Friday, July 29, 2011

It was a nice day..............for a flat!

yea, so I rode the Wanga in to work today, the one with the slicks, and was enjoying the great weather SO much, I decided to run over some glass (it's all over) and blow my back tire...................On the bright side I got to walk a few miles pushing said bike. 

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

one voodoo gone.........one cannondale added!


Let the orange voodoo go...............but today I picked up a 1990 Cannonndale sm400 (bottom of the line) pretty cheap. Note the (stuck) Scott Uni-shock ............I'll try to unfreeze it. Already changed the seat, seatpost, and installed a new bottom bracket and changed the pedals. I'll change the handlebars and look into changing the stem.The cannondale needs some work, but everything works. Also got dad's bike done (except for as few minor issues. 

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Voodoo = 4

Just let go of the newest voodoo on tuesday the 12th...............somebody needed it more than i do.........................

Rode the Kestrel 20 miles on Friday the 8th - very sweet! Almost bought a companion road frame, but that fell through.

Happy riding!

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Kestrel's ready to ride!

I finally got the parts to finish the kestrel - other than a few adjustments it's ready to go! I'll be riding it in to work tomorrow.

It's got a sweet old raceface crank, and I put the melvin chain tensioner on it, temporary miss-matched brakes and I'm going to change out the front wheel for a white industries hub when I get around to it. I need to cut off some of the rear brake cable sleeve 'cause it's too long, and probably adjust the handlebars, but at least I can ride it. I had to do some serious painting with black fingernail polish around the crank - someone let some serious chain sucking go on and didn't fix it. Then some polish and it'll be sweet!