Jul 30, 2014
Bringing a fixie home so I can braze some rack mounts, bottle bosses, and cable guides onto it; I need to see if I can find a purple patch paint that closely matches it so that the post-modification fixie won’t be all blotchy rusty bare metal and paint.
—orc Wed Jul 30 20:05:38 2014
Jul 26, 2014
A F40PH sled disappears into the sunset
—orc Sat Jul 26 22:10:17 2014
Jul 25, 2014
Dust Mite unwinds after a long week.
—orc Fri Jul 25 23:46:21 2014
Jul 21, 2014
And now the born-again Trek has a carbon fiber fork with rack mounts. And I only destroyed one file (I had a junky old wood-rasp file that I used to cut down the loose ends that were sticking up from the carbon fiber fabric, and the carbon fiber fabric gave as good as it got and now there are 3 channels on the curved surface of the rasp that had the teeth worn away) while I was doing it.
Next stop, Mount Hood (or Estacada, or Sandy, or Sauvie Island, depending on how far afield I want to go on the proving tests for this fork.)
—orc Mon Jul 21 22:29:20 2014
Jul 20, 2014
The second (and last) wrap of CF around the rack mounts on the born-again Trek’s carbon fiber fork is now curing overnight so I can take sandpaper & steel wool to it tomorrow afternoon to finish it (and then clear, and maybe UV, cost it) and get the bicycle back into brevetting duty.
I need to get a couple of plastic washers to fit between the fork legs and the mountpoints, so the legs won’t cut into the monocoque, but plastic washers are easy to find!
—orc Sun Jul 20 19:19:26 2014
Jul 18, 2014
Dust Mite and Buckley do some paperwork.
—orc Fri Jul 18 23:25:27 2014
Jul 17, 2014
The catenary is slowly working south (and north) from Center St.
—orc Thu Jul 17 23:24:39 2014
Jul 15, 2014
Aluminum rack mounts for the front rack on the born-again Trek waiting for me to level the rack and epoxy them to the (carbon-fiber, in case you’re wondering) fork blades. And I bought some carbon fiber fabric (for carbon fiber fenders and a CF dustcap for this bicycle’s headset), so when that gets here I’ll cut a thin ribbon (after getting a facemask so I don’t inhale all those lovely carbon fiber fragments) from it and wrap them tightly just to be paranoid.
—orc Tue Jul 15 22:24:13 2014
Jul 13, 2014
My friend Kevin is moving to Yakima so his sweetie can go to medical school, and he’s getting rid of a bunch of his extra bike stuff. I swapped a dynamo hub (I think that there are 14 dynohubs in the house, and we’ve “only” got 9 bicycles) for a bunch of useful(?) stuff including a carbon fiber fork (which was cheap because it had, at some time in the past, had the steertube cut down to 175mm.) And today I pulled the born-again Trek apart and installed the new fork.
23.7 pounds as pictured, though that’s going to go up a little bit when I fabricate a pair of rack mounts and epoxy them onto the fork blades.
—orc Sun Jul 13 20:22:38 2014
Jul 11, 2014
Dust Mite wants to sample both of the pies.
—orc Fri Jul 11 23:08:49 2014
Jul 10, 2014
I’m using the IGH project bike for most of my shopping errands these days, so I’ve been dodging slower-moving traffic sans bell. The traditional bikey alert sound (“On your \<x>!”) works best when you’re young and shouty, so I finally fixed having to do it by brazing a m5 bolt onto the (steel, serendipitously) stem, then taking an Electra bell, cutting off its mounting hardware, then drilling and tapping it to mate with the bolt.
Much brass. So dingy. Wow.
—orc Thu Jul 10 21:51:55 2014
Jul 08, 2014
Anything doing is worth doing to excess.
—orc Tue Jul 8 18:18:42 2014
Jul 05, 2014
Mount Hood from the Jonsrud viewpoint in Sandy, Oregon.
—orc Sat Jul 5 23:55:55 2014
Jul 04, 2014
Dust Mite hangs out with his friend Harold the Enderman.
—orc Fri Jul 4 23:24:37 2014
Jul 03, 2014
The 11×11 one is being made for a custom frame (not mine; I’m still a ways away from making frames) and the 11.5×11.5 one I made up because I had the rack perimeter lying around and why not?
—orc Thu Jul 3 17:48:48 2014
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