PowerCycle

Good news and bad news. The good news is that my new frame is here and everything from the old bike fit quite well on it. The bad news is that I’m finding out there are much harder things to deal with on the road besides problems with the bicycle.

The thing is there are two rather amazing women that I’ve met in the last couple weeks and, well… it’s complicated (very, very complicated). I can’t ramble on about what I’m going to do but honestly I don’t know anyway so it doesn’t matter. I have every intention of continuing my trip which is no secret but the longer I stay the harder it is to leave and it’s not just my feelings I have to consider. I’m just kind of living hour by hour so we’ll see what happens.

I’m extremely happy the new frame finally arrived. The Koga rep we were dealing with put a value of $0 on the invoice but it seems that someone else there valued the frame at 450 euros when it was shipped so I had to pay customs $250 in taxes. They also shipped a new headset (Cane Creek) and fork.

The frame does look pretty sweet and I’ll post a couple pictures when the bike is finished. I still have to destroy the old frame and send Koga pictures as proof but I’m not going to do this until I take the new frame out for a test ride (in a day or so). Karin (they are still here) called Koga and asked if I could sell the old frame to recoup some of the $250 I spent but they said no (not surprised) because they have to submit pictures of the destroyed frame so they can get credit from the place in Taiwan that builds the frames for them.

Nothing else going on. Weather was crappy for a couple days but mostly it’s hot during the day and rainy/cool in the afternoons. Karin and Marten gave me an early birthday present in case I don’t see them after they leave tomorrow but I can’t open it until my actual birthday (couple weeks). That’s kind of tortuous I think.