How about that Elon Musk shopping for Twitter, huh? Let’s speak about it!
No, don’t fear, I’ve no real interest in that, I’m principally 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 the use of clarification that I’ve been obsessed with a seasonal bug. Not solely has this curtailed my weblog curation but it surely’s additionally saved me off the bike the previous few days, although let’s be sincere, I’d most likely be driving anyway if I wasn’t additionally taking care of a child with the identical bug. In any case, hopefully it’s about executed with me, and I did discover myself fidgeting with one in every of my bikes at the moment, which is usually an excellent signal. Keep in mind once I observed the rear wheel on the Vengeance Bike seemed to be off-center?
Nicely, I lastly obtained round to swapping wheels with the Normcore Bike and guess what? That wheel (which sits lifeless straight within the Normcore Bike) additionally seems to be off-center, which implies both that one thing funky is occurring with the body, or else every little thing’s aligned simply tremendous and the body is asymmetrical or one thing. Regardless, inasmuch as it’s by no means noticeable whereas driving, I formally now 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 loss of life that reposting this picture received’t come off as disrespectfuil:
Within the days once I was nonetheless driving round on the unique Normcore Bike, I used to lurk within the newsgroups and skim Brandt’s postings. He was profoundly educated and delightfully irascible, as educated individuals can generally be. Although I used to be nonetheless younger and excitable sufficient to be tempted by a few of the latest biking gimmickry, I all the time basically felt he was “proper,” and that my relationship with loads of that stuff was principally a dalliance.
Anyway, all of that is by the use of sharing this Kickstarter, which I simply realized about from a reader who’s concerned within the venture:
In our wayward age of crabon and digital gewgaws this guide might be simply what we’d like.
