Month: April 2020
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Haneda and maintenance
Today the Halfakid had to be home by noon (for a virtual nomikai, as it turns out), so that pretty much ruled out all destinations apart from Haneda. I left home at a quarter to 8 and soon met up with the Halfakid. He was ready to go (for a change) and we were soon…
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Quarantine-busting climb
The Halfakid and I set out Sunday morning up the Tama and Asa rivers towards Mt Takao and Otarumi Pass. This was my first big ride since I replaced Kuroko’s crankset and bottom bracket (for what I hope is the final time). Furthermore, the last time we came this route, the Halfakid suffered two flats…
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Sweet success
In the two and a half weeks since my last ride, I’ve been trying to swap out the crankset on bottom bracket on Kuroko. The FSA that I’d installed in preparation for my Lejog attempt had chewed through another set of bearings — in a scant three months this time — and I knew that…
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Running out of drawing boards to revert to
I’ve missed out on a weekend of riding (and several nice weekdays besides) since my last loop around Tokyo. I’ve been struggling since then to replace Kuroko’s crankset and bottom bracket with this beauty from Sugino: The hold-up in this process is removing the bbinfinite bottom bracket that was my latest (and now last) attempt…
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A day of preparation
Kuroko needs a little more work before she’s ready for the crankset and bottom bracket replacement, so today I prepared the new crankset with a chainring swap. The default chainring was 46 teeth, and I wanted to change this to 44 teeth to reduce the gap between the two chainrings. The Sugino crankset was available…