Take me someplace warm.

The spots marked by the beer-toting garden gnomes would be nice.

As Matt was saying, the days of summer are over and seems like autumn is passing by quickly as well, I completed (more or less) my winter bike tonight and took it for it’s inaugural spin through rain then hail and then back through rain again.

First and foremost, the lockrings on formula hubs are basically made of the softest metal one could wish for, they are absolute trash, and I stripped the notches on the first tightening. Needless to say I’ll be picking up something a little more substantial in the next day or so along with a seat collar bolt. Outside of that, the bike rides surprisingly well seeing as the headset is an amalgam of parts from 3 different ones, and the frame actually weighs 8 pounds. Thanks to Nick, Matt, Toronto Solid Waste Management, and the parts bin for making this one come together.

- and yes, the Velo Plush saddle is as comfortable as it looks.

Greece! No, er…

Spent the past four days in Nashville with my brother attending some family stuff, no bike, though it didn’t matter because Tennessee is in the middle of a heatwave and the average temperature was around 42-44 degrees while we were there. Walking is hard enough, biking would have been suicide. I haven’t been to Nashville in a long time, for the most part the people are amazingly nice and the barbeque is consistantly some of the best you’ll have. Nick’s going to have to make a trip down in the future to learn from the masters. I bought a fashionable switchblade and some wii-cessories while there, next time you see me I’ll show you the shank.

Fake Parthenon

No fun

The barbeque from this place was fantastic.

The gay cowboy is trying to pick up the segway tour guide.

Get your drink on with a cat wearing a monocle,

then go buy some guns.*

* my uncle claims to use the one at the middle-right for deer hunting, no shit.