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+ <h1>Clinton's New Bike</h1>
+ <div class="contents">
+<dl>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec1">The Wishlist</a>
+</dt>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec2">A Whole Lot of Money Later</a>
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<dl>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec3">Fender Installation</a>
+</dt>
+</dl>
+</dd>
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+The Wishlist</h2>
+
+<p class="first">After my old frame broke, I thought about what I wanted in a new
+bike.</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Mechanical disc brakes (ease of maintenance mostly)</li>
+<li>Lugged steel frame (why not?)</li>
+<li>Indexed shifters</li>
+<li>Rear rack mounts (without horrible hacks required) and maybe mounts
+for a front rack too (nice for multi-day treks)</li>
+<li>Front and rear fender mounts (again, without horrible hacks)</li>
+<li>No suspension (extra annoying maintenance and pain with things like
+fenders)</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>I was willing to lose the disc brakes for the fender and rack mounts.</p>
+
+
+<h2><a name="sec2" id="sec2"></a>
+A Whole Lot of Money Later</h2>
+
+<p class="first">I searched high and low and found a few bikes that <em>almost</em> had what I
+wanted... Unfortunately the bike I want doesn't exist for under $1200
+which is a <em>wee bit</em> much for my liking. Months of searching in vain on
+Craigslist for anything less expensive failed, and I gave up on the
+dream of my ideal bike.</p>
+
+<p>Instead, I got a <a href="http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/bikes/town/fitness/fx/7_3_fx_disc/">2012 Trek 7.3 FX Disc</a> for the low low price of $720 +
+a painful bit of sales tax. A few hundred more than I had wanted to
+spend, but it <em>did</em> meet all of my wishlist except for the frame.</p>
+
+<table class="image" width="100%">
+ <tr><td align="center"><img src="img/photos/bicycle/2012-01-01/new-bike-with-fenders.jpg" alt="Everyone loves new toys" /></td></tr>
+ <tr><td align="center" class="image-caption">Everyone loves new toys</td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>I promptly ordered a replacement battery for my Dual Cross 300 (at
+this point, I can wholeheartedly recommend <a href="http://cygolite.com">Cygolite</a>'s stuff — the
+head light outlasted the battery pack <strong>and</strong> the bike I got it for!), SKS
+fenders, and thought about <a href="http://www.jandd.com/detail.asp?PRODUCT_ID=FREXP">new rack</a> (but ended up reusing my old rack
+for now). As of January 1, 2012 I am ridiculously out of shape and
+barely able to go anywhere, but I'm hoping in a few weeks my entire
+body will stop hurting after a few hill climbs.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="sec3" id="sec3"></a>
+Fender Installation</h3>
+
+<p class="first">It is a well known fact that SKS packages their fenders with
+instructions designed to deceive and punish half-men who read them. Of
+course, I tried reading them despite not really needing to (and,
+indeed, ended up led astray). After spending ages getting the new stay
+ends on (which I ended up having to remove from the front later) the
+real fun started.</p>
+
+<p>The rear fender, I am happy to report, went on without a hitch. The
+caliper-side braze-on was positioned such that I didn't even have to
+cut or re-route the stay like on my old
+mountain-biked-turned-commuting-rig.</p>
+
+<p>The front fender, on the other hand, was a bit of a pain. The SKS
+fenders do <strong>not</strong> come with the M6 bolt needed for mounting the fender to
+the crown (riddle me this: why the hell is that an M6 bolt when every
+other bolt on the bike is M5?). I'm guessing because most bikes have a
+brake bolt you can piggy back on (then again, the kit comes with
+about five extra bolts that have seemingly no use on any bike...).</p>
+
+<p>A trek to Home Despot proved fruitless; a trek to the other super
+chain also yielded disappointing results. Both only carried plain
+steel metric bolts... I hacked it for a while until I could hop down
+to the bike shop to get a proper stainless steel bolt.</p>
+
+<p>That challenge overcome, even more fun was to be had with the
+caliper-side stay. <sup><a class="footref" name="fnr.1" href="#fn.1">1</a></sup> The lower stay had to go directly through the
+caliper. I found a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seditiouscanary/3358079803/">few</a> different <a href="http://www.bikeforums.net/archive/index.php/t-609665.html">solutions</a>, neither of which I ended
+up using.</p>
+
+<p>I accidentally found the front fender I was never able to mount on my
+MTB and ... <em>phew</em> breathing room! Having two spare stays made it easier
+to experiment and eventually I found that cutting the the lower stay
+arm and mounting the stay to the upper rack eyelet was the easiest
+solution. This does require not using the newfangled integrated end
+caps (luckily I had the caps from the old set) because the insertion
+angle of the caliper-side stay isn't quite straight.</p>
+
+<table class="image" width="100%">
+ <tr><td align="center"><img src="img/photos/bicycle/2012-01-01/caliper-side-fender-stay.jpg" alt="Caliper-side fender stay" /></td></tr>
+ <tr><td align="center" class="image-caption">Caliper-side fender stay</td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>After two days of cursing at my bike success was mine.</p>
+
+
+<p class="footnote"><a class="footnum" name="fn.1" href="#fnr.1">1.</a> Actually, I hacked the crown bolt mount using a smaller bolt and a
+nut first, and then solved the stay issue... followed by despair
+and pain as I discovered the front of the fender hit the tire. It
+seemed like this was because of the weird stay mount hack (the fender
+was under a bit of tension) and I wasted quite a bit of time
+adjusting the stays only to realize ... the fender wasn't flush
+against the crown. D'oh.</p>
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<a href="#sec1">Bicycle Routes</a>
</dt>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec2">My Bicycle</a>
+<a href="#sec2">My New Bicycle</a>
</dt>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec3">Bicycling Journal Entries</a>
+<a href="#sec3">My Old Bicycle</a>
+</dt>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec4">Bicycling Journal Entries</a>
</dt>
</dl>
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<h2><a name="sec2" id="sec2"></a>
-<a href="My%20Bicycle.html">My Bicycle</a></h2>
+<a href="Bicycle%202012.html">My New Bicycle</a></h2>
<h2><a name="sec3" id="sec3"></a>
+<a href="My%20Bicycle.html">My Old Bicycle</a></h2>
+
+
+<h2><a name="sec4" id="sec4"></a>
<a href="http://journal.unknownlamer.org/tag/bicycle">Bicycling Journal Entries</a></h2>
-<p class="first">I write about various bicycle related things in my journal.</p>
+
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</p>
-<p class="cke-footer"><RetroJ`> here's something interesting about one of these chinese
- pop music videos I've found.. it illustrates the
- cultural barrier nicely. this young female pop star is
- wearing a t-shirt with the confederate flag
+<p class="cke-footer"><emag> http://www.etonline.com/celebrities/news/38722/
+<Leebert> emag: I don't see any other source claiming she's dead,
+ just collapsed.
+<tim_m> what's wrong with et online?
+<ascii_phil> It keeps trying to use Skype to phone home.
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-<p class="cke-footer">The body bags and little rags of children torn in two,
-And the jellied brains of those who remain to put the finger right on you
-As the madmen play on words and make us all dance to their song
-To the tune of starving millions to make a better kind of gun.
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<dd>
<dl>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec3">Ginger-Chamomile Wheat Ale</a>
+<a href="#sec3">English IPA</a>
</dt>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec4">Nowruz (India Pale Ale)</a>
+<a href="#sec4">Cernunnos (Ginger-Chamomile Wheat Ale)</a>
</dt>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec5">Thoth (Foreign Extra Stout If You Bend a Bit)</a>
+<a href="#sec5">Nowruz (India Pale Ale)</a>
</dt>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec6">Pale Ale</a>
+<a href="#sec6">Thoth (Foreign Extra Stout If You Bend a Bit)</a>
+</dt>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec7">Pale Ale</a>
</dt>
</dl>
</dd>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec7">Long Past Brews</a>
+<a href="#sec8">Cider / Apfelwein / Cyser</a>
+</dt>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec9">Long Past Brews</a>
</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec8">Pale Ale</a>
+<a href="#sec10">Pale Ale</a>
</dt>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec9">Porter</a>
+<a href="#sec11">Porter</a>
</dt>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec10">Wheat Ale</a>
+<a href="#sec12">Wheat Ale</a>
</dt>
</dl>
</dd>
well only work in Brewtarget.</p>
<h3><a name="sec3" id="sec3"></a>
-Ginger-Chamomile Wheat Ale</h3>
+English IPA</h3>
+
+<p class="first">We had a lot of leftover ingredients after
+<a href="http://pursuing.calefaction.org/2011/11/the-things-i-do-for-love/">Steve's amazing brewing Odyssey</a>, most of them English grains and
+hops. As such I threw together the leftovers into what seemed like it
+would be a good approximation of an English IPA. We even threw this
+onto the yeast cake of the last batch in the wedding brews (an ESB).</p>
-<p class="first">Cheap and quick to make this is ready to drink after a mere 11 days
-fermentation and another five or six carbonating.</p>
+<p>Unfortunately, it was a wee bit underwhemling. Since we have a fancy
+temperature controlled fridge now, I decided to brew around 68F (no
+risk of overshooting). It came out slightly musty and generally
+bland... still, for being made from leftovers it's alright.</p>
<ul>
-<li><a href="beer-recipes/7-Ginger%20Chamomile%20Wheat/ginger_chamomile_wheat-7_a.html">Batch A 2011-05-04</a> (<a href="beer-recipes/7-Ginger%20Chamomile%20Wheat/ginger_chamomile_wheat-7_a.xml">source</a>)</li>
+<li><a href="beer-recipes/8-English%20IPA/english_ipa-8_a.html">Batch A</a> 2011-10-16 (<a href="beer-recipes/8-English%20IPA/english_ipa-8_a.xml">source</a>)</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="sec4" id="sec4"></a>
+Cernunnos (Ginger-Chamomile Wheat Ale)</h3>
+
+<p class="first">Cheap and quick to make, this is ready to drink after a quick
+fermentation and as soon as the bottles carbonate. The chamomile
+really shines here adding a honey-like note; the ginger adds
+additional earthiness and a bit of zing; Sorachi Ace hops finish
+everything up with notes of lemon cream.</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li><a href="beer-recipes/7-Ginger%20Chamomile%20Wheat/ginger_chamomile_wheat-7_a.html">Batch A 2011-05-04</a> (<a href="beer-recipes/7-Ginger%20Chamomile%20Wheat/ginger_chamomile_wheat-7_a.xml">source</a>)</li>
+<li><a href="beer-recipes/7-Ginger%20Chamomile%20Wheat/ginger_chamomile_wheat-7_b.html">Batch B 2011-07-05</a> (<a href="beer-recipes/7-Ginger%20Chamomile%20Wheat/ginger_chamomile_wheat-7_b.xml">source</a>)</li>
+</ul>
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec5" id="sec5"></a>
Nowruz (India Pale Ale)</h3>
<p class="first">Perhaps my finest recipe to date. A suggestion to continuously hop was
heeded and the result was incredible.</p>
<ul>
-<li><a href="beer-recipes/4-India%20Pale%20Ale/india_pale_ale-4_a.html">Batch A</a> (<a href="beer-recipes/4-India%20Pale%20Ale/india_pale_ale-4_a.xml">source</a>)</li>
-<li><a href="beer-recipes/4-India%20Pale%20Ale/india_pale_ale-4_b.html">Batch B</a> (<a href="beer-recipes/4-India%20Pale%20Ale/india_pale_ale-4_b.xml">source</a>)</li>
+<li><a href="beer-recipes/4-India%20Pale%20Ale/india_pale_ale-4_a.html">Batch A</a> 2011-03-20 (<a href="beer-recipes/4-India%20Pale%20Ale/india_pale_ale-4_a.xml">source</a>)</li>
+<li><a href="beer-recipes/4-India%20Pale%20Ale/india_pale_ale-4_b.html">Batch B</a> 2011-06-11 (<a href="beer-recipes/4-India%20Pale%20Ale/india_pale_ale-4_b.xml">source</a>) This adds Centennial and expanded the
+dry hopping a bit — the Centennial was out of place, and the extra
+dry hopping overpowered the fruity notes present in Batch A. But
+the extra bitterness and attenuation definitely improved things.</li>
+<li><a href="beer-recipes/4-India%20Pale%20Ale/india_pale_ale-4_c.html">Batch C</a> 2012-01-11 (<a href="beer-recipes/4-India%20Pale%20Ale/india_pale_ale-4_c.xml">source</a>) Back to the basics, but adding Citra to
+the boil and using Chico Yeast. First impressions are: even better
+than Batch A!</li>
</ul>
-<h3><a name="sec5" id="sec5"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec6" id="sec6"></a>
Thoth (Foreign Extra Stout If You Bend a Bit)</h3>
<p class="first">An attempt at experimentation—an adjunct (blackstrap molasses), a
</ul>
-<h3><a name="sec6" id="sec6"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec7" id="sec7"></a>
Pale Ale</h3>
<p class="first">My first brew, resurrected.</p>
-<h2><a name="sec7" id="sec7"></a>
+<h2><a name="sec8" id="sec8"></a>
+Cider / Apfelwein / Cyser</h2>
+
+<p class="first">My girlfriend hates carbonation and so, inspired by Edwort's
+Applewine, I started experimenting with batches of cider. I'm keeping
+some notes, but doing it more by "I guess this is the gravity..." than
+with brewing due to the fairly different production
+methods. Eventually I hope to get wine making down a bit better...</p>
+
+<p>Occasionally I dump the text notes from my phone to
+<a href="http://wiki.calefaction.org/ClintonEbadi/Cider">a page on Steve's wiki</a>.</p>
+
+
+<h2><a name="sec9" id="sec9"></a>
Long Past Brews</h2>
<p class="first">I present to you my poorly annotated <a href="http://www.usermode.org/code.html">QBrew</a> files from my ancient brews
made in the lands of pleasant living.</p>
-<h3><a name="sec8" id="sec8"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec10" id="sec10"></a>
Pale Ale</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
-<h3><a name="sec9" id="sec9"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec11" id="sec11"></a>
Porter</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
-<h3><a name="sec10" id="sec10"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec12" id="sec12"></a>
Wheat Ale</h3>
<ul>
</a>
</p>
-<p class="cke-footer">"Karen loved animals. Unfortunately the cheetahs betrayed her trust,"
-Libot said.
+<p class="cke-footer">If nothing in the world can change our children will inherit nothing
</p>
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- July 11, 2011</p>
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here is also where the influence of their producer can start to be
felt—a lot of things seem to be done for the sake of <em>sensibility</em>.</p>
-<p>The last two Skyclad album with Martin Walkyier (the original singer)
+<p>The last two Skyclad albums with Martin Walkyier (the original singer)
see a two step return to a more metal style, but this time something
resembling <em>Powerslave</em> era Maiden with heavy folk overtones rather than
Testament. Both albums are fairly strong, and have a few songs that
</a>
</p>
-<p class="cke-footer"> Ruled by the ebb of my oceans
- Slaves to the dusk and the dawn
- Your petri dish civilisations
- Are buried and born
+<p class="cke-footer">If nothing in the world can change our children will inherit nothing
</p>
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- March 3, 2011</p>
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<dt>
<a href="#sec10">The Death of a Friend</a>
</dt>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec11">A New Star Rises</a>
+</dt>
</dl>
</div>
a bit odd; fate would have it that the chainstay had fractured. And so
my first Aluminum Steed was laid to rest. Rest in Peace dear friend.</p>
+
+<h2><a name="sec11" id="sec11"></a>
+A New Star Rises</h2>
+
+<p class="first">After months of being a bit broke (bikes are ... expensive) and then
+trying to scrounge up a used bike on Craigslist for a few months, I
+caved and got a <a href="Bicycle%202012.html">new bike</a>.</p>
+
<hr />
<p class="footnote"><a class="footnum" name="fn.1" href="#fnr.1">1.</a> It turns out that I was underestimating the bond; as of late
September 2010 the reflective tape has only minorly peeled around
</a>
</p>
-<p class="cke-footer"> To Wise Man's Son and Wednesday's Child all is white that is not black
- They dance in symbiotic deadlock; one step forward two steps back
- Playing karmic snakes and ladders (All your sins will find you out)
- When all your gains are lost in vain on cosmic wings and roundabouts
+<p class="cke-footer"><RetroJ`> here's something interesting about one of these chinese
+ pop music videos I've found.. it illustrates the
+ cultural barrier nicely. this young female pop star is
+ wearing a t-shirt with the confederate flag
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- March 3, 2011</p>
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-<p class="cke-footer">Leebert: You don't listen to music.
-Leebert: You listen to the audio equivalent of /dev/urandom
+<p class="cke-footer">And did those feet in ancient time
+Walk upon England's mountains green?
+And was the holy Lamb of God
+On England's pleasant pastures seen?
</p>
<p class="cke-timestamp">Last Modified:
March 3, 2011</p>