How about that Elon Musk shopping for Twitter, huh? Let’s speak about it!
No, don’t fear, I’ve little interest in that, I’m largely simply right here to apologize for my absence (or say “You’re welcome” for it if it’s one thing that pleases you) and to submit by means of clarification that I’ve been keen about a seasonal bug. Not solely has this curtailed my weblog curation nevertheless it’s additionally saved me off the bike the previous few days, although let’s be sincere, I’d in all probability be using anyway if I wasn’t additionally taking care of a child with the identical bug. In any case, hopefully it’s about carried out with me, and I did discover myself twiddling with one in all my bikes right now, which is usually a very good signal. Keep in mind after I observed the rear wheel on the Vengeance Bike seemed to be off-center?
Effectively, I lastly received round to swapping wheels with the Normcore Bike and guess what? That wheel (which sits useless straight within the Normcore Bike) additionally seems to be off-center, which implies both that one thing funky is happening with the body, or else all the pieces’s aligned simply superb and the body is asymmetrical or one thing. Regardless, inasmuch as it’s under no circumstances noticeable whereas using, I formally not give a fuck.
Talking of bicycle wheels, I’ve lengthy been a fan of Jobst Brandt, and I hope that sufficient time has handed since his dying that reposting this picture gained’t come off as disrespectfuil:
Within the days after I was nonetheless using round on the unique Normcore Bike, I used to lurk within the newsgroups and browse Brandt’s postings. He was profoundly educated and delightfully irascible, as educated folks can generally be. Though I used to be nonetheless younger and excitable sufficient to be tempted by among the latest biking gimmickry, I at all times basically felt he was “proper,” and that my relationship with lots of that stuff was largely a dalliance.
Anyway, all of that is by means of sharing this Kickstarter, which I simply discovered about from a reader who’s concerned within the challenge:
In our wayward age of crabon and digital gewgaws this e-book may very well be simply what we want.
