The weekends recap.
Know alcohol, know peace.
No alcohol, no peace.
Then, under the glow of a full moon, I was presented with my new pride and joy, complete with a custom fork.
The Bad Brains understand Soulcraft.
However right now Im crushed under the weight of my own exhaustion and stupidity.
Remember that old adage 'measure twice, cut once?'
I cant even bring myself to explain how relevant that is in my life right now.
In 20 years of working on bikes, and Im guessing probably in the neighborhood of 2000 fork installs, Ive never cut a steerer too short.
That is of course, until tonight.
Crap.....
Comments
F#$%^*&%$#$@#$%^&%CK!!!!
Posted by: JP | November 1, 2007 05:49 PM
Oops!
Done that before
All ways feel like a dolt when I do
Posted by: One Eyed z | October 30, 2007 02:21 PM
At the shop we would take the stance of, "Well, now you've done THAT... and now you now better." Sorry about the fork, and yes, I have done that.
Posted by: johnny | October 30, 2007 02:07 AM
I know how you feel. We all have moments of complete and inexplainable ineptitude. In an attempt to protect my artist friend's portrait painting from shipping damage, I put masking tape directly on to the paint. Right over the face part. I think of that sometimes. In particular, the part where said artist e-mailed me with, "Who was the douchebag who...". That would be me.
Posted by: El Pirate Grande | October 30, 2007 12:06 AM
hell man... tonight there will be a tear in my beer and it's gonna have your fork's name on it... damn to hell. on a lighter note that new frame of yours is a slice of heaven.
Posted by: ray | October 29, 2007 06:33 PM
that bike looks like a big brown turd
Posted by: concerned | October 29, 2007 05:42 PM
As a carpenter and part time bike mechanic I feel your pain brother. I'll cut something 3 times and it'll still be too short, so I say... "fuck it, nail it."
But in this case, "bend over and ride it like a man."
Posted by: cary | October 29, 2007 12:28 PM
e-bay and hope that a midget is looking for a brown fork..
Posted by: cvo | October 29, 2007 07:34 AM
bummer. similarly, I have a second star nut wedged in my road bike. nice new rig tho - kudos.
Posted by: sumadis | October 29, 2007 07:06 AM
Time to go shop for a stem with a lower stack height.
Posted by: King George | October 29, 2007 06:40 AM
Holy shite man, I am totally feeling your pain. Did that once with a nice Reynolds Ouzo Pro carbon fork... I almost cried.
But that's nothing like a sweet steel Soulcraft fork (God, I love those guys...). I'm assuming you've been drinking heavily to drown the pain.
Speaking of Soulcraft, if anybody knows where to find Loretta Esparza- she worked at Salsa and helped the Soulcraft guys for awhile (last I knew)- tell her that the Masiguy says howdy!
Posted by: Tim Jackson | October 29, 2007 05:47 AM
Hmmm One could measure 30 times but it doesn't do any good if you forgot to put in the spacers. whoopsy.
Posted by: Erik | October 29, 2007 05:44 AM
you gotta be effing joking.
its going to be hard to use "i was just riding along" with that one.
Posted by: mullah bin makdag | October 29, 2007 05:27 AM
Yep. It only happens on your own bike, too. And I know how you did it- forgot the cable hanger, right? Sorry. At least you don't have to walk 20 miles everyday to find clean water!
Posted by: Sean | October 29, 2007 04:51 AM