Spring Tease

It got up to the mid sixties today, it felt like a taste of spring. I road the fixy from the Boulevard after work. Matt recently got a new Specialized Tricross and came out to ride with me. We took the greenway downtown and had just crested the steep-ass hill on the west side of the City County building (very hard climb on a 42/16) and Matt Realized he got a flat hoping a curb at the bottom of the hill. Of course he had nothing to fix it with and my 19-23c ultralight tube wasn’t going to help him a bit in his fat rubber. I motored back to the car to go so I could go pick him up but he decided to just ride the rim of his new bike and got back a few minutes after me. I still got an hour and a half on the bike tonight despite the events.



I got a couple of new toys today from my friends in California. A new Phil Wood bottom bracket for the BlackSheep. Since James fixed the creaking seat tube the creaking bottom bracket was driving me crazy. I was a little apprehensive to drop so much coin on a bottom bracket but the other day I was Union Jacks with Thomas and he said “I’m too poor to buy cheep parts” that helped me seal the fate of my Phil destiny. I also got an ENO disc hub and adapter. This hub will make singlespeed conversion or fixing the Wily (or any 700c bike) a snap. It’s also going to be my first wheel build. I have a goal this year of learning to build wheels and I have 3 builds planned to learn on in the next couple of weeks hopefully John Magnusson is going to give me some instruction along the way. As a bonus I found a little surprise in the box from California, a jersey from one of the coolest shops in the world, not just because of all the fancy parts, but because the staff has a real passion for bikes.




Tara had a doctors visit today. Everything is looking good she is 4cm dilated and 90% effaced. It could be any day now. Ill be hanging close to home for now till the day. I’m getting pretty nervous but excited like I’ve never felt before.