Comments | silent_jupiter: mechanics.

silent_jupiter

mechanics.

Nov 18, 2007 16:38

i'm taking a bike repair class right now through yellow bike, a nonprofit community bike project in austin, and i love it. once you've spent 12 hours volunteering with them (and the 12 hour class counts) you get to build your own bike from all their parts and bikes. dena wants me to build her a bike and i really want to build myself a road bike. ( Read more... )

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thesilia November 19 2007, 17:42:01 UTC

yeah, beeyotch. write more often. :) or maybe mostly, rest, recuperate, and be good to yourself. good luck on the med school apps! i know, each one with its own special fee... those things add up.

silent_jupiter November 21 2007, 17:56:59 UTC

you aren't kidding. and if any of those out of state schools invite me for an interview, there's plane tickets and hotels and food and....good thing i work 60 hours a week so i can afford all this!

catminorityof1 November 19 2007, 21:20:48 UTC

You totally need to write more often, but then I do too, so who am I to gang up on your bandwagon?!

It's interesting that your doing the bike mechanic thing, cause I've totally been wanting to get a bike so I don't have to wait for the damn bus to show up once I get off the train. DART's not too shabby for a city as obsessed with SUV's as we are, but it's still not nearly the public transit system we could have given the size of this area and all the people constantly moving here.

I'm going to take down my Dad's bike from the garage over the holiday and see if I can adjust it enough so I can ride it. But I saw the frame for a really cool lookin' 60's style nostalgia bike on craigslist and wanted to buy it, except that I know nothing about what other stuff it would need to be in working order. How about you teach me some of these mechanically inclined skills that your dad passed on? Or am I too hopeless for that?

I hope you feel better =)

silent_jupiter November 21 2007, 17:59:17 UTC

sure, i can try.

i wish austin had better public transport. i hear sometimes that its been recognized and all that but i liked dallas better. and for as bad as north- and southbound traffic is in austin, i can't believe they don't have a light rail like we do. that alone would make the traffic better.

but, hey, what do i need the bus or a car for anyway?? it's a lot more fun to ride my bike back and forth to work, all 13.5 miles of it.