Month: November 2024
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Bike of Theseus
I’ve taken some good-natured ribbing about how often I’m replacing perfectly functional parts on my bike, and at what point it would have been easier to have simply gone out and purchased a new bike. My friends are right that — in addition to required maintenance — a lot of the upgrades I’ve done are…
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Windy River Ride
I’d worked late and hadn’t slept well, so I’d put off the decision about whether to ride, and where. At last when Nana woke up and asked (hand not quite poised over the rice cooker to prepare the world-famous onigiri) I said Tamagawa. At that I was leaving myself a lot of leeway, from Don’t-mind-me-just-nipping-out-to-Haneda-and-back…
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Saddle No. 5
I wanted to install the new saddle and seatpost before today’s ride. I set the bits out on the table last night, and then got started this morning before 8, when it was just 6C in the Workshop in the Sky. Replacing the saddle and seatpost was straightforward. Of course I weighed the old and…
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Bling photo dump
Nana is complaining that the intercom is ringing every day with a new delivery. I’m sure this is exaggeration. I mentioned when the Brooks broke for the second time in six months that I was getting something new, and it arrived just after I’d swapped in my other Brooks saddle. I also got a totally…