Pete's Log: adventures in bike repair
Entry #532, (Life in General)(posted when I was 22 years old.)
"Win Ben Stein's Money" today had a Notre Dame football reference in one of their categories. But none of the contestants chose it. Silly them. That's ok, the winner only got $650. I really wanted to see what the question was going to be.
Today started out fairly slow. Brought realloc to campus to assist in the quest for music for the party tonight. Classes were boring. After OS I find a bunch of people in the lab. George, as usual, was reading Sluggy Freelance. Anne decides we should finally try to fix her bike today, so I head over to her place. After figuring out the necessary dimension for her tire, we head to proform. Her tire was 26x0.75. The guy gives us a 26x2.10 tire and inner tube. I tell him we needed 0.75, but he says it'll fit. So ok, whatever. I also pick up a pair of cold weather biking gloves. Now I need some cold weather so I can give them a try. Anyway, we replace the tire and tube on Anne's rear wheel, only to discover that it will no longer fit her frame. Stupid proform guy. So we look for smaller tires at Meijer. The smallest they have is 26x1.75. No luck. So Anne is going to continue the search for a tire that'll fit her bike. It was amusing, though I'm sure frustrating for Anne. I also picked up a pair of sunglasses. $12. Not a great pair, but they'll keep me going until christmas when I can buy a pair at CB shades. So turns out I'm going to this hypnotist thing tonight at 10. Word has it I'll get to see Perk get hypnotized. So we'll see how that goes.