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@BernardRenault
The boss today has been putting staff through his usual short tempered COVID lack of work based purgatory, the day took forever. I wish he'd just put the firm and us out of our misery. I walked past the sarcastic security guard without taking him on tonight as I was burnt out. He sits in reception like a 600lb Guy Garvey, using his job as a base to sell bootleg console games on eBay, foraging for biscuits like a truffle pig from the clients offices and laughing self-appreciatively at his own homophobic jokes. You have to be in the right mood for conversation, he's an acquired taste. The joke about him wedging my macs mouse up his voluminous arse when he was bored at night made my stomach churn.
Well... pics in the morning this clammy heats been driving me daft I have to work indoors with quite poor air circulation. The seatpost arrived at 350 mm and hit an obstruction in the frame, which turned out to be a bottle boss rivnut, so it's a bit taller than I wanted. I'll get the bike shop to chop a chunk off as it's carbon, I suspect all these daft long posts are something to do with MTBs.
I struggled to get the stem off the old bars and decided it probably wasn't safe after so much force and rough leading edges. Ideally 90 to 100mm long, the only thing I had kicking about was a 130mm Cinelli 1A in silver, which looks all wrong and is too stretched out, but I'd like to just ride this thing without throwing any more money at it.
Cinelli cork ribbon doesn't like being reused is something I learned tonight, or maybe it was just dripping with sweat like I was standing in an car wash just put me off my stroke, it looks crap, but it will do. I promised myself that I'd do this tonight but its been like a scaled down crash start of the Moto GP, although to be fair I didn't exactly stare death in the face.