Lori and I went up north for our 11th anniversary, and took the mountain bikes. This is the first time Lori has been on a mountain bike since before the kids were born - maybe even before we moved to Texas. She did good though! All that Zumba is paying off!
Carter's first day of public school was a couple of weeks ago. Doesn't she look excited? She's been enjoying it so far. She gets to ride the bus, which she was pretty stoked about. She's starting to make some new friends too, which is good - almost all of the kids from the preschool she used to go to are from other towns, and don't go to her new elementary school.
Can I still call this a work 'stand' if it doesn't actually stand on the ground...? Lately I've been needing to adjust both my front and read derailleurs, and have been trying to figure out how to jury-rig a work stand without shelling out a couple of hundred bucks for a half-decent one. I read a few ideas online this morning, one of which mentioned that 3/4" black steel plumbing pipe is actually the exact same diameter as a seat post. Bingo! What I did was attach a 1" pipe flange to the main beam that runs through the garage, and I threaded a 30" x 1" pipe into it. At the end of this pipe is a 1" to 3/4" reducer coupling and then a 6" length of 3/4" pipe which I slide into the frame and clamp using the seatpost. It's very rigid and sturdy, and when I'm done working on the bike I can just unscrew the whole thing from the pipe flange and put it on a shelf!