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Trespassing is not a crime
Mountain season wrapping up. Starting to get icy up there.
Climbed into the mountains, and above the damp fog blanketing the lower elevations, and got in #coffeeneuring 5/7
Sunday-sundown-shakedown. Another blue bike that had languished in a box. Built up this Black Mountain Monstercross from a mishmash of parts bin bits, plus a rear wheel borrowed from my touring bike. It’s good. I like it. And now I need to build another rear wheel.
Coffeeneuring 2/7. Ampersand Coffee Roasters in Gunbarrel #coffeeneuring2023
Your yearly Old Fall River Road PSA. Currently closed to cars, but see the last photo for opening/closing dates.
#coffeeneuring2023 1/7. Verb Coffee roasters. Verb is genuinely, truly, excellent coffee. It might be the only good coffee in Boulder.
Fall is coming. It’s a bit moody out there today.
This one is for @bikesaviours and @communitycycles After 62 hours and 548 miles, Jenn’s shifting failed. The rear derailleur’s unserviceable parallelogram spring had snapped. This left Jenn with 2 gears, as she still had the derailleur to pull tension for front shifting. But if she shifted the cassette down, she wouldn’t be able to upshift. PBP is non-stop hills, and muscle memory is strong. The first “fix” was a couple bands of old tube. While I rigged the derailleur, Jenn called a shop in Fougeres, 40mi away. A few miles later we switched to an elastic cord salvaged from Jenn’s bag, tied to a brake boss. When we arrived at the shop all they had was a SRAM 1x derailleur, which the mechanic thought he could get working even though it didn’t have the take up for a double. It was a no-go. She could have the big chainring or the small, but not both. We’d been there for an hour, and needed to get rolling. The broken derailleur went back on. Having seen the elastic cord solution, the mechanic dug around and found some sturdy rubber bands that I attached with a zip tie. That gave Jenn 9 of 11 rear gears, which she rode another 215 miles, to the the end of Paris Brest Paris. Nicely done Jenn
