From 9be210c03d9856c0f5a15e773e85d45636fc2c6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: clinton Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 04:56:14 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] html updates --- Bicycle 2012.html | 172 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Bicycle.html | 26 ++++--- Code.html | 9 +-- Homebrewing.html | 93 ++++++++++++++++++------ Music I Enjoy.html | 9 +-- My Bicycle.html | 21 ++++-- index.html | 6 +- 7 files changed, 285 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Bicycle 2012.html diff --git a/Bicycle 2012.html b/Bicycle 2012.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7c4dead --- /dev/null +++ b/Bicycle 2012.html @@ -0,0 +1,172 @@ + + + + + Clinton's New Bike + + + + + + + +

Clinton's New Bike

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+The Wishlist +
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+A Whole Lot of Money Later +
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+Fender Installation +
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+The Wishlist

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After my old frame broke, I thought about what I wanted in a new +bike.

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I was willing to lose the disc brakes for the fender and rack mounts.

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+A Whole Lot of Money Later

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I searched high and low and found a few bikes that almost had what I +wanted... Unfortunately the bike I want doesn't exist for under $1200 +which is a wee bit 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.

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Instead, I got a 2012 Trek 7.3 FX Disc 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 did meet all of my wishlist except for the frame.

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Everyone loves new toys
Everyone loves new toys
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I promptly ordered a replacement battery for my Dual Cross 300 (at +this point, I can wholeheartedly recommend Cygolite's stuff — the +head light outlasted the battery pack and the bike I got it for!), SKS +fenders, and thought about new rack (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.

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+Fender Installation

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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.

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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.

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The front fender, on the other hand, was a bit of a pain. The SKS +fenders do not 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...).

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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.

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That challenge overcome, even more fun was to be had with the +caliper-side stay. 1 The lower stay had to go directly through the +caliper. I found a few different solutions, neither of which I ended +up using.

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I accidentally found the front fender I was never able to mount on my +MTB and ... phew 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.

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Caliper-side fender stay
Caliper-side fender stay
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After two days of cursing at my bike success was mine.

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1. 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.

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* jeffcovey becomes too groggy to read the directions and becomes + the year's first nasal spray overdose fatality. +

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Last Modified: + February 26, 2012

+ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Bicycle.html b/Bicycle.html index 9096ad2..ff4f744 100644 --- a/Bicycle.html +++ b/Bicycle.html @@ -20,10 +20,13 @@ Bicycle Routes
-My Bicycle +My New Bicycle
-Bicycling Journal Entries +My Old Bicycle +
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-My Bicycle

+My New Bicycle

+My Old Bicycle

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Bicycling Journal Entries

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I write about various bicycle related things in my journal.

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<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 +

<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.

Last Modified: - July 22, 2008

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All of my current, and some not so current, projects are browsable via my darcsweb. You might want to take a look at my Lisp related projects -page. I have a few things available on HCoop's gitweb prefixed with +page. I have a few things available on HCoop's gitweb prefixed with clinton/.

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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. +

<captain_krunk> ntk is currently using "telnet fyodor 25" to send email

Last Modified: - March 3, 2011

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-Ginger-Chamomile Wheat Ale +English IPA
-Nowruz (India Pale Ale) +Cernunnos (Ginger-Chamomile Wheat Ale)
-Thoth (Foreign Extra Stout If You Bend a Bit) +Nowruz (India Pale Ale)
-Pale Ale +Thoth (Foreign Extra Stout If You Bend a Bit) +
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-Long Past Brews +Cider / Apfelwein / Cyser +
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-Porter +Porter
-Wheat Ale +Wheat Ale
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-Ginger-Chamomile Wheat Ale

+English IPA + +

We had a lot of leftover ingredients after +Steve's amazing brewing Odyssey, 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).

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Cheap and quick to make this is ready to drink after a mere 11 days -fermentation and another five or six carbonating.

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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.

+Cernunnos (Ginger-Chamomile Wheat Ale)

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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.

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Nowruz (India Pale Ale)

Perhaps my finest recipe to date. A suggestion to continuously hop was heeded and the result was incredible.

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Thoth (Foreign Extra Stout If You Bend a Bit)

An attempt at experimentation—an adjunct (blackstrap molasses), a @@ -126,7 +161,7 @@ spice (star anise), and a reused yeast cake (Ringwood from a -

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Pale Ale

My first brew, resurrected.

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+Cider / Apfelwein / Cyser

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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...

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Occasionally I dump the text notes from my phone to +a page on Steve's wiki.

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Long Past Brews

I present to you my poorly annotated QBrew files from my ancient brews made in the lands of pleasant living.

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Pale Ale

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Porter

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Wheat Ale