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.
—orc Fri Jan 17 23:14:25 2025
Dust Mite sits in on my eldest’s newly recased & re-graphics carded gaming PC.
—orc Fri Jan 10 20:49:07 2025
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.)
—orc Wed Jan 8 00:27:10 2025
Dust Mite poses with some seatstay/rack tubing
—orc Fri Jan 3 23:47:56 2025
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