Jan 26, 2018
Dozing cat, dozing mite
—orc Fri Jan 26 23:58:33 2018
Jan 23, 2018
… and taking advantage of the expandable bottle cage I bought for this machine last year. You can’t fit a 750ml wine bottle into a traditional bottle cage without bending the dickens out of it but this one (an Arundel Looney Bin) cheerfully expands to fit.
—orc Tue Jan 23 19:47:59 2018
Jan 21, 2018
A brief bit of clear sky lined up just right to put a rainbow across the street from Henry Higgins this afternoon.
—orc Sun Jan 21 18:24:17 2018
Jan 19, 2018
Dust Mite helps box up a bicycle frame (and discovers a couple of paint nicks in the process).
—orc Fri Jan 19 23:44:55 2018
Jan 15, 2018
I ran out of room in the saddlebags, so I propped a bag of soymilk on the top of the longtail; only 20 pounds, but high & loose enough so that it managed to provoke xtracycle shimmy despite the stupidly low trail fork I’ve got on this machine.
—orc Mon Jan 15 18:09:45 2018
Jan 14, 2018
(the emergency randonneuse in the parking lot at the end of Reeder Road)
—orc Sun Jan 14 19:37:55 2018
Jan 12, 2018
The final paint check before reassembling the headset & boxing everything up.
—orc Fri Jan 12 22:56:18 2018
Jan 10, 2018
When I was coming home from King Harvest I reached the foot of Spokane Ave just before the working Eng! came by with a short train of refrigerator cards.
—orc Wed Jan 10 18:57:20 2018
Jan 08, 2018
Approximately a year after building it, I finally painted the mountainhack’s fork + rack. Sadly, I couldn’t find the exact fluorescent pink I used before, and the one I used to replace it ended up being a darker pink in all but sunlight.
(there are still things that need to be done to this frame; I need to reposition the pusher boss, paint the NDS rear dropout (I stripped the paint off it so I could braze on a pump peg one morning when I was doing a programming contract, so I didn’t have time to clean & paint it then and subsequently kept putting it off), and fish power through the frame & fork.)
—orc Mon Jan 8 14:11:35 2018
Jan 06, 2018
Buckeley & his very best friend Mavis.
—orc Sat Jan 6 17:14:10 2018
Jan 05, 2018
Dust Mite measures some angles
—orc Fri Jan 5 22:28:49 2018
The topcoat (hopefully; I may need to put a small mask on and slide the seatstay fade down a little bit) is curing, and then decals + topcoat + mailing.
—orc Fri Jan 5 16:43:44 2018
Jan 04, 2018
Why, yes, we do have a space heater running downstairs so that the cats can sit by it and warm themselves. Why do you ask?
—orc Thu Jan 4 21:07:08 2018
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