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Bump to this for the unlikely possibility that I have any Barrington Hills readers. Get to your city council! Dang!
http://bryanmcvey.blogspot.com/2009/02/share-road.html
I'm sure it's okay to take a full lane if you are in a car going 20 in a 30 (grandmas of the world, take note, it's okay!), but heaven forbid anyone as fragile as a bicyclist on a bike should get in the way of automobile traffic. They have important places to be dammit!
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
coupla new builds
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Well, I've finished off a couple of new builds for friends in the last week. The first is a red Schwinn Sprint frame I built up for my friend Ted. It's sort of a half MTB/half road bike hybrid. It has flat bars, SRAM MTB brake levers and cyclocross tires on a road frame. 700c wheels on a frame made for 27" allows plenty of clearance for fenders. I had to get some new Tektro long-reach brakes to make that work, but dang, they sure work good! Mixture of parts on the drive train: Shimano 200-something cranks (can't remember that number, but from the Bio-Pace era), Shimano 600 FD, Suntour VX RD and Suntour stem mount shifters. Kind of a fun, weird one for me. The picture isn't great, I only remembered to take as I was about to hand it off, but it's on the road now and getting good reviews!
The next one is for my pal Amy. It turned out to be what I would describe as the classic Chicago hipster bike (no value judgements intended!). It was literally one bad day from the scrap heap though, so I'm pretty proud it got saved! This was a Schwinn Traveler frame that I bought from a kid down in Pilsen while I was there to buy something else (wheels?) and he threw it in for $25. It had been spray and hand painted a number of times from the look of it. I didn't know what I'd do with it, so I threw it up in the garage rafters and didn't think about it until my friend Lee (who has gone perhaps even more bike building mad than I) told me he had a good deal on getting a bunch of frames blasted and powder coated. I got it down, extracted the decrepit bottom bracket from it and sent it off. What a difference! It came back looking so pristine that it was hard to touch it as I was always leaving a nasty grease smudge on the bright yellow finish. I built it up single-speed (freewheel!!!!) with some Velocity wheels I was sort of using but didn't really need to be using (i.e. needed to thin the herd). Some one trying to make a crazy fixie bike or something had, in a fit of idiocy, shaved off the brake cable hangars, so I had to acquire these pretty classy old-school clamp on ones, which I must say, do look really nice. She already liked the cut off drop bar style deal from her last bike, so we went with that and I came up with some Sugino 170mm cranks, a 46T chainring, some older sidepull brakes with new pads, some NOS Specialized road tires from a guy on craigslist (nice tires!), and a really nice Terry Butterfly saddle and Voila!
How about that duotone color scheme, eh? Pretttttttyyyyyyyyy prettttttyyyy gooooooooood.
In other news, I'm addicted to watching the Tour Of California. They are having some serious technical difficulties with all the inclement weather, but when it's on, it's really fun. You can watch the video right on the website with this sort of flash page "control panel" style window. It has video, commentary, GPS tracking, etc. etc.
Good stage today. Must give it up for Levi Leipheimer, and good going Tom Peterson!
Well, I've finished off a couple of new builds for friends in the last week. The first is a red Schwinn Sprint frame I built up for my friend Ted. It's sort of a half MTB/half road bike hybrid. It has flat bars, SRAM MTB brake levers and cyclocross tires on a road frame. 700c wheels on a frame made for 27" allows plenty of clearance for fenders. I had to get some new Tektro long-reach brakes to make that work, but dang, they sure work good! Mixture of parts on the drive train: Shimano 200-something cranks (can't remember that number, but from the Bio-Pace era), Shimano 600 FD, Suntour VX RD and Suntour stem mount shifters. Kind of a fun, weird one for me. The picture isn't great, I only remembered to take as I was about to hand it off, but it's on the road now and getting good reviews!
The next one is for my pal Amy. It turned out to be what I would describe as the classic Chicago hipster bike (no value judgements intended!). It was literally one bad day from the scrap heap though, so I'm pretty proud it got saved! This was a Schwinn Traveler frame that I bought from a kid down in Pilsen while I was there to buy something else (wheels?) and he threw it in for $25. It had been spray and hand painted a number of times from the look of it. I didn't know what I'd do with it, so I threw it up in the garage rafters and didn't think about it until my friend Lee (who has gone perhaps even more bike building mad than I) told me he had a good deal on getting a bunch of frames blasted and powder coated. I got it down, extracted the decrepit bottom bracket from it and sent it off. What a difference! It came back looking so pristine that it was hard to touch it as I was always leaving a nasty grease smudge on the bright yellow finish. I built it up single-speed (freewheel!!!!) with some Velocity wheels I was sort of using but didn't really need to be using (i.e. needed to thin the herd). Some one trying to make a crazy fixie bike or something had, in a fit of idiocy, shaved off the brake cable hangars, so I had to acquire these pretty classy old-school clamp on ones, which I must say, do look really nice. She already liked the cut off drop bar style deal from her last bike, so we went with that and I came up with some Sugino 170mm cranks, a 46T chainring, some older sidepull brakes with new pads, some NOS Specialized road tires from a guy on craigslist (nice tires!), and a really nice Terry Butterfly saddle and Voila!
How about that duotone color scheme, eh? Pretttttttyyyyyyyyy prettttttyyyy gooooooooood.
In other news, I'm addicted to watching the Tour Of California. They are having some serious technical difficulties with all the inclement weather, but when it's on, it's really fun. You can watch the video right on the website with this sort of flash page "control panel" style window. It has video, commentary, GPS tracking, etc. etc.
Good stage today. Must give it up for Levi Leipheimer, and good going Tom Peterson!
Monday, February 9, 2009
Spring is faking us out
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I KNOW it's not going to last, but the last 3 days we've had temperatures starting in the 30s and going up. We hit something in the low 50s today and there is talk of 60s tomorrow. IT'S GREAT!!!!! I did have a moment of realization this morning that I'm sure I'll still shovel a few hundred pounds of snow before we're done this winter, but I'll take this now.
I rode about 20 miles on Saturday, none on Sunday (played indoor soccer though!), and about 20 more miles today (Monday). I'm going to try and get at least 20 miles per day in for as long as this lasts. I'm back on my Paramount and it's so fun to zip around at 18-22mph. I can pass cars in afternoon traffic for a good part of my ride. Wheeee!
On a random note, check out this craigslist gem from a week or so ago!
It's a Schwinn Paramount Tandem!!! There's something you don't see every day! It's all Campy Record too!
Here's a link to the full ad. It might still be available!
In other upcoming news, I'm going to try and take a trip to the Northbrook Velodrome sometime soon. It's on my radar now. Stay tuned.
I KNOW it's not going to last, but the last 3 days we've had temperatures starting in the 30s and going up. We hit something in the low 50s today and there is talk of 60s tomorrow. IT'S GREAT!!!!! I did have a moment of realization this morning that I'm sure I'll still shovel a few hundred pounds of snow before we're done this winter, but I'll take this now.
I rode about 20 miles on Saturday, none on Sunday (played indoor soccer though!), and about 20 more miles today (Monday). I'm going to try and get at least 20 miles per day in for as long as this lasts. I'm back on my Paramount and it's so fun to zip around at 18-22mph. I can pass cars in afternoon traffic for a good part of my ride. Wheeee!
On a random note, check out this craigslist gem from a week or so ago!
It's a Schwinn Paramount Tandem!!! There's something you don't see every day! It's all Campy Record too!
Here's a link to the full ad. It might still be available!
In other upcoming news, I'm going to try and take a trip to the Northbrook Velodrome sometime soon. It's on my radar now. Stay tuned.
Monday, January 26, 2009
no new tales to tell
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Well, not entirely true. Just not a whole lot of riding going on in these frozen months I'm currently living in the midst of.
I did have a couple of cool things happen though.
1) I did a volunteer shift at Working Bikes a few days before the new year. I've been meaning to do this for quite some time, but have managed to procrastinate and procrastinate. It was pretty fun. If you want to see a whole, whole lot of bikes in need of repair, go in and do a shift there. I took a crack at a couple of pretty jacked up bikes. The first one had a bent frame, so I just stripped it, trued the one good wheel as best I could (pretty rusty!) and moved on. The second one was somewhat work-on-able, so I got it partways stripped down and labeled it for myself (or someone else) to come back to. Met Aaron and Jonathan there. Nice guys. I've had a hard time finding time on Wednesdays to go down there again since. I keep having work I can't scoot around on Weds. Hopefully not next week but the one after, I can go back over there. They probably think I bagged it forever by now. I'm out here guys! I'll be back!
2) My wife and I went to Austin from January 8th to the 13th. What a dream! Texas winters are NICE! I'd almost forgotten. The first full day we were there, the high was about 72. There were a couple of "cold" days after that, like highs in the high 40s and low 50s, but the last day was back to a high of 65. Overnight lows were in the low 40s/high 30s. We rode around all over town on 2 of the days, about 15 miles each day and one day I also went off and took a solo speedy power ride out west of town a bit, about a 15 mile circuit with some heavy hills in there too. Got the Felt 85 up to a personal record of 40mph. KIND OF SCARY! It was just starting to shudder a bit and then I had to brake quickly for a sharp turn at the bottom of this hill at the end of Far West Blvd. Austin isn't the most bike-friendly city, but it seems like it's getting there pretty fast and my brother lives in a part of town (NW side near Burnet and Koenig), that has easy access to Shoal Creek Blvd. which is a cyclists paradise and leads on to a nice mostly off-street trail system that can get you clear to the south side of downtown with very little auto interaction.
The only downside of the trip was coming home. For the few days after I got back, it was highs around 0 to 5 degrees (F) in Chicago. Wind chills in the -20 to -30 zone. Not very fun. I'm virtually defeated right now. I've only ridden once since getting back (twice if you count riding to work today, I'm not home yet!), and when I did, my hands felt as if they had been pounded with hammers by the time I got home. I know what it must feel like to be the Hulk or An American Werewolf in London or any other sort of shape shifting creature. When my hands were thawing out, I felt as if claws were going to pop out of the middle of each digit or something. It was like giving hand birth (I'd imagine), I couldn't even talk for a few minutes. Just moaning. I've realized I have to pre-heat my gloves considerably to be out in the below 15 degree weather. And that's about all we've got right now.
What else?... My highly touted Pearl Izumi shoe covers are sort of falling apart already, so I might have to take back a little of the praise I was heaping on those a few months ago. As far as alternatives, Bob, my biz partner, go the fancy LG winter boot things and said those are already having some sort of unraveling around the zipper area, so I guess they just don't really make much of anything like they used to (at least so to speak as I guess they didn't really "used to" make a lot of this stuff).
I'm building up a couple of new projects for friends. More on those soon.
Be safe out there! Only about 10 more weeks until it's not soul-crushingly cold almost all the time!
Well, not entirely true. Just not a whole lot of riding going on in these frozen months I'm currently living in the midst of.
I did have a couple of cool things happen though.
1) I did a volunteer shift at Working Bikes a few days before the new year. I've been meaning to do this for quite some time, but have managed to procrastinate and procrastinate. It was pretty fun. If you want to see a whole, whole lot of bikes in need of repair, go in and do a shift there. I took a crack at a couple of pretty jacked up bikes. The first one had a bent frame, so I just stripped it, trued the one good wheel as best I could (pretty rusty!) and moved on. The second one was somewhat work-on-able, so I got it partways stripped down and labeled it for myself (or someone else) to come back to. Met Aaron and Jonathan there. Nice guys. I've had a hard time finding time on Wednesdays to go down there again since. I keep having work I can't scoot around on Weds. Hopefully not next week but the one after, I can go back over there. They probably think I bagged it forever by now. I'm out here guys! I'll be back!
2) My wife and I went to Austin from January 8th to the 13th. What a dream! Texas winters are NICE! I'd almost forgotten. The first full day we were there, the high was about 72. There were a couple of "cold" days after that, like highs in the high 40s and low 50s, but the last day was back to a high of 65. Overnight lows were in the low 40s/high 30s. We rode around all over town on 2 of the days, about 15 miles each day and one day I also went off and took a solo speedy power ride out west of town a bit, about a 15 mile circuit with some heavy hills in there too. Got the Felt 85 up to a personal record of 40mph. KIND OF SCARY! It was just starting to shudder a bit and then I had to brake quickly for a sharp turn at the bottom of this hill at the end of Far West Blvd. Austin isn't the most bike-friendly city, but it seems like it's getting there pretty fast and my brother lives in a part of town (NW side near Burnet and Koenig), that has easy access to Shoal Creek Blvd. which is a cyclists paradise and leads on to a nice mostly off-street trail system that can get you clear to the south side of downtown with very little auto interaction.
The only downside of the trip was coming home. For the few days after I got back, it was highs around 0 to 5 degrees (F) in Chicago. Wind chills in the -20 to -30 zone. Not very fun. I'm virtually defeated right now. I've only ridden once since getting back (twice if you count riding to work today, I'm not home yet!), and when I did, my hands felt as if they had been pounded with hammers by the time I got home. I know what it must feel like to be the Hulk or An American Werewolf in London or any other sort of shape shifting creature. When my hands were thawing out, I felt as if claws were going to pop out of the middle of each digit or something. It was like giving hand birth (I'd imagine), I couldn't even talk for a few minutes. Just moaning. I've realized I have to pre-heat my gloves considerably to be out in the below 15 degree weather. And that's about all we've got right now.
What else?... My highly touted Pearl Izumi shoe covers are sort of falling apart already, so I might have to take back a little of the praise I was heaping on those a few months ago. As far as alternatives, Bob, my biz partner, go the fancy LG winter boot things and said those are already having some sort of unraveling around the zipper area, so I guess they just don't really make much of anything like they used to (at least so to speak as I guess they didn't really "used to" make a lot of this stuff).
I'm building up a couple of new projects for friends. More on those soon.
Be safe out there! Only about 10 more weeks until it's not soul-crushingly cold almost all the time!
Saturday, December 27, 2008
frosty rides in Madison
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Just home from a x-mas visit to Madison. I FINALLY received these Nokian tires I'd been waiting for and managed to mount them on my Velocity deep V wheels the night before we left for Madison. They looked great out of the box. Very rideable and not at all over the top tread or stud-wise.
We set off with the bike and a station wagon full of gifts and whatnot to Madison on Wednesday. Thursday morning we were all meant to go across town to my brother-in-law's house for a big brunch and I decided I'd give it a try on the bike. The trip is about 9 miles and the temperature outside was supposedly going to get up to 20 degrees but as I left around 10 am, it was actually 0, wind chill of something like -10. So needless to say, the snow and ice was bone dry. As soon as I hit the road, I could tell what a MASSIVELY different feeling it was riding on these things. They just made the back streets (which were plowed but had been unplowed for some days, so there was a good layer of ice and packed snow, it was just more or less flat) feel like more or less normal riding conditions. I could also blast through the little pile ups where one plow went by later and made a sort of "curb" of snow and ice where streets crossed. It was really a fun feeling, very liberating to feel as if you could just ride normally in these conditions.
When I reached the top of the city's bike trail I was really happy to find that, on Christmas day, the trail was very nicely and completely plowed. Mind you, these are off street trails, so there is a whole little separate job to go and plow these miles and miles and miles of trails. NICE JOB MADISON! If it wasn't so freezing, I'd consider moving there!
The only downside of this ride was that my gloves are not at all fit for such temps. I did, however, discover and new ad hoc hand warming method whereby I stop and take off my gloves and stick them under my armpits (outside all my layers) and take my hands (with glove liners still on) and stick them down my pants where it is plenty warm. I did this twice on the way over to brunch, about every three miles. I received the Craft Siberian gloves I ordered to remedy this problem a few days before but was chagrined to discover that they were a bit too small, so hopefully this won't be something I'll have to get very good at, as they are enroute for an exchange now.
The other downside later in the day is that it never got past 10 degrees and by the time I rode home, there wasn't even the direct sun to help me out and the ride back is composed of a lot of very slight uphill inclines that you don't really notice on the way down them, but after bruch in the 10 degree weather with freezing hands, you start to notice!
But, hey, at least I was biking! Nokian A-10 tires: A+++++ (as the say in the land of ebay!)
Here are a couple of pics, one is me in the window of Monona terrace stopping for hand warming. Lake Monona is in the background. The next is the mighty Steamroller with the new invincible tires on.
The next day, I rode about another 15 miles or so (my computer was on the fritz). The temp was up into the 20s/30s on this day, so everything was melting! Slush everywhere. Tires still worked quite well, but there was a bit more slip/sliding around in the thick melting slush. Went by a couple of area bike shops just to have somewhere to stop and warm up. I was the only person on a bike at both of them though, so much for the hardy Wisconson biker! I did see about three other bikes over the course of the day altogether. They actually had the gloves I'm waiting for at Machinery Row Bicycles at a good price, but only in sizes XS through M. Doh! I found out that my footwear scenario (Cheapo Specialized cycling shoes with 2 pairs of socks and some Pearl Izumi neoprene shoe covers) cannot stay all that dry when you are riding through slush all day. I ended up stopping at a local Laotian restaurant for lunch and slipping out of my shoes and tucking my freezing toes one foot at a time under my legs under the table to thaw. A pot of hot tea and a plate of squash curry later, I was ready to finish it off. Same uphill slog, kind of harder with the half-melt, but I made it and got some pretty fearsome exercise. At least for this time of year.
Here is a picture of the exemplary bike trail conditions I found most of the day:
Kudos again to the city of Madison for taking cycling seriously and putting their money where it counts!
I now feel ready to face whatever Chicago has to dish out. Bring it!!!!
Just home from a x-mas visit to Madison. I FINALLY received these Nokian tires I'd been waiting for and managed to mount them on my Velocity deep V wheels the night before we left for Madison. They looked great out of the box. Very rideable and not at all over the top tread or stud-wise.
We set off with the bike and a station wagon full of gifts and whatnot to Madison on Wednesday. Thursday morning we were all meant to go across town to my brother-in-law's house for a big brunch and I decided I'd give it a try on the bike. The trip is about 9 miles and the temperature outside was supposedly going to get up to 20 degrees but as I left around 10 am, it was actually 0, wind chill of something like -10. So needless to say, the snow and ice was bone dry. As soon as I hit the road, I could tell what a MASSIVELY different feeling it was riding on these things. They just made the back streets (which were plowed but had been unplowed for some days, so there was a good layer of ice and packed snow, it was just more or less flat) feel like more or less normal riding conditions. I could also blast through the little pile ups where one plow went by later and made a sort of "curb" of snow and ice where streets crossed. It was really a fun feeling, very liberating to feel as if you could just ride normally in these conditions.
When I reached the top of the city's bike trail I was really happy to find that, on Christmas day, the trail was very nicely and completely plowed. Mind you, these are off street trails, so there is a whole little separate job to go and plow these miles and miles and miles of trails. NICE JOB MADISON! If it wasn't so freezing, I'd consider moving there!
The only downside of this ride was that my gloves are not at all fit for such temps. I did, however, discover and new ad hoc hand warming method whereby I stop and take off my gloves and stick them under my armpits (outside all my layers) and take my hands (with glove liners still on) and stick them down my pants where it is plenty warm. I did this twice on the way over to brunch, about every three miles. I received the Craft Siberian gloves I ordered to remedy this problem a few days before but was chagrined to discover that they were a bit too small, so hopefully this won't be something I'll have to get very good at, as they are enroute for an exchange now.
The other downside later in the day is that it never got past 10 degrees and by the time I rode home, there wasn't even the direct sun to help me out and the ride back is composed of a lot of very slight uphill inclines that you don't really notice on the way down them, but after bruch in the 10 degree weather with freezing hands, you start to notice!
But, hey, at least I was biking! Nokian A-10 tires: A+++++ (as the say in the land of ebay!)
Here are a couple of pics, one is me in the window of Monona terrace stopping for hand warming. Lake Monona is in the background. The next is the mighty Steamroller with the new invincible tires on.
The next day, I rode about another 15 miles or so (my computer was on the fritz). The temp was up into the 20s/30s on this day, so everything was melting! Slush everywhere. Tires still worked quite well, but there was a bit more slip/sliding around in the thick melting slush. Went by a couple of area bike shops just to have somewhere to stop and warm up. I was the only person on a bike at both of them though, so much for the hardy Wisconson biker! I did see about three other bikes over the course of the day altogether. They actually had the gloves I'm waiting for at Machinery Row Bicycles at a good price, but only in sizes XS through M. Doh! I found out that my footwear scenario (Cheapo Specialized cycling shoes with 2 pairs of socks and some Pearl Izumi neoprene shoe covers) cannot stay all that dry when you are riding through slush all day. I ended up stopping at a local Laotian restaurant for lunch and slipping out of my shoes and tucking my freezing toes one foot at a time under my legs under the table to thaw. A pot of hot tea and a plate of squash curry later, I was ready to finish it off. Same uphill slog, kind of harder with the half-melt, but I made it and got some pretty fearsome exercise. At least for this time of year.
Here is a picture of the exemplary bike trail conditions I found most of the day:
Kudos again to the city of Madison for taking cycling seriously and putting their money where it counts!
I now feel ready to face whatever Chicago has to dish out. Bring it!!!!
Saturday, December 13, 2008
More Surly love b/w A brief reprieve from the cold
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Went out today and rode about 9 miles, doing some x-mas shopping. I am in love with my Surly Steamroller now. What a dream. It was already set up with almost everything I needed. The fenders are great! I rode around in melting snow and slush and it was actually lightly raining on me during the 4-ish mile ride home and without rainpants, I'm still clean and dry enough to just come in my house and not need to change clothes. The gearing is really nice. It's not ridiculously high for riding in windy conditions, etc, yet I can still get going up to about 25mph with a slight tailwind without spinning out. Solid!
I cannot wait to tackle the next spell of crap weather with these new studded tires (see below), but I decided today I am going to keep this wheelset (I was thinking on selling it off to help ameliorate the costs of this bike) and put the ice tires on the set of Velocity wheels I was riding this spring before I converted my Paramount to geared. I hear the Nokians are kind of a pain to change out and I think I shall be riding this bike a lot for a long time, so having ice and non-ice wheels seems like a good move in the long run.
The temp got up to a balmy 35-ish today. Thanks weather gods! All the ice is melting off, so we can start from scratch next week I reckon. Here is a great picture from the "winter gear" discussion over at the chicago fixed gear forum:
My sentiments exactly! What kindred spirits sculpted this monumental piece of sculpture?!
In other news of warmer weather adventures, I had my mind somewhat blown by this guy's quest from a couple years back. This is hardcore!
The wife and I are mulling over playing a little winter hooky and heading down to Austin on some frequent flier miles in a few weeks. She has off from school for an unexpected 4+ weeks, so wethinks we are going to take in some 60 to 70 degree Texas relaxation. I can bike in shorts most likely! Huzzah, huzzah!!!
Went out today and rode about 9 miles, doing some x-mas shopping. I am in love with my Surly Steamroller now. What a dream. It was already set up with almost everything I needed. The fenders are great! I rode around in melting snow and slush and it was actually lightly raining on me during the 4-ish mile ride home and without rainpants, I'm still clean and dry enough to just come in my house and not need to change clothes. The gearing is really nice. It's not ridiculously high for riding in windy conditions, etc, yet I can still get going up to about 25mph with a slight tailwind without spinning out. Solid!
I cannot wait to tackle the next spell of crap weather with these new studded tires (see below), but I decided today I am going to keep this wheelset (I was thinking on selling it off to help ameliorate the costs of this bike) and put the ice tires on the set of Velocity wheels I was riding this spring before I converted my Paramount to geared. I hear the Nokians are kind of a pain to change out and I think I shall be riding this bike a lot for a long time, so having ice and non-ice wheels seems like a good move in the long run.
The temp got up to a balmy 35-ish today. Thanks weather gods! All the ice is melting off, so we can start from scratch next week I reckon. Here is a great picture from the "winter gear" discussion over at the chicago fixed gear forum:
My sentiments exactly! What kindred spirits sculpted this monumental piece of sculpture?!
In other news of warmer weather adventures, I had my mind somewhat blown by this guy's quest from a couple years back. This is hardcore!
The wife and I are mulling over playing a little winter hooky and heading down to Austin on some frequent flier miles in a few weeks. She has off from school for an unexpected 4+ weeks, so wethinks we are going to take in some 60 to 70 degree Texas relaxation. I can bike in shorts most likely! Huzzah, huzzah!!!
Thursday, December 11, 2008
First ride on the Surly
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Well, I wiped out about a 1/2 mile from my house going down a snowy (and as it turned out, ICY) street. Jammed my thumb pretty good. Not so terrific to jam my left thumb when I dislocated my right pinky only 4 days ago. Come on Nokian tires, I need you!
Otherwise, though, it was real nice to be rolling on 2 wheels again. I've goofed up the rear brake cable path with that wreck somehow, but I was planning on changing out these bars and levers anyway, so I'll just have to get right to it.
(Later that same evening)
I did it. Here are some current pics. I have fenders, huzzah!!
Well, I wiped out about a 1/2 mile from my house going down a snowy (and as it turned out, ICY) street. Jammed my thumb pretty good. Not so terrific to jam my left thumb when I dislocated my right pinky only 4 days ago. Come on Nokian tires, I need you!
Otherwise, though, it was real nice to be rolling on 2 wheels again. I've goofed up the rear brake cable path with that wreck somehow, but I was planning on changing out these bars and levers anyway, so I'll just have to get right to it.
(Later that same evening)
I did it. Here are some current pics. I have fenders, huzzah!!
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