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Hiya Uncle Art!
No real Uncles. Two relatives remain. We don't get along. They got the cash piles and freedom. (One now dates an early Monsanto executive worth many 10s of dozens of millions. Her daughter got all the cash and jewels and lamps. Now that I'm only ten blocks away, versus seven states, I mean to drop in sometime ...)
Though I can see you have some fancy mountain bicycles on the trailer hitch mountain bike carrier on your 245 there! Blue bike fancy!
I'll guess you have at least one Volvo 240 trying to photobomb your photo taking, there? The Turbo 240 with the turbo 240 (bar and) grille looks to be mookin' in on your photo action!
Were you and the Benstein family of Volvo 240 motorists loaded up for a camping and bike trip? I'll guess you mean to get out of the urban area of town? You have Appalachia not far from you and the Atlantic seaside ...
I dunno about near Baltimore, yet St. Louis is a dog-awful for the bicyclists. The roads, the main aerials, like Olive Blvd through Creve Coeur, Manchester Road through the county and into the city, and so forth, are all narrow, like 1920s narrow, and treacherous. You have a few trails, like the Grant and Katy Trail. Yet getting there ....
I mean to take this 1992 red Schwinn High Plains and mount it to the hydraulic hydraulic fluid resistance trainer for the Winter. It had so little use the wheel hub ball bearing grease had separated and the lighter oils evaporated. It has a rear cassette, and not a freewheel. To the bike store with the wheel as it is beyond the my bike tooling set. Front wheel hub was easy to clean and repack yesterday. 10 ball bearings each side. Used the SuperLube NLGI-2 grease for the hub. I worry the bottom bracket and headset bearings are equally dry ... as are the brake show spindles and probably the rapid-fire shifters. Same red as the 1990 240 (li'l red) wagon, about.
Hopes for a gig in CO-state, back in WA, or elsewhere.
Out of town? I'll take out of nation. To Finland! To Switzerland! Quality dairy! Ice biking! Drifting the 240s on solid ice frozen over lakes in Winter. Easier on the tires and bushings than drifting on concrete and asphalt as some people do to ruin a good rear wheel drive Volvo in North America. Raise the lowered.
I'll stick with safe and slow motoring though. No hopes for hopped up B23 or B230 or B234 in a 1979 242 coupe body, any more. 242 is my fave as is the 164.
Thank you for the nice photo.
Back to that thing I do.
Sure Happy it's Thursday!
Buttermilk MacDuff.
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