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Thu, 13 Oct 2005

Me and DeanO biked down to Clematis tonight.
I was replacing my chain when he called looking for something to do, so I told him to get in his car and drive over and we would ride down to Clematis. Last night Linda and I did a short loop over to Palm Beach and back. Coming back over the middle bridge my chain suddenly fell off. The chain is a SRAM with the Powerlink that you can open and close by hand, and I guess the Powerlink just wore out and fell off. This is my first SRAM chain, and it came well-used on a well-used bike I bought, so I don't know how long it should last. I could have gotten another link, but I decided to just get a whole new chain.

So I went by the bike shop today to get a replacement. I asked for a Shimano 9-speed like I usually get, and all they had was an Ultegra, for $36! So I asked what else they had, and they had an SRAM for $25. Guess which one I got.

I was putting on the chain and watching Messenger when DeanO called. I just got the Messenger DVD in the mail today. I heard about this link at Puma where you could request a free copy of the DVD from Puma, and about a month ago I went there and put in my info. I got home today and found a padded brown envelope in my mailbox with a Messenger DVD inside. It's about the guy who won the Puma Messenger championships in NYC. Eight weeks of races, and the guy who won got a movie made about him. He doesn't have a lot to say. Mostly he talks about riding the bike. I recommend it.

So DeanO finally showed up while I was getting cleaned up. He tried out the bike, and after I dropped the seat post for him we were off. I thought I would make him work on the ride down, but he kept right up with me and he talked the entire time. I don't understand how he can do that.


We locked up the bikes, got a couple $3 Bass, met Plop, and walked around for a while. I found a hot dog guy, and then a bowl of seafood chili. Mmm. Back to talk with Plop for a while. And his date. I was able to tell her that she drove a Toyota, just by looking at her.


Then AAA showed up. He was looking good, cool haircut, but he told me he was driving a 1995 Porsche 930 Turbo, and I totally believed him. Then he said it was actually a Toyota 4Runner. Oh. The bikes were still there, we had an uneventful ride back while DeanO talked about how we are going to replace the Kawasaki 440 motor in the race car with a 493 Rotax he bought. I'm ready to weld whenever he has all the cutting and fitting done. Then we watched Messenger a couple more times and that was it.

Oh. Both these photos were taken with the night mode I just found on the phone. It looks okay. The shutter speed is pretty fast, as I didn't get any blurring. Maybe it does some processing on the image that gives better contrast, at the expense of a little clarity. I don't know what happened to AAA's photo.
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