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Saturday, March 04, 2006

The LED Lining

Well, thursday was a day. I woke up kind of pumped, thinking that in 12 hours I would be at Super-A's, making fajita's... mmmmm, fajitas. The day before I had put in the serious hours at work, and hadn't gotten home until well after 11, so I was worried I wouldn't have any juice for the ride in. Suprisingly I had lots of energy and I was really focused, which was a really good thing, because about half-way to school part of the flange on my front hub broke off. I walked in to work, laughing at the hilariousness of the whole situation because I had just the day before decided to buy a new wheelset, rear cassette, bar-end shifters and rear deraileur and make the change to 8 speed. After group lunch at Lulu's Dim Sum (I highly reccommend the cashew chicken), I walked the Trek over to Big Shark. I now have a new Mavic MA-3 laced 3-cross to a 105 hub. The only silver lining is the fact that the three-cross spoke pattern has allowed me to mount my Good-bye Batteries light! I'll prepare a field report after a couple of night-time rides, but I expect it to be wicked good, just like the fajita's.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

mate - you're having serious spell of bad bike juju. broken flange?? now thats not something you see everyday, not even my 3 short wrenching years did i see a broken flange.

i'm still curious to hear what the new roadie is going to come out as. let me know when shes born.

i'm slowly building up the 'new' commuter. fresh off the line Rocklobster (local builder, check out www.rocklobstercycles.com).a 26" steel beauty with an older tube set he inherited from Bontrager before he split the Cruz and went to Trek. consequently it was a 'steal'. candy apple see-through red so all the welds and depth and beauty of the raw material shows through. it will be a mix of old and new, road and mtn. a one-off head scratcher prob, but wtf. ultegra drive, first gen XTR canti-brakes and hubs, dura-ace 9 spd bar end shifters mounted on pual 'thumbies' to a carbon riser with suntour XC pro brake levers. no rhyme, much reason.

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