Oct 29, 2019
Mavis helps sort out the placemats
—orc Tue Oct 29 20:47:32 2019
Oct 27, 2019
The bagette and the lettice wouldn’t fit inside either of the bags, but fortunately there were enough exterior pockets for them.
—orc Sun Oct 27 20:22:10 2019
Oct 26, 2019
Mavis judges us all
—orc Sat Oct 26 13:08:08 2019
Oct 25, 2019
Checking the bottle cage fit for frame 11.5; I must have mismeasured the DT boss locations, because a bottle juuust barely clears the ST bottle cage when it too has a bottle. Fortunately, my fuckup wasn’t serious enough to actually mean I needed to go back and braze in another bottle cage boss further up the tube!
—orc Fri Oct 25 23:55:19 2019
Oct 18, 2019
Dust Mite helps me align a hoverrack before I braze fork leg stays onto it.
—orc Fri Oct 18 23:02:56 2019
Oct 17, 2019
There are still a few bits that need to be brazed on, and then I have to clean all of the flux off, but it’s now a bicycle instead of a pile of fractionally glued together tubing.
—orc Thu Oct 17 13:45:41 2019
Oct 15, 2019
Meeting an EPT train at the north end of the Springwater Trail
—orc Tue Oct 15 19:12:12 2019
Oct 11, 2019
Dust Mite installs a fender
—orc Fri Oct 11 23:55:48 2019
Oct 10, 2019
The disco travel bike rests in the middle of a (windy!) afternoon ride.
—orc Thu Oct 10 20:50:47 2019
Oct 09, 2019
You can’t get lemon extract at New Seasons. Apparently shelfspace is limited. But not so limited that they can’t stock 23 different types of vanilla extract/flavoring/paste.
I wonder how many of these vanilla things are sourced from the same manufacturer?
—orc Wed Oct 9 20:34:03 2019
Oct 04, 2019
Dust Mite helps me align & modify my frame jig
—orc Fri Oct 4 22:52:54 2019
Oct 03, 2019
I modified this frame to have disc brakes (so new rear dropouts & an entirely new fork) so I’m riding it around to see if anything explodes before shovelling it back into a box and mailing it back to its owner. I’ve set it up as a singlespeed, but I will probably tape some di2 onto the thing and ride it like that after I glue on some rack mounts and can attach a rack to it. But today I tested it on a tiny bit of gravel, and survived to tell the tale.
(And, yes, I didn’t cut the steerer; I used a cutoff from a 1" headtube as a big old spacer, but it wasn’t quite long enough so I needed to throw in the only 1⅛“ spacer I could find plus a cable hanger. Thus the weird looking gooseneck at the top of the steertube.)
—orc Thu Oct 3 15:51:20 2019
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