The
month of November begins in earnest the winter struggle of busy-ness,
getting things accomplished, holidays, demands on time, and trying to
stay sane and in some kind of physical shape (other than round).
October
this year was pretty decent weather-wise. There were really only a few
days that I consider not rideable. November, though, has been
challenging, with very cold temperatures, and now the usual wet. Add in
that my wife has been in training for a new part-time job, and my
available time for riding these past two work weeks has been my
lunchtime. I try to get in the hour (or a little more if meeting
schedules permit) of saddle time, but some days it just doesn't happen.
In
all that, though, I've gotten two more bike frames near the end of
their process -- on in paint, and one nearly so. I'm making a second
fork for my gravel/'cross bike, so that will be this weekend's project.
Colors? I'm debating with the primer grey/clearcoat on the frame with a
red fork and graphics, or going with yellow on the frame instead. I know
the yellow/red combination is striking, but the grey/red is more staid
and utilitarian. It might depend more on what yellow I can find that
will accept epoxy clear topcoat.
A funny thing happened on the way...

I
tried to "show it who's boss" as Richard Sachs likes to say. That ended
badly -- the corner of my flat surface broke off, and I nearly broke my
knuckles.
I sighed.
I cried a little.
And I set it aside to start over. I figured I could finish it up at some point as a display-only model.
That
was a few months ago. Fast forward to a couple weeks ago, with a new
flat surface reinforced by planks. For grins I put that main triangle
back on the whipping post to see what I could do.
Some grunting, a lot of flipping it over on the post, lots of checks... And it came into alignment!
Now,
if this were for a paying customer, I wouldn't be passing along
something I had to do that much cold-setting with, and it'll still end
up mostly as a display model. But I've got this extra main triangle that
I'm figuring out just how to finish.
Fixed gear? Another 'cross/gravel rig? Maybe play around with the idea of a 29+?
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