May 31, 2015
I took the mountainhack into the Impassable Wilderness so I could get the ob-virtual house picture. Note the lurking ivy – it’s fortunate that it appears to be asleep these days.
—orc Sun May 31 18:13:42 2015
May 30, 2015
With enough cargo, a BOB Yak is an excellent test of the brazes on the rear triangle of a frame, because it becomes rather enthusiastic about trying to flip the bicycle onto its side. Getting back from Trader Joe’s with 70 pounds of groceries and an intact bicycle certainly counts as a successful load test.
—orc Sat May 30 16:01:49 2015
May 29, 2015
There was a power outage at the server farm where gehenna lives, and Dust Mite hovered at the console until it came back just in the nick of time.
—orc Fri May 29 23:23:21 2015
May 28, 2015
Traffic @ 17th & McLaughlin
—orc Thu May 28 15:49:55 2015
May 25, 2015
Reassembled so I can take it out and see how durable the new rear triangle is.
—orc Mon May 25 16:57:16 2015
May 24, 2015
The bent-roughly-back-into-shape chainstays on the mountainhack were not quite bent back enough to clear the (used) Sugino Ox801d crankset that I put onto it when I wanted to go to a 28/48 wide range double, so after a few populaires where the DS crank went *whiist* *whisst* *whisst* every time I acclerated or climbed a steep ramp I finally snapped, cut them out, and replaced them with uncurved stays. Not as much clearance as the MTB stays (maybe 40mm at the widest) but this is an all Confreries joint and I’ll never put anything wider than a Pari-Moto (36mm) under the thing.
So now to strip all the paint off the thing, paint it again (fluorescent pink/green fade) and start taking it for short loops in the city to see if I can snap the chainstays loose.
—orc Sun May 24 21:49:17 2015
May 23, 2015
… with a bicycle this time (because I didn’t have Dust Mite along.)
—orc Sat May 23 16:23:19 2015
May 22, 2015
Dust Mite helps me reconfigure this old Macbook Air into a minecraft server.
—orc Fri May 22 22:54:57 2015
Modern Macbook batteries apparently explode when they’re put into storage for more than a week. I can almost comprehend that with a Macbook Pro (battery on the right, which managed to separate the keyboard from the case when it ruptured) because that battery is removable, but not with a Macbook Air (battery on the left, which tore the bottom panel off my Macbook Air when it asploded.)
Fortunately Apple Computers are lying liars when it comes to the non-removability of first-gen Macbook Air batteries; once I finished unscrewing the dead battery the Air started up without (much) fuss muss or bother. Not very USEFULLY started up; but it it’s at least useful enough to be converted into a minecraft server (this one also had the pepsi syndrome and has about 20% of the keyboard nonfunctional, so it’s not particularly useful in the laptop department) but it’s better than the Macbook Pro, which won’t boot up at all anymore.
I don’t think I will be buying any of the new “EVERYTHING GLUED INTO THE CASE™” Macbooks.
—orc Fri May 22 20:51:09 2015
May 18, 2015
Mavis turns a cold shoulder to my framebuilding projects.
—orc Mon May 18 18:17:33 2015
May 17, 2015
The Mountainhack (and I) rest a while just north of Cartlandia.
—orc Sun May 17 21:05:32 2015
May 15, 2015
May 14, 2015
The GT’s rear brake mount is just two posts brazed onto the NDS seatstay and dropout. When I was tweaking the rear brake today (brazing a cable stop onto the seatstay) I grabbed a fistful of cable and drew it taut so I could realign the brake and saw it shimmy back and forth. Ah well, I was planning on cutting a couple of pieces of webbing out of sheetstock so I could tie both mounts together for paranoia’s sake, so it’s not as if that’s going to be any work I wasn’t already planning on doing.
—orc Thu May 14 21:35:31 2015
May 13, 2015
A portland-milwaukie light rail test train heads west from the 12th Ave station.
—orc Wed May 13 16:21:49 2015
May 12, 2015
I don’t know how well it will fare out in the weather, but it’s certainly enthusastically pink right now.
—orc Tue May 12 15:33:03 2015
May 10, 2015
Another shopping trip, this time with the anti-puncture belt stripped out of the yakwheel.
—orc Sun May 10 21:11:06 2015
May 08, 2015
The cats doze on the loveseat
—orc Fri May 8 21:49:48 2015
Dust Mite balances on a 9×9 hoverrack.
—orc Fri May 8 20:16:11 2015
May 07, 2015
Mount Hood looms over nursery fields on Altman Road
—orc Thu May 7 17:25:55 2015
May 05, 2015
Taking the yak out shopping.
—orc Tue May 5 13:25:16 2015
May 03, 2015
via bikecad.ca
A hypothetical paint scheme for when I’m finished gluing things onto the mountainhack?
—orc Sun May 3 23:05:42 2015
May 01, 2015
Dust Mite does some quality control.
—orc Fri May 1 21:42:23 2015
Fixing the wagon that was the bent rear triangle on the mountainhack – I saved the chainstays, but cut the seatstays out and replaced them with new ones (and canti posts positioned for 650b, and a brake bridge with a fender mountpoint.
I’m not going to take this thing out for a long ride in the country just yet; I’ll ride it around town for a while and see if any of the brazes snap during everyday use first. And I’ll strip it down to the frame, paint it in a fluorescent pink/green fade, and then take it for long rides in the country.
—orc Fri May 1 16:03:33 2015
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