Scooper - Am looking forward to seeing this finished.

Was thinking that I want to build up a repro track frame this summer.

Spent today doing more refitting work and had a little time at the end of the day to start work on building up a new front fork for my P20 project... salvaged the fork and rear triangle from a Nishiki International touring bike to use as donors.

The main tube and down tube were nearly snapped in half but the fork and rear triangle were undamaged so will put them to good use.

With STP madness over I hoped that today would be a little quieter at the shop but alas it was still a mad house. It's sunny outside so now everyone's pulling out their bikes out of the garage they haven't ridden all winter to get tuned up. At least it's been good hearing all the people say how they want to get rid of their cars as they're shopping for new bikes.

I recently went up to a 48 chainring on the front from 46 and am not really enjoying it. So far I've just found it more difficult climbing the Seattle hills and haven't felt any benefit spinning going down them. I really wish I wasn't an idiot and wrecked my old chainring causing it to be replaced.

FedEx delivered my Wabi Classic early this morning, before I left for work. So I brought it into the house. Where it will sit all alone until I get home from work. Hours from now.


poop.

It's going to be a long day for you.

^^hehe that sucks man!

Today, I woke up too late to ride in, so I had to drive. Kinda glad I did because it is hella humid and hot out!

I nearly got a ticket for riding my bike on library walk this morning; it appears UC police are cracking down when summer session people are sparse. I saw them and one of them made eye contact with me and I was like "nope, not today", and slyly went down a side road and then cut across to the road I was going to originally.

Today I got my new favorite cycling cap in the mail:



I just love getting new fashionable accessories! My Thomson seatpost collar came also

Hey, boss, I'm not feeling too well -- mind if I knock off a few hours early?

Aha you better clad yourself in your showeet hipster or lycra duds then, to be less recognizable.

Riding today, and something flew into my thigh. Might have been a spider or something, it still hurts and has a little raised ring around it.

^^^Well that's no fun.

Today I did some math for the new bike build and it looks like I need more $.

ordered my very first Fixed Gear.

After doing some research on this forum i decided to get the Windsor The Hour

Got 12 hours of sleep last night, woke up at 830 and sat around until I went to ValueWorld at 4ish and finally bought some lube for my chain beforehand.
Got back and went out to Lil' Bros, a slider joint, and then ended up on a long 10 mile ride with my friend.
Hung around his house for 20 and got an invite for a night ride with another friend, ended up turning into a fun four person ride. The ride went a lot faster and ended up going 12 miles.

Overall, an eventful day, not looking forward to work tomorrow.

Rule #1 of building a bike: Make a budget.

Rule #2 of building a bike: Multiply the budget times 2.

HA, I knew I did something wrong.

Truer words have never been spoken.

If you have to ask you can't afford it, another rule.

Today I plan on going on another short ride in the evening with the girlfriend. My collar bone isn't completely healed yet, but the doctor told me I can ride around a little, just nothing crazy. It feels SO good to be able to ride again, longest 2 months of my life.

That's exactly what could've pahapened.

Will do

A schoolmate of mine recently crashed his bike, split his head open, and some how beat the chance of not dying. When I asked his friend if he was wearing a helmet, they said no.

I was just like "yep, that's what happen when you're stupid."

Today I realized that my Kilo TT won't be coming with a freewheel (I'm not comfortable riding fixed quite yet), and needed to do research on gearing and what freewheel I'll need to get. Sounds like I need to wait and see what chain size they send, and just get the standard freewheel in that size.

today i got my new shoes in the mail, and got a call from the lbs that my pedals are in. so, i ran down to the shop, picked up my shoes, and let them mount the cleats. i am fully prepared to fall over tonite on my first clipless ride. interesting side note... it's been around 105 degrees and brutally sunny for the last week. i step into the shop, but i forgot my shoes. go back to the car and it is pouring down rain! finish up and the rain is gone.

Well, not today, but yesterday I decided to finally switch back to clipless on the fixed gear. I've had the spare MTB pedals for a long time, I originally took them off to put on the road bike until I got road cleats for the original 105 pedals that came with the bike. After I got road cleats, I put the 105s back on and never put the MTB pedals back on the FG because I didn't have shoes for them, but I bought some casual MTB shoes from nashbar for $20. They have been sitting in the box for like 4 months until yesterday, and man I'm an idiot for not switching back sooner, I forgot how much fun a clipless setup on a FG is. I just feel like it makes the experience of riding a FG 100x better.

Don't waste your time, riding fixed isn't nearly as scary as people make it out to be, just jump right in. I promise it's not very difficult, except for getting into the clips, that's a pain in the ass, but only for the first week or so and then it's second nature.