I think he’s in canada
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Periwinkle blue
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I didn’t like the Fox orange with the blue on my frame, but I also didn’t like just the black. I splashed on a set of Ground Keeper decals.
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In my eternal Vaya tweaking, I put Specialities TA chainrings on my GRX, so it went from 46/30 to 44/28. The gear inch charts tell me it’s significant, I’ll find out Sunday after some storms pass.
Also, I added a Viscoset, I was always curious about it, so I’ll give a ride report in a few weeks of testing. So far, riding hands-free felt effortless regardless of speed. Any requests?
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I have some issues with viscoset, let me know how it goes for you
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ergon SMC gel seems to be a net improvement— I like how flat it is between the sit bones compared to the fizik argo, but the cutout isn’t quite deep enough for my taint and I want it more level than my chairpole will easily allow. it’s also fully back on the clamp so that’s a factor in adjustment
I’ve found the Ergons need a little less setback to be comfortable. I also level them by the channel instead of the top. YMMV
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it’s fine on the hoods but I feel it if I rotate my pelvis to ride in the drops so I know it’s close
Women’s models are “flatter” and work well with seatpostslacking a ton of adjustability.
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Swapped out the Jones’ mech brakes for some Shimano MT201s. For being relatively low in Shimano’s food chain, they’re a massive improvement over the cable discs.
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Cleaned, exercised pistons, did full bleed of TRPs and replaced pads, even if fronts may not have needed it. Rear wasn’t terrible, but uneven wear due to pistons not moving evenly. Fuck does it feel so much better than ride this morning.
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it’s the best way
Today was 6 hours of bike maintenance. Most on the e-cargo baby hauler. Replaced the rear cassette and chain and new front chainring with higher gearing (but unfortunately my BBG bash guard order shipped the wrong part!). This finally fixed a weird vibration I had going on from a cassette that somehow wasn’t seated flat (even though it was tight and I tried reinstalling it several times.
On the other bikes the usual chain cleaning and brake adjustments but I also replaced a FD band clamp adapter so the Shimano FD with the little set screw would actually engage properly.
Sadly I ran out of time and didn’t even make it to the 3 bikes that are sitting incomplete.
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Just got done fake-forging (some heat, bending, and drilling) a new bottom-bracket tab onto my rear fender. Glad to have found a dry window to ride to the on-campus bike shop…
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I replaced the rear caliper and rotor, replaced the roached chain and cassette and swapped in a somewhat less cracked rear wheel.
Still creaked.
So I decided to replace the bottom bracket even though it’s never the bottom bracket. I swapped the fancy Middleburn cranks for some basic Alfine cranks while I was at it.
Guess what, no creak.
So it was either the bottom biscuit or the boutique cranks I guess.
UPDATE: only one half of the creak is gone! I think it’s the seatpost, but I just pulled all that apart and greased everything a couple weeks ago. Could it be the dropper post itself?
Maybe I should take the dropout plates off and grease and torque the bolts. Or maybe it’s the rear rack or something. 
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Bottom biscuit
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‘bottom biscuit’ … poop chat is in the other thread
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WTH I ran over something metal, heard the noise and realized I got a flat on the way home from work.
HY two separate cyclists stopped to check I had everything covered.
HY this was the first time I’d had to use my mini pump and it did great.
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