How the Universe Works

[PedalUma]

I don't know how the universe works but need to accept that somehow it does. Here is a story that just happened. Oh, today happens to be a Monday. I volunteered to fix bikes for free last Saturday at a Repair Fair. 40 people were fixing everything from tablets to toasters to ripped jeans. I worked on 12 bikes. Because I needed to haul a bunch of tools and a repair stand I needed to use a cargo bike. At the time I was co-owner of one that I made electric. I picked it up late in the day on Friday. Then lead a group ride with it Friday evening. Unbeknownst to me the Mayor's daughter saw it and wants it. And because I had it today I was able to sell it to someone else today. So, now I need to make another for the Mayor's daughter. None of that would have happened unless I did something totally non-economic, fixing bikes for free.

 

[Slaphappygamer]

That’s some karma! Keep doing good things!

 

[PedalUma]

One month ago a friend who owns a bike shop went to Maui to help train teachers in working with childhood trauma with his expert wife to reopen the schools after the devastating fire. I offered to watch his shop for him for the week. A guy, Joe, walked in the shop and said his wife can not ride her bike anymore and it is just taking up garage space, rusting. He described the bike. I told him that I love it, will make it wonderful, and find it a good home. The next day he gave it to me. The faded paint was the color of cream of tomato soup. It was rusted, scratched and pitted. The internal gears didn't work. The aluminum was black with white crystals. Now it is beautiful and electric. I redid all the bearings after overhauling the internal gears. Its imbedded carbon will now be extended for another fourteen years. It is a 2010 Specialized Globe 3. Today it is getting a curvy woven basket that has a coffee cup holder. I will fill it with Christmas decorations with a green bow. It will sell quickly and go under someone's tree. A guy from the next town is bringing up a Mundo cargo bike today for me to make electric for the Mayor's daughter. I don't know why or how this stuff happens, it just does.

 

[Sparky731]

One month ago a friend who owns a bike shop went to Maui to help train teachers in working with childhood trauma with his expert wife to reopen the schools after the devastating fire. I offered to watch his shop for him for the week. A guy, Joe, walked in the shop and said his wife can not ride her bike anymore and it is just taking up garage space, rusting. He described the bike. I told him that I love it, will make it wonderful, and find it a good home. The next day he gave it to me. The faded paint was the color of cream of tomato soup. It was rusted, scratched and pitted. The internal gears didn't work. The aluminum was black with white crystals. Now it is beautiful and electric. I redid all the bearings after overhauling the internal gears. Its imbedded carbon will now be extended for another fourteen years. It is a 2010 Specialized Globe 3. Today it is getting a curvy woven basket that has a coffee cup holder. I will fill it with Christmas decorations with a green bow. It will sell quickly and go under someone's tree. A guy from the next town is bringing up a Mundo cargo bike today for me to make electric for the Mayor's daughter. I don't know why or how this stuff happens, it just does.

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It happens because you do it. Kudos!

 

[PedalUma]

That red bike is all decked out for Christmas with its new basket in front of the downtown bike shop. People are stopping to take photos of it. Now my friend wants the Mundo that came in today for himself after I convert it. His wife got mad because I sold the green one we co-owned. He wants to do mobile service with it. So, now I need to find another for the Mayor's daughter. This Saturday Nov. 11 a bunch of use will ride bikes in the Veteran's Day Parade and there will be tons of foot traffic in front of the bike shop. And today I found a buyer for this bike. We are putting a shorter stem on it. And she is picking it up Friday. She was looking at and test riding $6500 bikes so she didn't blink at the price he gave her for this through frame converted Felt gravel bike.

 

[Slaphappygamer]

That’s a very svelte felt.

 

[PedalUma]

That’s a very svelte felt.

Who ever svelte it felt it.
That bike is the only bike that I know of that is a combination of a) drop bar, b) throttle, c) torque sensing and d) all through frame. I highly suspect it is one of a kind. The wires go through three translations of colors. I had to take one 8mm thick wire down to two 4mm to solder thru-frame.

 

[JedidiahStolzfus]

Who ever svelte it felt it.
That bike is the only bike that I know of that is a combination of a) drop bar, b) throttle, c) torque sensing and d) all through frame. I highly suspect it is one of a kind. The wires go through three translations of colors. I had to take one 8mm thick wire down to two 4mm to solder thru-frame.

Sounds groundbreaking.

 

[Imchud]

It happens because you do it. Kudos!

I don't know how the universe works but need to accept that somehow it does. Here is a story that just happened. Oh, today happens to be a Monday. I volunteered to fix bikes for free last Saturday at a Repair Fair. 40 people were fixing everything from tablets to toasters to ripped jeans. I worked on 12 bikes. Because I needed to haul a bunch of tools and a repair stand I needed to use a cargo bike. At the time I was co-owner of one that I made electric. I picked it up late in the day on Friday. Then lead a group ride with it Friday evening. Unbeknownst to me the Mayor's daughter saw it and wants it. And because I had it today I was able to sell it to someone else today. So, now I need to make another for the Mayor's daughter. None of that would have happened unless I did something totally non-economic, fixing bikes for free.

One month ago a friend who owns a bike shop went to Maui to help train teachers in working with childhood trauma with his expert wife to reopen the schools after the devastating fire. I offered to watch his shop for him for the week. A guy, Joe, walked in the shop and said his wife can not ride her bike anymore and it is just taking up garage space, rusting. He described the bike. I told him that I love it, will make it wonderful, and find it a good home. The next day he gave it to me. The faded paint was the color of cream of tomato soup. It was rusted, scratched and pitted. The internal gears didn't work. The aluminum was black with white crystals. Now it is beautiful and electric. I redid all the bearings after overhauling the internal gears. Its imbedded carbon will now be extended for another fourteen years. It is a 2010 Specialized Globe 3. Today it is getting a curvy woven basket that has a coffee cup holder. I will fill it with Christmas decorations with a green bow. It will sell quickly and go under someone's tree. A guy from the next town is bringing up a Mundo cargo bike today for me to make electric for the Mayor's daughter. I don't know why or how this stuff happens, it just does.

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Wow...So nice.