Showing posts with label marinoni. Show all posts
Showing posts with label marinoni. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Snowed Out
Today I was hoping to visit another of the GVRD's dammed reservoirs; this attempt was stifled by about 30cm of snow. The Seymour Valley is clearly a lot colder than the city. Watch for: bears, cougars, roadies, wayward pedestrians, and snow. 62km for the day.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Holler at Your Dog
3 climbs of the Stanley Park hill. Bombing the North Shore, again. This is becoming a regular Tuesday thing. The Marinoni is back on the road. Today's 72km was apparently how long it takes a new low-end Shimano freewheel to break in. Friction shifters are all out of adjustment, but it rolls fast.
To celebrate the Marinoni's triumphant return, I'm thinking about installing a second top tube (those are all the rage these days), and calling it The Lions Gate Bridge. Seriously, though, I think the bike deserves a nicer stem/bar combo; the question is: Japanese, or Italian?
To celebrate the Marinoni's triumphant return, I'm thinking about installing a second top tube (those are all the rage these days), and calling it The Lions Gate Bridge. Seriously, though, I think the bike deserves a nicer stem/bar combo; the question is: Japanese, or Italian?
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
A header quote worth eternalizing.
To start, a couple for the B-tionary.
monstrumental: a combination of monster and instrumental; an instrumental monster.
ratchet: a modern four pawl BMX freewheel, which sounds like a ratchet strapped to your hub.
Herbert Werthers and his older bro the Megatron were monstrumental in the Proj-B summer manual sessions. Lyle and I are both manualing through two lane intersections. Next up, hop to manual - I'm eyeing the north downhill grind box at Confederation Park. Anybody up for a Confederation adventure that doesn't involve John A. MacDonald, contact Project B. The fall air is great while one-wheeling a ratchet through First and Commercial.
What a great time to get your first real BMX; it looks like n1ck is going to be rounding out P-B's fleet of twenties, after respectfually passing up the '98 S&M Next Gen Dirt Bike. That guy deserves a BMX by now, even if he's only most likely to find another nerve ending that doesn't comply with what Cru Jones would have called freestyle riding. Duncan, Mr. 700cmx, has a Fit that n1ck's soon enough acquiring. Too bad it doesn't fit Duncan; I wonder if he'd be better on a bigger frame.
Though I haven't been riding 700cmx lately, I have been geared hooning on the Marinoni, and have decided that I don't want to think about 7 speeds; I want 6: 3 low and 3 high. And, if the deal for the 600 shifters goes through, I'd not have a choice whether I ran friction with a 6-speed freewheel. The seven speed freewheel does dangle in front of me, though I so dislike the still-large range and contrasting black colour (paintable, maybe?) of the 28 tooth big ring. Sometimes makes you want to ride a single speed freewheel, which happens to look like the Sekine's next incarnation - which would be great as a guest bike.
We'll finish up with a quote from Trent, currently seen in the header quote: "in hindsight, hot-knifing shitty allan keys on my stove to burn a hole in my rim tape for the valve stem might not have been the most straightforward solution." Classic, Trent. You're right, the drill probably wouldn't have worked very well either. Nice score on the Drago.
monstrumental: a combination of monster and instrumental; an instrumental monster.
ratchet: a modern four pawl BMX freewheel, which sounds like a ratchet strapped to your hub.
Herbert Werthers and his older bro the Megatron were monstrumental in the Proj-B summer manual sessions. Lyle and I are both manualing through two lane intersections. Next up, hop to manual - I'm eyeing the north downhill grind box at Confederation Park. Anybody up for a Confederation adventure that doesn't involve John A. MacDonald, contact Project B. The fall air is great while one-wheeling a ratchet through First and Commercial.
What a great time to get your first real BMX; it looks like n1ck is going to be rounding out P-B's fleet of twenties, after respectfually passing up the '98 S&M Next Gen Dirt Bike. That guy deserves a BMX by now, even if he's only most likely to find another nerve ending that doesn't comply with what Cru Jones would have called freestyle riding. Duncan, Mr. 700cmx, has a Fit that n1ck's soon enough acquiring. Too bad it doesn't fit Duncan; I wonder if he'd be better on a bigger frame.
Though I haven't been riding 700cmx lately, I have been geared hooning on the Marinoni, and have decided that I don't want to think about 7 speeds; I want 6: 3 low and 3 high. And, if the deal for the 600 shifters goes through, I'd not have a choice whether I ran friction with a 6-speed freewheel. The seven speed freewheel does dangle in front of me, though I so dislike the still-large range and contrasting black colour (paintable, maybe?) of the 28 tooth big ring. Sometimes makes you want to ride a single speed freewheel, which happens to look like the Sekine's next incarnation - which would be great as a guest bike.
We'll finish up with a quote from Trent, currently seen in the header quote: "in hindsight, hot-knifing shitty allan keys on my stove to burn a hole in my rim tape for the valve stem might not have been the most straightforward solution." Classic, Trent. You're right, the drill probably wouldn't have worked very well either. Nice score on the Drago.
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