December 16, 2006

I'm sitting in my pink folding chair in front of my closet in my basement apartment at 4533 Locust St. I'm taking the spokes out of a wheel that I laced up previously. The spokes are too long, and I am preparing to lace the hub to a different rim with a slightly smaller ERD. The hub is a Sturmey Archer coaster brake hub, and I'm building these wheels for a new series of "coastie" bicycles. I need a lot of hubs and spokes to do the project right, but I can't justify the investment being as broke as I am right now. I also have a lot irons in the fire as I recently heard someone put it.