I look forward to fielding many questions about why those damn bikers think the laws don't apply to them.We're interviewing @bikesnobnyc & @BrooklynSpoke on The Upgrade. Send questions! https://t.co/oFUZb0u7kX http://pic.twitter.com/9ndYOCj3YM— Lifehacker (@lifehacker) November 14, 2017
Rest assured however that I have not been idle. Indeed, when I left you yesterday we were here:
And by the afternoon I had Ol' Piney officially Jones-ified:
Sadly by the time I was finished all I had time for was a brief shakedown ride, but my first impressions were very positive indeed, and I would have disappeared deep into the woods of suburbia if only I'd been at liberty to do so:
I'm looking forward to doing a proper ride soon, and in the coming days I'll experiment with positioning, probably put more tape on the bars, cut myself some new jorts (it's really evolving into that kind of bike) and so forth.
Oh, and if you're wondering about the trouble I encountered whilst switching over to cabal-activated dick breaks, it was that the rear Avid BB7 brake caliper did not fit under the chainstay. Upon hearing I was having this problem Jones were kind enough to offer some possible solutions. However, given how insufficient the clearance was I had my doubts, which is probably silly of me since they're easily a thousand times smarter about bikes than I am. More importantly though, these solutions also required items I did not have on hand, and the bottom line was that if I didn't finish the bike right then there was no telling when I'd be able to get back to it. (The life of a semi-professional bike blogger and one-person media empire is quite hectic, as you can no doubt imagine.) It was either get it done or let it sit until Thanksgiving. So I dug out this Forté-branded Tektro caliper I happened to have (the brake set was on sale years ago for like nineteen cents) and whadya know, it fit perfectly:
Indeed, as I put it on it remembered I actually like these brakes better than the Avids, so I was looking forward to installing the front one as well and calling the whole debacle a happy accident--until it turned out that the long brake pad tabs on the Tektro/Forté interfered with the brake adapter. And since that was the only 180mm adapter I had, it was on with the Avid:
So now I'm palping a pretty sweet Forté/Avid mechanical disc brake mullet, which will no doubt inspire disgust in all the mountain Freds but which I find oddly satisfying.
And once that all-weather Cambium comes in I'll really be in business--well, business in the front, anyway, because the party's in the back.
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