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Friday 25th 46F/8C [7.15] Dry with sunny periods. Medium, westerly winds. 24C/75F in the room. Too warm! I have turned the heat pump remote control down by one degree to 20C. It has overheated the room when set to 21C.
Up at 6.30 after another wakeful night. Should I give up the afternoon nap?
I need to fix the dropper post on the e-bike. The cable was barely long enough and the outer frayed at a junction. Causing severe unreliability. I have a spare dropper post somewhere with a brand new lever amd cable attached. Bought before I realised I could get more drop. Now I can't find it! These dropper seat cables are standard gear change cables. So I could obtain some spares from the bike shop in town and knit my own.
13.00 Back from the shops. I bought a couple of inner gear cables in town. Then detoured to two farm machinery shops looking for better cable clamps. Aka: Wire nipples. I was lucky at the second. The original XLC cable clamp ruins the cable. Due to the pointed clamping screw separating the strands. Where a flat ended screw would hopefully not. The original nipple was also tiny. Needing a tiny, straight bladed screwdriver to tighten it. This did not fill me with confidence that the inner cable/wire was being held firmly.
It has been a beautiful, sunny morning but I could not safely go for a ride without the dropper post working. Lifting myself onto the saddle. From straddling across the bike was too far. As was dismounting from a seated position.17.00 60F/15.5C Back from an 8km test ride. The seat dropper post has returned to solid and reliable support. With snappy movement up and down. Bright sunshine and I was overdressed despite the wind.
Dinner was cheese and curried herring on wholemeal bread rolls. With half a tin of Heinz tomato soup. Washed down with village apple juice.
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