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[Lise]

Good luck, CC. At least you're "stranded" at home. Hope you get to go have fun with your friends.

V--the movie's worth renting. Let me know if you see it, and what you think.

[Veronica]

We just watched 50 First Dates. I don't very often watch movies. This one was cute.

V.

[snapdragen]

I suck at bike maintenance. Bleu is all shiny clean, with brand new Kool Stop brake pads. I can't get the wheels on correctly so they spin. Once I re-fasten the brakes, (v-brakes) the wheels don't turn at all.

I may end up at the LBS...

I have never had this problem before - could it be the Kool Stops?

[KnottedYet]

check the centering you did with the quick releases at the axles. My v-brakes go totally ape-sh*t if I turn the nut of the QR differently than the lever. I end up loosening the whole thing, centering the wheel relative to the v-brakes, then tightening BOTH sides of the QR exactly the same until the lever is ready to be pushed.

Then I never touch the nut again except to hold it steady when I spin the lever side to put the wheel on or off.

Edit: I do this with the brakes' release closed so the pads are in functional position.

[crazycanuck]

K...I'll be your dorkette for the day...I knocked on my dear neighbour's door & asked if he wouldn't mind helping me out. Whatever he did it worked... I think i flooded the engine & Í can't remember what else....

I'm back from my mtn bike ride...but missed going to the race....

Anyone happen to know good "get to know your car"sites for complete twits like me???

Have I mentioned I feel like a dork!!!!

*dum de dumm..*

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[Nanci]

Lucky you have a neighbot that could help!

50 First Dates is an excellent movie. We watched Failure to Launch last night. It was cute. I just don't get the whole Matthew McConaughey thing. Justin Bartha is a lot hotter.

I'm at work again all day today...

[crazycanuck]

Nanci, are you doing OT??

I had so much fun out at Jarrahdale today on my own. It was muddy & muddier!! We've had some wicked rain/wind storms lately & the track was mushy pea gravel-oh joy! Still spooked by one log over but the rock gardens are getting easier.

Oh before i forget-I startled not one but three kangaroos...I'm not sure who was more startled-me or them (grammar grinch please correct)! I was going to stop & just stare but i thought i'd see them again on my next lap...

I often imagine a conversation btwn kanagroos going like thiserr no i'm not on drugs..but thanks for asking )

"well billy bob, I was talking to bobby sue today on the trail in the bush about betty when all of a sudden a black wheelie type thing frightened us"

"oh, well, I never. The nerve ."

"next time, bobby sue's said I'm not 'to hop out of the way,it's just not us"

"well dear, I've heard from bart that it's cool to hop away quickly-it's suave"



*steps away from the computer*

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[Selkie]

... I just don't get the whole Matthew McConaughey thing... ...

Nanci - I agree with you completely. He grosses me out---like he's been "around the block" a bit too much or something, if you get my drift.

[maillotpois]

Don't you hate it when you can't find the tool you need???

I am trying to clean up my "rain bike" so I can put it on the trainer downstairs and have another exercise option. But the chain was gross so I ultrasonic-ed it, and now I don't want to put the beautious clean chain on the bike with the super dirty cassette. But I can't find the little round cassette remover thing-y. (I know there's a word for it.....SK?)

DH used it last getting his bike prepped for Death Ride. For ONCE the misplaced tool is not my fault. But darn it I wanted to finish this project up!!