Well…just had the chrome paint delivered and then, of course, I went down and painted a couple of lug nuts and it really does look like chrome…and that is pretty cool…and the can is big enough that I can repaint the nuts for years or probably til I die…the day didn’t start out so well with the weather being really crappy…52 degrees, raining, and wind of 25+mph from the north…after I got the first ride in, I started out on the 2nd one and got about halfway when the front shifter stopped working and I was stuck on the center sprocket and nothing I did would get the chain back on the big one…so I came back here and put on some warm clothes and flipped the bike over to see what was going on…after screwing with it for a half hour, I noticed that the clamp that holds the shifter to the downtube had come loose and the shifter rotated out of alignment…so I fixed that and it now works again…and the rear shifter was skipping to go with it and I found a length of cable wrapped around one of the idlers that was keeping the chain from seating on the idler right…so I pulled that out and took the bike for a short ride and it appears fixed…I’ll find out tomorrow morning but not til late…the low is supposed to be 37 tonight and there is a frost warning out so I’ll wait for it to warm up a bit..I did find my winter gloves and hat if I do want to go out in the cold but right now being cold is the last thing I want…time to read a bit before tv…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well…just had the chrome paint delivered and then, of course, I went down and painted a couple of lug nuts and it really does look like chrome…and that is pretty cool…and the can is big enough that I can repaint the nuts for years or probably til I die…the day didn’t start out so well … Continue reading Got the paint…<\/span>