Month: May 2023

This weekend I am headed to Valemount British Colombia. (Near Japser). I will be with my expert (friends dad) and I will bike with his son. Over this weekend I was absolutly swamped. But I did get a new bike helmet. I am staying loyal to Giro. I went on a bike ride this weekend to the bird sancutary over by the northside (close to rundle). Although it was a road ride it was nice to get out for a long ride. I know it was at least over 20km. This weekend I was locked done by wedding shopping as my sister Ivy is getting married. So I got a bunch of fancy clothes when I should have been biking.

This week I spent some time looking for an expert and tuned my bike. But I was pretty busy this week with yard work, getting more driving experince, playoff hockey (poor oilers) and varius extra curriclulars, whether that may be softball or football. And I was fixing my families boat and prepping it for water, while also spending a day playing golf. I was pretty busy and didn’t have a done of my brainpower focused on genius hour so I will try to contact many people this week for and expert, it will probaly end up being my friends dad but I will try to go to a bike shop.

Over this weekend I finished the bike project build sort of. Everything that needed to be added, replaced, painted has been done because I added the brake this weekend. I bought some zip-ties and watched a youtube tutorial. It really wasn’t hard, I just got delayed by not having zip-ties and personal lack of effort. Here is how it went. I took off my grips, slid on the brake lever and put the grip back on. Then I but the wire through the lever, put some caps on the cable housing (usually black platic and metal cover) slid the housing onto the brake cable. Had to cut a little housing. After some time and effort I got the system the makes the brake work be able to get the wire in (its a confusing story). Then I cut the cable to size and but a cap on it. Now I have a working brake! There was great lighting for these photos so enjoy.

After a lot of hard work in the sun, the bike has been painted and reesembled. I spent the whole saturday preparing the bike with masking tape and then painting the frame. I started off with using the rest of my first paint can on the frame. I found out that the drop sheet was not the move; the wind kept blowing it, even with rocks on the corners. Since the wet paint was on the frame, it stuck to the sheet and peeled off. Then I the rest of the coats in a cardboard box. I had to stop and get another paint can then I contiued thriugh the rest of the day. Once everything was done I put the bike up on the stand and began the process of putting it back together. I put the fork back in and put the handlebars on to make the fork stay on. I had a friend help me with the rebuilding process by the way. I put the tires on and tried tirusly for 2 plus hours trying to re-link the chain with no luck. Once I got the link in I took the bike of the stand and put in a crank to little to no suprise the chain snapped. Because I was annoyed and my Mom was already going to the shop I asked to get a chain put onit for me. I went out for a ride, noticing most everything was loose I went back home made everything tight and now I need to get some stickers to cover up the iffy paint job. On my ride I also noticed that a brake would be pretty useful. And for a cherry on top my moutnain bike got a flat tire so I also changed that this weekend. Here are some photos.