wrenching

for me, to call myself a "wrench" is bordering on the absurd, sort of like calling myself a "climber". nonetheless, spent part of the afternoon doing thisandthat in the garage, mostly looking for stuff i couldn't quite find. i did find the hardware to the patio chair, so now everybody in the fam has an official chair to sit in. i also decided to get out the dynohub stuff, thinking that maybe i should look into that. fact is, i have a present, functional dynohub AND light in my possession. when i got the LHT the system actually worked. then the Shimano dynolightbulb burned out. in doing my research i come to find (mostly via peterwhite) that the light i have is the worst ever. so i bought a new light. after setup, it also worked, but in fact it worked ALL THE TIME, even with a "switch". i talked to peter and had some emails from some seemingly knowledgable people, none of whom could figureo out why the switch didn't work. actually i sent one light back, on peter's suggestion, b/c the switch thing wouldn't work out. i maybe should've left it on and dealt with buying bulbs, that that is SO defeatist. eventually i bought another wheel (non-dyno) and just put the stuff up. my latest bikethinking has me considering putting it all back together again. i found mostly everything, but i'm missing a 'female' connector (tiny little copper thing). gonna try to get ahold of one of those and go forward. why the hell not? it's winter and pretty dark/dim most of the time, and dynohub lights are definitely the way to go for commuters who are as concerned with speed. with my skills, we'll see.

a few other mini-projects included:

doing a little this and a little that to the Trek, including taking off that wack back rack. i also sort of not really tried to mount a set of fenders. i need a very small screw for the chainstay bridge, but, again, i might try.

i also fetched the old Cannondale roadbike out of porch storage. i have to find the derailleur and mount it. i think it may be still ridable, depending on the chainstay. at one time i thought it was toast. now i'm thinking i'm fat and flexing the rim too much. at worse, i can mount a 19C and give it a run. really, i would like to have it ridable for Z or L later on. it's beat up, but doable.


probably none of these will come to much fruition, but Hey, it's a thought.