Nobody touches my speakers

[wgscott]

Two things (in addition to bodily parts) that nobody is allowed to touch in my house:

 

1. My bikes
2. My speakers

 

Well, yesterday I noticed one of the speakers had been moved.  I knew I heard something was wrong, but it was easily confirmed from the pattern on the wooden floor.  

 

My wife (I haven't yet had a chance to fill out the divorce paperwork) gloated that she had moved the speaker a tiny amount two weeks previously while cleaning (as if), and that it had taken me this long to notice.  Never-mind that in that timespan we had a few other things going on, like the Rel subwoofer flaming out, the car's transmission flaming out, and other demands.  The cleaning excuse seemed implausible.  If ever I need to hide something from my wife, I just put it in the vacuum cleaner. Not to mention the mountains of dog hair.  The house is a perpetual standoff, and I usually flinch first and do the cleaning.  So I think she moved it just to fuck with me, which, after age 50, has taken the place of ... well, never-mind.

 

She seems to think it is funny that I re-allign the speakers with a laser measuring device.  Now I have to re-callibrate the room correction.  At least she hasn't questioned why I had the back-up subwoofer stashed in the garage.

[wgscott]

35 minutes ago, Ralf11 said:

and what about people touching their own body parts in your house?

 

 

also is your wife a psychologist?  

 

Virologist

[wgscott]

38 minutes ago, George Hincapie said:

 

What bikes do you have? I trust you follow the formula of n+1 for the correct number, where n is the current total

 

I'm down to only two at the moment I can truly call my own (a new custom steel frame and a 1987 Bianchi), but the garage still has at least 12 bikes in it that I paid for, and I adhered to Rule #25 until the bitter end.  (Now we are looking at new cars, and my wife thinks I am insane because I insist on renting them so I can see if I can slide a bike in without removing the wheels, or determine what kind of racks they are compatible with).

[wgscott]

Bianchi,

 

Before:

 

 

After renewal:

 

 

Overview.  Thanks for not laughing at the stem.  (Stem and new bars are Nitto.) I matched the reach and stack on my custom bike using this stem, and the result is that it fits far better.

 

 

Yup, that's a Crampy triple, and I am not afraid to use it.  Sue me.

 

 

 

I put a Miche cassette on there (11-29). The rest of the drivetrain is Crampy Athena.  The brakes are Veloce ($34 for those calipers) because I couldn't find silver Athena ones.  The wheels were hand-built by Velomine in Springfield, Ill., and they have polished White Industry hubs and H+ Sons box rims that look classic but are considerably wider than the Amosio ones it came with.

 

 

 

The only compromise with the Veloce brakes is that they aren't skeletons, but I prefer the look, and being dual-pivot, they are far better than the crappy Modolos that came off.  The pedals are Shimano A600 touring pedals, for those of us who prefer two-bolt SPDs.

 

 

 

White Industries front hub.

 

 

 

White Industries rear hub.

 

 

 

Athena "brifters" (god I hate that word) are much nicer than the non-Di2 Shimanos.

 

[wgscott]

WTF was I going to do, put some SRAM crap on it?

 

The modern bike has Di2 Ultegra (although you might noticed I replaced the Ultegra crank, which I wore out quickly, with a White Industries 46/30T crank).

[wgscott]

4 hours ago, rando said:

 

Pray tell, how did you wear out an Ultegra crank?

 

Riding the bike.  (I'm talking about chainrings, fwiw).

 

I ride off-road a lot.  I've switched to paraffin to see if that will help (no grit sticks to it).

 

[wgscott]

3 hours ago, wwaldmanfan said:

 

I like that Miyata. Is that the rifled steel tubing? I really wanted one of those at the time.

 

My first adult bike purchase (1981) was a Miyata 1000.

[wgscott]

After the initial wax, I have been refreshing it with this:

 

 

 

[wgscott]

On 8/12/2017 at 9:25 AM, wwaldmanfan said:

Just don't burn down your house waxing the chain. Because, I knew someone who did that.

 

The crock pot I bought came with a tiny daughter module, which I didn't know what to do with, until I realized it was a sign from above that I should use it for waxing the chain (which sounds kind of vulgar).  Anyway, I do this outside of the garage, so that I can burn down the whole neighborhood.  I'm now waxing chains on 3 bikes, including my wife's road bike.  It is so much cleaner, it makes it a pleasure to work on.