all we are

so i drove today, trying to rest just a bit before this weekend and the back-to-back fixed gear centuries...but i did not hate myself, i was very good. it seemed like traffic was unusually light.

last night i put in the 107 mm spindle and i can see it will have an effect on q-factor. there is only the slightest amount of clearance between those fat sugino glp crankarms and the bottom bracket cups. it will be okay, but it is noticeably narrow. i haven't messed with removing the cog and a spacer yet, however; that will have to wait. it looks like i will be able to get a nearly perfect chainline with a lockring outside the cog. certainly the smooth way the wheel turns under its own inertia is encouraging.

there is a television commercial for an suv that subaru has named the "tribeca". personally i am waiting for the hyundai "bowery"...maybe a little more my price range. but what gets my gourd is the use of kansas' dust in the wind as the jingle. it is a classic, of course, and well-placed, but it's also a little disconcerting to have that song pop into my head as though i had somehow returned to that era, or worse, never left.