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Skriven 2007-12-01 17:23:04 av Carol Shenkenberger (1:261/1466.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Hap Newsom
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 -=> Quoting Hap Newsom to Carol Shenkenberger <=-

 -> I bet!  I'd have been scared witless at that!

 HN> Well I sure was! As soon as I got her home 
 HN> though she started planning her return to 
 HN> the classroom! HA!! Her stamina is nowhere 
 HN> what it should be, so to prove it to her I 
 HN> took her on my errands today....by the 
 HN> time we got back home she was ready for 
 HN> a nap (1pm-4:30pm)! She is scheduled for 

I'm learning to take it easier here too.

The bike guy will have my second bike (yes, I have 2, like some folks have a 
second car for when the primary is in the shop) ready next Saturday for pickup.
The cultech, needs a few parts he has to order so will be 2 weeks then back
once
the back baskets arrive to have them added.

Mostly the cultech needs a tuneup (stop laughing, it's the chains) and new
break
pads plus one break cable was degrading and has no more left to shorten so has
to be replaced.  One of the tires (front) is also showing too much wear so 
traction isnt great and being replaced.  Foot pedal on left is wearing a bit
on the outer side so he's replacing that too.  Seat cover cracking a little so
that also.  A little rust developing along the handlebars so he's going to fix
that and recoat them.  Front basket (a non-cultech big one in plastic coated 
white over wire) getting rust at joints but he's going to look for a big one 
like that to replace it.  Not a USA standard item (this is for grocery shopping
not kid's use cute).

My second bike is a fairly standard asian brand, also a workhorse but not of
the
same quality.  It's inside vice in the front window displacing the 'new bikes'
area <grin>.  We joked that the cultech was a pedigreed clydsdale and the
other,
a plowhorse.  Both look distinctly different beside the normal USA faire with 
their heavier strong build obviously meant to _last_ under years of daily use.

A kid I know from picking Charlotte up at school, came in while we were putting
the cultech up in the window.  His bike 'looks pretty' but is a cheap Kmart 
special and the chains are failing.  I've seen him rechain them as I waited for
Charlotte. I'd mentioned this place to him and he rode over to see if they
could
fix his.  Just happenstance that he arrived same time.  Neat kid but his bike 
is built of virtually pot-metal.  I think I could bend it's center pipes with 
my bare hands.
                 xxcarol


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