today I bought a piece of crap track frame off craigslist. no idea what the brand was but came with everything but a wheelset, chain and saddle for $85. It's a pretty purple so will either sell it to a girl~friend at cost or find a cheapass wheelset and finish it (have a saddle and chain in my box)

$500 vassago frame is a totally different beast from this $329 complete. It's just not in my budget

brownie points eff tee dub :P

I wish I could do this. But columbus just puts straight hipster tax on EVERY track frame and also terrible road conversion frames.

Yeah it was listed for 2 days before I even saw it, I guess people were lazy or something (plus when ppl use stock photos instead of real photos crap tends to linger). It's even the perfect hipster size (51cm). If anyone has a cheap wheelset they want to sell me, I'm all ears, just missed out on a pair of orange (eh, but not my bike) deep vs for $50

the hipster tax here is what made me confident I could get rid of it if nobody I knew wanted it.

Pictures of it?

today had a great day on the bike, 3 ferrys, two islands and one peninsula

Today... was hella busy.

San Juans I take it? Which islands did you get to? I heard there are some good rides to be had out there.

Today I sanded down the Raleigh and sprayed the frame and forks a dark burgundy color, I also ordered some new original white stickers for it, excited to get it back together tomorrow.

Today I am waiting at YEG for my flight to leave and came in early on the shuttle as I was not planning on sleeping anyways and the early shuttle would have cut things too close for comfort.

Will be having brunch in PDX tomorrow and enjoying the company of my girlfriend and fiancee for a week... after that I will get to enjoy the company of my wife.

They are all the same person... :)

Just ordered a Timmy's and might have to play a little Minecraft to entertain myself here.

That's nice to hear sixty! Both you getting wed and playing minecraft! By god I'm hooked to that game LOL

Leuky... Got the game for my daughters and really enjoy it myself... it should make the time pass a little faster.

Have been looking forward to this wedding for quite some time... I have an amazing partner.

That's nice to hear; best of wishes from here ;)

You should also try mods out and the mountains of user submitted work at planet minecraft in case you get bored.

Congratulations 65er!

Are we invited to the party?
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no, that'd been great too!

we started in seattle, ferry to bainbridge, road to port townsend (crossing the hood canal bridge via bike is a trip!) then ferried over to widbey, then road the down to the mukliteo ferry, then back down into seattle. such an awesome time. port townsend is amazing

+1

Today I took a spill while on the mtb .

DIY

5 min. epoxy is a great filler for the holes left by ATAC cleats. cleat adjustment, yay!

today I finished this project, minus the chain

Today I pulled the trigger. Somewhere in Arizona a neon orange Dawes Deadeye has my name on it. In other news, people on craigslist are swarming my old mtb like none other. A lot of places have a hipster tax on track frames. In the PNW we have a hippie tax on mountain bikes.

ftfy

Today I had one of those random days at work where you just want to throw all your work on the wall and stomp out all the while screaming obscenities, charlie sheen style. Anyhow, I ended up totally messing around the entire day while mass transferring back up files that I've acquired down here to my mac pro server back home which has been in sleep mode for the past 3 months; gotta love osx WoL from a 3 month dormancy and university fiberoptic internet.

But the following bicycle ride and dinner out with my wife brought me back down to earth. Best part was when my wife surprised me with bianchi celeste painted nails.

You are a lucky man