A Bike by Any Other Name
So, lest any of you think I've forgotten all about "number eleven", construction is set to resume shortly. It's been a while since CF-D11 has come up in conversation, so it's probably worth mentioning some design changes:
1. A rack is now spec'd. All the more convenient to haul the occasional crap/change of clothes/whatever.
2. I'm considering painting the frame yellow, partly as an homage to the original Enterprise, and partly because Илья managed to find me a couple of rolls of Cinelli Lux handlebar tape: one blue, which has replaced the destroyed tape on the Yamato, and one yellow, which will probably go onto CF-D11. Clear powdercoat, as originally spec'd, is still on option, however.
3. In addition to the already planned "decorative" downtube shifters, I've thought up another decorative element for the bike, albeit a somewhat more functional one. All I'm going to say at this point is that it involves painting or decaling a logarithmic scale on my top tube. :)
4. You may have noticed that I have been refering to the bike as "CF-D11" instead of "Enterprise-A". This is because I am considering dropping the "Enterprise-A" name. The original reason for naming the bike after the Enterprise, aside from the fact that it is built as a replacement for the Enterprise and pretty much from the same measurements, and because the bike is also to feature elements that were in the original design for the Enterprise which never made it onto the finished bike, is because the Enterprise was always intended to be my flagship commuter bike, to be replaced with another Enterprise should it be lost or retired. I'm sorry for that long sentence. However, it's been nearly three years since the original Enterprise was destroyed, and bringing in the Enterprise-A now just seems kind of silly. I may yet name CF-D11 Enterprise-A, but at the moment, I'm leaning more towards Columbia.
Speaking of names, I've been debating internally as to what to name CF-D12 and CF-D13 for some time, and have finally settled upon Defiant and São Paolo, respectively.
The Defiant is the bike I bought in Anchorage after the destruction of the Intrepid. OMaR, knowing full well about my naming scheme for bicycles, suggested the name "Defiant", but I wasn't sure at the time. If I hadn't run out of names of Intrepid class ships, I would have used one of those. Instead, the "contextual" link between the names Intrepid and Defiant is that they are both Constitution class ships which were lost in the original Star Trek. Oh, and "Defiant" rhymes with "Giant".
The São Paolo is basically the Intrepid parts transplanted onto the Orbea Mitis frame that Илья ordered to get the SRAM Force group for his bike. The joke here is that the São Paolo is the Defiant (that is, the Defiant that OMaR most likely meant when he suggested the name.) The São Paolo is a temporary member of the fleet, and will be retired out of service after the Intrepid frame has been repaired and I can move all the parts back to the Intrepid. Then again, the Yamato was supposed to be temporary, and I've been riding her for over two years now. This, however, is mainly because it's taken me so long to get my act together enough to even coming close to starting work on CF-D11.
Pictures of the Defiant and the São Paolo later. I might go up to Boston next weekend to resume work on CF-D11, but I'm not sure yet.
Current fleet status (dadap.net is down, down, down... Probably unplugged again. I have to go to Queens and fix it.)
CF-D0: operational; active duty
CF-D1: stolen in Fresh Meadows, NY
CF-D2: destroyed in Long Beach, NY
CF-D3: stolen in Fresh Meadows, NY
CF-D4 Horizon: mothballed in Fresh Meadows, NY
CF-D5 Galileo: operational in Sheepshead Bay, NY; on loan to Илья; resuming active duty, pending return
CF-D6 Voyager: stolen in Berkley, CA
CF-D7 Enterprise: destroyed in New York, NY
CF-D8 Yamato: operational in New York, NY; active duty
CF-D9 Bellerophon: stolen in San Francisco, CA
CF-D10 Intrepid: destroyed near Anchorage, AK; pending refit
CF-D11 Enterprise-A / Columbia: drawing board; pending construction in Cambridge, MA
CF-D12 Defiant: mothballed in New York, NY; pending refit and transfer (fixing it up to give to my parents)
CF-D13 São Paolo: operational in New York, NY; active duty
1. A rack is now spec'd. All the more convenient to haul the occasional crap/change of clothes/whatever.
2. I'm considering painting the frame yellow, partly as an homage to the original Enterprise, and partly because Илья managed to find me a couple of rolls of Cinelli Lux handlebar tape: one blue, which has replaced the destroyed tape on the Yamato, and one yellow, which will probably go onto CF-D11. Clear powdercoat, as originally spec'd, is still on option, however.
3. In addition to the already planned "decorative" downtube shifters, I've thought up another decorative element for the bike, albeit a somewhat more functional one. All I'm going to say at this point is that it involves painting or decaling a logarithmic scale on my top tube. :)
4. You may have noticed that I have been refering to the bike as "CF-D11" instead of "Enterprise-A". This is because I am considering dropping the "Enterprise-A" name. The original reason for naming the bike after the Enterprise, aside from the fact that it is built as a replacement for the Enterprise and pretty much from the same measurements, and because the bike is also to feature elements that were in the original design for the Enterprise which never made it onto the finished bike, is because the Enterprise was always intended to be my flagship commuter bike, to be replaced with another Enterprise should it be lost or retired. I'm sorry for that long sentence. However, it's been nearly three years since the original Enterprise was destroyed, and bringing in the Enterprise-A now just seems kind of silly. I may yet name CF-D11 Enterprise-A, but at the moment, I'm leaning more towards Columbia.
Speaking of names, I've been debating internally as to what to name CF-D12 and CF-D13 for some time, and have finally settled upon Defiant and São Paolo, respectively.
The Defiant is the bike I bought in Anchorage after the destruction of the Intrepid. OMaR, knowing full well about my naming scheme for bicycles, suggested the name "Defiant", but I wasn't sure at the time. If I hadn't run out of names of Intrepid class ships, I would have used one of those. Instead, the "contextual" link between the names Intrepid and Defiant is that they are both Constitution class ships which were lost in the original Star Trek. Oh, and "Defiant" rhymes with "Giant".
The São Paolo is basically the Intrepid parts transplanted onto the Orbea Mitis frame that Илья ordered to get the SRAM Force group for his bike. The joke here is that the São Paolo is the Defiant (that is, the Defiant that OMaR most likely meant when he suggested the name.) The São Paolo is a temporary member of the fleet, and will be retired out of service after the Intrepid frame has been repaired and I can move all the parts back to the Intrepid. Then again, the Yamato was supposed to be temporary, and I've been riding her for over two years now. This, however, is mainly because it's taken me so long to get my act together enough to even coming close to starting work on CF-D11.
Pictures of the Defiant and the São Paolo later. I might go up to Boston next weekend to resume work on CF-D11, but I'm not sure yet.
Current fleet status (dadap.net is down, down, down... Probably unplugged again. I have to go to Queens and fix it.)
CF-D0: operational; active duty
CF-D1: stolen in Fresh Meadows, NY
CF-D2: destroyed in Long Beach, NY
CF-D3: stolen in Fresh Meadows, NY
CF-D4 Horizon: mothballed in Fresh Meadows, NY
CF-D5 Galileo: operational in Sheepshead Bay, NY; on loan to Илья; resuming active duty, pending return
CF-D6 Voyager: stolen in Berkley, CA
CF-D7 Enterprise: destroyed in New York, NY
CF-D8 Yamato: operational in New York, NY; active duty
CF-D9 Bellerophon: stolen in San Francisco, CA
CF-D10 Intrepid: destroyed near Anchorage, AK; pending refit
CF-D11 Enterprise-A / Columbia: drawing board; pending construction in Cambridge, MA
CF-D12 Defiant: mothballed in New York, NY; pending refit and transfer (fixing it up to give to my parents)
CF-D13 São Paolo: operational in New York, NY; active duty