The pressure was a joke, I don't have much going on out there. It's 37F and poring rain right now. My poor pooch didn't want to go out to do his business and I can't blame him. This rain is hard and I think it will make the the lingering patches of ice and snow disappear from the trails. There is still a snow bank under a spruce tree from the plow in front of my property and a few like that here and there on our access road. The highway still has banks but it is back from the shoulder and I and others have been bike riding. Yesterday I began to sand the frame. I did that beside my shop. I wanted to start before the rain hit. I didn't get to the rear triangle but about 50% of the front triangle is sanded. I got the 4 wheeler running yesterday and went on a 6 mile recon on my mountain bike trail to see how many trees I have to clear, not as bad as last year so far, but the trail is 40 miles long. Some of the section connectors I made are too narrow for 4 wheelers and I walked about a mile of those. That is where most of the downed trees were. Our place is in the "Chain of Lakes" 6 lake, connected by streams, that encompass 3 counties. Alger, Schoolcraft and Delta counties. Corner Lake, one of the chain, has all three counties coming together in the middle of it. My 40 mile route circles the whole thing and then some, going to many neighboring lakes. It's a beautiful but exhausting day ride on 13 miles of single track and the rest two track and about 15 miles of gravel. I might have it cleared of fallen timber by the end of next week.Where's the 'dislike / thumbs down' button for that U.P. weather status? Wow. Talk about dragging out a bad winter.
Hope it improves up there so you can accomplish all your tasks, from wood to rat rods, with pleasure; not pressure!
Nice wheels, forged alloy. The front matches and has a New Departure hub with nice nickel on it.
Black flies are so thick today that I inhaled them and am drinking coffee trying to wash them down. I have two complete Morrow rear coaster hubs, I think one has a 1/2 pitch drive but I'm not sure. I have several rear hubs shells as well. I'm using a skip tooth chainring from a sidewalk bike with 17 teeth. The morrow skip tooth drive has 10 teeth. I have read that the Morrow coaster hub doesn't work real well with low gearing but I'm not sure why. It might be because there is a lot of reverse distance to back pedal before the coaster engages, a problem with Bendix manual 2 speeds. Nexus 3 speeds don't have this problem. The brake shoes are the entire length of the hub shell and are thick.
