Feb 28, 2015
Is it possible to make an ACP Super Randonnée without going more than 50km away from my front door?
I don’t know if the ACP would accept this (and the approximately 70 controls it will need to enforce the climbs) but this thing packs 10314m of climbing into a 600300m loop without getting further from home than Smoke Ranch Road. It will need a little hardbound book as a brevet card, but I’ll be able to do dozens of secret controls if I can either find volunteers or can stay awake for 50 hours and ride from control to control :-)
—orc Sat Feb 28 21:44:38 2015
Feb 27, 2015
Trashman, spare that Mite!
—orc Fri Feb 27 23:53:26 2015
Feb 26, 2015
… for values of “conspicuous” that include building a wheelset up from parts that were lying around, some since the late 2000s (the rims are Matrix Titan II – a Trek house brand from ancient times – that were laced into the wheels that came on the Trek 1000 I bought in 1989) and all used bits except for some of the spokes/nipples.
But it will be nice to have the midlifecrisismobile pursued around Oregon & Washington by a flock of angry bees.
(Also note that the low-profile box-section rims + Nomads visually mass much the same way Confreries do on modern 650b rims.)
—orc Thu Feb 26 21:33:34 2015
Feb 25, 2015
Passing a pmlr test train @ 12th&Clinton.
—orc Wed Feb 25 23:06:38 2015
Feb 24, 2015
A clear-enough day so you can easily see the plume of snow being blown off the summit of Mount Hood.
—orc Tue Feb 24 15:54:58 2015
Feb 23, 2015
A single-car train sits at the southbound platform of the Clinton/12th station.
—orc Mon Feb 23 15:07:46 2015
Feb 22, 2015
I hadn’t noticed until after yesterday’s loop, but the pink+red of the handlebar bag matches the pink+red of the toolroll+saddle.
—orc Sun Feb 22 12:51:38 2015
Feb 21, 2015
I’m not sure what happened here, but when I was pulling photos off my CBC after riding 100k today I found these three photos. Did the camera fire when I was putting it away, or did I take a picture and then have the camera think about it for just long enough to fire (thrice) as I was putting it back into the bag?
—orc Sat Feb 21 20:55:59 2015
Feb 20, 2015
Feb 19, 2015
Eng!s behind bars (or chainlinks) in the East Portland yard.
—orc Thu Feb 19 17:19:47 2015
Feb 16, 2015
An 9×8 rando rack. For a Salsa Mukluk. I hope the buyer takes his fatbike out on a brevet or three.
—orc Mon Feb 16 17:51:36 2015
Feb 14, 2015
An (almost empty) streetcar departs from the temporary OMSI terminal for a run up Grand Ave. This part of the east/west loop is kind of an orphan right now, but it will be routed across the Willamette when the new interurban bridge opens this fall, and that should unbottle traffic flow out of the (woefully lacking in urban essentials like, um, grocery stores) Vancouver-style apartment tower development at the foot of the OHSU aerial tramway.
—orc Sat Feb 14 20:43:33 2015
Feb 13, 2015
Feb 12, 2015
Admittedly it’s 3 hours of work spread out over 3 days, but it’s still only 3 hours of work (and 45 minutes of that was building jigs to hold various bits together. The next rack is going to be a rando rack for a fatbike, so I’m gonna need to sit down before I start working and assemble a somewhat more sturdy jig, but I suspect there’s only about 3 hours of work that I need to do on that rack as well.
Gotta set up an e-commerce website so I can start a bags & racks business!
—orc Thu Feb 12 18:50:08 2015
Feb 06, 2015
Feb 04, 2015
It’s almost as fast to ride home, and it’s a lot cheaper.
—orc Wed Feb 4 16:23:23 2015
Feb 02, 2015
After an interval of about 49 months, I went back into postoffice and fixed a long-standing defect in the way I handle mail filters where I passed the mail from: and rcpt to: headers down to milters with the trailing \r\n kept intact.
This had some unexpected problems with milters that took all the headers and attempted to reconstruct the mail message to send down to the part of the code that actually checked to see if it was spam. This had the annoying side effect, for me, of making a small subset of non-spam mail get flagged as spam. So tonight (2-Feb-2015) I went back into the guts of postoffice and fixed (I hope!) that wagon.
So, with the release of version 1.5.8 postoffice is tanned, rested, and ready. (To crash? To function properly? It Works For Me™ – maybe it will for you.)
—orc Mon Feb 2 22:49:54 2015
Front pannier racks are way more complicated than front racks. This gives me more incentive to make an adjustable jig out of the 8020 girders I’ve got sitting in the basement.
—orc Mon Feb 2 15:45:23 2015
—30—
![[rss feed]](/~orc/feedbutton.png "Atom + RSS feeds available here"){kind=small}