New hair

Actually I just have less of my old hair if we're going to get technical. Anyway, I got my hair cut today and got bangs, which mom wanted to see, so here they are. (along with the rest of me)

By the way, I didn't mean to bump Ben's post so soon, which is actually more worth reading than this one. So please scroll down if you haven't read it yet.

Suteki rises from the Raleigh's (stolen) ashes

As most of you know (except Edmund and Anonymous, who I haven't talked to in a while), my Raleigh was stolen about a month ago from the bike rack behind my apartment. Though I was sad to lose it, I had learned recently that the Raleigh bikes made in Taiwan (of which mine was one) were cheap frames with the Raleigh logo on them (rather than the higher-end Raleighs produced at the original Nottingham, England factory. Knowing this, I was eager to go out and find a bike that might prove to be a little more solid in the frame department.

What I found was a bike that few people know anything about. It's a Suteki, and from the little I've found online, they were manufactured in Japan in the early 80's, and are made with high-quality Japanese steel.

What I do know is that I've had to put a fair amount of work into this bike. So far, I've:

1. replaced the rear wheel
2. replaced the rear derailleur
3. replaced the shift and brake cables
4. replaced the original seat post and seat
5. replaced the pedals so I could attach toe clips

And now I'm hearing some annoying rubbing noises from my chain rings, which may mean I need to replace the crankset.

At any rate, here are some pictures of the new bike:

"The Side Angle (Bike at Repose)"


"The Suteki logo"


"The View from the Front (Bike Attack)"


"Poor Saps' View (The Angle from which Most Trail Riders See My New Bike)"

Moved posts

I moved my last two posts to Mikes blog, they were meant for the discriminating reader, so I had to move them.