Tall-bike ready to go!

Been doing some bicycle work over the last weeks. Part of this was during a sick leave that didn't leave me constrained to the house. Working on bikes is just so satisfying, it has just the right amount of puzzle and a lot of routine and just focusing on getting conceptually simple things right.

The result is this beauty:

I'm particularly fond of the Frankensteined derailleur construction:

It only serves as a tensioner, we used an indexed derailleur for that and mounted it to a piece cut from a frame that's going to the scrapyard. The stack of washers and such that I used as spacer to get it in the right position is left to the imagination. 😇

So now I have the bike going with the right size of wheel (was 650 wheels when I got it, and I stupidly got new ones in before realizing this is actually a 26" frame) and internal gearing (3 speeds is enough to go to the local #criticalmass ) and I'll see if I install some EL wire or LED strips later. 😀

Now I just need to wait for my ankle to fully heal because yes, of course I already fell with this bad boy. Before anyone asks, the problem isn't mounting or unmounting, it's only what you do at rest. In this case I was actually leaning against a wall at rest, and lost balance due to sheer stupidity...

#tall-bike

yep. first time since 2019 🙂
looking forward to hamburg!

So that conference was fun! Met some cool people, got excited about $TECH for the first time since #p2p-basel probably, learned a bunch of stuff, even met someone who's working at automating the right parts of #permaculture (as defined by year-long studies on which parts of the work take time, and which parts are enjoyable vs annoying).

So... money well spent! Now spending some quality time with $FAMILY in Denmark (it's been ~10 years) and Sunday it's back home.

I'm visiting #roscon2024 these days. It's great fun; I'm not really in robotics but with my CS and AI background I'm close enough that there's an abundance of topics to explore, and fascinating people to talk to. But omg sometimes these places bring out the weirdest people... There's invariably some business guy who's not an engineer but understands "enough of it" and then suddenly mid-conversation starts talking about super-intelligence and how it's gonna save the world. 😐

Anyhow, one more day to go, looking forward to it. 🙂

Found on an albanian beach the other day. Every beach nowadays seems littered with leftovers from human activities that we can't be bothered to properly dispose of, or better yet avoid. But most of it is just anonymous plastic debris; it's not all too common to be able to pin-point the exact company that was responsible for making this, clearly with no plan or intention to make sure it won't stay in the environment forever.

#photography #albania #mercedes