I used to own a pair of Cannondale shoes back in my more hardcore mountain biking days that were cleated. Looked just like a pair of vans and were comfortable enough to wear as an everyday shoe too. I loved em cause I could ride my comp bike with out switching pedals or bringing another pair of shoes. Or looking weird wearing true clipless shoes.

I would rock these and go back to clipless (which I haven't touched in years) if they actually supported a cleat. The only thing is that they are velcro so you don't have to worry bout a shoelace snagging. And, hell, they are the color my bike already is. So why the hell not. Actually, no, sticking with my Air Force Ones.

"So I can get stomping in my AIR FORCE ONES"

ross says the girlfriend... maybe target.

Please, oh please, let this thread develop into a thread about banana storage systems.

I put mine in this hanging basket thing above my kitchen counter
http://www.nexternal.com/whitewhale/images/basket.jpg

pretty sweet right?
the best part, not just for bananas. I can throw what ever kinda fruit I want to up there. Hell, I even put a bag of potato chips up in that bad boy once.

the wire will eat over-ripe fruit

be careful

I have seen the banana hanger at walmart for very cheap. seems like a pretty good investment to keep those bananas off the counter

also: children.

I really have been looking for a more practical way to store my bananas.

On a side note, I recently bought some collapsible measuring cups. I hang them on the wall and they take up like no space at all. Highly recommended.

+1, nothing is worse than wire frame patterned bruises in your fruit. YUCK!

The main problem with the banana "tree" is that, as any discerning banana eater knows, bananas are only at thier peak for a day or two. Therefore in order to have perfect bananas for a week or even longer one has to pick them individually or in pairs off bunches of varying ripeness. This of course makes a "tree" type storage solution completely useless.

What you need are about 8 of these and a pegboard.

http://www.bananaguard.com/images/open_thumb.jpg

My parents lost my baby sister that way
True story

Get married or get a roommate. Them bananas go quicker when you have an eating partner.

WHERE?!

WHICH IS WHY YOU NEED...





WAIT FOR IT


WAIT FOR IT



http://static.flickr.com/56/142357370_0fd0dc3e0f.jpg

A BANANA HAMMOCK!

Linens N Things. It's one of those joints that you get to go to when you get married.

another thing to note. bananas will hasten the ripening of other nearby fruits, so if you store them with other fruits, your bananas are going to make them not last as long.

Love those things. I also love the idea of a pegboard in the kitchen. If only I were single.

I was not aware of this. I should see about coming up with a separate storage location for my bananas.

look, i know all about the linens n things. my lady roommate and i must venture forth to procure said collapsible measuring cups, and probably curtains for the living room.

I'm seriously setting up pegboard in the kitchen when we buy a house. If you paint it to match the walls, it isn't noticable and it's stupidly practical.

I'm also thinking about ripping off the bicycle wheel pot rack that readymade has a design for. It looks pretty rad and would save a bunch of space.

I didnt want to be the first to say it but,

This thread has just gone downright bananas..

It's not about bananas going bad it's about bananas being best for a very short time and hardly ever ripe at the store. Buy buying bananas of varying levels of ripeness you can have one or two perfect ones every day. Or if there are more people and more bananas are going to be consumed you can have 5-6 ripe ones but then you've gone beyond the number that will fit on a tree anyway.

WHICH IS WHY...

There are three separate baskets. I am a firm advocate for the segregation of fruit. It just ain't natural for different fruits to be mixing with each other like that. Gawd made 'em dif'rnt fer a reason.

if those shoes are stiff enough to provide riding support and comfortable for everything else, and if the toebox and straps are durable enough, I will rock them.
I don't give a **** what's pictured on the back.
but probably not for 80 bucks.

thanks for the find.

If your bananas get too mushy, make a smoothie. Same goes with your other fruit.