happy b-day

Happy Birthday to my little sister Annie! Hope you had a good one!

b-day

Happy (?) 50th Birthday to Henry Rollins.

Why should we care? Even those with great happy lives have had their fare share of pain and agony, some real, some imagined. Henry writes about it all. I read once that "punks" were outcasts, they didn't have many friends, they kept to themselves and educated their minds so they are always the well read ones. Henry is definitely that and well spoken man tells it how he sees it. Quotes here and here.

like tractors...

Dicky Dahl documentary about Vanilla Bicycles from sacha White on Vimeo.

Damn his bikes are nice.

yuck

Not riding in today, wife sick, not feeling to well myself, and of course the kids are perfectly healthy. More later today....

crank

Here is the crank for the Chester, a Bontrager (Truvativ) road crank, 130mm BCD, 170mm long. I got this on a closeout pricelist from Trek, super cheap - but its a good crank. The crank comes with a GXP outboard bearing bottom bracket setup, which I guess led to some extra design work for Matt. He says he never has built a frame for an external bottom bracket. He prefers (and I do sometimes too) a square taper. I haven't had any issues as of yet using an external BB, but time will tell. If it doesn't work, I'll just go to a regular set up, but the crank and bottom bracket were so cheap, I had to get it.



I had to switch out the chainrings, it came with shifty cyclocross rings, and I'm running just one, so out comes a Surly 39t Stainless Steel ring, and a BBG bashguard. The BBG is a real lightweight aluminum circle, that protects the chainring (and leg from rookie ring) in case of a rock or branch. I don't know if the chainline will work with the bashguard, but again we'll see.

More to come....