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Nov. 15th, 2022 10:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scrottieSpokes started dropping like flies. Was going to put in three good spokes but when I went to look at it, a full half of the 28 were broken or loose. Rim wooble was using the full available width before hitting chain and seatstays. I replaced a bunch of spokes all at once several months back, and replaced a few at a time on occasions before that. In theory that's a good wheel, with a Bontrager hub and some I don't even remember but medium high end rim, but I have never ever had any luck with a wheel that doesn't have a good bit of V to it. I've had low spoke count deep Vs that never went out of true even when they came unlaced while I was riding, and I've 36 spoke "bombproof heavy downhill" Mavic rims need constant attention. Most likely that wheel was damaged in a soft case in travel and all of the spokes were compromised, but being square 28 spoke, it was kind of doomed anyway. It's gone now. I wish I'd caught it in time to squeeze out enough life to be able to order a custom built wheel to my specs (some damn V in it dammit) but I'm running another square wheel that Blue Heron had in stock. Guess I have some 26 Vs in NY but don't know anyone there who builds wheels so I may have to give it a go. Winter project maybe. Was hoping Heron would have a nice 26 V in stock since they build wheels. Part of the waffling here was trying to find a non-spoked wheel. Hate to buy another wheel that's more than likely also doomed. Both in the Delta and in NY, a lot of roads are 100% pothole.
Caught up with boatfriend and did a public transit tour of the bay, by bus, light rail, ferry, and cable street car in SF. Cable car goes up and down some pretty damn big hills with good views. Operating a vehicle using just a "go" lever and a "stop" lever is fascinating. Hit Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinold's_First_and_Last_Chance_Saloon , two Chinatowns, and a Japantown where we had Okonomiyaki, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okonomiyaki . Cable street car takes the Clipper RFID transit card like everything, in addition to cash, but very much being tourists, this wasn't initially mentioned to us. Clipper card reader is a hand-held unit. Interwebs say this is the last operating cable street car in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_cable_car_system . We didn't even get to the also-but-slightly-less historic electric tram thing. Highly recommend the public transit tour of San Francisco.
Caught up with boatfriend and did a public transit tour of the bay, by bus, light rail, ferry, and cable street car in SF. Cable car goes up and down some pretty damn big hills with good views. Operating a vehicle using just a "go" lever and a "stop" lever is fascinating. Hit Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinold's_First_and_Last_Chance_Saloon , two Chinatowns, and a Japantown where we had Okonomiyaki, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okonomiyaki . Cable street car takes the Clipper RFID transit card like everything, in addition to cash, but very much being tourists, this wasn't initially mentioned to us. Clipper card reader is a hand-held unit. Interwebs say this is the last operating cable street car in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_cable_car_system . We didn't even get to the also-but-slightly-less historic electric tram thing. Highly recommend the public transit tour of San Francisco.
