Southfarm on a rare overcast and gloomy day.
Pretty flower next to the road. What kind is it mom? Note ant for scale.
The S-Works takin' a breather on Skunk Hill. It needs a new crankset and it's starting to creak a lot. Hope it's not almost done in...
The only saddle that seems to work well with my arse. A WTB SST-X from 1998. Got it when I rebuilt my bike when I moved to Maine. That's a long time. No saddle I've tried since then has agreed well... Selle San Marco, Fi'z:k, Velo, Trico, Koobe, Selle Italia...
Zephyr making a hilarious face. She lay down on Kristen's shirt, so I decided to put it on her. She's doing her best to hide her annoyance... Can't you just tell she's rolling her eyes? :)
6 comments:
Willmo
You must have inherited your arse from me. The WTB saddle I have on my Y bike is the only one that I feel comfortable on for any length of time. Have been piddling with an assortment of other saddles and adjustments on my road bike in the hope of having to buy a high end saddle.
The photos are great, really looks pretty there in Starkpatch. Not much new here. Yer Ma is visiting her parents, I batchin and in charge of watering the plants. After yer ma's endless lecturing on over watering I am freaked out and exhausted by the stress of watering.
Hope all is well. Tell Kristen to chill for me and tell Zephr that I',m turning you all in to the humane society for demeaning zephr dogness
The old man
Yeah, I think I like it because the nose is wide, and I tend to scootch up on the nose when I ride, no matter how hard I try to slide back to the wide part...
My fears about the S-works were correct. Today I took off the cranks to replace them, and found a couple small cracks on the chainstays. I guess I'll ride it until it fails completely, then get something steel.
On another bike note, went on the group road ride last night. We were cruising along in a nice paceline most of the time. Once we turned for home, we slowed down a bit, and shortly thereafter, my front derailleur exploded and my chain broke (not sure in what order). Really weird. That and the rear wheel on the road bike keeps losing all tension in the spokes, so by the time I got home it was like riding a wet noodle...
Argh. Bad couple days for bikes...
I am in one of those cycles as well. Had the local shop go through the Y bike, now having shifting problems at random times. Must be a front.rear combination that I am not picking up on. Had the rear on the roadbike rebuild after your and the shops agreement that once yu start poppin spokes, you pretty much better rebuild. The bike shop put in mega sized spokes,solved the problem but now having weird flat issues. Lastest is a valve that malfunctions even though no outside evidence of damage, no tube/valve leaks or tube leaks, ah well gives me somthing to do. Man too bad about the S-works, almost like the passing of an era. Any luck at finding a welder in Starkpatch to take it on.
Told you some one made an offer on Peguin.- didn't counter offer at a high emough price. After hearing about the collision and subsequent hole in the J35, it reinforces by belef in metal -for boats atleast// Yer ma is back so the watering plants pressure is off my back. Now its only Pan Flu and STDs to worry about. Hang in ther-say hi to Kristen and your cross-dressing gay dog
The old man
Hey now, Zephyr is a girl, so it's not cross-dressing (cross-species maybe) for her to wear Kristen's shirt.
As for the ol' S-works, I've only had this one about 3 years, when Ford gave it to me. It's been good to me, even though it's never been in a race.
I doubt there's anyone around here that can weld something as delicate as thin aluminum. They'd probably blow holes through it. It's a pretty high stress area as it is, so it would probably only be temporary anyway... It's a '99 frame, so it's getting a bit old as it is... Still a bummer.
You calling 99 old, why I'll have you know that I have shoes, shirts and coats older than that. Bikes have all been cheap junkers since they abandoned BioPace and under the chain stay brakes. And all this clicked index shifting. The old down tube shifters made shifting an art form, not a brainless click. When will you young dudes ever learn. Save all your old biopace stuff, its coming back and biopace stuff will be good as gold
The Old Man
Actually, I'm more of a retrogrouch than you might think. I love friction shifters, especially for the front. For MTB racing though, indexed is a lot easier to deal with. I know you're joking about the biopace and all, but have you seen the latest elliptical chainrings... they make biopace look round. They've also got those weird "rotor" cranksets, which sorta do the same thing or something. I'm not saying '99 is old, just 7 years is a long time for an aluminum race frame to hold up under my fat ass. Like I said, I think the next one will be steel.
As for under the chainstay brakes, I know you're just kidding, since you never owned a bike that had them anyway.
Anyway, gotta go work on a final GIS project thingy...
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