Sep 30, 2014
No neon lights, but the stem is garishly yellow so that counts.
—orc Tue Sep 30 21:43:19 2014
Sep 26, 2014
Dust Mite has gotten into our tea storage!
—orc Fri Sep 26 22:45:20 2014
This Enderman is sad because its arm fell off
—orc Fri Sep 26 22:00:57 2014
Sep 23, 2014
My (fractured?) left hand being bombarded with high-energy photons. (I was left-hooked by a bike ninja last week and my left hand has been hurting ever since; I went to a doctor yesterday and they suggested x-ray photos, which I went out and did today. The lab didn’t say “yes, it’s broken” but they fairly strongly suggested that it might be broken. Sigh. Stupid bike ninjas.)
—orc Tue Sep 23 20:30:49 2014
Sep 19, 2014
Dust Mite is attracted to brightly colored objects.
—orc Fri Sep 19 21:53:17 2014
Sep 18, 2014
I lined up the midlifecrisismobile and the born-again Trek so I could compare the geometry of my low-trail 700c rando bike vs my medium-trail 650b rando bike.
The trek is noticably smaller; I’ve got easily 3cm more saddle to bar drop on it than the mlcm has. That, I suspect, is the largest benefit of 650b for me; I can ride a machine that doesn’t look like a folding bike, but still have enough breathing room for a comfortable saddle to bar drop and fenders (w/o a horrible case of toe overlap.)
I’m reaching the time of year where I can start to do comparisons between the trek and the mlcm, too; the rains are coming in so I’ll need to swap off machines depending on which one has fenders (at least until I lay up some carbon fiber fenders for the trek.) I’d say it’s unfortunate that there are so few good 650b tires out there, but aside from my dalliances in the tubular tire world the only 700c tire I’m using these days are Resist Nomads, which makes for fewer 700c tires than 650b tires (in 650b I’ve got Confreries, CdlVs, and Pari-Motos to play around with) in my collection of good tires.
And, yeah, the Trek has an excessive amount of carbon fiber on it now; it’s teetering on the edge of being under 22 pounds, which makes almost no difference in how fast I can ride on the thing, but which is very amusing in the “you have a front rack and leather saddle on what!?!” department.
—orc Thu Sep 18 22:09:55 2014
Sep 16, 2014
I was detouring to the 99e bridge (a UP freight had blocked 11/12th & 8th) and Blue/Green came sailing by as I was climbing the ramp from Division to the bridge.
—orc Tue Sep 16 09:59:33 2014
Sep 12, 2014
The GT and the born-again Trek side-by-side in the front yard. Both high trail, both with “narrow” 650b tires, but still pretty different machines. After going out on the born-again Trek, the Lauterwasser bars on the GT make it feel as if I was riding a machine with ape hangers.
—orc Fri Sep 12 18:50:27 2014
Sep 09, 2014
… so I had to braze up a new rack so I could put the front fender back on. An ~11×11 rack this time instead of a 9×9, so I can carry more groceries without them slopping over the edges.
—orc Tue Sep 9 15:57:30 2014
Sep 07, 2014
Tweaking the GT a bit – higher trail disc fork, disc brakes to go with the fork (the front is the only functional one right now; I need to fabricate and braze mounts for the rear brake), and Lauterwasser bars to hold the existing brake levers (they need to be recased in drop levers, but until I do that a pair of mustacheish bars will keep them from flopping around and getting tangled up in the wheels.)
—orc Sun Sep 7 14:03:32 2014
Sep 06, 2014
Silas uses Buckeley as a pillow.
—orc Sat Sep 6 19:51:38 2014
Sep 05, 2014
Dust Mite inspects a taillight I found when out riding this morning.
—orc Fri Sep 5 23:05:30 2014
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