NAHBS heads to Richmond!

**Zen** · 05-12-2009, 04:29 PM

http://www.velonews.com/article/91979
Next February.

Brrr.

**divingbiker** · 05-12-2009, 06:08 PM

Road trip!

**Cataboo** · 05-12-2009, 07:20 PM

I should think about it.

Especially considering that I was so busy ogling someone's fixie conversion on the bike rack this morning at work, that I turned around and walked straight into a pole that really had to have been like 3 inches from me.

**tulip** · 05-13-2009, 05:44 AM

oooh! Party, my house!

**Cataboo** · 05-13-2009, 05:44 AM

Originally Posted by tulip

oooh! Party, my house!

You just want to show off your pretty new kitchen

**tulip** · 05-13-2009, 05:47 AM

Originally Posted by Catriona

You just want to show off your pretty new kitchen

and...?

**divingbiker** · 05-13-2009, 06:38 AM

and we'd get to meet Shiloh!

**Zen** · 05-13-2009, 07:22 AM

Originally Posted by Catriona

I should think about it.

Especially considering that I was so busy ogling someone's fixie conversion on the bike rack this morning at work, that I turned around and walked straight into a pole that really had to have been like 3 inches from me.

Think really hard
just the beginning, not the white shoes part

**tulip** · 05-14-2009, 04:40 AM

Originally Posted by Zen

Think really hard
just the beginning, not the white shoes part

Are you thinking of doing that on my new concrete counters??

**Zen** · 05-14-2009, 08:33 AM

No

I was thinking of Catriona going in there and knocking all the bikes over

**Cataboo** · 05-14-2009, 09:24 AM

Originally Posted by Zen

No

I was thinking of Catriona going in there and knocking all the bikes over

No, no. I'm very respectful of bikes. I don't fair as well for coordination for myself, however. Except for my surly's rear tire/wheel. It had a flat on the rear yesterday. Again. Except I had taken the frame pump off to put the bike on my car, and hadn't thought to put it back to take it to work with me because it's only a mile or two to work. So I checked all the other bikes in the bike racks and noone had a pump I could borrow, so I walked home to get mine.

Saturday, the BF & I tried to go for a ride. We were leaving the house and he noticed the rear tire on his bike was out of true, so he grabbed the rear tire from another bike. We go about 5 miles & his bike starts hissing... Pull over, take his rear tire off, and it's got 3 thorns through it. I had some patches & 1 spare innertube. He had a camelbak with nothing in it (*boggle*)

We tried the patches first, but they weren't self stick & I didn't have glue. Oops. Then we put in the spare innertube. During all this, 3 cyclists pass to ask if we need any help... no, we're fine.

So he starts pumping up the spare innertube, which was one of those long vale tubes for deep dish rims, and then the long valve snaps off.

At this point, no cyclists are passing us to offer us spare innertubes or patches, so he took my rear wheel & road back to get the car.

Then we went hiking instead.

And spent however long fixing rear wheels that night - got my surly wheel flat & true, pumped it up, set it aside, worked on his wheels, and then the surly innertube explodes.

Surly rear wheels do not like me.

So if anyone has a surly, we should lock it out of my reach.

**jobob** · 05-15-2009, 11:10 AM

Cool! Lots of "stupid bike accessories" and the consumers who use them!

**Zen** · 05-15-2009, 12:11 PM

No, this is not Interbike.

**jobob** · 05-15-2009, 06:27 PM

... and you have been to how many NAHBSs ?

**divingbiker** · 05-16-2009, 01:29 AM

Originally Posted by jobob

Cool! Lots of "stupid bike accessories" and the consumers who use them!

Huh, I didn't realize this. I figured it was more like a museum, where you look and ooh and aah and maybe dream about someday ordering a custom bike. I didn't know I'd actually be able to buy stupid bike accessories. Cool!

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