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[crazycanuck]

I've been happily lurking and haven't had a chance to post.

Pumpkin pie...you guys can have all of it as i'm not a big fan. Why are you making pumpkin pie now? When's US thanksgiving??

Nanci, that's a beautiful snake you have there.

I think...I say I think..I think i ran over a small snake or something on my way home from work tonight..It didn't look like a twig and i swear it moved. I could just be on drugs HOWEVER as it's getting hotter (it was 31c today) whatever it was may have just been sunning itself..

I need help with my Oct SS gift. I have no idea which socks from TE or anywhere else really to get her. I know this person doésn't live near a bike shop and want to make the gift special. As it's heading into winter up yonder what socks are good? HELP..

I had a crappy bike ride home tonight..UGH..My legs just didn't want to mozy..

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[Veronica]

I like to wear wool socks in the winter. TE has a whole bunch of Smart Wool ones.
DeFeet also has some nice wool socks, all right here at TE.

V.

[crazycanuck]

I found some sockies for her...Gift wrapped too!!! Thanks TE.

[Nanci]

I don't have any Smart Wool cycling socks, but I have a ton of hiking/running socks from SW, and they are NICE. Not too hot to wear in the summer, even.

[DebW]

Pumpkin pie...you guys can have all of it as i'm not a big fan. Why are you making pumpkin pie now? When's US thanksgiving??

Because pumpkins are ripe now. There won't be any fresh ones near Thanksgiving (late November). I better go buy another pumpkin and freeze the puree for Turkey Day.

Thank you for all the well wishes. I survived the tests. I was not allowed to sleep through them as they needed to flash lots of annoying strobes at me. I do not think I will get the results until my next Neurologist meeting Dec 22.

Okay, I will confess, I do not care for pumpkin pie, but I would however love to visit and have a cup of coffee. BTW, the pie looks lovely.

If I missed anyone or a major event, I apologize.

BMO3, glad you survived the tests free of seizures and got it over with. If you visit me you'll have to bring your own coffee - I don't imbibe and if there's coffee in my house it's because a visitor left it unknown years ago (it would be in the freezer however). How do you manage to respond to 9 people in one post, and then feel compelled to appologize if you missed someone? You're amazing.

Nanci, Addy is such a cute little thing.

[Nanci]

So, BMO3, if you didn't have seizures, does that mean you may be able to resume driving??

[mimitabby]

Nanci, I'm no big reptile fan, but I really love your photos of your little snakes. I am glad there are people like you who cherish and care for these beasties.

My son's bike: I didn't buy it for him, i just modified it!!
It's a MIYATA, a 20+ something year old bike that older son had converted to a fixy, single gear, no coasting sort of bike. It had a channel on the top tube with 3 fixtures for something, a cable ?? but there's no cable, there were just these 3 metal things which could catch on your crotch if you leaned on the top tube. older son is not mechanical at all. Younger son is mechanical. Both are what we call "Starving students" so they are always trying to find cheap ways of celebrating each other's birthdays. So I knew Olderson hated those metal things sticking up on the top tube and I also knew that youngerson could take care of it and do a good job. So I suggested the whole thing, and he loved it (a free, cool birthday present) and came over the next weekend and did the surgery.
the rest was up to me. Finding paint that matched (I couldn't, it's a brownish maroon) and priming and painting the bike was my job.
I found a close match at the hobby store and also used it to cover up a lot of dings in the paint ( I love doing that, too bad I couldn't find a better match)
so now the bike is more attractive and safer for his crotch, anyway!

[DebW]

My son's bike: I didn't buy it for him, i just modified it!!
It's a MIYATA, a 20+ something year old bike that older son had converted to a fixy, single gear, no coasting sort of bike. It had a channel on the top tube with 3 fixtures for something, a cable ?? but there's no cable, there were just these 3 metal things which could catch on your crotch if you leaned on the top tube. older son is not mechanical at all. Younger son is mechanical. Both are what we call "Starving students" so they are always trying to find cheap ways of celebrating each other's birthdays. So I knew Olderson hated those metal things sticking up on the top tube and I also knew that youngerson could take care of it and do a good job. So I suggested the whole thing, and he loved it (a free, cool birthday present) and came over the next weekend and did the surgery.

so now the bike is more attractive and safer for his crotch, anyway!

The 3 metal things are for the rear brake cable housing. They aren't so dangerous if you have a cable through them, but on a fixie with no rear brake, I can see where you'd want to remove them.

[mimitabby]

The 3 metal things are for the rear brake cable housing. They aren't so dangerous if you have a cable through them, but on a fixie with no rear brake, I can see where you'd want to remove them.

Ah!! thank you for explaining. It does seem to be a strange place for the brake cable housing, on the top of the top tube!

[KnottedYet]

I adore the picture of stinky dog and of course you. You are adorable.

Aw, shucks...

[DebW]

Ah!! thank you for explaining. It does seem to be a strange place for the brake cable housing, on the top of the top tube!

That's where it is on my bike (frame from around 1985). Where is it on your bike?

edit: Ah, I see on your Bianchi page that your bike and many of the Bianchis have the cable on the bottom of the top tube, but Regina's Eros has it on the top. Just different ways to do it. Sometimes the cable holders were little metal bands that could be removed completely with a screwdriver. Sometimes they were braze-ons to allow cable housing to pass through. Sometimes they were braze-ons with a housing stop, so that bare cable ran along the tube.

[mimitabby]

I just cheated, brought up the bianchi page .. it's on the bottom of the top tube.

[KnottedYet]

Flossie's in on the left side of the top tube. And it's bare cable with a stop.

[Bikingmomof3]

BMO3, glad you survived the tests free of seizures and got it over with. If you visit me you'll have to bring your own coffee - I don't imbibe and if there's coffee in my house it's because a visitor left it unknown years ago (it would be in the freezer however).

I am just as happy with tea or water.

How do you manage to respond to 9 people in one post, and then feel compelled to appologize if you missed someone? You're amazing.

I love reading and I usually remember what I read, thankfully, but I do worry that I will leave out a major detail.

[Bikingmomof3]

So, BMO3, if you didn't have seizures, does that mean you may be able to resume driving??

Thanks for asking Nanci. The short answer is no. Not having a seizure just means my medicine is working. I would have thought 14 years of not having a seizure would have been enough of a testament to my medicine working.
I was banned from driving because of my stroke and potential high risk of another one. The tests were to determine how much damage was done and if I have any clots. The potential of a seizure was just an added bonus.

I assume I shall be cleared to drive again. I am forever banned from driving with a migraine, which pretty much takes out 150 days, give or take, out of the year.

It looks as though I am on this new medicine for the long haul. I think my body is getting used to it. at least I am telling myself that, so I can get back on my bike. For now, I am content running, but my bike sure is lonely.