Day 56...Repost Cause I Wanna Get The Word Out

Yes, Im reposting my post from yesterday/last night.  I want to get the word out to people about this Giordana Clothing Sale...cuz its awesome!  Also, Im going to be geeking over my bike later and have planned on posting on it tomorrow.  So...enjoy...

"Today was a good day.  Everyone survived their perspective places of business(wife and I), and place of education(the offspring).  We all made it back home safe and sound.

Ok, down to "business".  If you live in the Denver/Metro area, and are looking for some off season screaming deals on clothing...nice clothing...then come by the shop.  The Giordana Rep brought by 3 boxes of clothing from last year and we are selling them at 50% Off!!!  Its a mix of men's and women's, and the sizing is limited...mostly medium and larges in the men's, and small/mediums in the women's.  Its FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED only!

still in the packaging most of it...

i spied a couple pair of NICE Roubaix bib tights!

sweet women's jackets...and other goodies too!

I get asked about cables and housing quite a bit...well, when people are looking at replacing them.  There are a few people out there whove asked about the Gore cable system.  My personal feelings...theyre nice...but pricey.  If you have the money to spend, fine go for it, but bring your mechanic a tip in liquid form, or some other digestible product of their choice.  Itll help with some of those fancy systems.

Ive also been asked what I use personally.  Personally, i like to use 5mm shift and brake housing.  The question of "keeping them clean" comes up at this point.  My response...5mm shift housing is perfect because they can be easily cleaned/regreased when needed.  This should make perfect sense, but I see where some people come from on the other side of the coin.  "Bigger hole = easier access for dirt".  If you use a nice 5mm alloy ferrule made for shift housing, the cable hole is the same diameter as the 4mm ferrule.  Thus...argument null and void.

Now, the bigger question...what to use.  Ive tried Tri-flow, but got turned onto Buzzy's Slick Honey and havent looked back.  (oh, i should stop here for a brain fart moment, and state that the cables are all stainless slick...NOT galvanized)  Tri-flow tends to break down rather quickly and collect quite a bit of dirt by the sheer fact that its super wet and runny.  The Slick Honey is super smooth, feels like a wet lube but when you actually give it a lil rub between your fingers, you immediately notice that its just a super super this grease.  "Sticks" nicely to the cables, easy to clean up and cheap!  Makes my cables/housing feel about as nice as some of those crazy-make a mechanic go nuts-nutty systems out there.

If you already knew this...thanks for making it this far in the post.

This tube will last you quite a while

On a final note...tomorrow after work Ill be building up my new cross frame.  Im super stocked about it!  Just thought id put it out there.

mmmm...excitement! 

...boots out."

Day 41...I Gots Sum Pix 2day

Ok, so yeah, no post this morning as the wife and I woke up late and had to get the kids up, get ready for work, get the kids ready and feed everyone in less than an hour!  Holy schnikies!  So it all went well  and everyone got where we needed to be at the appropriate time.

Work was great overall.  All our new Colnago's showed up.  Kirk and I got an Air built and an Ace built.  I got to pull out my new World Cup Cross frameset!  So super excited to build it up.  Did LOTS of gluing...again...and nothing new there.

The one hitch in the day was a Pinarello Paris build.  Everything went well until...  I measured all of the housing and got the rear derailleur cable run and routed through the internal routing via the downtube and did 3 test shifts then...SNAP CRACKLE POP!!!  Suddently the shifting went to shit and I cussed myself.  Thinking I missed something in the setup I retraced my steps and found that the internal housing stop on the downtube, the one that is made of aluminum and simply bonded to the inside of the frame via some sort of resin/adhesive, had broken free and dropped into the downtube.  BUMMER! After attempting to fish the stop out for about a half hour I decided to call it.  Its a brand new frame straight from the distributor so a phone call was made and replacement is on its way via 2 day air from NC.  So...all good in the hood.

Tomorrow its another day at the shop with more gluing in store and stripping the broken Paris down to ship the frame back.  Also doing a fit for a friend of mine on his new Cannondale EVO...see previous post.

The BB of the Paris with the lil grom just out of reach

These 2 guys got some new rubber today...all glued and ready for some TT fun

In case anyone wants my opinion..this is the only stuff that should go on your tubies

Here's the NEW RIDE! Cant wait to build it

We can thank Mr Nys and Mr Albert for those stripes

such a thing of beauty

not a great photo of the rear cable hanger integrated into the seatcollar

no doubts here

perfect place for your shoulder to go

Colnago Ace w/105 comes in right around $3000

Great graphics on every Colnago we see