~ the rear hub on our trek 460 is an outdated and oft-disparaged ‘helicomatic’ from the french company maillard; every few hundred miles, the wheel begins to wobble, and we have to tighten the outdated cones. a couple of weeks ago, we tightened them just enough feel no resistance when spinning the wheel, but when we mounted the wheel and tested it, there was a terrible grinding noise, and the wheel would sometimes stop suddenly.
we opened the hub and looked inside. the bearings on the ‘left’ side of the wheel were scarred and some of them were split to pieces. our plans for an afternoon ride were dash’d.
we don’t know anything about bikes that any tool can’t learn by using google. so any knowledge that we utilized in ‘repairing’ our trek could be checked against online information, if there was any available. in the event, we were unable to find any definitive information.
for example, sheldon brown [w] states that the hubs ‘used 13 5/32″ balls on the right side’, but he doesn’t specify what they use on the left side – the same, or something different? meanwhile, a flickr page has photos of the helicomatic states that the hub uses 3/16″ bearings. the folks at yellow jersey [w] are able to tell us that the bearings are not 1/4″, at least.
the point of all this is to preface our list of procedures with a statement that we were working with contradictory information, so anyone reading this page whilst dealing with their own helicomatic issues should bear that in mind.
the bearings that fell out of the hub were 5/32″, so we figured that’s what we would replace
however, maybe the reason they splintered in the first place is that they were the wrong size. sheldon brown’s half-info and our personal experience persuaded us to stick with the 5/32″ bearings.
here’s the hub. note the scarred spokes!
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~ well, our local ‘worker owned’ bike shop has screwed us again; spring 2009 is ruined!
~ ha! finally the losers searching for nude muslim men have been overrun by those suckers who came here looking for pirate snipers. we reckon that most internet browsers want to see photos of snipers shooting at pirate ships, but we imagine that muslim men’s naked bodies look a lot like xians’ and jews’. anyway, we hope you all find what you need!
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“Our prayers have been answered on this Easter Sunday,” [some guy regarding the rescue of that captain kidnapped by pirates]
it would have ruined the element of surprise, but the navy should have flipped on their loudspeaker and told the pirates, ‘hey, easter is coming up in a couple of days, and americans fucking love feel good stories on religious and commercial holidays. they eat that shit up. it shores their beliefs that there is an order the universe follows. so unless you want to give up now, we are going to snipe you on easter sunday, for america.’
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again, we can’t bitch about the lack of narrative information in this film poster, as this banal specimen adequately represents how boring and subversively creepy the movie must be. we mainly wanted to direct your attention to the awful production quality of the trailer; this piece looks so crummy and vacuous, one would almost feel sorry for the kids whose sappy parents make them sit through it, if one was not consumed with frustrated rage:
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~ in the dark days of our ‘lost months’ abroad last year, we tried to explain to our host how the united states was ‘better’ than sweden. news from the horn of africa sums it up more vividly than bickering over the cleanliness of local buses:
The first pirate attack in more than 200 years against a U.S.-flagged vessel off Africa led to a tense standoff Wednesday after a crew of Americans retook control of the ship and the hijackers fled into a lifeboat.
if it had been a swedish-flagged ship, they would have given the pirates amnesty and free condos in stockholm. fact.
~ in the tradition of warning our american readers away from awful experiences: unless it is midnight, and you have to visit a chain store, or you are on a road trip, perhaps to florida, you won’t be forced to make do with ‘deli’ hummus, but when it happens, stay the fuck away from ‘athenos neo classic’ hummus; we were drawn in by the awesome name, before the first bite induced a gag reflex. it is the worst food we have tasted since sampling salted licorice (in sweden). terrible. try to find sabra’s hummus or the one that has a photo of brooklyn on the label.
~ today we are using this hideous layout because our usual theme, proust, seems to be incompatible with the earth hour countdown bar thing at the top of this page. unplug your vampyre applyances and lift a candle in honour of our missing background-image tonight.
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again, we can’t complain about a star’s name plastered over their face, but we think we can dispense with the title of the movie on this one. the image alone makes the narrative very clear.
