It may be my friday today. Wife brought up the possibility of an LA trip. I say why not?
Edit: I also used regular milk this morning in my coffee and it kind of ruined it. Milk is gross.
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It may be my friday today. Wife brought up the possibility of an LA trip. I say why not?
Edit: I also used regular milk this morning in my coffee and it kind of ruined it. Milk is gross.
Morning! No LA trips for this wicked man this week, just work and perhaps some riding. Last night was great for sleeping - cool with occasional rain. Hoping for a quiet day as there's a national holiday in India today.
Spent yesterday exploring the east side of the Carrabassett Valley trails. Nice to ride terrain that is vastly different from my backyard. I also love back country loops that once you start it, you gotta finish it. Need to go back soon.
Ah yes back on the short bus for another fun filled work week... At least the heat wave broke, it's only supposed to get into the high seventies today. I predict multiple after work night rides this week. I need me some coffee.
Ate lots of grilled food and drank several brews over the weekend. I need to ride bikes a lot more often otherwise I might be a bit heavier by the end of summer.
'Morning. I had a rare lousy night of sleep and now I am sleepy at my desk. This is going to be a long day. But I still dragged my lazy ass to the pool before work for a 3000 yard swim.
Not sure what today will bring, but at least I am down one child, as the youngest is off to summer camp for a week. then the wife and both children leave for a week in Annapolis. If the weather gods are good, then I will spend 3-4 days at the lake without my family, riding, fishing, boating, eating, swimming and drinking. All in heavy doses.
Here in Fort Collins. Yesterday's high was like 72 or something, so perfect. Stayed at a funky place called the Armstrong, really cool hotel. Off to Denver and Vail!
Off last week and digging out from a pile of shit I ignored--gonna suck. Did some trail work yesterday with @jackalope--landers always need moar bigness. Hoping to finish this thing sooner than later but damn it's been hot. Gonna hopefully sneak out for a spin this afternoon.
Photo evidence of digging.
Photo evidence of digging.
Lift day yesterday. It was sweet. Got to see one of my long time buddies from NorCal, so it was good to ride together. Also managed to try out the gimbal. I have to say, pretty sweet right out of the box. Basically opened it up, charged the batteries and turned it on. There's one spot in this vid where it doesn't seem to track, but everything else is pretty smooth. This was on the chesty mount, Hero 3+, 48pfs 1080, on the medium FOV setting.
Here. New CX is in the shop already. The BB shell needs to be shaved down a few mm to get the crank to fully engage at the drop pin (Shimano) and the bushing for the brake cable barrel on my lever is cracked causing the brake to not fully release. Those are out of my tool and spare parts set, so off to the shop. It is nice for the labor discount, as they don't need to waste time diagnosing things, just fixing the issues.
I messed up Haley's paint again, this time it's not smooth. I'm at the FTS level and I'm putting it back together like that. Her new kid levers should be in on Tuesday, so I'm hoping to get it back together that evening and out for a ride on Wednesday. This ride is going to involve a basketball court until she gets used to the brakes.
Anybody have info on short cranks? I was thinking about getting an American > English bb conversion so that I can run a shorter pair of 3-piece cranks that we can increase over time. The difficulty centering the ring on the 1-piece crank also seriously screws with chain tension.
I messed up Haley's paint again, this time it's not smooth. I'm at the FTS level and I'm putting it back together like that. Her new kid levers should be in on Tuesday, so I'm hoping to get it back together that evening and out for a ride on Wednesday. This ride is going to involve a basketball court until she gets used to the brakes.
Anybody have info on short cranks? I was thinking about getting an American > English bb conversion so that I can run a shorter pair of 3-piece cranks that we can increase over time. The difficulty centering the ring on the 1-piece crank also seriously screws with chain tension.
probably more than you wanna spend but profile mini magnutanium go down to 145mm arms.
Yeah, that's too high.
Mornin!
Safe on the ground here in Ho Chi Minh City. That was a long ass flight, especially with a baby going nuclear for 2.5 hours. Ugh. It's like 10:30 pm here, so off to bed I go!
Safe on the ground here in Ho Chi Minh City. That was a long ass flight, especially with a baby going nuclear for 2.5 hours. Ugh. It's like 10:30 pm here, so off to bed I go!
there normal race cranks go down to i think 160
Remember kids, another GMT is another day closer to death.
Make this one count.
Make this one count.
I'm second guessing the ratio of spinach to egg and cheese in my omelette this morning.
Morning Monkeys.
Got the boys whip fixed and it appears to be holding, thank the FSM. Went to a weekend camping/music "festival" that was interesting. Stayed the night Friday, decided not to deal with the heat wave so we packed up Saturday and took the pooch to the beach instead.
Abbey wasn't too keen on the waves, she has limited exposure to water so far, so she wasn't too sure on the tide and wave situation. She did amazing, I got a 15' lead and kept her on it most of the time. Towards the end we played frisbee and she did awesome. She isn't too keen on the sand on the frisbee, or the ball. But again, this dog is incredible. Sunday she finally decided to jump into the kid pool and had a blast. She saw other dogs playing in the waves, so she gets the concept now.
It was 110 yesterday, that just sucks. I did not make it out to Gateway Green due to the heat. I hope to go on Sunday, but it is Blues Fest next weekend and only the wife knows who she wasn't to see.
Yay Monday.
Got the boys whip fixed and it appears to be holding, thank the FSM. Went to a weekend camping/music "festival" that was interesting. Stayed the night Friday, decided not to deal with the heat wave so we packed up Saturday and took the pooch to the beach instead.
Abbey wasn't too keen on the waves, she has limited exposure to water so far, so she wasn't too sure on the tide and wave situation. She did amazing, I got a 15' lead and kept her on it most of the time. Towards the end we played frisbee and she did awesome. She isn't too keen on the sand on the frisbee, or the ball. But again, this dog is incredible. Sunday she finally decided to jump into the kid pool and had a blast. She saw other dogs playing in the waves, so she gets the concept now.
It was 110 yesterday, that just sucks. I did not make it out to Gateway Green due to the heat. I hope to go on Sunday, but it is Blues Fest next weekend and only the wife knows who she wasn't to see.
Yay Monday.
I've found the Promax SQ-1 and Origin8 Alloy Crank Arm Set down to 135mm, I just need to figure out her length needed and then the BB size wanted. I think I have some 5-bolt rings floating around still.
These were the ones I was going to run on Lil Man's bike. Square taper 145mm for $45.
https://www.niagaracycle.com/categories/origin8-alloy-triple-bicycle-crank-arm-set-145mm
Slightly nicer 140mm for $50 (also come in black)
https://www.niagaracycle.com/categories/origin8-bmx-crankarm-set-140mm-110-bcd-forged-silver
Redline Microline 130mm for $70
https://www.niagaracycle.com/categories/redline-microline-crank-arm-set-130mm-square-black
Thanks. That's two I didn't find already. I need to sort out the cost of a ring too. It might actually be cheaper to get something like this: https://www.sram.com/sram/mountain/products/nx-1x-x-sync-crankset#sm.001nf5ts6ssefog101x1xpt8kped0 for $100, as it comes with a ring and bolts. Her bike is starting to get too nice though...
If I keep building this as a more mtn bike over time, this comes into play in a few years: http://www.mrpbike.com/rustler/
A 110 BCD makes for easy ring selection and you could get a set for cheap I'm sure.
Cost overruns on Lil Man's bike were a bit crazy. I am considering getting the 3 piece cranks again because the one piece seem to be a bit long and pedaling while seats makes his knees come WAY up. But $50+ for the arms, then either the $25 bottom bracket, or a american to euro conversion and euro bb for $40+, looking like $100 crankset. Ugh.
Cost overruns on Lil Man's bike were a bit crazy. I am considering getting the 3 piece cranks again because the one piece seem to be a bit long and pedaling while seats makes his knees come WAY up. But $50+ for the arms, then either the $25 bottom bracket, or a american to euro conversion and euro bb for $40+, looking like $100 crankset. Ugh.
Ate at a GREAT breakfast joint called Snooze's. I guess there a few of them around. Exceptional.
Exactly. I also just spen $10 to have the Amerocan BB put back in, so that just eats into the cost too.
Bman and I joked about putting Beartraps or KKT lightnings on Lil Man's ride.
He and I both have shin scars from pedals. KKT Lightnings were on a couple of my bikes back in the day. I also ran Redline Flights on a few bikes. Bman is partial to the Profiles.
Riding all weekend was much more fun than this work BS.
there are days when i just cannot handle things and want to disappear. today is one of those days.
Not sure about arms you can increase over time, but these are pretty affordable, 130 mm to 170 mm options:
http://www.jrbicycles.com/insight-square-alloy-crank-arm-set
EDIT: Even cheaper and down to 115 mm:
http://www.jrbicycles.com/sinz-aluminum-square-crank-32116
'Murica to 'Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey' Adapter for 20:
http://www.jrbicycles.com/black-ops-american-to-euro-bottom-bracket-adaptor
http://www.jrbicycles.com/black-ops-american-to-euro-bottom-bracket-adaptor
You guys are going full-Kenevil over the Snake River canyon there....approve!
Instead of shreddin the Pizgnar with @jstuhlman today, I had to be present & accounted for at the gulag. But I did manage a quick lunch spin and got to experience the fun of slipping a pedal upon landing a jump.Bman and I joked about putting Beartraps or KKT lightnings on Lil Man's ride.
He and I both have shin scars from pedals. KKT Lightnings were on a couple of my bikes back in the day. I also ran Redline Flights on a few bikes. Bman is partial to the Profiles.
#stingy
Nevertheless, I remain buoyed by the fact that I decided to wet a hook (in freshwater) this past Saturday for the first time in over a decade and caught the world's smallest large-mouth bass...
I also got to think about a relatively untapped dentite market: $15K crab0n kayaks. I would even create an enduro kayak model and paint it aqua blue. Time to get my kickstarter campaign going.
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Good Mornin....errr, afternoon. Where has this day gone?
So, they made me head of custom signage accounts here - we do a ton of corporate signs like Arby's, John Deere, Dairy Queen, Family Dollar, etc, but we lack the people that have the experience to pull off custom work so distribute that out amongst the other Project Managers.....so by default, it goes to me because I've done a lot of it over the last few years. Kind of like the Designated Survivor....the 323rd pick in the draft....
So, they made me head of custom signage accounts here - we do a ton of corporate signs like Arby's, John Deere, Dairy Queen, Family Dollar, etc, but we lack the people that have the experience to pull off custom work so distribute that out amongst the other Project Managers.....so by default, it goes to me because I've done a lot of it over the last few years. Kind of like the Designated Survivor....the 323rd pick in the draft....