Of general things...

I have a lot of half posts started, thoughts that didn't quite see the light of day. I imagine a lot of them are worth finishing ... but not today. It seems that things for myself are the hardest to get done and harder still are the things which appear optional. I've managed to buy some stuff but the execution of actual events keeps getting harder. I suppose we all find that to be true from time to time. I spend so much of my time being the responsible party that when I back off even slightly, I wind up in park.

I've spent this week on vacation. An event that should be fun and relaxing but it's been an effort and awkward at times. Worst of all, it's been all up to me to keep things moving. I guess that tells the story right there....

Oh well, so it goes.

I think I'll go through the archives after all. I know there is something worthy of a finishing touch and posting in there.

But of course

Two wheels to eternity

There was a time when the beauty of this scene would have been lost on me... tied up in agony over dirt and mud and the horrible unknown. Thank whatever deity you like that I am past that.... a little closer to the start of my trip to/from WV..... and truly wonderful

It's a good thing no one actually reads this thing. My sentence structure has gone all to hell of late. I thought about going back and editing some posts but decided they should stand as is. They can serve as a record of my scrambled sense of things at the time.

old school

In addition to bikes, I have a thing for cameras and to a lesser extent, old radios. In the days before Ebay, finding old cameras, parts for old radios and other arcane bits often meant some sort of mini adventure. I restored a mid fifties 45rpm record player as a gift and I had so much fun popping into odd little shops finding parts. Most of these places were run by the folks that started them, back when fixing things like stereo equipment could be a viable business. I literally bought all the parts I needed for that little RCA from one guy who had a basement warehouse in the middle of a pretty sizable town. I remember thinking as I decended the stairs from street level, following the owner, that I was either going to find bunch of cool stuff or wind up dead in the corner under a pile of boxes. Fortunately, the former, not the latter turned out to be the case.





So, it's with a little bit of hope that I look forward to a little side trip next week. Going to be in Montreal on vacation and I am hoping to get some parts for my Grundig from Radio Hovsep. I made a point of not trying to email them simply to preserve the adventure. I can't wait to see what this place looks like inside.....I sure hope it's still there.

Edit - 8/20/08

Total score...just as I'd hoped, it turned out to be run by two of the coolest people you could meet. Started the business together in 1960 as a recently married couple. Still, happy, still in business and they had the stuff I was looking for. Including, some new old stock knobs for my model 4570/U Grundig desktop stereo. I bought three.....

I'll post a little more detail when we get home with an interior shot or two.

Baby steps :D

I seem to have trouble with this whole chronological story telling blog thing. But, I figure I will just take it a bit at a time and build momentum.

So, here we have my Daytona along the route home from a trip to ride West Virginia. On the way home? Yeah, I'm gonna tell this story backwards :D