Bah Humbug

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Bah Humbug

Upgrades gone, but still on time at least.

abshipp 

Kudos and congratulations!

big john

The rear shock on my mtb has lost enough of it's oil that it has lost damping. I looked at a rebuild video yesterday and there are special tools and I might just send it to Fox along with a couple hundred bucks. Or I could buy a new shock for $329.

May as well refresh the drivetrain and pick up a couple tires for it. And rotors, the rear is thin again and the front is original. The road bikes need a little cash infusion, as well. And the tires on the car are almost 9 years old.

I should start buying lottery tickets.

Mojo31

Watching the start, it surprised me that Andoo hit the mark. While the other boat on port probably should have given way a bit, it looked like Andoo had plenty of space to fall off and then come back up. A loss of a couple of lengths and flying the flag would have been a lot better than doing circles. And, yet, it still won.

Once it hit the mark, though, it was likely a good decision to spin.

Looked like it was a fun ride!

Mojo31

Now it's time to get a life.

Eric F 

Wishing y'all a smooth journey for the new guy. Make sure you get the extended warranty.

genejockey 

How I Spent My Winter Vacation...



Only took a couple hours. I'll try to get a pic of the finished product soon. 1 1/2 feet of baseball stitch per side. At that, I only had to go back a stitch or two twice, once when I ran through the same hole twice and once when I skipped a hole.

Mojo31

Fixed.

Eric F 

I've been chasing a creaking noise in the rear wheel of my road bike for a long time. It's definitely something in the rear hub area (Powertap hub, Enve 3.4 wheel). It's not the cassette. It's not the freehub pawls. It's not the spokes. I found some discussion about the Powertap hub and people commented about issues with the outboard freehub bearing going bad. I have purchased a pair of freehub bearings and bearing press tool, and will be attempting to do the replacement tomorrow (there's a good YouTube video for a guide). I would replace the hub bearings, too, but I found some comments that removal of those bearings by a home mechanic can damage the torque tube that is the critical piece for power measurement, and is best left for factory service. If the freehub bearing replacement doesn't fix the issue, I may look at making the move to a new wheelset I like the Powertap hub, but I am also coming to an understanding of why it has disappeared from the market.

MoAlpha

Yeah, looked like an unforced error. Hitting the mark with a few thousand people watching is a good reason to do your turns.

Mojo31

Crazy number of boats in the Harbor. Makes for some interesting tactics in the pre-start stages as well as the way out.

datlas 

That looks fantastic! Very classy/classic.

I would be interested in how it feels on the road.

MoAlpha

From a very experienced friend on another forum. Someone also asked about the buttons on the helm console

DougRNS

Happy 87th birthday to this Hall of famer.

Mojo31

I have never been on a maxi. The largest mono I've sailed was 40'. The largest cat was 52'. Largest racing boat has been 36'. Would love a ride on one of the big racers.

bampilot06

datlas is 87 years old?

datlas 

get off my lawn!

genejockey 

Thanks! It wasn't hard at all, just really tedious! When you start out, you've got something like 15 feet of thread between the needles, so you start out pulling over 7 feet of thread through each hole, every stitch. You have to settle into an almost mechanical rhythm - both needles on top, put the trailing needle through the first empty bottom hole, pull both threads tight, feed same needle through next empty top hole. Now repeat, hundreds of times! You have to keep them correctly oriented, too, or you end up grabbing the wrong needle, or looping over when you want to loop under.

It's one of those things I wanted to do, and now that it's done, I thin that'll be enough for the entire rest of my life!

As for how it feels - it's a lot firmer, and smaller diameter than the Cinelli cork tape it replaced! But maybe more padded than the cloth tape that was prevalent then. I should have taken it out the other day, when it was clear, but the leather was still wet. Now I have to wait till it's dry out again, and I have no idea when that will be!

DougRNS

No but he's a hall of fame Doctor. Unfortunately, he's in the filter's hall of shame.

MoAlpha

Me neither; me too. The fastest thing I've ever raced on was a J/120 and that was just about right for my level of skill and sphincter control. I was once invited to do a practice on this:




when it still had the unfortunate name, "Sjambok." For various reasons, I never took the owner up on the offer, but it would have been fun.

Mojo31

That would have been fun.

The craziest boat I ever sailed on was an E-Scow when I lived in IL. Small boards and rudders, draft (w/o appendiges) of a couple inches, and a very large amount of sail cloth.

Unfortunately, I've never lived anyplace where bigger boats or fast keelboats (other than sport boats) were sailed.

genejockey 

Okay, not the best pics, but they show the finished job. I'll have to wait for a nice day to show the whole bike, since I don't have a nice background indoors for it.

MoAlpha

Yeah, scows are legendary! Never seen one of any type that I know of.

bampilot06

Stopped by trek to pick up a sweater I ordered. They have an olive green sweater and a blue sweater. Wife got me the olive green sweater for my birthday and I absolutely loved it so I ordered the blue one.

While there I asked them about routing the cables for my new bars. Sounds like a Fin nightmare for the cervelo. So as soon as I get the mini van back i’ll run both bikes over.

I picked up new tape today, blender system, lube and 4 tubes. Proline bontrager black on blue for the ritchey and just gel cork for the cervelo. Kept it orange.