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bike building is nerve racking...especially when you are dealing with 'new' technology. i opted to have eric's install my bb30 as i didn't have the bushings or experience with it. to me, it seems like the next time i'll need to know something about bottom bracket installation the 'standard' will change anyway. well, i applied the same thing to installation of the crown race. i've always done it myself with a pvc pipe. the new bike has a full carbon steer tube which is tapered to 1.5" at the base - i tried installing it the same way i've always done it but somehow it got cocked and i couldn't get it to seat fully. so, rather than messing around and doing something stupid to the carbon, i headed back to erics last night. same dude helped me - and he was done in about 5 minutes. a great $5 spent. i'll probably be back with some other problem at some point...

i then spent a little time working on the bike when i got it home. i'm hoping to cut the steer tube tonight to get that all set so i can go from there. i'd like to have that in place before i start cutting/installing housing and cables. once i get the front end set it should go pretty fast. should being the operable word. i'm not sure how it will ride but i think it is sure going to look sweet. look good, feel good. feel good, ride...good?

it also hit me last night - i have a busy few weeks ahead of me. i mentioned we are having our wood flooring re-finished...that starts thursday which means we can't go back in the house until 7-ish thursday night. friday we are heading to gresham for the night before heading to cal's cousin's birthday party in kaukauna. back home saturday night to a very messy house. i'm hoping to get a big (for me) ride in sunday morning and then i'm sure we'll spend some time putting our house back together. after that, it is prep time for wausau24. i'm pretty excited to race and even more excited that robin will be there with us.

happy tuesday.