Category: Forking dynamite
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Anticlimactic
My jaunt up Takaosan earlier this week confirmed that Kuroko’s spiffy dynamo lights are working, so it’s time to bring the Forking Dynamite project to a close. I’ve had a couple of finishing touches waiting in the wings — for more than a year in at least one case — and today was the perfect…
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Date with a Mountain
Today is Sports Day, a national holiday, and anyway I have the entire week off. I told Nana I’d be leaving at 7 a.m., but I let her sleep in until nearly 7, and then departed just after 8. It was a beautiful day with blue skies and mild weather. The only clouds were those…
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Fighting water with … water
Following last weekend’s very wet but ultimately enjoyable Tour de Chiba, Kuroko was overdue for a washing. And I needed to deal with the mildew on the saddle, which I’ve left languishing in the bike parking garage for a week now. The first order of business was simply to give the entire bike a good…
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Rideable
Nearly two weeks have gone by since my last attempt to get the slack out of Kuroko’s new headset. At last today it’s a bit cooler, and too rainy and windy to ride. Taken together, it made the perfect opportunity to take my time and get it right, without constantly wiping sweat out of my…
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Still not happy
I’ve been waiting for a cooler day to get back to the Workshop in the Sky and put the finishing touches on the Forking dynamite project. Well, cooler days are not in the offing yet, and meanwhile I have an event coming up in early October. So I braved the heat for a quick go…
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Taillight and Brake
It’s been a couple of weeks since José and I got the new fork cut to length and installed on the bike. In the meantime, I’ve had work to do of course, and it’s just been too hot even to get out on the balcony for maintenance. The real reason I was holding back, though,…
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Done for the day
Yesterday José joined me in the Workshop in the Sky for what we hoped would be a great leap forward in the Forking Dynamite project. I got started before José arrived, disconnecting the hydraulic brake hose for the front brake. I really expected quite a bit of fluid to run out when it did this,…
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Hold your fire
It’s too hot to ride, so I started getting parts and tools together for the Forking Dynamite project. It took some time finding things, and I actually emptied out the entire toolbox in the Workshop in the Sky while looking. By the time I got to the bottom of the toolbox, I thought I had…
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First wash in a long time
I woke up resolved to undertake a long-planned upgrade. I wasn’t able to get to the Workshop in the Sky until about 10:30, though, and in that time I’d had second thoughts. I’m about six weeks away from departing on a week-long ride, and it’s possible this upgrade will take more than one weekend to…