| For all those who haven't gotten the memo, I'm now at:
thirtypercentirish.blogspot.com
I like it better than xanga and whatever.
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| is my profile on xanga so important that i have to change my password to include letters and numbers?
i think not.
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| i got my fixie
frame back from the powder coating place on sunday (thanks zach!) and
decided to piece it back together tonight. turns out the headset i
ordered isnt the right size and after filing the headset race mount on
the fork for an hour and turning the bike shop upside down looking for
a proper fitting headset for an hour, i decided to call it a night. i
think i'll try finding another fork around the shop and using it,
although the original would look sweet with the matching green. i'll
look tomorrow and see if i can find a fork that'll work and hopefully
get the thing up and running again. man, i was so excited to ride it.
oh well, another few days won't kill me. i did sell my old schwinn breeze
(mine was green with a chrome front fender and an unmatching red rear
fender. i found it on the side of the road) , though, since i'm riding
the corvette ii these days.
they did an ok job with the frame,
though if i were to get anything else powdercoated i'd probably go to
fort collins first. i dropped it off and they told me the following
for price:
$25 to sandblast it
$75 for the first color (black, predominantly, on the tubes)
$25 for the second color (green lugs & dropouts)
after
three weeks i still hadn't heard from them, so i gave them a call.
"oh, we can't do two colors after all. pick one" was the basic gist of
that part. then i asked how much it would be. "$125." "i thought it
was $100 for the first color?" "right, plus the $25 for the
sandblasting." that's f'd up, man. i know they told me it'd be $100
total for the sandblasting AND the first color, and now they make me
pay more? so, I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND KCK KOATING in cheyenne. plus,
they didn't seal off the head tube, the seat tube, or the bb shell, so
there was powdercoat IN the frame. seriously, that's pretty freaking
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