Month: March 2025
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Introducing Hornsby
I’ve been debating more than a year what to do about the growing scabs of rust on Dionysus. There’s a large patch on the top tube where it’s pretty evident I didn’t adequately clean the frame before we started painting as part of the Rehabilitating Ol’ Paint project, and there are a number of smaller…
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Teganuma and Back
After working straight through spring break, I took a couple of days off to enjoy a ride with José. Because José had the entire month off, I’d considered a number of options, including a London-to-Paris reprise (which he said he’d love to do). The need for me to work through the spring break put a…
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Caged
When I added the new racks and bags on Kuroko’s fork, I also upgraded to double-wall steel water bottles. Unfortunately these weren’t a good match for my old faithful Minoura steel water bottle cages — the bottles would only go in and out with lots of scratching noises. So I ordered some cheap plastic bottle…
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More room for onigiri
I haven’t really been happy with the handlebar bag I put on Kuroko not even five months ago. The bag itself is fine, but there’s just not enough room between the handlebar and headlight, and the straps take up more than 1cm of valuable handlebar real estate on each side of the stem. The capacity,…