In a weird turn of events one of the two packages I most recently ordered from nashbar.com containing items needed for the resurrection of Le Noir ended up at my previous place of employment. I found this out when my cell phone rang yesterday near noon and it was a voice I’d last heard about …
A lot better than expected given how it looked the day it happened, thanks for asking. Pardon the stubble after the jump… hard to shave that promintory without opening things up:
Pardon the craptacity of the above 12x-digital zoom snap from the window of my 10th floor office, but I couldn’t resist documenting this irony no matter how catastrophic the pixelation. Because as oxymoronic as it strikes me to use a vehicle as so outlandish a rolling billboard for booze, there is something oddly appropriate –Â …
Wake up Get up Go to the bathroom Check gmail Post response to comments on wildbell.com from friends Mr. Rollers and Manny Post another retort to latest deathless bike-hating troll here on YouTube Check cnn.com; read various stories Get a cup of coffee Drink it Assemble and plug in new cordless portable WaterPik (required 16-hour …
When you buy your own crown race remover and setter. At midnight.
Agh. While my trip to the Bike Kitchen tonight was entirely excellent in that with the excellent assistance of the supervising cook the crown race on the fork got set (the crown race is the little ring that the bottom headset bearings roll on) and so did the top and bottom headset cups. The only …
In the wake of the recent uptick in citations being issued to cyclists on unregistered bikes, my Giant OCR roadie is now legal. After work yesterday I rode it over to LAPD Central Division on 6th Street and Maple in the heart of downtown’s skid row — the only police station* in the entire city …