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October 11, 2025

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took 40mm off this handlebar,

And that has made all the difference.

You could call it an inch & a half. But it’s kind of a big deal in this context. 720mm to 680mm is rolling into a different timezone. It was rather labor intensive with the half-ass hacksaw I had hanging around. However the cost benefit analysis is coming up Milhouse after just a brief spin around the block. It now feels like my bike. Sincerely for real. Really.

What did you do today?

is it a dickstank day?

is it a kickstand day?

either way. anyway. both ways.

Two sides of the same coin. The same sign, two sided. The arrows point the same way. It’s a double edge sword bro. Cuts both ways. The good with the bad. Cost-benefit. Pros. Cons. Flip a coin. Take your pick. dickstank. kickstand.

Over the summer this sign pointed the way to some kids’ computer camp on campus. Then the summer ended and the kids went back to school. But the sign lingered on in a parking strip for weeks and weeks. Until I scooped it up and offered it a second chance. A new home. A better life. Taken out of context and put back in. In my garage.

The font on those stickers would not be my first choice. But they’re what I had sitting around. Dollar Store bro.

Sticker fonts bring to mind the font of choice on the classic covers of kickstand. Those letters were stickers I had sitting around at the time, in the late 90’s. But I actually found them at a yard sale in Bellingham several years before that. No joke. In situ resource utilization. Or is it hoarding?

The kickstand font tumble-jumble made its way onto a run or two of arrow stickers. It also made its way into a tattoo on my nondriveside leg. And somewhere along the way someone, perhaps Tyler Goldsmith, took a kickstand sticker and cut & pasted it into a dickstank sticker. The idea stuck and I did a run or two of dickstank stickers too. And then kickstand #11 was dickstank.

kids' computer camp?

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