Friday, February 22, 2008

Gluin' On Up

The first coat of contact cement is on the rims. Tonight I will put another coat on the rims and one of the tires. Saturday or Sunday I will be all ready to stretch the tires back onto the rims. I ordered a 55t/42t combo for the time trial bike and the goal is to have everything fitted and ready sometime this coming week.

It looks like the first race of the season will be a time trial, weather permitting. The Stazio series has been canceled already due to higher permit fees and "loss of use" charges from the City of Boulder. There's high demand for softball fields in mid-March.

One note on gluing . . . it scares me, not just the fear of doing a terrible job and having a tire roll off mid-race, but because it actually says "bad for the environment" on the tube of glue.

3 comments:

KarmaTee said...

Grr... Blogger is messed up today. Don't hate on the City of Boulder-- when I was a kid we got snowed out, twice, at Stazio's softball complex. The competitive kids start early in the season!

Seth Rubin said...

Not hating on the player, just the game. Did they allow beer at the kids' games?

Velovera said...

I think your bad for the environment is offset by the fact that you ride a bike although you will live longer than the fatties who work in my building and your personal polution will also be bad for the environment. You can never win. Al Gore hates you.