Whoa, I thought I lost the keys to this place.. so much dust everywhere! I think a while ago I said I’d write here more often.. hmm. Well, I.. won’t promise any premises. Though speaking of premises…
.. Work has moved to new digs! We’re in Pyrmont now, which is much closer to home so I can cycle there. Oh, yea, I bought a pushbike a while ago. And a rack for the back with a bag what has panniers. Fo’ shizzley.
I don’t store it there anymore… carrying it up three storeys got old real fast. A few weeks ago a got a little overzealous with the pump and ended up with a blowout of the rear tyre on the way to work.. pushing it back up the hill was Not Fun. Though, speaking of bike problems…
.. Me and some of the lads from work were going for a morning coffee and B&E (7/10), up the Old Pacific Hwy on our motored bikes. A nice twisty, emtpy road that runs along side a major freeway. Luvverly. Just as we were getting to the good bit though I had a clonk clonk clonk from the rear brake.. and not much braking. Once I pulled over to survey the situation I found that there were no bolts holding the rear brake caliper in place.. which is bad. I decided not to ride up a fun road at fun velocities and instead limp home using only the front brake.
There should be bolts in there…
Not so effective up like that…
I decided that the best course of action would be to take it back to the place that changed the rear brake pads two days prior (amoungst other things) and be all ‘wtf mate ^^’. Apparently the vibrations caused by scoring on the disk affecting the new pads that weren’t bedded in caused the bolts to go. Most people seem to think they just cocked it up, but at least it works now and I got safely home. Speaking of home..
.. I’ve been thinking about the place I’d most like to live in. Essentially it boils down to a shed. I want a relatively spacious box which will at one end have space for my bikes and a bunch of tools with which I can create furnishings and whatnot for the other end. That way I can endlessly modify it to add new things like a bar and whatnot. This was somewhat influenced by the new James May series Man Lab. Also it just seems like a lot of fun, and I want an excuse to run an elaborate model train line around the place. One day… one day.
And now, back to radio silence. Until the next time…