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Bike Build Process Log: Ye Blacke Death – Rings and Things

wrongrobot — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:36:09 +0000

In this brief installment of the Ye Blacke Death build logs, I messed with rings, and installed other things.

My challenge, as I showed Lung over the weekend, was that the bottom bracket spindle that I have on this build is too short. I COULD just get a longer spindle, but what fun is THAT. So I frankenbuilt the drivetrain. I spent a lot of time, too much time, playing with chainrings. I started by pulling the middle and small rings off of the crankset that came ont he old Vista that became wrongBike(tm) but this led to the discovery that the chainring bolts were too long, even with a huge amount of spacers. And, additionally, one was stripped and took some effort to get it out. Then I went after the Campy cranks I had in the shop, pulled the two rings off of those to get at the shorter bolts, to use on the Vista cranks… but once I did so, and installed the assembly on the frame, I discovered the short spindle. So, off came the ring for the third time, and the Campy crank was reassembled, with a single 53 chainring. This went on fine, but the corresponding non-drive crank arm hit the frame. Through experimentation, I found that the Vista’s crank arm didn’t, so now i have a Campy right side and a Vista (Suntour) left side. Done!

i sure know my way around quickly pulling chainrings, between the Miche cranks and now these.

This is the Bobike seat that’s going on the front of Ye Blacke Death, right above the back of the front rack. It’s a trick little system. I MAY get a windshield for it, but we’ll see how that pans out. I set out this past weekend, on a Daddy/Wee Z day, to get some installation done on the project, and my intention was to get fenders, rack and seat up on there. Each gave me problems but I saw what needed to be done to solve them. The seat clamps to the stem, necessitating that tall Nitoo Techntronic stem, but I need to get the rack on first. The rack wants to go on after fenders, of course, so that made fenders the next in line.

I was installing in the carport, as an experiment while the cat was away. I put wee Z in the pack and Tole, and she was good for about an hour, so that was actually pretty AWESOME. It’s not the first time I’ve wrenched with her hanging out: I’ve done a number of projects upstairs on the back desk with her in the sandbox. That requires bringing the stand, the bike parts and all the tools upstairs, which is kind of a pain, so I wanted to try the carport this time.

You can see I got the fenders out, there. These are from Woody’s Fenders. Amazing build quality, hand-crafted goodness. I subsequently got them on the bike. Not complete, though. The rear needs to have an L-bracket drilled into the wood, and the front has a bigger issue: seating a front brake securely on the fork, on which the fender also hangs. I need a longer bolt. So there’s that. But progress all the same. You can kind of see, from this shot, some of how it’s coming together. Lung saw it a little farther along and up close.

Getting closer!

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Bike Build Process Log: Villain 3.0 – Completeds

wrongrobot — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:40:34 +0000

Villain 3.0 is done!

I have a few adjustments to make, stem and a frayed cable and a few other things, but it’s ridable and ready to go.

To recap,
I started with a Look KG381 Jalabert Edition built-up with Dura Ace, and a Look KG381 Team bike from the 03 tour, converted to fixed gear. I pulled everything off the converted frame (Villain), pulled everything off the Jalabert Edition (JaJa) and set out to build up my road bike from the black frame.

The black frame was undergoing some issues under the strain of fixed-gear conversion… make that big-gear fixed conversion. i was running an 82 inchgear. It was an experiment. But it led to weaknesses in the design of the Miche Bottom Bracket becoming apparent ( no flange, slides in, cranks scrape the frame) and lots of undue torque on the dropouts, which have a 5mm rotational adjustment in them (which largely allowed for my magic gear in the first place.) Certainly the modern crabon frame can handle the torque of a big inchgear… this wasn’t even the biggest combination you’d get out of a standard 53/39 + 12/23, but while the front end of the drivetrain could handle it, the back end could not. Road dropouts just don’t suffer those forces like that normally. So, anyway, the condition of the frame was some nicks and dings in the finish here and there from the previous owner, some crank scrapery from me, and otherwise good to go.

Final build details:

Frame: Look KG381 Team (2003 Season)
Bottom Bracket: Shimano Dura Ace
Crankset: Shimano Dura Ace (53/39)
Pedals: Shimano A520
Wheels: Easton Vista SL, debadged
Tyres: Conti Gatorskin Hardshells 23c
Cassette: SRAM Force (11/27)
Front/Rear Derailleurs: SRAM Force
Brakes: Shimano Dura Ace
Stem: Thomson X2
Bars: Ritchey Carbon Streem
Brifters: SRAM Force
Tape: Shimano vinyl perf
Seatpost: Thomson Elite
Saddle: Brooks Swallow

ping!

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Bike Build Process Log: Villain 3.0 – SRAMery

wrongrobot — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:04:56 +0000

So last night I got home from work an hour early and hurtled myself into the bikeBasement(tm), head first, through three partitions and a large timber column. I was THAT motivated.

Drivetrain upgrade time!

So, I started by pulling all the Dura Ace parts off that I was replacing. It’s kind of cool to see both the changes in design philosophy over time, and the differences in problem-solving, especially in the rear derailleur design (I’ll do my best to avoid what happened to Andy Schleck, of course*).

As I was pulling the 9-speed cassette off of my wheel, I discovered I was missing a familiar-looking tool: The Park FR-5 rear cassette tool, which looks similar to a bottom bracket tool I have (well two) but wasn’t quite the same. This is where having a bike shop in Tam Junction comes in handy. I was able to get that tool and back to the basement in about 15 minutes.

Next up, moving cassettes. As you’ve seen from Lung’s videos on the subject (or will, once they are broadcast) modern cassettes come in a combination of single and group pieces. The larger three or four cogs, depending on the manufacturer, are carved out of a single piece of metal, in my case titanium, and then the remainder are single cogs with spacers. They have a specific groove design in the center and fit the hub body a specific way. There’s compatibility issues all over the place, but not for me: while the Dura Ace groupo I pulled would normally suggest incompatibility of my hub with this new cassette, in my case I got lucky, because the wheel I was using was not my ORIGINAL wheel, but a newer one retrofitted to use the 9-speed cassette. I had owned a Cervelo Soloist with a modern 10-speed Ultegra groupo on it (2006) and swapped it for this 9-speed Dura Ace from 97… I had used a spacer and adapter to make the hub work. So now, I was golden for using this new SRAM cassette. Nice! That doesn’t often happen to me…

The cassette comes on a plastic speedloader, much like the ballistic version of same concept. In my case, because of the gears I selected, I had to modify the speedloader configuration, but once I was ready, line up the grooves, slip slip and boom, ALL on. It’s interesting to see the newer cogs and their guide teeth with angled faces. Anyway, quick snap, we were good to go and get back on the bike.

Adjusted the rear derailleur, ran the cable (now the cable housing swings wide up and over the stays) and same with front, swapped out for my new 10-speed chain (swapped out my new 9-speed chain, mind you, grrrr) and set everything, and boom!

Next up, final adjustments. I spent another hour this morning trying to adjust the index shifting with little success. I’m going for expert help…

*If you haven’t seen the footage, Schleck’s chain popped off on his acceleration up the climb in the pivotal moment of yesterday’s stage. There’s lots of controversy about attacking vs. waiting and all this other stuff, but I was more interested in what happened mechanically, as I always am when pratfalls occur in the tour with these guys. They have the best mechanics out there and the best equipment, but the wrenching is happening fast, and sometimes things aren’t adjusted, sometimes parts fail, and sometimes riders err. I’m always curious what it was. In this case, we don’t really know but there’s a good chance Schleck jumped the chain on a heavy shift. The nature of SRAM derailleur design led to the chain drop. IF that’s what happened…

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Bike Build Process Log: Villain 3.0 – Hangery

wrongrobot — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:59:12 +0000

So in my last update, I had brought over most of the Dura Ace groupo from the Ja Ja to Villain. I was stalled by discovering that the Look 381 Team from which Villain was comprised did NOT have the braze-on hanger for the front derailleur that the Ja Ja frame had. This stalled my project out for a week. I did manage to bring over the entire cockpit, the brakes (strung), the bottom bracket, the crankset, and the rear derailleur.

I subsequently picked up a hanger from Valencia Cyclery. However, I brought it home and indeed it was too large. They are made in certain diameters, but the shape of the Look’s seat tube is not circular in section. I needed a shim to start with. So I picked one up on eBay and it arrived right before the 4th of July holiday weekend, affording me the opportunity to wrench a bit.

Holee SMOKEES! That’s tight clearance. I used one half of the shim, with some electtritole tape to soften the clamping on the crabon, I mean carbon.

I mean TIGHT.

I strung the derailleur, but not successfully. After a few attempts, and some research, I decided to wait and go through it with the boys at Tam bikes. I’m not entirely clear how to thread the cable properly in order to be in the right position to hold the hanger in tension. There’s a pulley back there, but I’m having difficulty making use of it, and what the hell. I need an EXPERT, and not in a Logjammin kind of way.

Side note: I really regret untaping the bars. As it happens, I may be reusing the same tape, depending on my final gut feeling on it. HA.

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Bike Build Process Log: Ye Blacke Death – BBs and Hubbees

wrongrobot — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:38:53 +0000

Two quick updates on the YBD project front.

Bottom Bracket.
I installed it. Shimano, basic, tight, smooth. Good to go!

Wheels.
Hereby completed by our man Joe at 718cyclery.com, and shipped!

We could be, and should be, go for ridery this weekend!

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You Dirty Crook

wrongrobot — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:16:40 +0000

As we talked about in our Aids Lifecycle ride reports, we came out fully prepared to deal with all sorts of mechanical calamity. We didn’t want to rely on the Cannondale bike tech support for our fixed-gears, in case they didn’t have the right tools for some of the components, so we packed full tool kits for overhauling the bikes. We brought tyres, tubes, chains, cogs, tape, brakes, electritole tape, everything. And nary an issue, other than a squeaky bottom bracket on Lung’s part. Of course, had I not replaced my cranks prior to the ride, it would have been a different story.

However, we did get quite dirty. These photos were taken after I returned from LA. That vinyl’s kind of gacho now! HA. Anyway, dirt is a badge of honor on a ride like this. I actually saw people cleaning their bikes at night. REALLY? I mean, I hardly clean my bikes at home. I lube and adjust the drivetrain, but dirt?

Anyway, here we are:

From my ALC Flickr set...

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Bike Build Process Log: Villain 3.0 – Strippery!

wrongrobot — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:21:30 +0000

OK, now that I’m back from Aids Lifecycle, it’s project time! What’s life without projects, I ask? Well, a projectless life, certainly, but anyway, onward…

I have four concurrent bike projects underway, and this is the first report from those efforts. It’s time to frankenbuild Villain 3.0!

You may recall I have two Look KG381 frames, my favorite vintage of my favorite road bike frame. One is the KG381 Team (one of the team spares from the 2003 season) and one KG381 Jalabert Edition, which was the special edition consumer model.

The Ja-Ja is currently built up as my road bike, with the Dura Ace groupo from that year, good to go. Note the saddle upturn was a joke, please.

The other frame was built into my first carbon road bike fixed gear conversion, Villain. Villain made it through two iterations, before being retired. I partially cannibalized it to form the drivetrain for Crook, my Cinelli MASH build, but also, it was struggling under the burden of the fixie conversion with a very high inchgear. So the thing needed an overhaul anyway, and the frame suffered some minor damage when the damn Miche flangeless bottom bracket worked it’s way inward, allowing the chainring to strike the wheelstay.

Between the two frames, the Ja-Ja is immaculate, and the Team frame is a little weathered: some sticker damage, some chips and that scrape I mentioned. But I LOVE the black bare carbon look.

So, Villain 3.0 is a fusion of these two rides. I’m attempting to pull everything off of the Ja-Ja road bike and put it on the Team bike, swapping out parts here and there, and building up a more subtle road bike as a result, then selling the Ja-Ja frame. it’ll be sad to see it go, as I love it so, but while I DO have many bikes in the stable, I bristle at an unused frame hanging there, and Villain in it’s fixie incarnation wasn’t necessary any longer.

So the first step is dissembly of Villain. Not too hard, given I gave his wheels to Raully Raul when I built up Fix-e for him, and I had already stripped the cranks off for Crook. But I pulled the bottom bracket, took the bars off, and cleaned the frame inside and out, noting no noticeable thread damage to the shell, which is good. Good bye, Villain headbadge! (don’t worry, replacement is already made)

I’m keeping some of the Villain gear. I love the Thomson X2 stem, and will be reusing that in lieu of the Ja-Ja FSA stem. I also prefer a few other small gifts from Villain that will make it over.

Not much more to see. I started taking Ja-Ja apart, but this is a slower process, because I’m going part by part, transferring the group over to the Villain frame. I’ve never built up a road bike, so I’m trying to be methodical about the transfer. That said, the best WhytheFace moment was then I pulled the Ja-Ja bars and unclipped the brake and so on and tried to lift it away and sprannnnnnng, it bounced out of my hand, because… you know… it’s cabled to the frame in three other places, hahahahaha. Shows I’ve been working on fixed gears for too long.

Anyway, fohhhhwahd! I have the service diagrams for the Dura Ace group (gah!) and all I have left to procure is a replacement derailleur cage from my recent calamity, and I think I’ll be good to go. Oh, I should mention, new tyres. I LOVE the red slicks but Villain isn’t a red tyre bike.

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ALC9 post-ride cleanup

ironlung — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:41:25 +0000

i’m not typically one to clean my bike fastidiously, but when it’s nasty and it’s been ridden hard without a tuneup for 813 miles, 570 of which were one single trip, well, it’s time.

my bike had a bunch of accessories (water bottle cages and a cyclometer) and an identification number and an in-case-of-emergency tag on it, and over the course of the last 813 miles, my bottom bracket had worked it’s way through all of the thread grease (constant pressure squeezes the grease out of the threads over time), and was creaking like a whore’s bed. DEFINITELY time.

you can see there that it was just caked with grime. that was road water and dust and gravel and powerade and all manner of nasty shit that’d caked up over the last couple months. you can also see in that picture that i’ve already cleaned the seat stays, so the contrast is a little more clear.

helpful hint : best bike cleaner in the world is WD-40 on an old sock.

here i’ve taken off the cranks and pulled out the bottom bracket and cleaned the whole rear triangle and some of the downtube. i wiped out all of the old grease and got all the nasty shit off the frame with the WD-40.

after cleaning off the cranks and BB, i reinstalled each with liberal amounts of grease. then i cleaned the rear wheel and lubed the chain, removed all the accessories, cleaned the seatpost and seat, and replaced my brake pads…

my brake pads had been on WR’s old road bike toro, which i bought from him long ago. i don’t know if he ever changed em. so it’s entirely likely that they were YEARS old.

here’s all the shit that went in the garbage or back into the parts bins.

what’s funny is that since the only thing i REALLY needed to do was the drivetrain, i cleaned nothing on the cockpit. the fork and front wheel and bars and stem and brake are all still pretty dirty. it’s clean-ISH. hahaha!!! but i got the imperative stuff done, and i can hit the front end later. i’ve got shit to do, dammit!

ta-daa! ready to ride!

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team lope ride report – ALC9, the IL account

ironlung — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 03:23:36 +0000

as noted all over the forum for the past 6 months, WR and i participated together in this year’s AIDS/lifeCycle, and we did so on track bikes. he was on a cinelli x MASH build, and i rolled the tumbler — my murdered-out leader 725TR build. the ride is listed at 545 miles, but i did the math and it’s actually closer to 570. out of +/- 2000 cyclists, there were only 7 of us who attempted the ride on fixed-gears. and out of those 7, there were only 4 of us who rode every single mile. no walking, no rides in sweep vehicles — EVERY. SINGLE. MILE.

in an attempt to limit the size of this ride report, i refer you back to my ALC7 ride report for logistical details, and to my FLICKR SET for lots of photos. the flickr set in particular will have LOTS of the little details, in the photo captions.

you can also get a first-time rider’s perspective from WR’s RIDE REPORT, and a whole other slew of photos from his FLICKR SET.

that stated, here are the days’ ride charts…

as our friends over at team hype say, this ride is NOT FOR BABIES. note that the shortest day was 61 miles and that there were TWO 100-mile days, just a day apart.

i will say that riding fixed for that distance and amount of time equates to one terrible reality — your ass takes a BEATING. because you can’t coast, you’re pedaling the entire way. and when you’re whipping down a 7% grade at 33mph, your legs are spinning at 155rpm and there’s serious friction. and bouncing. by day 3, i was wearing TWO padded cycling shorts, and on day 4, i had stuffed an arm warmer in there, too. it was brutal. my ass hadn’t been whupped like that since i was 10 years old and dad found out i stole that magazine from the corna stoe. i don’t know how much of that could have been remedied by riding a steel frame (my leader is aluminum, and thus doesn’t flex), but i have to imagine that it’d have eased the load a little bit.

in addition to the battering that my undercarriage took, i also seem to have done some nerve damage to my left hand. i can’t feel my left ring finger or pinkie finger. many people on the ride were complaining about numbness in their pinkies, but mine is two fingers and hasn’t yet gone away. there was another time in my life when i pinched a nerve in my left thumb and it was numb for almost 6 months. as such, i’m just gonna ride this out and see if the sensation comes back before i go searching out some kind of nerve operation.

but other than that, i’m pleased to say that my hips, legs, knees, and ankles are all perfectly fine. i had a moment of the fears on day one when i started getting groin cramps at mile 45, though. 45 miles into an almost 600-mile ride is not a good sign. but i was able to shift my riding style to use all the other muscles around it, and i just started stretching more. as such, i was able to ride through the cramps. the next morning, i got a slight cramp in my right hip flexor before leaving for the day, and i started to get scared enough to get pissed off, but i rode through it, and that was the last of my cramps for the week.

MOST CHALLENGING ASPECTS…
+ "quadbuster." this is a 2-mile climb on day 3 that increases in grade from 8% to 12%. i’m proud to say that i climbed it without stopping. it was slow going, it wreaked havoc on my IT bands, and when i hit the top i was literally pouring rivulets of sweat off my face — so much so that it was pouring onto my tyre, which was in turn leaving a wet track on the concrete. insane. oh, did i mention that this climb occurs after 10 miles of steady 2% uphill grade? yeah. so you’re basically going up a hill that increases in difficulty by a factor of almost six-fold, FOR AN HOUR.
+ the descent after the halfway point, day 4. this is several miles of consistent 7% grade. on a road bike, it’s awesome — you can get yourself up near 50mph if you lay on the big ring. but on a fixed-gear, it’s a different story. you’re fighting your drivetrain for 30 minutes to keep yourself at a manageable speed.
+ the descent on day 6. BRUTAL. steeper than the halfway point descent, and worse yet — it’s alongside freeway traffic and there’s RUMBLE STRIPS. you hit a rumble strip on a bike at anything over 3mph and you’re taking some serious chances with your level of control AND with your bike’s structural integrity.
+ riding on the side of the 101. you’re riding a bicycle on a freeway. i shouldn’t have to explain much more than that.
+ duration. this is something that affects you no matter what kind of bike you’re on. for 7 days, you’re workin it for 5-9 hours a day. luckily, everything’s so beat up after the first three days that you don’t know what hurts and what doesn’t. cause it ALL hurts. hahaha!!!

DANGERS AND TERRORS…
+ on day 4, i almost suffered heat exhaustion. it was 90-something degrees, there was no shade, i’d been in the saddle for 6 hours, and my bike and all my clothes are black. so i was really soaking up the heat. i managed to candy-ass myself to the next rest stop, where i put some ice into my bandana and wrapped it around my neck. then i sat in the shade and had about 4 bottles full of ice water. after 45 minutes or so, i was back at it.
+ also on day 4, i was almost crashed by another cyclist. first of all, he passed me as a semi passed both of us. the shoulder was nice and wide, but semis in particular fling off lots of detritus when they pass and they have a vortex of wind around them. so anything you do, even riding in a straight line on perfect pavement, is affected by them passing. but that wasn’t the half of it. his pass forced me wide right — right into a HUGE patch of loose, deep gravel. if i were not an experienced cyclist and if i were not riding a fixed-gear (giving me infinitely more control over my bike), i would have certainly gone down. but even THAT i could have gotten over. it was his "watch out for the gravel!" that sent me through the fucking stratosphere. run me off the road and then tell me to watch it? i. will. fucking. KILL. you. this is what turned it into a really bad situation. i fucking went OFF on him when i caught him back at camp. i was up in his fucking grille asking him who the fuck he thought he was, playing with my life just because he had a tailwind. told him that in addition to running me into the gravel and then having the audacity to tell me to watch out for it, he did all this while we were both being passed by the semi. told him that if he ever fucking did some sloppy shit like that again, he better be goddamn sure i don’t catch him. as it turned out, he knew exactly what he did and was very apologetic and up-front about it, which went a LONG way towards cooling me down. so much so that i actually found him again later and apologized for yelling at him.

TECHNICAL ISSUES…
+ i had to tighten my crank bolts once.
+ my bottom bracket is creaking something awful. now, that’s more to do with maintenance than anything. that bb hasn’t been serviced in over 800 miles now, and before that, it already had several hundred other miles on it. so it’s due to be replaced ANYWAY. and the creaking is just coming from the grease all wearing away, so when i finally get around to my post-ride tune-up, it should be fine.

WONDERFUL MOMENTS…
+ riding along next to strawberry fields that go for a mile and then terminate at the ocean is something really special. it’s not just that it looks gorgeous (though it does), but it’s the SMELL. ocean and strawberries. it’s really amazing.
+ there was a cloud which had a rainbow ON it. the rainbow was nowhere else in the sky, just on the cloud. if you go to my flickr set (link above), you’ll see it. it’s called "gay cloud."
+ lycra-clad chicks with cycling legs. nuff said.
+ the community. this event is predominantly made up of gay men. lots of lesbians, sure, and a good bunch of us ole breeders, too, but for the most part, this is a gay male crew. and not ONCE did i feel awkward or out of place or ostracized or harrassed or ANYTHING. it’s so inclusive and so wonderfully free of cliques and confines that it gives you hope for a world in which it’s ALWAYS that way. at least that’s my hope.
+ 2 miles to go. all sorts of neighborhoodies are out along the roadside with tables full of cookies, lemonade, cupcakes … and then there was the margarita man. WR and i were rolling by at maybe 18mph and dude goes "margaritas?" i locked my rear wheel into a 30-foot powerSkid. "SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!" dude was fucking cracking up, said it was the best reaction he’d gotten all day. he filled one of my water bottles with top-shelf HEAVY-pour margarita.

in closing, i want to share something that was new to me on this ride. i mean, i felt it when i last did the ride, but i didn’t consider it’s importance or maybe i didn’t know how to verbalize it. but i’m clear on it this time. see, there are only four things that mammals (and actually most forms of life) need to survive — oxygen, food, rest, and exercise. and for 7 days on the AIDS/lifeCycle, that’s all we did. in addition to meeting the challenge of doing the ride on a track bike, in addition to helping to build the amazing community that is formed during the week, in addition to being a part of raising $10.5M for this imperative cause, that simple fact is responsible for most of the incredible sensation that i got from doing it. 7 days of base physical necessity goes a long way towards rebooting your body and mind, and when i was done, i felt amazing…

we’ve got big time braggin rights on this one, people. 570 miles on track bikes is straight BALLER, and i’m not afraid to say it.

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Final Spin Before Aids Lifecycle 2010

wrongrobot — Mon, 31 May 2010 18:50:11 +0000

Lung and I snuck in one final spin in before Lifecycle next weekend. We’re both taking the week off to be fresh for the week following (though I can ride to work a pretty mellow pace and distance, he’s going to go cold turkey and sit on the bacterial cage we call MUNI)… I got the SRAM Courier cranks and bottom bracket on last night, though I didn’t have time to swap out chains today before I left, thanks the machinations of wee Z. It was a cooler day then yesterday, at least so far, though it was plenty hot out in Corte Madera. We benefited from little wind and a lot of tree cover, between most of the Paradise/Strawberry Loop and the detour up Chapman.

Though we were going to take it easy (tekkit teasy, as my Swiss cousin-in-law would say) we ended up mashing quite a bit of the Tiburon stretch of Paradise. Fsst pace! Speaking of mashing we crossed the MASH gang themselves going the opposite direction, in those new histogram kits and on road bikes. Other item of interest: we saw a fox sitting in the road. When he got up and trotted off as we passed, I was surprised how SMALL foxes really are.

Other than the mildly alarming smell of grease, the ride went without a hitch, which for me is kind of a record lately. The only thing that was weird was that I was spinning on the new chainring faster than I anticipated… it felt like a 46, but it really was just a 48, only one tooth down from the 49 it replaced. Talk about psychosomatic.

Anyway! Next stop, Lifecycle!

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