Dithering— so much dithering

I’m sure if I had a typical 9-5 I wouldn’t bother with any of this stuff, (or I’d pay an arm and a leg to hire it out), but as my life is the way it is I wrench on my wife and my bikes a whole lot. Some of it is pretty necessary stuff, but some are just creature comforts. But here’s what this week held:

+ I swapped the 26+ wheels from my Stooge Rambler to my wife’s Crust Nor’easter, and put the 27.5+ wheelset on my Stooge. Then I swapped them back again after testing the 27.5+ setup on the Stooge. Like I said, so much dithering.

+ I swapped out the King Iris Cages on my wife’s Nor’easter and replaced them with Wolf Tooth stainless steel cages. My wife rides around with half of the water bottles sticking out of the cages because of how hard the King Cages grip bottles.

+ I dropped a JJBP 15mm -> 12mm stepdown adapter on the Rambler fork so that I can swap wheels with my wife's Nor'easter with no issues.

+ My wife’s city bike got stolen, and per my cajoling I’ve convinced her to try the Randy Herse out as her new commuter. And since she doesn’t like friction shifting (horribly sad I know) I put an 8 speed indexed downtube shifter on it.

+ Then I needed to take the 9 speed cassette off the Randy Herse and swap it for an 8 speed cassette. The only 8 speed cassette I had (well, 7 technically) was on my Hard Rock Clydesdale. So I took that cassette and added a bigger lower gear to fit the 8 speed freehub body.

+ Then I put this cassette I have laying around on the Hard Rock. The cassette in question is gears 4-10 of an Advent X cassette because someone I loaned a bike to bent a tooth on the 3rd gear. The little stubby cassette weighs nothing, and it has decent range, you just need a spacer behind it and to limit it out.

+ Lastly, I put my min-max short crank special on my wife's Transition Spur. 160mm Goldix cranks from Ali Express + a 32t Wolf Tooth chainring, it looks amazing and I hope she digs the feel. I also have 160mm Goldix cranks + a 40t Wolf Tooth charinring on my Stooge Rambler.

The hope is that we can get out for a city ride and a trail ride this weekend. With freeze-thaw in full effect we'll have to make a game time decision Sunday. Either way, it's great to have the bike fleet in good order.

Have a good weekend!

PC