Bikes 🚲

New tire day ✨

Splurged on some GP5000s and I’m back in the gum sidewall club. 

I only got about a month and a half out of these Gravel Skins; hoping for better durability with the Continentals

the garage

Silver brazing some bottle bosses and junction gussets this morning. Not pretty but I think I can clean this up a bit more with some sanding and filing

Steel bike build update in /thegarage  https://farcaster.xyz/aptlab/0x19afa478

gm

Rise and grind! I hope you’re able to get a good ride in today

HIGHER

gm gm 

How are your goals for the year going? 

I had a great chance to relax over the long weekend, do some reflecting, and refine my plan of attack for the second half of the year. Feeling re-energized and ready to rock.

higher

higher-athletics

Commit

7/5 /commit 

Stopped to taste the blackberries along the fire road.

7/4 /commit 

Family run down hell hole fire road on a cool Independence Day morning

New chain day! 

Iykyk

Happened to have a nice replacement on hand that I picked up at a recent swap meet. The “$2 if it fits in your hand” pricing was good to me!!

Gold chains only 😮‍💨

7/1 /commit 

Full gas Tuesday group ride on a nice new chain after thrashing mine last week.

7/1 /commit 

Full gas Tuesday group ride on a nice new chain after thrashing mine last week. 

https://farcaster.xyz/aptlab/0x2046d660

This jewelers saw is becoming my favorite tool. Takes way more time than power tools but is very precise and more useful than I imagined. 

I broke a ton of blades at first but cutting fluid and being as gentle as possible helps a lot.

6/30 /commit 

Five miler to kick off the work week

higher

6/29 /commit 

Joined a little group ride on a route out to the NE of town that I hadn’t caught in a bit. Nice distance to wrap the week. Made it home just before the rain!!

excalidraw

Parenting

logged into excalidraw to work out some diagrams and was surprised to see this.

has anybody used amps to buy a spot in the top 10? wonder what the roi is

QC with your favorite monologue in television

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adq6gTzGvS0

Has to be E.B. Farnum or Al Swearengen in Deadwood

Has to be E.B. Farnum or Al Swearengen in Deadwood

https://www.reddit.com/r/deadwood/s/6BARTAarXL

Friday morning metalwork update

Iterating, iterating, iterating

Small tube offcuts are turning out to be very worth saving

6/27 /commit 

Friday morning run 🏃 

I thought it would wear off a bit more than it has, but these new shoes still feel crazy to run in. Way more support, springiness, and… sound? than I’m used to. I’ve got people on the running path hearing footsteps 😆 They feel fast

Duolingo

My Spanish is suffering but the new Chess path is sooo fun!

Hey folks -- we're making a big investment in improving our video UX. 

That said, would encourage folks to start posting videos in 9:16 aspect ratio (like TikTok, IG Reels, YT Shorts).

Would also encourage people to add captions -- using CapCut, Captions (app), Descript, Kapwing, etc.

Designer, /bicycling, building stuff in /thegarage

Apt

@aptlab