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Fall Cruise

gonter — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:43:09 +0000

I spent most of yesterday redoing more or less all of my websites. I really was dragging my feet about getting a new host after having a friend take care of it for the last three years. Well, I am now, for better or worse, my own sys admin and host. This site gave me some trouble as the migration borked a bunch of the thumbnail photos from the last two years since I started using lightbox/shadowbox. I had to go back and fix all the thumb paths manually for the last two years. I stood on the verge of hitting return on mySQL query to search/replace, but chickened out at the last minute and went for the slow-sure way. All done now. You can once again enjoy the content as it appeared in the last one or two versions of the site.

It was nice to get away from the stoopid’puter for an hour and half of fix cruisin’.

Bike path in Colchester, Fall

It was very quiet, fresh pumped tires, some lube here and there [oops forgot the chain again,] and wool sweater/jacket. I just rolled here and there, no worries and no real ambition. These days I just try to escape the homeowner renovation jones. HA!

I have many times promised to revitalize this log. Let’s see what happens this time.

Over and Out.

fix gear editors wanted

gonterian — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:12:45 +0000

yes, i want you to become an editor and start posting your madness here. the goal is to rule the world of fixed gear blogs by hosting the best content. you are the one to help make it happen. ping me and let me know where you get your stuff and what you want to show/write and we’ll begin world fixed gear blog domination.

Winter Ratio

gonterian — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:34:10 +0000

I stopped by the Old Spokes Home and checked in with old friends Ralph, Rob and Glenn. We passed a warm half hour with nostalgia, music and car talk—not a word about bikes. That’s when you know you’ve moved on to fogietude. Most of the bike stuff goes without saying.

I picked up a Surly 19T cog. I’m down-gearing from a 46/18 to 46/19 for the winter and possibly indefinitely. After being chastised as “Johnny Flatspot” I finally accepted the logic of tire wear and even gear ratios. Well, I almost never skid, so it seems a lot less relevant to me than to some brave and brakeless. In any case, it should even out the wear and tear on the rear tire and wheel.

Fall is clinging to life here in VT and mother winter is blowing cold. I hope to get in a few good rides here before I switch to winter [and full time walks to work.] I flopped my old rear blue loctite lockring wheel this summer in bike polo and various surgeries and long therapy sessions on the truing stand have failed to revive it—so I’m putting that 19T mentioned above on a burly fixed wheel that Ralph built for me a few years ago. Somehow it had fallen out of use and I found it while doing my laundry this AM! Cha Ching.

OK, by the way, please link back to this blog, I’m trying to crawl back up the “fixed gear blog” rankings and need your help.

PS I’m also looking for cool and unusual fix to feature in the blog in a “gallery” section. Ping me and let me know what you got. Maybe just send Picasa or Flickr links.

Over and Out