Apartment living really sucks. So happy to live in my own house even though I have to deal with maintenance and property taxes.

today I pre-packed my bike for this weekend. carrying way too much stuff for 3 days in the woods but whatever. should end up with close to 200 miles. http://s4.postimg.org/3w1e38rjx/image.jpg

yes! dont break anything and post a lot of pics!

Loving all this talk about apartments as I'm about to sign a new lease. Actually am pretty pumped because I found a place all to myself, in a nice building, in a great neighborhood, with a parking spot included, and pretty "reasonable" rent -- by LA standards anyway. The rent in this city is...

i know that feel.

Kickass! I should try to get out this weekend. I'll probably be a little less ambitious, though - a metric double in two days sounds about right.

Want this life.

so i finish the rear wheel for the bridgestone project, go to pop it on the bike to see how it looks and the bike has a rear spacing of 126mm.


seriously? eat ****.

Did you build it as 130mm? I ran a 130mm rear wheel in an old 126mm frame for years with no issues, just by pulling the triangle apart a bit and jamming it in there to install it.

hub is 135, i was anticipating doing that since i thought it was 130.

i owned a road bike from the same year with 130mm spacing so why would a mountain bike have skinnier spacing? stupid.

gonna go find me a 2x4 tomorrow and do some science, then the hub fits and i dont have the spread the stays if i have to change the wheel

I went to replace the freewheel and axle on a bike I picked up. 6 speed 80's bike so I assumed it's 126mm. Went to put in the wheel and it didn't fit :headdesk:

Nice, that should work well but could be an adventure... sounds like a good next blog entry. Interested to see how it works out.

haha just getting a 6 foot long wood beam on a bike should be interesting enough in itself

I find using a piece of all-thread with a few nuts and washers to be a more controlled method of cold setting the rear spacing of a frame.

This. Don't overthink it.

I just spread 'em til the wheel drops in, too.

After a few years with a 130 wheel in there the frame will end up spaced at 130

I dunno how I'd feel about 135 in a 126 tho

Think I'm gonna start wearing my helmet now, days are dark and since I'm doing bike work, it's probably for the best cause my annual crash should be coming up.

LOL! im ****ing peeing

That is hilarious

Going big (for me) this weekend, and looking forward to being fatigued through Tuesday of next week

OMG that neighbor video is ****ing hilarious!
[MENTION=394949]TenSpeedV2[/MENTION] you have to check it out!

Big volume or a big race?

Our next door neighbors do the basketball thing, swear to god, luckily only a single ball, though.

big volume, no racing till Feb or so.

5.5-6hrs Sat,
3hrs on Sun, highest tempo I can manage, dumping out the rest of my reserves.