Comments on: The kid with the wooden crossbar

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:14:10 +0000

Hah! So you ride “in” it Sloan? Not likely, unless the fully-faired Sloan Special was decades before its time! :b

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:30:34 +0000

Tim’s not gonna believe it until we produce cameraphone footage of me riding down Valencia Street in a vintage Sloan Special.

Working on it ;-)

By: Saheli

Saheli — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:18:26 +0000

That was a truly delightful story. I love the kicker.

BTW, if you find yourself needing to reward a donor going orders of magnitude beyond the super-value-occult pack, a reconstruction of the Sloan Special–or perhaps, a reinterpretation–might be in order.

By: Tim Carmody

Tim Carmody — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:09:08 +0000

My great-uncle Dickie Crickets was both a gifted inventor and king of the megaphone crooners.

By: John Sloan

John Sloan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:09:03 +0000

For those doubting the existence of the Sloan Special:

http://www.thewheelmen.org/sections/bicyclebrands/showresults.asp?whichpage=52&pagesize=50&alphachar=All%20Brands

By: Tim Carmody

Tim Carmody — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:04:49 +0000

What? “The Sloan Special”? I think your “Fun fact” is 100% made up. And will hold that until I see definitive evidence otherwise.

Too on-the-nose, Sloan. That’s the mistake you made in trying to pull that one over on us. Save your fabulism for the story.