September 19th, 2020

I left my apartment twice this week; once on Monday and once on Wednesday. Monday was the last day that I rode my road bike outside. I discovered that there's an issue with (I presume) the rear wheel, which was rubbing aggressively on the inside of the chainstay on my carbon fiber frame. The rear triangle is by all measures true, there are no visible or appreciable weaknesses in the carbon and the derailleur hanger appears straight. I'm led to believe then that the rear wheel dishing has come untrue as, even though it has a <1mm deflection at one point in its rotation, I don't otherwise believe the wheel itself to be untrue. My knowledge of bicycle maintenance unfortunately ends at wheel building and truing, but I know enough to recognize a significant problem, not to mention direct potential damage to the frame itself. Hence why the bike has been mounted to the trainer and I've not ridden outdoors since.

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I do actually have 2 other bikes, but the Niner RLT is currently slated for complete disassembly (starting today) and rebuild to prepare as a commuter/light-gravel bike and I plan to sent the Alchemy Arktos to a bike shop to have routine overhaul maintenance (going to be calling the shop today to schedule an appointment). I'll manage the overhaul on the Niner, but the Arktos is a full-suspension beast that I feel is over my pay grade to give it full attention.

The other outdoor excursion was Wednesday for my clinical medicine course where we're working on the nuances of taking a history and physical. I also quickly grabbed some groceries on the way back home. What an exciting life. I need to start running more again.

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My latest sketch. I used an online drawing idea generator which told me to draw old castles or ruins, so I found this through an image search and got moving. Full disclosure, the photo of the drawing was run through a red B&W filter in Photoshop to get rid of the natural hue of the paper. I may also have used the spot remover for a little grease because of my horrible habit of devouring potato chips. The lettering was a Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pen fineliner and the image was a Staedtler pigment liner 0.05. I'm really enjoying the latter because I can make very light guidelines like a pencil undersketch, but without the pencil. Trying out a new logo which I'm growing fond of, too.