Dec 31, 2014
Mount Hood at ~4pm today.
—orc Wed Dec 31 19:34:15 2014
Dec 29, 2014
Tonight I pulled the threaded fork off the Trek and replaced it with one of the threaded-but-barely-long-enough-to-be-cut-down-and-make-threadless forks I had lying around in the basement. And that means all of my bicycle clutter now has threadless stems (The Murray Baja Experience! and Silas’s Shiromoto are still threaded, but they aren’t my bikes so they don’t count!) and the majority (4 of 6) are mutated as G-d Himself Intended™.
—orc Mon Dec 29 02:41:18 2014
Dec 28, 2014
Not very successfully – the UP has increased the speed limit on the line segment from Brooklyn Yard to the Steel Bridge, and trains come through here at 40-50mph now.
—orc Sun Dec 28 18:21:22 2014
Dec 27, 2014
Actually three photos of the day, glued together with Hugin to make a panorama of the day.
—orc Sat Dec 27 17:28:58 2014
Dec 26, 2014
The stockings have been emptied, so now they make for a cozy place to nap
—orc Fri Dec 26 23:53:18 2014
Dec 25, 2014
And a joyous non-denominational secular winter celebration to you!
—orc Thu Dec 25 17:45:52 2014
Dec 24, 2014
As part of the construction of the portland-milwaukie light rail line, the old creaky bridge over Brooklyn Yard was torn down to be replaced at a later date. Well, it’s apparently that later date and the steel for the new bridge (from Rhine St instead of from Lafayette St) was put up either yesterday or today.
I’m sure it will also be rickety sooner or later, but hopefully not in my lifetime.
—orc Wed Dec 24 20:54:38 2014
Dec 22, 2014
Picking up some socks before going out for a short ride.
—orc Mon Dec 22 17:59:40 2014
Dec 20, 2014
Mavis helps with the giftwrapping
—orc Sat Dec 20 23:56:07 2014
Dec 19, 2014
Dust Mite chills out in the ‘fridge.
—orc Fri Dec 19 22:33:19 2014
Dec 18, 2014
I’m swapping the threaded fork on my xtracycle with a threadless one, and while I’m in the throes of doing this I’m checking the fit for 35mm tires (I’m worried that Resist will stop selling Nomads, because if they do that I’ll have to pull them off every bicycle to save them for the midlifecrisismobile) + fenders.
I can’t do it with caliper brakes, so I’ve got to braze canti posts onto the fork so I can use V-brakes instead. And before I do that I’ve got to sand all of the chrome off the parts of the fork I’m going to be brazing things onto (I’m not a great fan of toxic metal poisoning; it’s one of my great character flaws.) And then when I’m done I’m going to paint the fork red to match the rest of the trek (including the nice red mutant stem that’s been kicking around waiting for a red bicycle that needs a stem) and that will be the end of the chrome.
—orc Thu Dec 18 21:10:39 2014
Dec 17, 2014
Well, really late fall day if you’re going to be picky, but in any case it was gloomy and rainy enough to blur out most of downtown Portland.
—orc Wed Dec 17 17:15:08 2014
Dec 15, 2014
It didn’t rain today, so I took the born-again Trek up into the Impassable Wilderness under the logic of since it wasn’t raining I wouldn’t get as much debris slathered all over the bike.
It had been a while since I’d last transited any part of Leif Erikson Drive, so it was a slower haul than I’m used to. Oh, the horror – I had to spend more time in the woods.
—orc Mon Dec 15 17:21:08 2014
Dec 14, 2014
A sunny, if somewhat cold, day for the Holiday Express.
—orc Sun Dec 14 16:49:12 2014
Dec 12, 2014
Dec 11, 2014
A tiny welcome pole on the (newly opened stretch of the) Trolley Trail between River Road & Park Ave.
—orc Thu Dec 11 19:53:17 2014
Dec 08, 2014
Red-Blue sails over the ORHF’s shop yard as I head north on Water Ave.
—orc Mon Dec 8 17:16:36 2014
Dec 07, 2014
Mount Hood from Amisigger Road, made artistically dramatic via a bit of photo retouching.
—orc Sun Dec 7 15:08:46 2014
Dec 06, 2014
The section of the Trolley Trail that climbs the Boring Lava just south of Milwaukie has been finished, so I’m going to need to reroute a bunch of my loops so they use it instead of climbing Wren + River Road. (Though I may be modifying some of them to use Oatfield Road, because that’s much more climby than either River Road or the Trolley Trail.)
—orc Sat Dec 6 16:55:28 2014
Dec 05, 2014
Dust Mite helps me clean up some old freehubs so I can sell them.
—orc Fri Dec 5 20:38:48 2014
Dec 02, 2014
A southbound Coast Starlight sails under the new 99e bridge.
—orc Tue Dec 2 16:48:41 2014
Dec 01, 2014
Stopping on McBrod Ave to say hi to the working Eng!
—orc Mon Dec 1 16:49:44 2014
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