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06-16-21, 08:45 AM
#8276
smelling the roses
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06-16-21, 09:36 AM
#8277
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06-16-21, 09:40 AM
#8278
Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
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I've run out of make-work sub-projects to carry out on the Lotus Classique, while I wait for the new grease to arrive. The wheels have both been trued in the round and the flat (as we say in watchmaking about balance wheels) and I mounted the new Michelins on the rims. Curiously, the 23mm Michelin Dynamic Classics are A LOT wider than the nominally 25mm IRC Roadlites that it came shod with. The headset and BB are clean, degreased, inspected and set aside. Brakes and derailleurs have been taken apart, regreased, and reassembled. NOS gum hoods have been mounted on the brake levers, which have been mounted on the bars. I've seen some restorers' videos where they do the bar tape before mounting the bar/stem on the bike, but I don't have a vise.
Grease is supposed to arrive this afternoon (sound of fingers drumming impatiently on table).
Grease is supposed to arrive this afternoon (sound of fingers drumming impatiently on table).
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06-16-21, 09:44 AM
#8279
Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
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06-16-21, 10:01 AM
#8280
Silver Comet Fred
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06-16-21, 10:02 AM
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Those big chains don't do it right. For one thing the waffles have to be hot, fresh off the grill, not tepid and rubbery. When done right it's awesome.
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06-16-21, 10:09 AM
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To me football is the ultimate spectator sport, action every 35 seconds. Just gotta turn the volume way down.
And let's not neglect to mention that golf is the absolute worst spectator sport.
And let's not neglect to mention that golf is the absolute worst spectator sport.
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06-16-21, 10:11 AM
#8283
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Definitely.
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06-16-21, 10:15 AM
#8284
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That's only true if your local college football team doesn't suck.
Our basketball team, on the other hand, is a religious experience.
Our basketball team, on the other hand, is a religious experience.
06-16-21, 10:17 AM
#8285
So it is
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The Daytona 500 is the ultimate. I haven't been to the Indy 500, but the Brickyard 400 in the Cup heyday was something else. A Cup race back then was a travelling circus.
06-16-21, 10:24 AM
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06-16-21, 10:28 AM
#8287
Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
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For some reason, that little pocket of Pennsylvania produces shorter than average people. If you were 6'1", you were the Center. Everybody else in the league had 6'3" centers. One had a 6'5" center. Everyone else had 6' Forwards. Ours were 5'10". Everyone else had 5'10" Guards. Ours were 5'8". We considered it a really great season if we managed to win more than losing.
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06-16-21, 10:35 AM
#8288
Mostly Harmless
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06-16-21, 11:03 AM
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Hard to beat upper 70s with low humidity, a light breeze and intermittent puffy clouds.
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06-16-21, 11:10 AM
#8290
VFL For Life
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What's special about posting a link?
Where's that?
Baseball.
Baseball.
06-16-21, 11:16 AM
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Silver Comet Fred
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Velo Vol
I win good patient award! Just got my visit notes from the patient portal.
"very pleasant"
if they only knew. SMH
I win good patient award! Just got my visit notes from the patient portal.
"very pleasant"
if they only knew. SMH
06-16-21, 11:23 AM
#8292
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06-16-21, 11:24 AM
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06-16-21, 11:26 AM
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06-16-21, 11:34 AM
#8295
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I've run out of make-work sub-projects to carry out on the Lotus Classique, while I wait for the new grease to arrive. The wheels have both been trued in the round and the flat (as we say in watchmaking about balance wheels) and I mounted the new Michelins on the rims. Curiously, the 23mm Michelin Dynamic Classics are A LOT wider than the nominally 25mm IRC Roadlites that it came shod with. The headset and BB are clean, degreased, inspected and set aside. Brakes and derailleurs have been taken apart, regreased, and reassembled. NOS gum hoods have been mounted on the brake levers, which have been mounted on the bars. I've seen some restorers' videos where they do the bar tape before mounting the bar/stem on the bike, but I don't have a vise.
Grease is supposed to arrive this afternoon (sound of fingers drumming impatiently on table).
Grease is supposed to arrive this afternoon (sound of fingers drumming impatiently on table).
On my old-bike rebuild project, I put the lever clamps on the bars, wrapped the tape, and then mounted the levers to the clamps. It made for a very neat and clean result at the levers without any need for figure-8s, short tape pieces, or any other similar malarkey. I wish I could to the same on my main road machine, but cables inside the bar, or under the tape, mean that the levers have to be fully installed in their final resting spot before the tape goes on.
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06-16-21, 11:49 AM
#8296
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06-16-21, 11:56 AM
#8297
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my buddy broke another spoke. today. This has to be the 12th time if not more. Last time, he was suppose to do a century with me (last monday). We were rolling on the cap trail and snap! front spoke snapped. He didnt continue the ride and once he got home determined all the spokes were over torqued. Readjusted and today he broke another one 2 miles in on a ride.
I told him to trash the wheels, but he is determined to find out why this is happening.
I told him to trash the wheels, but he is determined to find out why this is happening.
06-16-21, 11:57 AM
#8298
Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
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I don't see what the advantage is to wrapping the bars before mounting them.
On my old-bike rebuild project, I put the lever clamps on the bars, wrapped the tape, and then mounted the levers to the clamps. It made for a very neat and clean result at the levers without any need for figure-8s, short tape pieces, or any other similar malarkey. I wish I could to the same on my main road machine, but cables inside the bar, or under the tape, mean that the levers have to be fully installed in their final resting spot before the tape goes on.
On my old-bike rebuild project, I put the lever clamps on the bars, wrapped the tape, and then mounted the levers to the clamps. It made for a very neat and clean result at the levers without any need for figure-8s, short tape pieces, or any other similar malarkey. I wish I could to the same on my main road machine, but cables inside the bar, or under the tape, mean that the levers have to be fully installed in their final resting spot before the tape goes on.
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"Don't take life so serious-it ain't nohow permanent."
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06-16-21, 12:09 PM
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06-16-21, 12:13 PM
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