Today, while continuing to recover from this bloody cold, I rode out to get some shellac to coat my bar tape and keep it a wee bit cleaner looking for longer. I had a bit of an adventure, heading first to City Mill out on Nimitz.
Sadly, and this I’ll want to remember, they don’t carry shellac. Luckily Home Depot, which is only a bit further, does.
Clear or amber? Clear or amber?
Clear doesn’t change much, amber definitely darkens things. I’ve got yellow bar tape and, while folks say amber does wonderful things for yellow cloth tape, I wanted to keep my yellow yellow. At least for a bit.
So clear shellac it was to be.
I came home after stopping at the first and second LBS I passed on the way. The first didn’t carry the gloves I like, cloth based ones by Avenir which are cheap and wear out fast. Rhino, the guy who sold and built Elaine’s bike took a look out the window at my QB and loved, absolutely loved, the Saddlesack Saddlebag (L) on the back. “Brooks?” he asked. “Better,” I replied.
But the point of this missive is to announce to the world that I’ve discovered a couple of places where my Quickbeam has been scratched a bit. Yes, my bike is officially a used bike. I know it’ll get dinged up some over time but I was hoping that I could keep it pristine for the first couple of decades. Not to be.
Of course none of this has anything to do with how well it rides.
Like a dream
Aloha!
Slower, cheaper, less useful…