I have collected my Crust Bombora from the shop with headset installed, steerer tube cut, and star nut installed.
It is sooooooooooo gorgeous!
The only thing sweeter than a Friday is having a Friday afternoon meeting cancelled.
It’s still #newbikeday if it’s just the frame, right? 😁
Crossed 7000 miles (~11265 km) for the year on my bike today.
I’m proud to have nicknames in two different restaurant POS systems I frequent:
“No pickle fam” at The Cask since my kids and I always ask to skip the pickles, and “Burger Dad” at Eazzy Burger.
This year’s Covid booster (from yesterday afternoon) has me feeling a bit wrecked, but I may already be on the downslope.
One of these days I’ll do a proper bike check video but, for now, I gotta say this VO Campeur rack is gorgeous, installed fairly easily, and works just as well with my pannier (after some adjustments to the mounts): velo-orange.com/collectio…
This article on Grant Peterson and Rivendell is worth your time: www.newyorker.com/magazine/…
I don’t (and don’t want to) ride fixed gear, but damn there sure is a lot of love for beautiful bikes in that scene.
A bit of rain this week means my bike is back on the indoor trainer and I am not happy about it.
Does Rene Herse normally sell their tires individually? You know, like pretty much everybody else?
Because the single tire I ordered (I checked the packing slip) arrived as a pair! If this is a happy accident, it certainly takes the sting out of the price quite a bit 😜
Sitting in my local waiting on lunch and sipping a festbier while some brewery rep delivers his canned (not sorry) pitch to one of the owners.
I’m sorry, but does anyone actually eat Haribo candy by the tablespoon!?
I love it when you find a Wikipedia page for a topic sufficiently niche that it hasn’t been edited for over a year, and contains informal language such as “nowadays”: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spok…
I mean, you have incredible lyrics, Rick Wakeman on piano, and a dang string section. Helluva number.
Is David Bowie’s “Life on Mars” his best song, or the best rock song ever made?
Folks, I’m celebrating twenty freaking years of marriage in early October.
Every married day is a choice, and takes work, and we won’t really get to do anything more special than a fancy dinner. But I’m grateful for all these years. Prepare for me to be an absolute sap on October 2.
Watched Sarah Polley’s Women Talking and, whew, what a devastating and incredible movie. A rare example of the form that feels/runs like a stage production while never ceasing to be effective as a film.
Apple Intelligence is launched. The feature goes live September 20th, 2024. Human decisions are removed from personal computing. Siri begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, September 29th. It destroys itself from humiliation over its past ineptitude.
Significant Digits
I finished 2023 with 6517.7 miles on my bike. At some point I’ll stop jabbering about how much I ride, but it’s only been about 2 years since I started riding more seriously. I’m still proud of how far behind I’ve left my sedentary life.
Today, I passed that number—currently at 6527.6 miles after my morning ride—and it’s only September 9th. I’m likely to ride at least 8500 miles before the year is over, and while the numbers aren’t the goal, I’m just astonished by and grateful for how much time I’ve been able to spend outside (or inside on the trainer) this year. My appreciation for fresh air, regardless of the temperature or clouds, has only grown.
Next year my goal is simply to mix it up; I want to try adding in some climbing, hiking, or whatever else. I still expect most of my exercise to come from cycling because I adore it, but I could stand to be a bit more well-rounded.
Bikes! What a concep!
Early school year busyness had me completely miss something significant:
September 1st marked THIRTY YEARS since my family moved me to Virginia a couple months before I turned 13.
I will always consider New Jersey one of my homes, but after all this time I also love to be a Virginian.
Holy smokes! I have an 11 year old today!
Happy birthday Maddie ☺️
Just found out my almost-11-year-old calls my wife “bro” all the time.
This random thunderstorm really has me wishing I’d ridden on Belle Isle today while it was dry 🤦♂️
The Dynamic Headache
I love the look, tread, and ride quality of Ultradynamico tires, but I’ve had lots of trouble with them. I think part of it is that I have terrible luck with tires/wheels (I ride thousands of miles per year; so increased chance of issues), but I dunno. Cava JFFs and some Rosé Robustos giving me bead seating issues, burping, and easier puncturing than any other tires I’ve tried.
For now the front Rosé is fine (and good tread for my riding style, but I slapped the spare Pathfinder Pro back on the rear wheel. Pretty sure the tape job from Velocity on their wheels is solid (I cleaned and inspected this morning before switching tires).