Jan 31, 2019
Errands (and misuse of the GIMP when I was trying to flatten out lens distortions).
—orc Thu Jan 31 22:08:00 2019
Jan 30, 2019
Scratchbuilding a fork crown for the fork that’s going under the lightweight traditional (orc-style traditional) randonneuse that’s sitting in the wings along with my xtracycle replacement. A biplane fork from a couple of chunks of 1/8th inch sheet steel, a pair of lightweight oversized fork legs, a chunk of 1&0;1/8th" steertube to act as a sleeve around the steerer, and a unicrown crown race seat (plus, soon, some pieces of thin sheet steel for reinforcements to keep the legs from snapping off under load.)
I need to fabricate a die so I can press a curve into the bottom plate (to discourage the crown from folding up under load) before I start brazing things together, but that’s for another day.
—orc Wed Jan 30 14:20:32 2019
Jan 26, 2019
God of Thunder (and cutest garbage rat in the world)
—orc Sat Jan 26 22:54:57 2019
Jan 25, 2019
Cleaning up my bike mess before I braze together another rack and the fork for my traditional randonneuse. It’s kind of terrifying just how quickly I can cover my workbench with piles of debris when I’m in the throes of working on things.
—orc Fri Jan 25 23:46:12 2019
Jan 23, 2019
Ozy sits on the dining room table
—orc Wed Jan 23 14:20:35 2019
Jan 22, 2019
Thor protects our pizza order
—orc Tue Jan 22 21:52:58 2019
Jan 20, 2019
Front triangle & fork, waiting for me to design and fit the rear triangle.
—orc Sun Jan 20 20:06:02 2019
Jan 19, 2019
3×700c, 1@650b, 1@26"; the 650b & two of the 700c’s are headed out east, the 26" is gonna go on a test frame (I’d made it a few months ago, but the fork blades were misaligned and I reflowed the crown and readjusted them today), and the final 700c fork (the one in the middle, with the Henry James-alike crown) is gonna go on my xtracycle replacement.
The 650b fork is finished and waiting to be tossed into a box for shipping out east, the rest of the forks need to have rack bosses (and maybe canti or centerpull mounts) brazed onto them, the crowns drilled, and then a nice long soak to get the flux off.
—orc Sat Jan 19 19:21:26 2019
Jan 18, 2019
Jan 15, 2019
A Copenhagen (built by Jesper Sølling) Pedersen on the Springwater Trail just at sunset tonight.
—orc Tue Jan 15 18:43:32 2019
Jan 12, 2019
A bunch of shell script & html wrapped around my gear-inches program (just on github now; I’ll publish it on pell when I get the cgi script less hideous) so I can figure out gear inches when I can’t telnet into my network and run the command line program.
—orc Sat Jan 12 22:48:44 2019
Jan 11, 2019
Dust Mite checks out the Velo Orange Polyvalent fork that I’m going to use as a fitting jig for Polyvalent racks (and maybe stick into one of my dumpster frames so I can take racks for test rides to verify that they aren’t going out the door with badly brazed joints.)
—orc Fri Jan 11 21:30:23 2019
Jan 10, 2019
Programming and butt-warming!
—orc Thu Jan 10 22:25:23 2019
Jan 08, 2019
Mavis reads a bicycle forum on my computer.
—orc Tue Jan 8 19:47:15 2019
Jan 07, 2019
Thor rests after trying to get into the pizza box, and ensures that we can’t take it away and put the contents in a safer place.
—orc Mon Jan 7 22:38:31 2019
Mavis naps on the rail between the dining & living room.
—orc Mon Jan 7 22:18:10 2019
Jan 06, 2019
~42 pounds of groceries in the panniers (25 pounds in one, 17 pounds in the other) plus ~5 pounds in the rando bag. I think this lowrider design may be durable enough for my purposes.
—orc Sun Jan 6 19:46:37 2019
Jan 04, 2019
Jan 01, 2019
I spent my NYD cutting down the trees that shaded the south side of the house, because in addition to shade they were also being a tree highway for the squirrels that are trying to nest in our attic. So the evergreens along the house are now piles of lumber and slash alongside the house, and the persian walnut at the SW corner of the house is now severely reduced and surrounded by a clutter of walnut logs.
If this doesn’t drive the squirrels away, the rest of the walnut goes down. We’ll find out in a few days whether the squirrels are gone or not.
—orc Tue Jan 1 17:18:35 2019
8 cans of Cheerwine, freshly delivered from North Carolina
—orc Tue Jan 1 00:57:45 2019
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