Showing posts with label stumpjumper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stumpjumper. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Bolt Buster



This is how I ride.

It took me two weeks to figure out that a broken axle was the reason the rear wheel on the Stumpjumper kept sliding to the right while I rode.

I came damn close to stripping the threads on the axle in repeated attempts to re-align the wheel and not have it slide again.

Finally, this morning, in the pre-dawn, 29° chill, while trying once again to re-align and tighten, I noticed that while turning the wrench on one nut while the other was firmly tight, one half of the axle rotated with the wrench... the other did not. Hmmm....

Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.

-Hunter S. Thompson


Dedicated to the other side of Las Vegas, namely; the sprawling, mad, incoherent underpinnings of the world's favorite destination.

That, and the occasional ranting about nothing in particular.