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I’d love to hear from some people who have followed Chimonas’ book for building their first frame. Mine came in the mail today and I’ve read about 40 or so pages.

As someone coming to this without any background in metal working I am interested in other first time builders’ experiences in general with the book and there’s not a lot of threads dedicated to it on here.

My main questions are: What worked well?
What didn’t? What did you change? What would you do differently if you were gonna do it again?

In particular I’m curious in how it’s gone for people who have deviated from his recommendations on certain aspects of the build/design.

Having read a little bit so far I can already identify a few places I would ideally like to deviate from his approach.

Think I want more tire & fender clearance than straight chain stays (his recommendation) would allow. I’d rather use track or horizontal dropouts than the articulated ones he recommends. It would also be cool to avoid chunky seatstay caps at the top of the seat tube.

Hi all. Moving to Arlington w my family in September and looking for a place to rent. Other than Zillow, Redfin, Trulia are there Arlington -specific apartment search resources (e.g. specific realtors) that anyone recommends? I’ve had good luck venturing off the main websites in the past.

Thank you so much, future neighbors!

I recently started working in community service in Lowell and I’m curious if anyone can recommend any books/articles/authors about the history of Lowell.

In general I’m interested in a Left perspective with a focus on Labor and immigrant communities as these are the sections of the population I generally work with. Thanks!

I have a bike (trek 900 from ‘88) that I really like and would want to sort of generally replicate with some minor changes.

The one thing that bothers me about that bike is that when I’m turning, and leaning the bike over to do a turn sort of fast, it doesn’t track very well or feel very stable. I don’t feel locked into a line like I’m used to feeling. It seems like the bike almost wants to take me on a shorter-radius turn than I’m expecting.

Is there potentially a bike-geometry reason for this? Or is it components? (It is fitted w upright, swept back handlebars. I don’t recall experiencing this feeling on my road/touring bikes, which have drop bars.)

As a bonus: if anyone has resources about bicycle design they might share, that would be very helpful. I’m in the early stages of considering learning to build a bike and I’ve been looking through the paterek book a little but what I have read seems more oriented toward building vs design.

Hola!

He empezado LT esta semana pero I’m having trouble keeping track of todos los grammar rules ahora que he terminado aproximadamente 25% de los lessons. It’s starting to be too much too fast. Can anyone recommend other resources por utilizar con LT that will help me practice these?

Thanks for your input and for tolerating that mess of two languages.

Edit: I think really que me necesito es una persona que me lo hablo pero tengo a difficult schedule at work and i wouldn’t be able to do this with consistency at the moment

I am a home cook for a family of 3. I am what I consider a normal home cook. Whole ingredients to meals for lunch and dinner every day all year. We are not strictly vegetarian but we are very much mostly vegetarian. Lots and lots of vegetable cutting every day.

I have a 8" zwilling twin signature ice hardened chef's knife that I use for most of this. I like it a lot actually. It's nice to hold and it's very chunky but that makes it very very durable. I don't worry about it at all and that comes in handy when I'm trying to hack through an entire cabbage or something, but this doesn't reflect the bulk of what I do with the knife. For the knives main tasks, I find it doesn't hold it's edge quite as well as I would like. I often really push it through stuff. I maintain it with a small 320/800 diamond stone thing that I use to sharpen it up maybe once a month or slightly less often. It's very much not the right thing but I can make do with it, and it makes a very big difference for a few days.

I kinda want a somewhat nicer knife but I also worry this is a trap. How much would I have to spend to get a knife that would hand medium/fine tasks with less resistance? That would stay noticeably sharper for longer?

Should I just get a proper sharpening stone and focus on my technique there?

What would you do?

How does to work for you? Are the hills in camberville too much? How would you describe yourself as a rider? How far do you typically go?