New Man Cave
nothing important June 28th, 2008
The Two Johns have taken a break from podcasts, but one will be posted soon, we promise.
In the interim this John has been moving into a house in Charlotte. As we have talked about before, man caves come in many different forms, above are some photos of my new man cave. It is true to its name, cave, it is also known as a crawl space. While it may be on the unfinished side, it has all the accoutrements needed for a repair shop: air compressor, proper repair stand at acceptable height and plenty of counter top space to service equipment and store tools. I fear of when I drop something though, the floor looks like it will hide just about everything small that finds its way out of my hand and onto the floor.
It takes a little time to get to know exactly where everything should go, I have lots of moving in to do as you see by the full plastic bins with all kind of old bits and the bikes haphazardly hung or leaning. If you look very closely at the bike in the foreground you can see a variation on handlebar taping I tried after all the back-and-forth of handlebar taping, but more on that during the next podcast!
June 28th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
‘It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.’
June 28th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
um, John… you’d better not let the cops catch you driving around with duct tape, zip ties, chloroform in your trunk (boot for our British readers).
June 28th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
No, I am not the unibomber, and no, I am not Jame(s) Gumb from ‘Silence of the Lambs’, or the South Park paradoy, as referenced above. Garages are not the norm at every house, nor are basements, especially in older homes around these parts. I am making due with what I have until the carport is ready for an upgrade.
Is it the way the bikes are hanging in the background that make it look unibomber-rish? Or is it just the fact that it is in a crawl space?
JK in NC
June 29th, 2008 at 10:40 am
are there any hidden trap doors or false walls?
June 29th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
I’d dig around and look for bones…skulls, femurs, etc. We had a large femur that the rat guy pulled out of our crawl space when we lived in Virginia. But then again, the large tree stump that the house was built over was a “video for the perfect rats nest.” I think the rats pulled some homeless guy under our house and ate him. Mrs. Dog was less than thrilled about the situation.
June 30th, 2008 at 8:07 am
Sweet… Put down some of those rubber interlocking floor tiles. May help save a few hours of searching for those lost parts, and dampen the screams of your victims. Congrats on your man cave.
June 30th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Is that the Bianchi of Podcasts gone by? You haven’t sold that thing yet?
June 30th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
John, a sign above the cellar door that reads “caverna dell’uomo” would be fitting touch. On the empty brick wall maybe a painting of Man-Spear-Bison-Bicycle. Good luck with new digs.
July 1st, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Is the leather clad gimp out of frame in this picture?
July 1st, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Hey now, we gimps have made great strides in the fields of science and medicine.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:32 am
Great to know The Gimp has chimed in. Great. Maybe he could paint the ‘Man-Spear-Bison-Bicycle’ cave painting in his free time.
So let’s see we’ve had references to the ‘Silence of the Lambs’ serial killer, the Unibomber, The Gimp, trap doors and decomposed hobo’s bones deposited by rats: it sounds like the images of my man cave have left quite an impression. And no, that is not the Bianchi from podcasts past, but I still do have it. If you look VERY closely just in front of the road bike hanging, there is a dark frameset, that is the FG Lite- still available for a loving home.
JK in NC
JK in NC