Like many girls, I have the colors already picked out. Grey frame and sea foam (or light green) bar tape. This helps me visualize the final product, of which I am a long way off.
Thursday, briefly, I went to FreeCylces to strip down my old Raleigh to donate the frame (which has always been too big for me). It occurred to me, with a helpful suggestion by Jeffery that I keep the rubber brake hoods, that I could also save the headset, bottom bracket, fenders...heck anything! from the old bike for future bikes. I didn't even know to take these brake hoods off, or that that is what they're called, and well, it just multiplied after that.
The process of stripping down the Raleigh to make way for the new bike is a good one. I am saying, "out with old, in with the new." I am also reusing parts so that I don't either have to look for them at the shop or buy them. Jeffery says this is no fun, the saving time in the digging, and he's right, I"m sure to find treasures as FreeCycles and I don't want to miss out on that. I wanted to save time when I thought I was still on this 5 days to build a bike schedule which I have pretty much blown out of the water by not going to the shop this past Wednesday. I could have been at the shop at least 4 hrs then and gotten some open shop time and volunteering hrs.
I needed a night off apparently. 2 days in a row were good and I returned to a very productive 45 minutes. Saturday, I"m in for a long day of stripping and saving and searching and maybe even a ladies' shop night on Sunday. I don't know if I"ll get that much done that night, I may count it toward volunteering as I'll probably be showing my friends around the shop and helping Shannon out with fixing her wheel.
Who knows.
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