Originally Posted by rholland1951

Home improvement projects have been cutting into my riding time lately. This week, HVAC techs installed the Kraken in my basement. They said it was a heat pump. The horror...


I decided to retire the lovely, and now quite slick, Grand Bois Cypres Extra Leger tires that have graced my Rawland Nordavinden since its build, 4125 miles ago. Riding them was starting to feel like pressing my luck. Here they are, retired like me. Mere calamari compared to the Kraken in the basement, but everything to its proper scale.
The Nordavinden got a new pair of Rene Herse Stampede Pass Extralights. Battle Road Bikes did the swap, and replaced the rim strip while they were at it. Some chain stretch reared its head, and a new chain followed. Meanwhile, traffic came and went at the Dunkin Donuts next door.
A valve stem issue was resolved, and I rode a considerably freshened-up Nordavinden down the Minuteman to home.
Ominous mechanical shreiks came from the AHS construction site. Gojira?
Rain began to fall, and I went grocery shopping.