weirdness

Just flat out weird. Odd being the one who doesn't do any riding on the weekends if it isn't a race, and I've got no racing coming up.  Chris Hinds crit? I haven't missed that in a while...  ain't gonna happen. Not a chance. My road season has been lately the three or four crits at Ninigret.  Looks like I'm gonna change things up dramatically this year.  NO ROAD SEASON.  Quantum Pro drive train is really pretty hosed.  Beyond worn, and not with a handful of races to put $ into a whole new drive train.  Besides this 10sp shit is horrible.  Wears so fast.  FOR ME. I don't care what the rest of you know-it-all-jackasses have found, FOR ME, this shit wears fast.  January I was at 50%...  now 100%.  I was going to change the chain at 75 like all the fastidious freaks do, but figured commuting 8 miles each way? pfft should take a while to get there.  WRONG.  Oh well.  Now that this cassette is so worn i can activate the worn 10sp race cassettes from the last couple seasons and now I'm not swapping cogs between studded snow tires and commuter tires.

Weird being the only one fresh on the bike monday.  Sure I didn't say anything about it but I did notice everyone complaining about being lumber, luggage, dead, extra coffee, zombie... this morning.

BIKEMAN http://www.bikeman.com (not only a local brick and mortar store, but a great online presence and sponsors a kick ass team) gave my brain the ultimate THANKS FOR THAT ANSWER.  I've been scratching my head, searching the internets (well i did a while back, couldn't find it till this)...  why did I not remember it until I saw the other part It was a shimano tool, and we had em in all the shops I've worked at up until lately around here.  Why? Not sure.  Maybe because that part of the tool is sort of superflous now: http://www.bikeman.com/bicycle-repair-tech-info/name-that-tool/553-name-that-tool-9
but in the second answer the shimano tool number is the Coveted BEST F'N DER HANGER TOOL OUT THERE!  Beats every other single one hands down.

New park one sucks in comparison.  Shoot nothing worked as well as the D/A tool. Even w/o the freewheel chainline/hanger reference alignment part.

TL-RD10 would be awesome to find in my stocking if I believed the fat bearded elf still delivered to jacked old farts like me.
Holy crap there is a cassette version of it: http://i1192.photobucket.com/albums/aa327/parisbike/DURA2.jpg

photo of actual TL-RD10: http://www.bikemontt.com/foro/uploads/monthly_07_2010/post-2092-1278100966,18_thumb.jpg
the orientation of the ruler makes it much easier to use than the new shimano one, and the tension was variable so you could get it to slide in just enough and then stay there.  elegant tool.