It's my lucky day.

reply-to edithpk@myway.com to edithpk@myway.com date Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:32 PM subject Hi, its me edith,how are you today

3:32 PM (2 minutes ago)

Hello,


How are you today? I hope you are fine. If so thank be to God  almigthy.
please excuse me, I saw your contact email while browsing through the internet so I decided to contact you despite that I
have not seen you in person. It will be my pleasure to communicate with you. My name is Edith,  23 years from Democratic Republic Of Congo in Central Africa. I am single girl looking for honest and nice person. Somebody who care and fear God whom I can partner with. I
don't care about your colour or ethnicity.


I would like to know you more, most especially what you like and what you
dislike.I'm sending you this beautiful mail, with a wish for much happiness. I am looking forward to hear from.
Thanks and God bless.


Love from,
 Edith Patrick

May 1st Bike Event with City Club Friday Forum

I got invited to attend a public showing of my bikes with the City Club. A lot of other builders will be there but I wanted to get myself started somehow. Details are below.

Date: Friday, May 1^st

Venue: The Governor Hotel, 614 SW 11^th St in downtown Portland

Time: Bikes arrive between 9:30-10:30 (we may be assigning arrival times just to keep things smooth). Doors will open at 11:00am, bike expo 11:00-12:15; panel 12:15-1:15.

Greg's Track Back

Working on getting all the parts ordered for Greg's bike. Going to use the fancy Newvex lugs and I made a color scheme, but I know Greg wants to modify that.

John's Bike is gone

Well I finally finished up John's bike. It is a Hybrid Cross centric frame. I notched a little flair in the seat Tube a (P).  I made some minor mistakes on this frame, mostly cosmetic in nature. I'm pretty proud of getting it done and off to John. He is going to build it up and give me some feedback as he uses it.

Working on John's Frame

Cut

Ouch, managed to slice myself open real nice with a mitered tube end while filing, guess I missed and bam. I was in awe about how much it cut me open, could see all the ligiments and tendons moving around. Wife carted me off to the ER for 7 stitches. Compaired to the collar bone this was a walk in the park.

Alright, Back to Business

Got my broken bone almost healed up and finished up John's Prototype. Needless to say it was a whacky Prototype as I inverted the dimensions on the Bottom Bracket Drop. I ordered the Bicycle Forest Bike Cad Program to assit me in dialing in the rider fit Process. Now back to the shop to start mitering tubes and getting things done.

Broken

On my way home from work on Christmas Eve I managed to crash and blew up my shoulder. Broke clean through the clavicle (Collar Bone) and fractured some other stuff in and around the tip of my right shoulder. I was coming down Hawthorne Bridge headed home in South East and I had a green  light coming down off the ramp, 16-18 mph and yes there was ice. I thought the intersection was slush and I pulled the front wheel up just a tad in case it wasn't slush. It was a rut of solid ice and it bucked me into an endo position and when the front wheel made contact it was too late, it slid out under neath me and I hit my right elbow and slid across the intersection of Grand or MLK. I got up and tried to pick up my bike with my right arm but massive electrical like shock and weird nerve damage made me stop. I moved my arm around and it seed like I was somewhat alright , but I knew I needed an x-ray. I tried to think about where the nearest Clinic was and decided to ride down 12th towards one. I made it about 1.5 miles and could not go any further. I stopped at the fire station on Powell and they called 911 and off I went in the ambulance high on 100mg of IV pain meds. Sat around for several hours in the emerg room getting shots of Morphine. Got the results of the x-ray and it was broke. I got a sling and some pain killers and sent home. My friend Matt helped me find a ride home with his nephew Chuck. I have been pacing around the house sucking on pain pills and enduring a lot of pain. I go see the ortho doc sometime next week. So another delay in production and man I'm sorry folks who are waiting for their frames.

The Jig is here

The Jig arrived. It is a little late but better late than never. The UPS guys were a little rough with it and part of the wooden box was cracked open. I called Joe to let him know and then put together to make sure all is there and square. Looks good. So this weekend I will start knocking out some frames.

The Shop

The shop is coming along. The tools have arrived, The Miter Drill is setup and working. I have my 400 lb flat stone work surface. The drafting table and work area are setup. Still debating on moving some stuff around and waitng for a bridgeport mill to show up on Craigslist for under $2 grand. Things are starting to take shape and it's kind of exciting.