Bedrock & Paradox

I guess I’d better  do it this year.  Works in the schedule and all. Yo Chad and Max, want to go for a team effort?  Brian, you should come too.  I’ll try to find some dehydrated beer.

Montana style. Yo. This morning held some 30-30 (sec) hill intervals up the paved Lincoln Hills road.  Otherwise known as I want to die intervals.  I also didn’t wear overshoes and had some nice screaming barfies in the shower.   Maybe when I eat some real food I’ll stop twitching. I wonder if skinning the…

My study music for the last month has been exclusively two things: The Baltimore Symphony’s recording of Mark O’Connor’s “Americana Symphony,” which is familiar yet brilliantly new. Leonard Bernstein conducting the London Symphony playing Stravinsky’s “Firebird Suite,” which is like Metallica but better I also have the study-crazy, involuntary function-S autosave tic down pat.  Every…

I work a 12 hour shift at the school (my practicum site) Sunday, so Monday has become my day to hang around in PJs all morning, catching up on the Sunday political shows and doing lots of research.  The extent of online databases has advanced exponentially even since I was in undergrad 5 years ago,…

Is done. Two compartments, and a very taught zipper due to the sewn-in divider.  Finish work is quite rough, the small angles make it not a simple task towards the end. I think it will work anyway. Tired now.  No more paper writing.

On the rear.  Easily done; a new hole for the flexy bracket needed to be drilled, and my seatpost bottle mount came in handy.  The bottom brackets rotate on bushings, if not totally readily.  As always with racks, structural soundness is a question, but there’s only one way to find out.   I have thoughts…

Made on the occasion of grading undergrad research papers.

Just got a call from the LBS (The Bike Doctor).  The roached MC 3.3 they sent off to Rock Shok last week was replaced as a warranty issue, for free.  Given that it’s seen many, many miles, and the damage was totally due to me neglecting to replace the bushing soon enough, I’m pretty shocked…

Bright, sunny, first solid day in the 70’s I can recall this year. A good day to get out, stretch the legs, get out the cobwebs from a 12 hour day at work yesterday, and do some training.  Singletrack in the Rattlesnake was good to go, only a few bits of snow in the shade.…

Raw materials. Added padding to spare Talon straps. Top lash strap.  My dad and grandpa and I did a backpacking trip on Mt Le Conte (in the Smokys) back when I was in fifth grade, when I got that patch. Ready for water. And a shovel. Basing the fit off the Talon 22 and the…