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Jan 31, 2025

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Tubing mite
Dust Mite visited Framebuilder Supply this afternoon.

Jan 24, 2025

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Dust Mite cookie
I tried to make a Dust Mite sugar cookie, but, alas, the finished product only slightly resembles one ;-)

Jan 23, 2025

Cargo

Cargo

~36kg of kitty litter. A bit much for the amount of air left in the bob yak’s wheel, but at least I had what I laughingly call a bike pump (the full-length pumps have a sort of retro flair to them, but they don’t inflate tires nearly as well as modern minipumps with better heads do) and it was enough to shovel air into it before I headed home.

Jan 22, 2025

The hovercaliper

Hovercaliper
Slowly piecing together post mounts for my emergency randonneuse. So far I’ve done one of four. sigh

Jan 17, 2025

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Mite frame

The rear SL23 on the emergency randonneuse wore through last week, so I gathered up a bunch of parts to replace the rim brakes with disc brakes and today finally disassembled the bike so I can glue post mounts (or adapter pads for flat mount brakes) onto the thing.

Aside from being absolutely filthy, I discovered that I’d managed to twist and derake (part of) the fork, so had to rerake & untwist the fork. Thankfully steel is malleable so I can do this without risking it disintegrating out from under me. But I’m still going to glue a reinforcing rib to the brake-side fork leg for paranoia’s sake.

Jan 10, 2025

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

1337 Mite
Dust Mite sits in on my eldest’s newly recased & re-graphics carded gaming PC.

Jan 08, 2025

Railroad photo of the day (some day in 1973)

Milwaukee Road E57B & E34B in Butte, MT

Milwaukee Road ES-1 #E57B (and bobtail #E34C) were switching in Harlowton sometime in 1973, just before the idiots in Chicago turned off the electrification (and accelerated the railroad’s descent into oblivion.)

Jan 03, 2025

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

pencil stays
Dust Mite poses with some seatstay/rack tubing

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