Worth the Trouble, Worth the Pain
Sixty Belle & Sebastian songs later, I found myself in Chicago to pick up Lauran after her 11-day stay at the spa. The drive across the industrial wasteland that is northern Indiana was much more enjoyable with a lispy twee singalong. Thankfully no one was there to hear me. Truthfully, I don't care what I sound like, but I've noticed that others have this hang up with me singing off-key. Petty.
I discovered a novel new use for jewel cases. As a society we'd better find good things to do with them, now that Apple's iTunes Music Store is doing so well and we won't need to actually buy music on discs. SRAM makes high-zoot bike parts, like lightweight chains. This is how they package their PC99 Hollowpin 9-speed chain.
* #1 Principle of cycling gear: it's far more important that all rotating parts be lightweight. It doesn't matter if the saddle is 200 or 300 grams when the wheels weigh pounds more than they should.
** Cycling Gear Lexicon: "Speeds" refers to the number of cogs on the freeweheel (the gears on the back wheel), not the number of gear combinations--a "24-speed" bike is a common misstatement. What someone means is that they have 24 gear combinations, in this case from a triple chainring crankset (the front gears) and an 8-speed freewheel. In my case, my road bike is a 9-speed machine, with 18 gear combinations (though 2 of them are extreme crossovers and should not be used, but that's another story).
Sixty Belle & Sebastian songs later, I found myself in Chicago to pick up Lauran after her 11-day stay at the spa. The drive across the industrial wasteland that is northern Indiana was much more enjoyable with a lispy twee singalong. Thankfully no one was there to hear me. Truthfully, I don't care what I sound like, but I've noticed that others have this hang up with me singing off-key. Petty.
I discovered a novel new use for jewel cases. As a society we'd better find good things to do with them, now that Apple's iTunes Music Store is doing so well and we won't need to actually buy music on discs. SRAM makes high-zoot bike parts, like lightweight chains. This is how they package their PC99 Hollowpin 9-speed chain.
* #1 Principle of cycling gear: it's far more important that all rotating parts be lightweight. It doesn't matter if the saddle is 200 or 300 grams when the wheels weigh pounds more than they should.
** Cycling Gear Lexicon: "Speeds" refers to the number of cogs on the freeweheel (the gears on the back wheel), not the number of gear combinations--a "24-speed" bike is a common misstatement. What someone means is that they have 24 gear combinations, in this case from a triple chainring crankset (the front gears) and an 8-speed freewheel. In my case, my road bike is a 9-speed machine, with 18 gear combinations (though 2 of them are extreme crossovers and should not be used, but that's another story).
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