Friday, March 06, 2020

balance?

restored a little, surprisingly or not it was after hanging out at the Bike shop up on Hope st.

What's the name of the shop? Ask me at the end of March.

But just hanging out there talking about riding, selling, fixing and history and all that stuff was good.

Not as in I want to should be doing this full time, no more of a there was something missing and it was the shop. whats the term for polyworkory, you know polyamory for work/job. Like you need more than one to feel complete? That a thing?

Or is it just me?

I didn't actually do any work but well, season is starting soon. We'll see how this plays out.

Chip posted some bullshit about the complaining leading to anxiety click bait thing that probably showed up on his fruit phone as a targeted hippie love happy faceplace thing. I mean that with all respect, for the marketing people that were able to target so successfully. (winky emoji). I've been both w/ or w/o the complaining, disconnected, i'm just broken most of the time.

But maybe more whole soon?

Got a sweet new pump in the mail to talk about, try out share and show off. I am excited about it.

DIGITAL GAUGE MOTHERFUCKERS! 1 PSI accuracy. How precise or calibrated? DON'T CARE - gotta be good enough to be repeatable and WAY easier to put 11 PSI in those 29r+ monster truck tires on the Stache.

Also no reason not to ever get the pressure not perfectly dialed. No more meh close enough.

LETS GET THIS ON THE MONEY NOW.
No, i have not taking the packaging off. 

It is raining, and snowing, at the same time. The mix was just starting as I got home.

Maybe tomorrow, or def before Dirt Church if I can make it there with what's going on. And no, I don't know quite what is going on other than maybe finally i'll have a mobile device that won't need to be plugged in and have a stainless bolt mechanically pressing into the back to work. Kind of still undecided about size, go bigger (easier to read/see photos/edit them longer standby battery) but bigger not fit as well in pants pocket. 

I like the EFTA breakdown/explain about what each series stands for. 

Kind of want to do them all, but shouldn't. Also like I said before - ignore the series and just do the ones I want/can and maybe not do all the SS ones maybe not all the Marathon ones, or maybe do them all...  WHY NOT.

Def need to get some lighter/stronger wheels. Maybe find a race tire with more bite than the XR2 that doesn't weigh 3kg like the XR4. okay they're really more like 2.2kg, at anyrate they are not light but they are grippy and predictable and confident.   But that said there aren't many light and aggressively knobby 3" tires. 

Time change this weekend is gonna make Dirt Church hurt a bit more but maybe that's a good thing to get ready for a really early start to Monday.

i just think both of those things means another long week.

Maybe i'm just feeling better from not seeing all the horrible shit happening via the twitter filter. Or not feeling like I'm missing out because i'm not actually in the group of closely connected people doing cool shit but i'm close enough to find out. WHatever it is it is good.

Although - After the way the week started and kept going - not many ways to go but up.

Hmm...

talking about cycles and highs and lows and peaks and valleys. In cycling is the peak the good part or the valley? you get to the bottom of the valley and you're like awe fuck now I have to climb. maybe the climb is relentless and twisty and you can't see the top, and you're a big clydesdale, a classics rider, a sprinter, in other words ginormous compared to those climbers. The peak, the summit is the start of the good, the valley is awesome as long as it stays flat. Headwinds are fine down there... I guess a mental up and down doesn't have to be literal in the cycling metaphor.

Maybe I'm in the valley, hey, need a draft? sit on my wheel for a spell, as long as you need. I'm feeling like pedaling into the wind right now, esp after that stupid motherfucking hill. 

#AmorFatiMotherfuckers
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