What an awlful feeling.
But sometimes I take a walk and I see many people who must live life in that particular shadow of unhappiness and depression all of the time. Where is the beauty in their lives?
I on the other hand, had a blast today in the hills. I gave my rebound compression a few dials of the knob back from its slowest setting and now the wheel no longer bounces off bumps. Well it didn't actually, but you can sometimes feel it go into the air if you're going really fast or there's a certain kinda bump with a roll-off edge.
God, it took me almost 2 years to figure this out. You have to dial it back a bit because as the spring hits a bump, not all of the shock is absorbed. Some of it translates into an upward motion; as the wheel bounces back into the air it doesn't come back down fast enough (and of course the fork is shortened as the stanchions pull in) and hence the stanchions have to lengthen (just a tad bit faster) to regain the wheel's contact with the ground. If your rebound compression is set too slow, you'd be flying in the air for just a bit after you hit a bump as the stanchions aren't extending back out fast enough to give you a contact patch.
Too fast of a rebound on the other hand and you're bouncing about out of control as the upwards motion from the shock re-extending sends the entire wheel flying up too. This is more obvious at speed and over baby heads.
Too little and you'd be packing up a lot and of course, you get the kind of bump bounce as described. In both cases you'll have to slow down to regain control. What you want is a wheel that tracks the terrain as you move over bumps, such that your handlebars float through the air at a relatively straight plane relative to all the bobbing underneath.
I found this out when I was railing a couple of corners and had to go wide, putting me in the ditchy side of the trail. These comprise leaves and stones and and other stuff of unknown provenance.
I just love bouncy things.
Count myself lucky, here. I have an okay life.
And I ran over a small snake today. I actually tried to stop to avoid it and stopped right on him.
Poor guy. I know it was a mortal wound.
Say 10 Hail Marys before bed.
On a totally unrelated note, the welds on my Volkswagen rival that of the Ellsworth.
Handmade, wot? Well coz chickens don't really do much spot welding.
2 comments:
my, snakes are creepy.
Yes they are, but this one was also very wriggly.
That could be because I ripped a giant hole in his side and he was writhing in pain.
Either that or he was really happy to see me. Can snakes wag their tails?
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