It’s frustrating, when you know things can be done, when there are many things that can be done, that should be done, but they don’t get done and instead too much energy is simply diffused. There was an article I read about Lawrence in Taos, New Mexico, and despite the woman beating, I get [...]
Entries from October 2006
October 17, 2006
Vermonter
I didn’t expect the romanticism of the train to be so overpowering. The eight hours to Montpelier flew by and I felt like a giant weight had been lifted off my chest. There is special smell in Fall as the leaves change and the days grow colder and the snap of freezing cracks. [...]
October 9, 2006
Internet Sales
per Zoe I finished the touring bicycle for sale on eBay. I talked to Scott this weekend about sharing woodshop space as it seems we have similar ambitions in the part time world of woodcrafting. Conor had mentioned to me a movie starring Will Oldham shot in Oregon, a kind of wandering mountain brook [...]
October 4, 2006
carbon steertubes and the rest
So my newish used 1996 Salsa “La Razza” bike has a Performance “Forte” brand 1″ all carbon fork on it. The problem is, even with a fancy 1″ expansion wedge made by Profile Design, it slips. I’ve had two thoughts on this, and now I think I’ve come up with what is perhaps [...]
