ITS ALIVE!!!!!!

The Fish is back, and its Carbon???

So the saga is over, and fairly painlessly I might add. Called the bike shop on Friday afternoon and they said that my new frame was in and ready for pickup. So after a half day of work in the office I was off to see what the bike shop had in store for me.

They had a blue, disk frame, what they called a "Marlin" replacement frame. Did the pick up, swap out my green Marlin and off I went to my local LBS. When I got there, Dustin made the comment "Why are the chain stays black, while the rest of it looked blue through the bubble wrap. After a quick unwrap, we discoverd that the entire rear triangle is CARBON??? Ok, while cool, on a MT bike?
So I picked up my box of parts, fittingly in a beer case, and off to pick up Dave, and then back to his house for beer and bike assembly. The LBS pressed in a new head set for me, a very nice Cane Creek S-3, and we were off to the races.

We got everything put on with the exception of the cables, the lengths were off and some of the houseing needed to be adjusted, and lets face it with out the cutter, getting though thouse housings is a pain in the butt.

So Saterday monrning I dropped the bike off at the shop, when I pulled in there was a Local police cruiser paked in the parking lot with the lights rolling? After walking in, I discoverd that someone drive friday night and shot out each of the front windows with a BB gun. Someone needs beaten! No one was in the shop at the time, and no bikes were injured, but glass everywhere.

The LBS was unable to work on it Saterday, they truly get bussier they a one leged man in a butt kicking contest. So I figured I would have it back on Monday-Wensday.

Today:

I woke up not feeling well, Have VPN access and decided that rather then drive and pay to park, I would work from home. At about 2:30 I got a call that my bike was set up and ready to go. I drove over and picked her up. Three new cables were in order, seems that my new rear break cable was fraying in side one of the housing, going to have to send a email about that.

One major issue that I ran into that Dave pointed out was that the rear end has no braise ons for a rack??? Probaly due to the carbon read. So I was thinking about getting a clamp on, after talking to the LBS they had me try theses clamp on braise ons and a standard rack. Unfornitualy it was not going to work, so I took it back, got a ten dollar credit and a new clamp on painer rack.

After 30 min or so of doing the final set up, and making a "bending" adjustment to the painer rack to get the bags away from the rear wheal I am all set up and ready to ride.

I might be a woozy, but I'm not telling...

Updates:

Monday;

I rode to work on Monday, got to Dave's house early, carpet bagged for a while and then hit the road.

This was the first time I rode in from his house with the lower profile tires on his bike, much faster. I took the long hill up to UPS then down into the green belt, taking the long way around PennDOT, gravel fun with these tires. I might be going crazy, always a good chance, but I think that with fattie tires his bike is faster in the gravel, then mine.

Go to work just fine, WOW- what time did we leave, I took just about the longest way to work I can, and I was still there 5 min faster then my usual.

Home was also wonderful, seems that almost killing my self ridding home on Friday was a good thing for the legs, I passed,, no FLEW by four people on confront bike behind PennDOT. Was some what funny, they had the largest handle bar mirrors I have ever seen, and yet they had no idea I was there.

Put in the extra 4 miles going out to Belco to meet up with Dave, always seem strange when I have to climb a hill that two months ago almost gave me a stroke and now Its,,, well,, its just not really that bad. I mean its still a hill, it still sucks, but at the top of it I was thinking to my self, humph, I'm winded, but my legs aren't killing me.

Got back to Dave's house with out problem.
Beer GOOD!!!!!!

Tuesday:

Got up late, got a shower to wake up. Crawled back into bed beside the not a wife. Got to Dave's house at about 7:15am, Did not expect to see him at all today, figured he rolled out at about 10 till seven. There were thunderstorms rolling thought the Central PA region today, so the ride in was SPIRITED. Did not get wet till I hit the bike rack, then it was like taking a shower. All in all a good ride, I made it short, rode up to UPS, down to Cameron Street from there, then as the sun started to set again. (can't say I blame it, there are days when I feel that way) I decided to take the short rt in. Took Cameron street back into Harrisburg, up over the rail-rode tracks to PennDOT (hate that hill) and then into work. Total time was about 20 min.

With the wonderful cool weather, I'm thinking about taking off a little bit early, seeing how light I can make my bags and heading for Dave's work. I'm sure I will not make it the hole way, but I would love to drop another mile or two on to the ride for the night. Might even try the climb up behind Stealton again. That hill SUCKS!!!

Side Note: Nothing from the LBS yet about my fisher, I'm really hoping to get the new frame back soon. I'm hoping to take that bike with me on the Honey Moon.

Whos the Stupid Dummie, ME!!!!!

The Ride Home...

So some jack a#@ put a blog on my site today about how they thought ridding in from their home to work was a good idea.



To my ultimite shgrin, pain and suffering that jack a#@ was me.


So I relised at about Linglestown road that my house is at the top of the second highest point in Harrisburg. So while the ride in from Harrisburg to Linglestown rd was wonderfull, after that it started to suck.


They say a picture is worth a thousand words, then this should be all that I need to say.

I DID IT!!!

My New Ride into Work...

Distant: 9.5 Miles - one way
Elevation Change: 527 Feet of
Time: 55 min (first time)

Well, "breath" I, "breath" finally, "breath" rode, "breath" from, "breath" my, "breath" house, "breath" to, "breath" work, "breath" with, "breath" out, "breath" driving, "breath" half, "breath" way, "breath" first, "breath""breath""breath".

For those of you that can't read fat.

Well, I finally rode from my house to work without driving half way first.


For many reasons I was not able to ride this week, I can list them out but its just life stuff, things to do after work, sleep in one day, shoulder feeling like crap, yada, yada, yoda, yoda.
Last night I got it in my head that I was going to make the ride, the HOLE ride from my little home, to the big bad office, with out driving to Dave's house first. (missing beer, sad, sniff, sniff)

So at 7am today, (figured about an hour was all I needed to make the trip) I hit the road.

Out of my house there is a beautiful down hill run, WOW Dave's M80 can really fly after getting tune up. (See Map #1)

Oh, yea Dave, I got your bike a tune up. Figured it was the least I could do for you letting me borrow it.

So down the hill I went, Weeeeeeeeeeeee (Everyone else does that going down hill right?) At the bottom of said weeeee hill, is SUCK hill, the hill that I have to go up. This hill makes my car down shift. Its about 3/4 of a mile long, and I swear straight freaking up. (See Map #2) So I figured I started up it, taking my time and missing my Fisher, something to be said for compact geometry. Near the top I felt like I was getting shorter, Oh wait I am getting shorter, the seat post was sliding down, so quick fix there, and a moment to catch my breath and off I went.

Legs hearting, lungs screaming, going for a rolling recovery. Down the next downhill, again weeeeeeeeeee (See Map #3) crap this might be a little fast on a MT bike. Again, Damm Dave, this thing can fly, and whats wonderful it its stable as hell at high speed. Most MT bikes get squirrely at around 28-32mph. This thing is a truck, nothing effects it.

So up the next little rise, well its a hill, but I have allot of lead in. OUCH, OUCH, OUCH, I did not have as much lead in as I thought. There are so parts of this road that can kiss my a#@. (See Map #4)

From here on out, I had it beat, its mostly all down hill from there, out Linglestown road (See Map #5), to 6th street in Harrsiburg (See Map #6), 6th street has this long uphill grade for it, that you really don't notice till your trying to figure out why your legs are tired.

After getting in to Harrisburg, it was gravy, down 3rd street, to Penn Ave, Penn Ave to Maclay, then it was out to river front park to work.(See Map #7) Total time- 55min.

Side Note:

Called the LBS yesterday about my fish, still no word from Trek, sad! :(

Should you be worried...

Just a few posts today, thought it was something you all should know

Think that RFID is a bad thing???

I can't make this """it up...

Wow, there are so many jokes in that title, I'll let you figure them out. So check this out, I was reading Gizmod today when I came across a article "here" about 37 or so prisoners in a Pakistan jail that where shoving cell phones into there,, well, you can figure it out from the picture. Well it seems that if your going to smuggle a cell phone into a Pakistan jail, it does not pay to have a smart phone, PDA or Blackberry..LOL god that is funny, Blackberry... Seems that with larger form factor phones nature can't take its course and they needed to removed surgically. I shit you not.

Boommmmmmmm!!!!!!!!

How to get ride of a downed cargo plane, really, really fast. Click the link, watch the video, laught at the Brits swearing.

Link

Two comments, well four...

So you still don't think girls mature faster then boys?

I dident know Jason and Chris had a 11 year old girl.

Anyone want to guess what shes going to grow up to be?

Can anyone say FBI file?

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Space, yea its really hard to get there...

Supper Geek Weekend...

Asus Bamboo Laptops...

Ohhhhhhhh, two of my favorite things, computer power and bamboo.
And now you laptop can be partially biodegradable.

Specs out at;
11.1 or 12.1 Inch, 1,280 x 768 display
Choice of 3/6/9 cell batteries, and something called the Super Hybrid allowing you to dial down the power when the wails of the Antarctic penguins become too much to bear.

Processor choices are the Intel T9400/P8600/P8400 Core 2 Duo processors, and 256MB of NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS, a 320GB hubrid hard drive sporting 256MB of flash, Intel's WiMAX/Wifi Link 5100 chipset, and all of this for the wonderful price point of..... well....... good question, they have not released that yet.

Ahhhhhhchewwwwwwww, and now I'm clean...



I don't know why I did not think of this before, I have always wanted to press a huge nose on the wall and get something to rub all over my body......







HOLY CRAP...


Ok well all know that fighter planes are fast right? Well, really,, when you see this video they are REALLY fast.


Click the Link.



Not Photo Shop...


Panasonic is saying that they are gaping to start mass-manufacturing their 150-inch 2,106x4,096 display, which obviously is not directo at consumers, unless they have their own Quad-HD video to play or a HUDGE power supply to run them (Nuclear anyone)

Progress, at least....


802.11n has been stuck in FCC hell for weeks, years actually. So lets just say to hell with N and jump right to R, you know like rrrrrrrr matty, shiver me timbers. So now were moving on to 802.11rrrrrrr,, sorry cant help my self. 802.11r, will allow devices to mnove from access point to access point with less than 50ms in downtime. Sweet.


Mona Lisa in a Second...

Well no one really knows how long it took Leonardo to paint the Mona Lisa, but most believe it took him about 4-5 years, and then he kept the painting for him self for many years after that, before releasing it.


The Mythbusters took all of a millisecond to paint theirs...





I need this...


While I like to try to stay away from screen printed tshirts as best I can, I will fully admit that I have three in my closet, after seeing this, I'm about to have four.


















The Coolest solar charger...



No specs yet, no price yet, just a hole lot of awesome.

















Wow, the things we can build...


There is a long argument that can be made for why this is one of the scariest things I have EVER seen. I am glad and frightened at the same time that man kind can build something like this, and at the same time there is someone in that machine using it in this way. There is also an argument that they have to do what they are doing, and I would like to take this moment to thank all those that are doing their part to protect me. Military and Civilian alike, politics aside, thank you for all your work.

My only hope is that if we can build such an amazing machine of war, what else can we do?

Please be-warned that this video is from a war zone, its not graphic, but there is violence.

And finally, Why Helmets Don't Suck...

Laughts from the Sand Box.

Heard from Jason L. today, just a quick email with some truly funny quoats.

1. Weightlifting Commentator.

"This Georgiana from Bulgaria I saw her snatch this morning and it was amazing".

2 Dressage Commentator

" This is really a lovely horse and I speak from personal experience, since I once mounted her mother.

3 Paul Hamm, Gymnast

"I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father"

4 Boxing Analyst

"sure there have been injuries in boxing and even some deaths, But none of have been that serious".

5 Softball Announcer

" If history repeats it's self, I think we can expect the same thing to happen again".

6 Basketball Analyst

" He dribbles a lot and the opposition doesn't like it, In fact you can see it all over their faces",

7 At the rowing medal ceremony

" Ah! Isn't it nice the wife of the IOC President is hugging the Cox of the British Crew"

8. Soccer commentator

Julian Dick is everywhere, it's like they had eleven Dicks on the field

9. Tennis Commentator

"One of the reasons Andy is playing so well is that , before the final round, His wife takes out his balls and kisses them … Oh! My GOD what have I just said."