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Renovation of my bike

Sport

My commuter bike broke down about two weeks ago, so I bought a new chain. But, new chain and worn out sprockets are not a good combination. So after advice from Espen I decided to buy the Single Speed Conversion Kit. In that way I will reduce the need for maintenance and hopefully over time reduced cost as well 🙂 Tomorrow I have planned to try it out, hopefully doing 50 kilometers or so.

In addition to the kit I had to buy a new dropout since the internal threads in the old one was long gone. I also had to buy a new KMC 8 chain. The old one was a 9’er, and worn out in just a week because of the old sprockets, but normally you need no more than the kit to convert your bike.

Sexy driveline?

Notice that I use the tension seeker downwards, not upwards. It is recommended to use it upwards, but since I could not cut the KMC-chain just one link, but needed to cut two it would get to tight. Therefore downwards.

From Lindesnes to Nordkapp with bicycle IV

Sport

The fourth leg, now I have reached Storforshei, or just Heia as we justed to call it when I was a child. Heia is just 25 kilometers north of Mo i Rana where I grew up. At Heia you can among other things find the Artic Circle Raceway. So now I’ve done almost 1500 kilometers this year riding my bike to work.

When biking to work I am passing Middelalderparken after about 7 kilometers. There you can, among other things, find ruins of an old church and other buildings. And once a year the music festival Øyafestivalen is held there.

Close to disaster!!

Anything but the other

At home this evening, late dinner, one can of beer in the refrigerator – could not resist it. Sat down on the couch and grabbed the can, pulling the opener with my index finger when suddenly…it just bent, so the box did not open. A state of emergency was immediately issued at home. I rushed out to the kitchen to safer ground, looking for tools to help me out, when I decided to try to use my thumb….and yes!! The can was open, state of emergency was lifted, order was restored and we could enjoy our wolffish filet

Right now playing: Kyuss

Music

Members of Kyuss have gone on to form or play in several notable bands including Queens of the Stone Age, Fu Manchu, Unida, Brant Bjork, Eagles of Death Metal, Mondo Generator, Hermano, Dwarves, Slo Burn and Them Crooked Vultures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyuss

Right now, Gardenia by Kyuss – loving it!!

Weekend at Skeikampen

Leisure

Thomas, Espen and I have been skiing this weekend at Skeikampen. Not the best resort, but after we had been following the weather forecast the last week we decided that due to danger of avalanches some places and not enough snow other places Skeikampen was the best choice.

Saturday morning we woke up to a beautiful day. The sun was shining and the temperature was perfect, during the day we even got some slushy snow.

Look, me wearing my helmet…Espen and Thomas just behind. Skeikampen can be fun when the snow conditions are good, even if the slopes are not the longest ones, off piste is easily accessible from the lifts.

But when the conditions are just average or not even that, Skeikampen gets a bit boring. So when we woke up this morning and saw that the weather was like this, well…icy conditions with some snow here and there…we drove home at 12

Mechanical breakdown

Sport

As I have mentioned earlier, to commute each day is hard for the equipment. Today my bike chain snapped when I was about to accelerate from the sidewalk out in the road. This happened down by Aker Brygge, luckily I must say since it is not a long walk to the subway. Not decided what to do now, I will create a single speed of the bike, but the gear shifters are still quite ok, so I guess a new chain will do the trick for now.

Nothing else to do than use the subway when things are like this