Blahg - Grant's Blog
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No.7 2019 Late March
Posted on March 19 2019
I was going about 3mph on a slippery trail at night and crashed. Photo taken with flashlight in the other hand. It seems to show the buried brake lever at...
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Mid March 2019 No. 8
Posted on March 15 2019
That's Dan's phonetograph of me at the top of a steep hill, leaning my CLEM over to set up for taking a photo of him climbing it, which I decided...
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2019 No. 6, Early March, muck, lugs & slugs
Posted on March 06 2019
We received the second round of Gus Boots-Willsen samples in. They're closer to final, but not there yet. Good for photo and ride samples. Here are chain stays, with some...
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2019 No. 5 FEB 28--comic, shifters, bob dylan, da vinci & bike fitting
Posted on February 28 2019
This is nothing against indexed shifting—except on the front derailer— OR dogs, except those who index on the front. The point it makes is that modern bikes, like modern...
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2019 No. 4: The unusual grab bag, including rare footage
Posted on February 19 2019
Customer Daniel Falcon sent me this. Some people have all the surname luck. ----- Don't forget about this soap, possibly the world's best, especially if you like licorice: We...
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If dogs run free, then why not we?
Posted on February 13 2019
I got a few interesting responses to the last Blahg, the part about race and all. I hear there was more discussion on the forum, but I don't know HOW...
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2019 No. 3, Feb 6: State of the Bunion
Posted on February 06 2019
For the 11 years from 2007 thru 2018 our yearly sales were concerningly stable at $2.85 to $2.9 million a year, which would be fine if expenses were also stable,...
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2019 - no. 2 photo style, Charlie Cunningham, bank robber, Donovan, and "whale of the skies." A long, rambling, mess of a BLAHG, but in its own way, it flows.
Posted on January 30 2019
Often enough to mention here, people ask about the bike photos, how we do them so they're clear. Our bike photos are sometimes quickies by iPhone while the bike is...
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2019-2 Mid-Jan
A reprint, a video interview with Tom Ritchey when he seemed to be in Germany last July...some stuff about my new bike.
Posted on January 18 2019
That's a bike shop in Detroit in 1916. And only barely related: My buddy Chris got his Brooks B.17 re-framed and railed: Old top, new rivets, and here's the other...
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