Commuting, Store Runs, an evening ride or 2, a ride or 2 on the weekend and some minor mechanical work. 4/7: I did this ride on a spur of the moment with Rob and PJ… It was a short out & back along what is turning into our quick Saturday/Sunday ride. We thought about extending [...]

So last week I was getting ready for bed on Tuesday and I hear this random hissing noise coming from downstairs. I investigate and find the air slowly leaking out of my commuter bike’s back tire. I think nothing of it and go to bed because I have no desire to get my hands dirty [...]

As mentioned the Etrex mount took a beating on the last long ride. I tried fixing with epoxy, but it comically fell apart into even more pieces as I glued the pieces together. Next up I started engineering a replacement using some more plastic gift card scraps (I’m starting to sound like a fanatic), epoxy, [...]

Mostly Pictures as I don’t have too much original to write about the process. This is purely a case of ‘standing on the shoulders of giants’. Only thing I ‘invented’ on my own was building an armature to hang the hub from the basement ceiling so I could work standing up rather than trying to [...]

We had our first real snow of the year on Thursday. Someone at our office needed a gift certificate for Woodberry Kitchen (good food btw) but was too sketched out by the slippery roads to drive there. I hadn’t taken lunch yet so I said what the hey and volunteered to pick it up for [...]

Aside from running errands around town I didn’t feel motivated to ride at all this weekend. What I DID want to do was get a bunch of chores finished around the house to free up other days for more fun things and try to hash out a kernel of an idea I had for a [...]

When I started working on wheels, the first thing that I looked for was a decent truing stand. If I had it all to do over again, I would probably end up with the same equipment, but I would have brought it in a different order. For a truing stand to use in occasional repairs, [...]

Boring stuffs. I got out for my weekly ride to the store. This week I was watching some drips form under the kitchen sink. After I got back from the short loop grocery store ride I did some exploratory surgery by taking apart the p-trap and finding out what I needed to replace. Then I [...]

I got out kind of early for a ride on Saturday. The idea was to extend the feeble loop by a few miles on the north and south side to expand my store ride by about 10 miles. The weather was cooler than I wanted, but still nice. Everything went fine until I got north [...]

I cleaned up the 1×7 when I pulled it out of the closet for winter rotation, and I’ve been beating it into the ground for 4 months. Last week Nashbar had a small sale, so I put together an order of a few things, some tubes and the 1″ headset it needed. The headset install [...]