We are the Village Green Three Speed Bike Society...

 I don't often have my cell phone with me, but I did this morning and took this photo of the new Society of Three Speeds pin.  I'm usually not much for pinning things or sewing patches on my bike bags, but I thought I would make an exception.

I do like the new Society of Three Speeds logo.  The lighthouse always seemed a little out of place in the desert southwest.

I bought this Camper Longflap from Rivendell Bicycle Works in 1998 or 99.  It's just now starting the tear a little bit over the wooden bar at the top of those leather straps.  I think, from time to time, about buying a new one, but this one still does the job.  I'm sad that Rivendell stopped carrying them in favor of their own bags.  They didn't need to exclude Carradice to sell their own stuff did they?  I like the Carradice saddlebags because they are roughly cylindrical.  That means that the bag can rotate up and sit on my expedition rack on my touring bicycle and I can lash the seatpost strap around the upright part of the rack -  It's one of the old Nitto Campee rear racks, with the raised crossbar near the saddle end.  I bought one of the first Rivendell branded saddlebags, but since they are roughly rectangular and so do need to snug up against the seatpost, that raised bar on the rear rack bumped up in the middle of the bag.  Rivendell, as a solution, started to sell racks that didn't have that raised bar. I have a Rivendell bag on the Raleigh.

It's finally cold here in Northern New Mexico, but we're still in a pretty bad drought.  Right now, it's 27 degrees Fahrenheit.  Most of me stays warm on my ride up to work, but my toes always hurt by the time I get here.

This time of year we leave in the dark and come home with the sun near the horizon.  I have the Dymotec 6 generator engaged all the time.  I like the sidewall generator, but it rattles on the narrower tires of the Happy Little Three Speed. Sometimes I think about buying a wheel from Peter White with a Schmidt dynohub, but that would be ten times the original price of the bike.  I think I'll continue rattling along a little bit longer.