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Shoe laces: I have to admit that this is somewhat embarrassing but I am a little over 60 and just learned how to tie my shoes – or I should say – correctly. The first knot I learned would open up almost as fast as I tied it. Needless to say, retying shoes all day can be a pain. It could even cost you a bike race. So I quickly learned to double tie everything and chuckled to myself at everyone else who had their shoes single tied. What idiots? Then I bought the sneakers with an ingenious lacing system that would only allow the laces to be way too lose or so tight your feet would cramp. No doubt this was marketed as a new lacing technology. I was forced into Googling shoe lacing patterns in an effort to make the shoes wearable when I realized that I had been tying a granny knot my whole life – actually double tying. At least now I have an excuse for anything I have ever done wrong – I didn’t even know how to tie my own shoes. The new guy rim: At one point we had a hub that had the holes on the opposing (opposing meaning it didn’t like to be where it was) flange drilled incorrectly. The offset on the drilling on the opposite (as opposed to opposing) flange should be 360/the number of spokes – at least I think so. This one was drilled wrong meaning no matter what you did you couldn’t build the wheel and yet there was no real way to tell what you were doing wrong. Needless to say this was always the new guy hub. It would be nice to say that we feel compassion for people when they have insolvable problems but the fact is that we all like to see people fail. One of the new guys chucked the hub. So now we have the new guy rim. We bought these with good intention from one of the worlds leading rim makers. We ordered a 20 hole and got a 21. That’s not a typo. When I asked the rim maker if he wanted them back he said (in one of the classic sales lines ever) “We don’t make that model anymore. |
