Meet the two newest editions to the family.
These are beach cruisers – big, heavy, with no gears,
coaster brakes (pedal backwards to stop), and fat
white wall tires. Picked up these two from Craigslist
for a fraction of their cost new.

These will allow me to ride with my 14 year old daughter
when she’s at my place. We won’t have to schlep her other
bike back and forth, and to be honest, these are just plain all kinds of fun.
You ride one of these babies, and you’re 13 all over again.

Suddenly I want a basket, a horn, a mirror, and some fringe
coming out of the handlebars, and baseball cards on the spokes!

So, now I have five bikes – a mountain bike, a hybrid,
an old road bike converted to a singlespeed, and now,
the two coasters. Don’t ask where I keep them; I haven’t figured that out.