The Day After...
👀 It's official! The canvas on which all future work will be performed has arrived. Can't thank my friend Rob enough in brokering this deal; he worked some magic and completely blind-sided me. Bike was bought unseen and was a bit serendipitous on how everything played out. We were on our way up to North Hollywood to check out (and most likely buy) a bike I'd found on Craigslist. We were driving through La Jolla when I realized the seller had no idea of our departure. Checked the phone only to realize he had just texted letting me know he took an offer from a local buyer for full asking. Completely understandable. It's not to say I wasn't torn between sadness of losing what I thought was a decent deal and happiness that we didn't have to sit through 3,5+ hours of traffic. But we did what any reasonable adult would do on a Monday night at 5pm; happy hour at Draft Republic. I mean we were only down the street. Drinks and food came and went, and came again, and aga