby Willis.  Thoughts?

B.Willis: Dr. Baby Willis, yes.  I did not get my PHD per se, however some individuals refer to me as a Doctor because of my exceptional skills, ahem,  at identifying the ailments of bicycles and then therefore, if you will, fixing or healing the ailments of the rider’s vehicle, which is their bike, if you will.

Vness: Ah yes I see. Can you you please, Doctor, describe to us your earliest memory of being on a bicycle, or being with a bicycle, or seeing a bicycle. Bicycle.

B. Willis: My earliest memory was me riding on the baby seat that was attached to what was my parents bike.  I remember being terrified as I was strapped into that baby seat while riding down some bike path in New York City.

Vness:  Do you feel like you need to overcome that fear and that’s why today you are leading a life of bicycles?

B.Willis:  That’s exactly where the inspiration for leading a life of bicycles came from.

Vness: Is that what you think about every day when you go fix bikes.

B.Willis: Definitely up there. every day. yeah.

awkward pause

Vness: What is your 5 year bike fantasy?

B.Willis:  That’s a really good question.  I would like to spray as many bikes gold as possible and ride as many mini tall bikes as humanly possible and build lots of wheels and have a bike gang and take over the streets.

Vness: If you had all the freak bike knowledge that the universe holds what would you make?

B.Willis:  I would create a bike that lots of people could ride on together.

Vness: ooo ooo. How many?!

B.Willis:  I don’t even know, 15 to 20 people perhaps?  Maybe up to 30 people.

Vness: Ha!  Now that’s a critical mass.

B. Willis: (forced laughter)

Right…. right….

I’d like to make a bike that many could ride together and perhaps together create enormous speed like a bicycle bus, if you will.

Vness: Hellstothemuthafingyes

B.Willis: We could start out with a 4 person tandem like bike with an overhead to protect us from rain or sunshine.

Vness:  Why don’t we have a bicycle car.

B.Willis:  Yeah that’s what I want.

Vness and B.Willis in unison: I want a bicycle car!

Troll: jinx

B.Willis: Yo I we’re gonna take that sh*t to the streets and be like yo guess what this ain’t no car! I don’t have to have insurance muthafucka!

Vness: I think you would.

B.Willis: No.

Vness: oh.

B.Willis:  Not in my world.

( V was just told, son)

Vness: Well thank you so much. Troll do you have anything to add or any questions you would look to ask the Doctor?

Troll: grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr   rrrrrrrah rrrrahrrrr

Vness:  Thanks for joining us at Member Minutes.

B.Willis:  Thank you so much for having me.  This was my pleasure.

Do you know about JELLYNYC? You should. They throw awesome parties and we are hosting one on August first with them!  More details soon, but it is going to be fierce and at the Brooklyn Bowl so mark your calendars

PaperGirl is girls on bikes, handing out Art!

See.

Mustache on yer Bike.

Last week Whale Land needed a tire replacement and because she has such a unique design she wasn’t put back together correctly by my neighborhood bike shop.  After retrieving Whale Land I found that my awesome kickstand no longer functioned:(    Luckily I have access (like everyone else) to the Bike Salon at 3rd Ward where all my bike dreams have come true.  Awesome bike mechanic, Steven, and I took a a look at Whale Land’s special set up.  We took her apart and put her back together.  She’s now working better than the day I bought her.

Some questions arose while examining my precious lovely bike.

1. What is this type of brake called?

We checked out all that’s googleable to no avail.

2. What is Whale land?

These stickers came with the bike but WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

Please write in with answers or ridiculous theories.

yours truly in bike adoration,

Vness