The PPPKN-10 keeps accumulating bits for when I have the tools, space, and other bikes to begin turning it into the bike I want it to want to be.

Also, I keep riding to cool Bay Area bike bike shops that I had walkered my way to back in Spring when that was the best I could do, and then I keep giving them the money that I wanted to give them then but didn't have.

The cross-product of these two trends today was these rolls of Newbaums from Scenic Routes SF, a very cool community bike shop on Balboa in the Inner Richmond:



They will be used in a double-diamond weave, to go with all this:



And, given that we've long since exceeded what my favorite, brilliant, crazy, late Uncle Craig used to call "the heighth of ridiculosity," I'm even considering reversing the weave on opposite sides of the bars, and maybe going solid above the brake levers. Opposites, of course. There's also two practical considerations there: one, doing the levers is... interesting; and, two, I've got a pair of Redshift bar-top grips I want to try, and the diamond wrap already eats tape like a 13-year-old boy eats pizza.

I think it's gonna look cool. Big shout-out to the lovely people at Scenic Routes, for helping me pick the colors and for just being generally awesome. They also build rad conversion bikes and have them PC'd and logo'd with their own fake branding. Like I said, just cool cats.

--Shannon