...Hit 5 year anniversary with my company. I got to order a present, they were all lame choices and I just chose the swiss army knife. Cant have enough pocket knifes.

Yeah but hamfoh ain't got no juice.

<------got the juice.

Better than breaking a chain at mile 97... ;)

LOL that chain

lol

so close

I would have push-biked it home.

carry a chain tool in ur saddle bag. problem solved.

Nah man. I'm tellin you, shoulda just slammed the seat and kicked home.

^
well like everything else i know in this world, i learned this one the hard way. stranded

+1 on carrying tools. Several times I have had to SS people's geared bikes mid-ride or help with loose bolts and out of true wheels. Tools dont even get in the way.

Today, its 50 degrees out, and me and a bunch of other guys in the trumpet section are wearing daisy duke-esque jorts to marching band. Gonna be so rad.

yeah well look at Vanilla, Bishop, Sachs, etc. I'm guessing Dodici has quite a few more hands than these smaller shops :D

I was really eyeballing a Gara too

Today I bought a Windows 8 Pro upgrade. At $40 why not?

They make it sooo hard to buy anything online when you're outside the states. Couldn't get anywhere until I got behind a VPN and even then both paypal and Microsoft wanted to to a mobile phone confirmation call which wouldn't work with an 8 digit phone number. ... And they wonder why people overseas pirate so many products. I probably could've torrented the whole thing in the time it took me to checkout.

broken derailleur? chain tool?

not a problem.

Dude short shorts and shirtless all summer. Then again it was summer, and it was the midwest...

Yea man. Fall in Michigan is interesting, last week was down in the 30's/40's, and this week got as high as 80. Today was the coldest all week.

Today I got in 44 miles. Got to make the most of it, because this is coming...

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...17W5_NL_sm.gif

**** Sandy. Seriously.

+1, im very annoyed.

every time i get new stuff for my bike the weather is **** for a week
i guess the quality of goods denotes severity of the weather. awesome handbuilt wheels and tires = hurricane

I'm not amused either.

I'm still probably going to ride to work here in jn unless its a state of emergency and my work closes (crosses fingers)

i would not want a frame built with this attitude. would you love the bike knowing he was so ambivalent about it and your obvious passion about it?
with custom, you are paying and waiting for the skill of the builder to tailor a bike to you.
he dosnt sound like he's into doing that.

take him up on the refund and getvsomething you can enjoy and have a good experience with.
lifes too short. bikes should be fun not stressful.

I asked him to refund and for us to split and he said he ordered the tubes. I sent a follow up today saying that if the tubes weren't cut he should just use them on someone elses HSP. I'm sure it's a good frame, but I was very passionate about the build, and when he showed he didn't share that passion, it tuned me out