Sep 30, 2017
The emergency randonneuse is painted (but not yet fendered; I want to get a set of aluminum fenders, but can’t until I sell a few racks or find another beta tester for one of my frames) and now I need to dismantle and paint the IGH project bike, followed by painting the mountainhack’s fork & rack.
—orc Sat Sep 30 16:58:02 2017
Sep 29, 2017
Sep 23, 2017
Painting the emergency randonneuse so it won’t turn into a complete rustbucket during the rainy season.
—orc Sat Sep 23 21:11:10 2017
Sep 22, 2017
Checking the alignment of a pair of forks worth of fork blades before trimming them and gluing their respective forks together.
—orc Fri Sep 22 23:13:20 2017
Sep 20, 2017
The emergency randonneuse is being painted, the IGH project bike needs to be painted (and the both of them need fenders), and the born-again Trek needs to get a couple of mountpoints bonded to the fork before I can fender it, so it’s time for the mountainhack to ride to the rescue. Yes, it needs some painting too, but fenders do a pretty good job of keeping road filth off the unpainted fork & patch on the NDS seatstay where I brazed on a second pump peg for the replacement pump.
And lemme tell you it’s really nice having fenders on a day like today, because when I went out to pick up some odds and ends (cable stops, long fork blades so I can do a french-style conduit-bender curve w/o having a noncurved section before the dropouts) for a frame it dumped down rain for the 15 minutes it took me to get from home to Framebuilder’s Supply and the dryest parts of me+the bicycle were the parts that were protected from the rain by the fenders.
—orc Wed Sep 20 16:58:18 2017
Sep 19, 2017
Taking Buckeley down to the the vet so they could take a look at an infected ear. How he managed to get an ear infection what with being a 100% indoor cat is a mystery, but they shovelled a bunch of antibiotics into the offending ear, so that should knock the infection out.
—orc Tue Sep 19 19:19:47 2017
Sep 15, 2017
Coffee, Tea, or Mite?
—orc Fri Sep 15 23:54:36 2017
Dry-fitting the chainstays so I can figure out how much of them to cut off to tuck the rear wheel as close to the seat tube as is sensible (35mm tire on the rear wheel right now, with about 2½" clearance at the perpendicular junction with the seat tube. I can probably lop off 1¼th" before the fit gets tight enough so that a fender won’t fit.)
Note the generously huge clearance on the kit bike’s fork; I’ve got a Nomad 28 in it right now, and there’s enough room for a Nomad 35 (32mm) and maybe a fender, which isn’t bad for a 650b fork.
—orc Fri Sep 15 19:21:57 2017
Sep 13, 2017
A more conventional frame this time, except for the STA (71°), and as a radical change not for me, but for a beta tester in North Carolina.
—orc Wed Sep 13 21:21:27 2017
Sep 12, 2017
Meeting an EPT passenger train whilst on the way home from REI and Office Depot.
—orc Tue Sep 12 17:38:52 2017
Sep 11, 2017
A Park Ave-bound train just after leaving Tacoma Street, and just before passing under the Springwater Trail.
—orc Mon Sep 11 22:08:08 2017
Sep 08, 2017
Three new bottle cages for the IGH project bike or the emergency randonneuse; one Dust Mite as a hitchhiker.
—orc Fri Sep 8 22:24:08 2017
Sep 04, 2017
Western Oregon is on fire, so the sun is wading through a thick layer of smoke and ash.
—orc Mon Sep 4 21:31:38 2017
Sep 01, 2017
Starting another frame
—orc Fri Sep 1 23:54:49 2017
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