Andy Mangold

Had this bouncing around my head for some time and threw it together. I think it, or something similar would make a fine screen print. Thoughts?

I must confess Anthony Mattox and I are responsible for this monstrosity. What you are looking at is approximately 97 “Otter Pops” brand freeze pops that were emptied, in liquid form, one by one into this bucket in the freezer, only after the layer before it had frozen. What we thought would be a beautiful, rainbow tower of summer fun turned out to be a monolith of sweet disaster, lubricated in sugary sludge.

I’m calling it a success.

Appears as though I have finally caved to Twitter (You can blame Jonathan Hallman & Joshua Hepworth).

For those of you that are interested, you can follow me here.

This is the saddle off of my recently acquired Klinedinst Special, quite severely disassembled. As you can see, everything is there and functional/moving, though unbelievably rusty. I will be tackling the job of re-upholstering this seat as part of my renovation of the Klinedinst. I have no experience with upholstery, and my experience with leather is pretty much limited to book covers, but it should be a learning experience if nothing else. If anyone out there knows anything about refinishing a seat like this, please leave a comment or drop me a line with some tips!

The newest addition to my fleet, and another Craigslist acquisition: the Klinedinst Special. I know very, very little about this bike and cannot find any information about it, or the company. The guy who sold it to me seems to think its from the 1930s and another fellow from a vintage and collector’s bicycle forum says it looks like its from right around WWII. Either way, its certainly old and unique. The frame has an interesting geometry: low and long with 26inch wheels. I am going to be fixing it up and making in ride able again. I am not going to throw around the word “restoration” because I am certainly not holding the original parts in reverence; but I am going to keep it looking pretty similar to how it does now.

Please, if anybody knows anything about this company or bike, let me know!

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I have not posted in considerable time, but that is because I have been busy with lots of things, not the least of which was redesigning this site. I have lots of things in my backlog to post about, so expect thing to pick back up. Shoot me some feedback on the new design and please let me know if you spot any bugs, I will be polishing everything off (adding a picture to the about page, etc.) in the next couple days.

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