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Swift Tag Meme


Tagged by : @micahisbored17 Thank you!

Rules : Tag twenty swifties you’d like to know

Name : Angela

Nickname : Angie, Ang

Gender : Female

Star Sign : Virgo

Height : 5′5”

Sexuality: straight

Hogwarts House : Ravenclaw

Favorite animals : dogs, sloths and goats

Average hours of sleep: 8-9hours. Less when Taylor does something.

Blankets I sleep with: 2

Dream Trip: Ireland

Dream Job: working for Taylor Swift or stay at home mom.

When I made my blog: I think like 5/6 years ago

Why I made my post : I was tagged by @micahisbored17!

(Sorry if you have already been tagged… just ignore me if you have) I Tag: @swiftymama86 @anotherdramadrama @ethereal-swiftness @queen-olivia-benson @ultraswifts @it-feels-like-a-perfect-night @originalswifty89 @andyoulovethegamee @shadesofwrong @drunkswifts @howyouslaytheworld @justtaydream @lifeofswiftie89 @zombie-taylor @chloelovestaylor13 @vanishedswift @broswiftie @nightmaredressedlikebecky @monica-geller @getawayccar

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I was tagged by @tearupmyreputations Thank you so much, <33 !

rules: tag twenty followers you want to get to know better name: Maria nickname: It’ s Mary sometimes gender: Female star sign: Virgo height: 165 cm sexuality: Straight hogwarts house: Gryffindor favorite animal: I really like animals but I don��t have a specifi favorite one. average hours of sleep: 6 dogs or cats: Cats blankets you sleep with: 1 dream trip: I’d like to go to the US someday dream job: I want to become a Musician/Violinist when i made my blog: Ugh, I don’t really remeber. About ~ 2015?!? followers: 548 why i made my tumblr: Well, my blog is 100% about Taylor. It’s my second blog where I wanted to just blog about Taylor, meet new Swifties and new People but most of all because I wanted this blog to revolve only around Tay <3 reason for my url: Oh, that’s a nice quesition. I have a YouTube channel where I cover Songs on my violin and piano but because the violin is my main Instrument and I love Taylor’s Music so much and I cover and covered many of her songs I called myself Swifts-Violinist because just in case Taylor’s lurking on me and decides to call me up someday in case she’s looking for a Background Violinist: I V O L U N T E E R! And because I’d really like to Play for her, with her but that of Course is just a dream, you know? (:

I tag: @taytayreputation13 @ultraswifts @docswiftie @oohiremember @taylooooooooooooorswift @i-wear-heels-now @creekbedsweturnedup @thatwasthenightthingschanged @ts1989fanatic @lookatmyreputation @redlipclassicstyles @purpleswift @swift-ness @canadaprince @swiftieallyson @taylorswhitecat @mosaic-broken-hearts89 @seenothingbetter @wegotbillstopay @kingdcm-keys 

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THE OLD ULTRASWIFTS CANT COME TO THE PHONE RIGHT NOW. OH WHY BECAUSE SHES DEAD FROM TAYLORS NEW SINGLE

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This is not the best picture of my new Crust Bikes Romanceur, but it shows the bike with accoutrements for the five hour ride I was on yesterday, and is a bit more interesting as such. This is my newest bike. If you’ll recall older posts of mine where I discuss wanting to replace my Rivendell A. Homer Hilsen with something, well, this is what replaces it. Crust Bikes is a new brand with a cult~ish following a la that of Rivendell. In fact, many of the Crust owners I follow on Instagram are also Rivendell owners, as the bikes complement each other well. If you want something Rivendell~ish, but are married to the idea of disc brakes, Crust is your answer. This bike happens to be the most Rivendell-like bike of theirs, in that it is fully lugged steel with traditional non-sloping geometry, and an overall classic sensibility. It is designed by UltraRomance, after all. 

This bike fills the void in my collection you could call randonneur bike or enduro allroad bike. I loved my A Homer Hilsen for traveling across the city quickly without hesitating to hit some dirt here and there. This bike is second only to my road bike in sheer speed, though it might be a tie for second with my Black Mountain Cycles monster CX. What it loses in speed to my road bike it gains in durability, lock-ability, and most importantly, its ability to carry things. 

The Romanceur is perfectly suited to the ride I did yesterday, though the Black Mountain Cycles would’ve done just as well albeit with a slightly different style of riding. Most of the ride was actually on the road; we took the coast south for about an hour before reaching our destination, an old overgrown stagecoach road known colloquially (among cyclists) as Planet of the Apes. At one point, I asked my friends why it is called that, and they couldn’t agree: is it because the road is reminiscent of scenes in the movie, or because the movie is filmed there? To me, nothing about the ride was overtly “Planet of the Apes” but the name makes sense for some reason anyways. 

My concern for this bike was the disc brakes. I have disc brakes on my mountain bike because they are standard for modern mountain bikes, but didn’t feel confident about having them on a road~ish bike since all my other bikes have been rim-brakers and discs seem to be so polarizing. It turns out I’m not that picky and that I lucked out with the brakes I ended up with; they work great. They are easy to set up, also, and I discovered that swapping out pads is not an issue. One thing I’ll have to watch is pad wear since disc pads wear out faster than rim brake pads, I think. All that being said, I would have swooped on this bike quicker had it just been spec’d for cantilevers. I know canti’s are notoriously bad, but they are more pure functionally and visually in my humble opinion (IMHO or ATMO). 

Someone at a recent bicycle-centered dinner party remarked that this bike might be redundant with my Hunqapillar, and I said that it would not be, though I wasn’t sure having not ridden or even seen the bike in person. I can confirm now that the bike is not redundant with my Hunq, and that it is perhaps most redundant with my Black Mountain MonsterCross. I don’t care and I’m keeping both. The Hunqapillar’s tubing is certainly much stouter, as that bike is meant for lots of ruff-riding. This bike’s ride quality is best described as “springy” where it doesn’t quite plane but it doesn’t fight you while pedaling hard like an Atlantis might. I was slightly worried about the ride yesterday being too rough for the bike, but realistically it would take much more to break a Romanceur. 

I’m very slightly bummed because Crust just released a teaser for their new model called the Lightning Bolt, which is a beautiful translucent green, and all my other bikes are green. What can ya do? I really cannot complain because the Romanceur looks great and silver is a cool color, too. I think it’s important to have a wildcard, anyways. 

The handlebar bag pictured is a custom vegan Makeshifter Canvas Works Outback Saddlebag. It works great as a handlebar bag even though she markets it without mentioning that capability. I found it to be the perfect size yesterday for carrying a jacket, two bags of chips and two tubs of hummus, along with two tubes and a tire lever and a multitool. My UltraSwift Wizard Sleeve wouldn’t fit between the handlebars on this bike, and would have been overkill for a day ride. What makes this particular bag vegan above her normal bag is that she sourced non-wool felt (made from post-consumer plastic!), non-beeswax waxed canvas, and non-leather straps. The quality and attention to detail are at least a notch above Swift industries, which is saying a lot as Swift makes some really nice stuff. 

Overall this bike is amazing and any qualms remain to be seen. The lugs and the fork crown (which is technically a lug, I guess) are reallllllly dope, like medieval almost. One design aspect that might have been overlooked is that since the fork crown is so wide and prominent, it hits the downtube if you rotate the fork enough. Not a huge deal, but it would be nicer not to even think about that. I didn’t notice it or even think about it once on my ride yesterday, so this is a small issue. The WTB horizons set up super wide on the Blunt 35 rims, so they ride nice and plush. I might even convert them to tubeless after writing this. The Novatec hubs seem nice, also, even though they’re kind of an off brand from what I usually get. The sound they make is nice and loud, and unique. The 1x system currently on the bike is fine except I might switch out the derailer for something with a clutch, which will hold the chain tighter (yesterday I was backpedaling a few strokes and dropped the chain - again, not a big deal because it never came off when pedaling forward). I get the sense that this old 9s XT RD is a bit used since it allows for a good amount of chainslap. All this being said, I think I might get a Compass / Rene Herse or White Industries double crankset when I strike it rich. Until then, this 11-34 or whatever it is might be replaced with a SunRace 11-42 or something with a wider range. 

I’ve ranted enough. I’m moderate-to-severely hungover and don’t feel like scrutinizing over writing quality today, so it’s probably a bit more conversational than it would be normally. Read it in a Bukowski voice and imagine I’m writing with a fifth of whiskey on my desk and a cigar between my lips. Over & out.

--Adam

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