Another Wet One

I got soaked again on the ride home tonight (I am cheating and the above picture is from a rainy day earlier in the year!). Riding in the rain is so fun! There are fewer people out and it feels like you get the bike paths and side streets all to yourself; I think there was one other person on the Williamsburg Bridge last night. The people who are out tend to be a little stupid - they run out into the street with their umbrellas pulled low on their heads, and they do this without looking for oncoming traffic.

Bill Scanga from the City Reliquary Museum came rolling up next to me on a beautiful orange Johnny Coast bike as I slopped through Williamsburg. He had been hit by a car earlier in the day, but was okay. He told me that the owner of The Museum of Jurassic Technology had been into his museum and had sent a letter saying how much he liked it and encouraged them to keep building the collection. It was fun to talk to Bill for a few blocks - we met earlier this year at a show the City Reliquary Museum hosted for Amy Bolger.



I put on dry clothes and had a quick dinner before heading over to Kristen and Josephine's house. We had another night of working on Kristen's bike and watching Project Runway. The new bike has an old style brake mounting hole in the fork, not big enough to receive the recessed mounting nut on the modern brake. We drilled out the back hole to allow the recess mount. Kristen didn't have any safety goggles, so her motorcycle helmet had to do double duty. Jo taught us a new word, swarf, which are the shavings and bits of waste produced by metalwork.