today I biked over to a friend's house who just had her bike built by the 'fixed gear' store here in Houston. They were apparently assembling it and truing the wheels for $40, sounded like a great price. Went over to make sure everything was in order. Loose brake calipers, wobbly wheels and a saddle trying to touch the sky.

had a bike shop guy refer to a stem as a 'neck'. he was a new guy and was trying to show me an origin8 bike when I came in to see if they had any half links for sale... - he took my wheel off to see if he could take it down an entire link, decided he couldn't then put it back on. Started riding home and noticed wheel rubbing the frame, f*cker didn't center it. Had to take it off on the side of the rode and adjust it myself.

noticed the bottom part of my ZS headset can spin around and have no idea if that's normal or not. first time i've had a ZS headset and I'm kinda ******** when it comes to them anyway. either way it made me worry. then a put a 70m thomson stem on the 725 and rode to a place where the houston banksy wanna be did some work that hasn't been removed yet, took a pic.

rode home, stopped by CVS. chugged two arizona iced teas