IT'S HERE, IT'S HERE, IT'S HERE!!!

note: not my bench

Hell yes. The frame showed up today, and Cedric, the kind-hearted warehouse man, gave me a call at home. So Charis and I loaded up and rode down to the shop to check it out.

I had lofty ideas of frame-saving it while we were there, but it soon became obvious that keeping track of my daughter and spraying toxic aerosol chemicals, were not going to work well together.

But, I at least got to open up the box, oggle it with my workmates, and prep the frame for later. Note all the blue band-aids to plug the weep-holes before frame-saver.

Tim and I did circles around the frame. We popped the unlaced Rohloff hub in just to see how it fit, and learned some cool things I didn't know about it yet. Cool thing #1: The new bags I ordered, are made to fit this particular frame, and utilize bolt-on buckles to tension the sidebags instead of the ever-annoying figure-8-strap thing I always hated. Cool thing #2: Surly made a tool that presses into the rack and accessory holes that can repair them when they are damaged. Which I've done while getting radical, and then had a helluva time getting the tubes to fit back in. Good work Surly!

Gonna go back down tonight and spray the frame so it can cure. Oh, enjoy the crappy video I had to take for posterity's sake.