May 9 - recovery

Recovery ... ha ...

Off to Jessica and what she had in mind was legs work.  Lunges and more lunges then some yoga stretches.  Great.  I'm sore this morning but have no idea whether it's from a) the weekend ride, b) the lunges, c) the bananas ...

When I got home, I immediately changed into some old clothes and tackled the bananas.  Monday is yard trash day, i.e. mulchable greenery, so I wanted to get as much to the front of the house as possible.  Well, I leveled the bananas to the ground. The truck didn't come until late in the day and they didn't even take my offering; they'll send the truck with the mechanical grabber/fork another day, I guess. 

I'd received the new fork and parts from Ticycles on the weekend and, although I was tempted to simply pack those and do the work on the Litespeed once up north, I decided to see if it all worked.  I used the headset press to install the head-tube extension, then the headset (having removed it with the headset remover, of course) and then found that the fork steerer wouldn't fit through the extension ... great ...

It seems that it was machined with a little too much material on the inside and the 1" steerer won't fit through.  I called Eric at Ticycles and he tested another one that works, so they're sending me a replacement.

I used the headset remover on the extension and it took a lot of banging to get it out -- very tight.  The next problem was the headset, since the narrowing of the extension stopped the arms of the extractor from engaging the edges of the headset.  I finally reinserted the assembly in the head-tube -- just a little way in -- and found something rounded with enough of an edge that I could gently tap round and round and round and work the headset out. 

I was just about to pull the trigger on ordering a new headset but I was past the shipping time for the day and gave myself the extra time, luckily.

So ... I've got more parts piled up.  I can hardly move in there.  I'll soon be sorting through it and organizing what I'm taking north but it's a mess right now.

Sandy helped me check that the boat cover for the Hydra Sport fits on the Skiff, and it does.  The HS is longer, dual console, vs the shorter single side console.  It does fit, albeit loosely, but that's what I'll do for the summer.  I may put a garbage can underneath or something to prop up the center so that any rain that finds its way under the roof will run off vs pooling on the cover.  I'll have to pull the battery etc. before closing it up.

Patty Himes came over for dinner; Sandy did salmon cakes (like crab cakes only salmon).  They were great.  We had a nice visit with Patty; she's heading north to Connecticut just after us, driving to Jacksonville to her son's, shipping her car and flying to New York.  The shipping company delivers the car to her door.  I think that she said that it costs about 700?  That's certainly a better deal than having the expense of a second car, even if you're doing that twice a year.

... and then I hit the sack.  Amazingly enough I did not have a snooze during the day although I did think about that once or twice !

Onward !