A bunch of a homework... as everyday. However, it's impossible to spend your whole freetime doing stupid tasks... Today I went to South SF to buy a bicycle I saw on craigslist. Actually I had bad luck all the other times I'd try to buy one... there was always anyone faster than me... especially the last offer I missed really annoyed me... there was a Cannondale road bike (2001 model) looked simply awesome and was ridden maybe a couple dozen times... for an fucking low price. As I said, unfortunately I wasn't able to get my hands on this bike... but today I finally succeded in buying me one (and a heavy lock). It's a Fuji road bike, size is okay and it rides quite well... i still have to adjust the saddle and optimize the brakes (I have to get some tools from the housekeeper, maybe tomorrow... the brakes are maybe the most important bike parts in this city... even more important than pedals...).
So, that's the bike... Actually I haven't been driving very long in the city... but I can already tell that's even crazier than driving through Zurich (but that's actually not very surprising) The worst thing (besides the several thousands traffic lights... they're at each corner) are probably all the one ways... they're driving me mad!
Angelika also got a bike (actually since the weekend...!) , not a road but a mountain bike, it's in a very good condition an was even cheaper than mine was. Hope we'll find soon a chance to make a little bike trip to discover the bay area a bit more.
I also got my hands on the G1 cellphone... really a cool device as far as I can tell... the android software is the main reason. By the way.. my current cellphone doesn't work properly... even though I have a US sim card. Actually everything seems to be fine, but if I try to call a number or send a message there's always a "connection error", must be a stupid software error. Same with my old, loved Iriver MP3 player... since I'm in SF it won't play any sound files anymore... every other function like radio, picture video and so on works fine... there's no hardware problems. If anyone knew a solution for this... I'd really appreciate hearing it. Every attempt to get my player back to life on my part failed (e.g. loading Rockbox or update software.. this actually doesn't work too).
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Dear Marco
the story about the bycicle is good news. I like your bycicle and hope it is large enough for you and lasts longer than the black one you bent on the road barrier !! As you know by experience, with your IRiver I can not be of help, but concerning the savety regarding the brake power on the Fuji I may have some suggestions. You will get immediate improvement just by a degrease job on the rims and a file job on the rim-side of the break pads, just to remove the hard and used surface of the rubber things.
Your blog is cool and as a daily ritual I am checking it in the office.
Regards and lots of fast miles, Tom
Hehe, thanks for the advice. I'll give my best as soon as I get hold of some tools... maybe I can borrow some from the housekeeper.
BTW: I saw a presentation model (non functioning)of the new 5rchos 5.. it's quite big. Maybe I'll buy an iPod touch because it seems to be the best device on the market.
I never got my hands on an Iriver Spinn, but after reading the engadget review I'm not very convinced of it. (Besides the sound quality of course)
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