Rusty Bones

This blog has been dead for a reason. I put my fixie up last fall and haven't ridden it since. Word. I am so out of shape I can barely make a short ride. :/ But - I got the motobacane down and did the min: air in tires, lube on chain, new lights on bike (including some fun motion activated blinkie lights on the valve stems), moved the seat forward, zip tied the brake cable up, tightened the crank bolts...pretty much all the little things that would make me at least ready to jump on it again.

I also finally got the PCS-9 Park Tool repair stand I've been wanting for a long while. It's way bigger than I expected. The screws were kind of a beast to screw in on the bottom legs - not sure what was up with that - and because the legs fold down, it's not quite as stable as I thought, but good enough. Maybe I'm not doing something right. Hopefully one of my smarty pants bike friends will tell me at some point if I can't figure it out myself. I think the stand will help as I'm trying to figure out the bike stuff. I got a Park Tool manual off of the interwebs too. So, we'll see how much damage I can do this summer.

My orange and mustard steel road bike from the dinosaur age is in a sad state of disrepair. Not that it was in particularly good shape when I got it, but I'm going to mess around with that this summer to see if I can get it ridable again.





And when I'm bored with that, I still have an old internal 3-speed, a super heavy trick bike that one of my peeps gave me, and the old Nishiki frame to mess around with.



I'm glad the snow is gone. I missed this.