Bezabor: Bike repair, Wildwood walk (posted from home)
Tuesday, 4 April-
We spent the morning working on the web. I then took my folding bike to The Pedal Pusher bike shop in Harrisburg for repair. After our nine-mile ride around the South Loop at Crystal River Preserve, I found that my right pedal was cross-threaded and would not come off. Since the right pedals must be removed so the bikes will fold up small enough to fit under our bed in Mocha Joe, I used all the force I could muster and really made a mess of the threads. The softer aluminum of the crank was torn up by the hardened steel of the pedal. ‘Ted’ at The Pedal Pusher tried cleaning up the threads in the crank with a 9/16” fine-thread tap but they didn’t look very good at all so I elected to have a new crank installed. We use the bikes infrequently but when we do I need to be able to depend on the fix. Ted did me a great favor and only charged $20 for the new crank. He even checked the derailleur and made some adjustments without charge.
Afterwards, I drove over to Wildwood Park to take a walk. It was a 50-degree, very windy day and I didn’t expect to see much but thought I’d like to see the park just before it ‘pops’ with new spring growth. I was pleasantly surprised to see many different birds in my two-hour walk and saw my first mourning cloak butterfly—quite a beauty.
That evening Labashi worked late on the web so we held off on Decalogue Three and watched two more episodes of ‘24’.
Monday, 3 April-
Today was a bit of a rainy day so we spent the day working on the web and reading our month’s worth of mail and I recovered from my long walk yesterday. In the evening we watched Decalogue Two and three more episodes of ‘24’. Why IS Jack Bauer such a special guy?
Tuesday, 4 April-
We spent the morning working on the web. I then took my folding bike to The Pedal Pusher bike shop in Harrisburg for repair. After our nine-mile ride around the South Loop at Crystal River Preserve, I found that my right pedal was cross-threaded and would not come off. Since the right pedals must be removed so the bikes will fold up small enough to fit under our bed in Mocha Joe, I used all the force I could muster and really made a mess of the threads. The softer aluminum of the crank was torn up by the hardened steel of the pedal. ‘Ted’ at The Pedal Pusher tried cleaning up the threads in the crank with a 9/16” fine-thread tap but they didn’t look very good at all so I elected to have a new crank installed. We use the bikes infrequently but when we do I need to be able to depend on the fix. Ted did me a great favor and only charged $20 for the new crank. He even checked the derailleur and made some adjustments without charge.
Afterwards, I drove over to Wildwood Park to take a walk. It was a 50-degree, very windy day and I didn’t expect to see much but thought I’d like to see the park just before it ‘pops’ with new spring growth. I was pleasantly surprised to see many different birds in my two-hour walk and saw my first mourning cloak butterfly—quite a beauty.
That evening Labashi worked late on the web so we held off on Decalogue Three and watched two more episodes of ‘24’.
Monday, 3 April-
Today was a bit of a rainy day so we spent the day working on the web and reading our month’s worth of mail and I recovered from my long walk yesterday. In the evening we watched Decalogue Two and three more episodes of ‘24’. Why IS Jack Bauer such a special guy?
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