freaking gorgeous.
warm...
and awesome...
ran across another bike commuter - i think i dusted her one day on the "climb"... she passed me on the long straight leading up to the up hill and she downshifted way far and well... i gotta carry speed and i did and blew past trailer and all... Today we hooked up and chatted for a bit, two mornings in a row chatting going fast with an unloaded commuter on a fast bike... pretty nice...
She was kicking it on a nice OCLV 5200 iirc... nice chattin in the morning- esp a nice warm morning...
The list of shizzle i had in mind has vanished... *shrug*
Me race sunday...
Me ride mt bike saturday... open invite... up at Blue Hills... me can't wait to get the caveman freak going on the knobbies... can't freaking wait... been too long...
might have to ditch the suck bag though - no bladders... although maybe i put tools and tubes and shit in it with an old fashioned waterbottle... i do have bladders - they just old and uninspected... maybe i get lucky to find one nice and biofilm free.
So whats up with the lack of images from Sunday's USGP#1... i can't find that orange freak anywhere... man... not crazy enough i guess...
Meg's vid is kickin... Timmy J is rocking it hard but this tall freak gotta pull for Treefarm and Nasty over all dem all...
That and i'm capitvated by the beauty of the works of art out of portland. So Molly and Shannon get props. WTF is up with two guys racing for Vanilla with girl names? I know i'm not the first to wonder...
but... just look at that Vanilla stuff. Gorgeous. Flat out freaking wet dream material. Who'd be the dumbfuck to buy one of their bikes without payin the $50 upgrade for the Vanilla dropouts...
man...
Our cross bikes are light but mean like a chipmunk after a long, hard winter There is no 'c' for compromise in the word "Vanilla."
Only thing that'd get me more excited now would be a Klien Cross frame...
peace
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I think the old glass panes that are thicker on the bottom are spun glass. You blow it out into a bubble then piece the bubble while twirling the tube, and centrifugal force spreads the glass into a flat circle, from which it is then cut into panes, but it is thicker in the middle than on the edges. They put them in the window with the thick part at the bottom because it is just plain easier to get them to stand up that way. Hence, the urban legend that old glass flows downward over time.
Float glass would come out better than than, no? As in almost perfect, like the fenestration we all use today?
yeah - shatter my metaphor like a pane of saftey glass....
Float glass is what we use to make knives out of for ultramicrotomy (when we ain't using diamonds)... its wicked expensive but extremely precise in thickness...
From wiki it'd look like i am refering to old sheet glass....
thanks for catching my obvious F'up... its one metaphor i will not improperly use again
or maybe even not sheet glass - ya prolly right about the bottle glass...
I think they do the blow, pierce and spin technique out at Sturbridge Village.
But all auto glass is float, right? I've heard you can go see it at Ford, with acres of it coming out at a time.
If you're really good I'll tell you how to put window tint on curved windows without tunnels and bubbles...
And the coffed here sucks. I think I need a press for my cube.
how about ya show me?
but i'll need to remove the crap that the one shop put on... any tricks for taking that stuff off?
its past the 3 or 5 year "warranty" and despite my lack of amonia cleaning it ain't as neutral gray as it used to be...
Tell me what kind you want and I'll get it for you. Do you know what brand is on there now?
Getting the old stuff off though... ughhh. Good film will retain the adhesive, but realistically, after 5 years, it is probably not going to come off clean. There are no tricks, and it takes a razor, nasty solvents, or both to get the window clean enough for a re-install.
Once it is clean, you just need an industrial heatgun to shrink the fingers out where there is a compound curve. Some films shrink better than others. There is an art to it. I'm not like a pro who has done it a zillion times, but I've seen it enough to mangage. And BTW, we do the shrinking on the outside of the back window, the apply inside.
For the side windows, there are some other tricks,like trimming 3-4 mm from the edge. Side glass has a bevel and people who try to get it too close end up with a loose edge. The trick is to trim using the window as a guide, then slide it down a bit. Of course, this means using soap and water application solution. It is amazing how many people either don't read the dircections, or simply don't believe that the adhesive will still work after they wet it. It aint' water-soluble... But it is still friggin' hard to do a professional looking job.
on of the guys on my little bro's construction crew (local) used to be a pro-installer... little bro said he's the one to talk to about install...
i'm just concerned with getting the shizzle off... first...
i'd like a metalic film that's silvery black but less silver and more black but still legal... metalic relect heat better and with black car... kinda important...
but it'll have to be a project for next summer - way too much time between now and when i'll realistically do anything about it
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