There's an impending Winter Storm Warning, 4-9" of snow possible, for today. There's enough snow at the moment Fella's had enough and wants back inside the house. The bunnies should enjoy a predator free day.
This could be an improvement over yesterday. Having finished the Platteville and Influenza Research jobs I was ready to mover everything over to the Middleton EMS/Fire Station site. Then the building was condemned due to the structure not being safe. Even with Dick retiring this week Control Works' 5 employees are without enough work. Other jobs are suffering from the holiday malaise so it could/will be January before there's enough for the control guys to do. So instead of sitting idle for a month, which is not really an option, Mike had to lay me off. I stopped by the apprenticeship office after and the outlook is good. I should be with a new electrical contractor by next Wednesday. Tuesday is a school day so at least I'll be bored one day next week.
Thursday I stopped by Village Pedaller to see Gary and ask about another pair of Bontrager Mustang rims. I bought a pair from him this summer after an unsuccessful attempt at running road 700c rims. Once built up won the King and Hugi they were flawless the rest of the season. I'll unlace the tubulars from my other set of single speed hubs for these rims and use them as primary goofing off rims with Stans snot. I picked up Stans and Bontrager tubeless valve stems from TBS a few weeks ago so I'm set.
Between skate sharpening Gary shows me a rather interesting wheel. It's a 13.5 lb 29er wheel. Yes folks, the rear wheel with 32h WTB rim and tire weighs 13.5 pounds. It's a NuVinci CVT hub similar to transmissions on snowmobiles and cars. the 16t BMX cog appears to be on a cassette/freehub adaptor but I can't figure out why there's a 36t chainring off of an old BMX crankset mounted inside. The Avid BB5 rotor on the other side provides braking, but I wonder if there's enough clearance for the caliper or if it will rub on the hub. I dare anyone to race with this boat anchor on their bike.
I should put a glide wax on my skis.
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I've got a perfect front hub for a set of goofing around wheels. It's disc brake ready and sitting in a box waiting to be shipped as soon as I find out how much shipping is on the fork. It's 32h hub.
Did you want me to file off the lawyer tabs for you?
ooooh, that'd be cool. If you don't have time, that's fine, too.
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