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First ride of the year.
Instead of sewing a snap on my new wallet, I went to Zale's Hometown Pharmacy today. About two miles out and two miles back -- hardly worth suiting up for. It's absurd that on the ninth of January, I went out in a linen jersey. But I should have worn two T-shirts under it instead of one; I'd have turned back if I'd planned to stay out longer. It was my first ride of the year, if you don't count riding my bike home from the shop yesterday. I was surprised that the bill included two dollars for a spoke and eight-fifty for installing it. I must be rather oblivious not to notice a damaged spoke. But then sometime I mount up and roll off without even thumb-testing my tires. I should have been more emphatic that "change the brake cables" meant both of them. In the next paragraph I gave instructions for routing the front cable; that, perhaps, made the "s" disappear. But I did instruct them to look for worn parts, and the front brake is the important one. I now have an 8-speed chain on a six-cog cluster. The bill specifies that the chain is "silver" -- they come in assorted colors? I wonder what "RR" means in "BASKET SUNLT RR WIRE FOLDING STD BK"? "STD" probably means "standard" and "BK" certainly means "black". And I found a picture of the basket by searching for "Sunlite". My new handlebar pads are the same brand. "RR" could mean "rear". -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net |
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