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Yep. Up earlier. For now it is considered a small victory. Should I be able to maintain waking earlier, however, it will be a downright coup against an entrenched personal paradigm. In the last two decades, while I have had better health, more function, and at times could run a regular schedule for a while, I never could reverse my sleep patterns. I could never get up earlier, on a regular basis. If I wanted to change my sleep patterns from day to night I had to change my internal clock by staying up later and later, never being able to just get up earlier. Of course, as much as I am lacking function, I am not sure what that is worth, really. Never mind, I'll take it if I can keep it. Perhaps in time all these improvements will come together all at one time.
While today is a day of rest, as I have said before, since I am sort of resigned to rest on far too many days, if I can work today, I will. God has to understand that. I think D.C. probably gets some allowance too. Oh, and perhaps you there. You know who you are. There is no way He couldn't. While some are quite stringent, and should be if they lead a typical life, I have to give allowances. Oh, I probably won't get to putting the roof on the coop, mind you. Simply dishes. If I could find a way to finishing those up today, I will. And, I am going to look the bike over. Damned brakes! I won't give it more than an hour of time though. I am thinking about seeing if I can fit the thing in my vehicle. If I can, and then use bungee cords to secure it, I will take it on my trip. I should be back through town early enough to take it in to the bike assembler. Besides, I have other questions. The handlebars are supposed to be adjustable, for example, height-wise. I would very much like them higher than what they are. I really didn't find that to be the case if I became 'violently' distracted by the brakes so I haven't dug into it. And I am curious about how to set it up for more serious inclines, should I get to that point. I will probably never truly mountain bike, and I don't think this would be the rig to run with that, so I simply need ideas to optimize this for a street, or at most gravel, and some hills, bike. Keep it stupid, Simple! :p
While in town I will do a bit more shopping. I skipped meat the last time I shopped. I had some here at home, if just a bit, and my money was a little shy last time. So, I went with cheap and easy, save for a true old school Italian sausage (cold cut variety). I still had plenty of cheese and crackers. Carrots, apples, milk, celery, and a very few other things, price calculating as I went, saw me through $36 of the $39 in my pocket. Ah well.
While looking at various livestock last night, I hit upon a notion. I have been wanting a haul trailer, of some sort, for a while. If I start buying and perhaps selling goats, or even a cow, and with a horse on the wish list, I looked for trailers. I saw one horse trailer, last night, for less than any of the haul trailers I have seen, in excellent shape, which could easily work for anything I would need. I don't quite have the money currently, but I now have an idea that could cut certain expected expenses substantially. I could easily haul furniture, branches and leaves over to the city drop site, and any of the animals I might purchase, probably sum total, in an older but well maintained four horse trailer. Sure, quite a large item to tow, but... not even all that if designed a little wider and shorter.
When you seem at wits end about some things, there always seems to be a way if you are patient (and rich). :p Ah, in time. And a good thing. Too much money could get me in way over my head faster than lightening. Still, if I had the cash, and after looking the thing over to make sure it was as solid as promised (now I honestly have some capacity to do that, meaning I would take my heavy rubber mallet to check... the tires and for rust under paint and thinned walls/flooring), I would buy that. A steal at a little under $4k (if all true). And I bet if "all I had" was $3k, I might even be able to walk with it. Well, not REALLY walk with it. Work with me people!
Have a great day.
There is a bolt on the top of the handlebar neck. It is the one that goes straight down into the top of the fork. If you loosen that bolt it loosens a wedge shaped thingy at the bottom, allowing the handlebar assembly to be pulled out of the fork. (Do not mess with the larger nut at the top of the fork where the handlebar neck goes into the top of the fork. That loosens the fork itself and depending upon the design of the bike, could result in dozens of little grease-coated ball bearings going everywhere. Major headache! Been there done that got the cub scout badge...)
ReplyDeleteWith all the cables attached you probably can't and won't want to pull the handlebar neck all the way out of the top of the fork. Just get it loose, pull it up to a better height. There may or may not be markings on the neck indicating the maximum height it can safely be adjusted to. Once you have it adjusted height-wise, tighten that bolt down part way. Leave it just loose enough so that you can re-center the handlebars to the wheel.
The easiest way I do this is straddle the bike and clamp the front wheel between my knees. Then move the handlebars back and forth until they seem to line up straight with the wheel again. Then tighten the bolt the rest of the way and check the centering. It might take an iteration or two to get it right.
Mine is so very different, but I did figure it out after taking a serious look at it, and disassembling it down to a bit to be sure. I explain in the "Ah ha!" post. Ugh...
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