bikeshhh
cal's first word was bike which is pretty cool if you ask me. he used to add a 'sh' sound at the end which i now have incorporated in my internal vernacular. like, when i was thinking about what to write today i thought about all the bikesh work i did last night.
speaking of bike work last night, i got my front tire glued up. the mastik one reminds me of my model building days with the old testers model cement. i spent hours as a boy building car and jet models - all that glue (and paint!) sniffing probably lowered my iq trajectory a notch or two. where was i, oh yea tubulars. the belgian tape is something else - it grabbed the tire and made it really difficult to center the base tape on the wheel. i got it mostly (there is a very slight wobble that i'll just have to live with) and it is curing in the basement. i was going to glue up the back wheel too but i still had to try and get the moto shifting properly. for whatever reason, that one is giving me fits. i've tensioned the front derailleur like 10 times but on a hunch i did it one more time. problem solved, far less rubbing up front. now if i could only get into the inner most cog in the back...
cross practice tonight (weather permitting). the rain we got overnight should dry up sufficiently, but if we get more it should probably get canceled to not damage the park. i'm hoping to get the rear tire glued up tonight as well so i can ride the eastons on saturday. stupid hobbies that require a lot of prep work.
usgp: bueller....bueller....bueller?
happy wednesday.
speaking of bike work last night, i got my front tire glued up. the mastik one reminds me of my model building days with the old testers model cement. i spent hours as a boy building car and jet models - all that glue (and paint!) sniffing probably lowered my iq trajectory a notch or two. where was i, oh yea tubulars. the belgian tape is something else - it grabbed the tire and made it really difficult to center the base tape on the wheel. i got it mostly (there is a very slight wobble that i'll just have to live with) and it is curing in the basement. i was going to glue up the back wheel too but i still had to try and get the moto shifting properly. for whatever reason, that one is giving me fits. i've tensioned the front derailleur like 10 times but on a hunch i did it one more time. problem solved, far less rubbing up front. now if i could only get into the inner most cog in the back...
cross practice tonight (weather permitting). the rain we got overnight should dry up sufficiently, but if we get more it should probably get canceled to not damage the park. i'm hoping to get the rear tire glued up tonight as well so i can ride the eastons on saturday. stupid hobbies that require a lot of prep work.
usgp: bueller....bueller....bueller?
happy wednesday.
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