Refinement + Reduction + Relief : when you start to take away things and concentrate on the essentials.

Yeah, ok, so Achim’s ‘81 SC is a cyborg of kevlar, plastic and the ghosts of missing parts, insulation and trim. And I feel guilty and somewhat disappointed because of my automatic patellar reflex cringe and frown at the effort of erasing images of the questionable attitude auras of SF fixie riders when he mentions the word.  But there’s also another reflexive motion, a subtle head nod, at the recognition of, and desire for, a different approach away from high-tech performance and values and [relative] cost.