Jan 31, 2025
Jan 24, 2025
I tried to make a Dust Mite sugar cookie, but, alas, the finished product only slightly resembles one ;-)
—orc Fri Jan 24 21:09:42 2025
Jan 23, 2025
~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.
—orc Thu Jan 23 14:52:20 2025
Jan 22, 2025
Slowly piecing together post mounts for my emergency randonneuse. So far I’ve done one of four. sigh
—orc Wed Jan 22 23:53:56 2025
Jan 17, 2025
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
Jan 10, 2025
Dust Mite sits in on my eldest’s newly recased & re-graphics carded gaming PC.
—orc Fri Jan 10 20:49:07 2025
Jan 08, 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
Jan 03, 2025
Dust Mite poses with some seatstay/rack tubing
—orc Fri Jan 3 23:47:56 2025
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