There is a new part of the game called "Hall of Meat" where you have to bail in crazy and interesting ways, hurling your poor skater off of buildings and bridges in order to injure him intentionally. The skater can bail in a cannonball, flying kick, spread eagle or torpedo position. This leads to amazing crashes of biblical proportions. My favorite was skating off a huge ramp on top of a building and trying to fly my character into a dumpster that was down below.
... so I thought it would be fun to skate to breakfast at the Sea Breeze Cafe...
Today is the Bay to Breakers run across the city and the finish line is somewhere over here in the Sunset. So there are 50,000 yahoos dressed up like idiots running around the neighborhood. Needless to say they are all driving cars. I was "just skating along" and a bright orange Tahoe pulled in across the sidewalk and almost killed me. Thanks to my ninja skills I was able to avert disaster and jump out of the way totally unscathed.
Anyway... I am hitting the reset button on my favorite piece of steel. Green bike is getting an 8 speed Alfine rear hub and shifter and an Alfine front generator hub so I can run a front light with no batteries. I am brazing lowrider rack mounts and canti-bosses into the fork, cable routing bosses to the frame and maybe some Surly horizontal dropouts.
Check the sweet canti-boss jig I fashioned out of some rack struts. Anvil, eat your heart out...
I am also going to make a porter rack for the front that will be similar to the Cetma rack, but not so ugly. I have a 3/8" tube bender and am looking into designs. I am hoping it turns out like the Pass and Stow racks that are made here in SF, without the 250$ pricetag. If anyone wants one let me know and I'll make some more while I'm at it. I'm thinking materials will be about 40 bucks or so for each one...
I've been hard at work making my Campagnolo replica tools. The T handles turned out pretty well. Only a little mix up with the ball turner which made the ball where the "T" meets just off center. No big deal. I've decided to use the Park Tools design for the rest so that they telescope out and can be used on any width frame/fork.
I learned how to cut threads using the lathe the other day, pretty amazing shit. It is a mind numbing process, but any thread pitch is at your fingertips. It would be really cool to get a smaller lathe for tinkering around on. I only have 3 class periods left to finish, so hopefully I can get them all finished.
On my commute home from work the other day I ran into some weird shit and managed to take a vid and some pics of it. The video is what snapped me out of the post-work haze that makes you a zombie on the ride home.
A bit farther down JFK in Golden Gate Park I saw three guys, two of which were in the big sumo wrestler outfits. This picture was just after the red sumo threw the blue sumo down. Awesome...
Then the sun decided to set. Not too bad for a man made lake in a man made city...
Ocean Beach...
-Have a killer week Dead Deer, keep your head on a swivel if you go skating-
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