On Farting . . .
Every Wednesday morning I'm in a classroom for four hours learning how to better speak, read and write French. Bonjour. I took French right up to and including the first half of grade ten where I was abruptly booted from Mr. Chaison's class for answering every question in the Christmas exam with "Bonjour" . . . in red crayon . . . upside down on every blank line on the exam. True story.
Fight the power! Adoloscent rebellion? Artistic difference? Stupidity? Who knows.
Fast forward twenty or so years and I am back in the classroom trying to learn French again. This time I want to be there. What have I learned? Bonjour. Somethings never change.
Today, one of my classmates brought in a few books that she brought at a flee market - mostly kids books - they're the best for learning basic French. I spotted this:
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| Ski De Fond = Cross Country Skiing |
She was most generous and gave it to me. I can now read *pffffffffttt* in French what interests me. The real reason I was interested . . .
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| Fart = wax |
"Farts et fartage" = Wax and waxing. The translation makes sense, but it still cracks me up.
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| The book even includes how to dress fashionably. How vogue! |
Remember last week when I received some Mail Love from Chamois-Wow and the exciting contest that I was going to have? Here it is:
1) Tell me the year that my new farty ski de fond book was published and I'll send you an XXCMAG.COM sticker. As a bonus, I'll throw in one of my own stickers too.
OR
2) Tell me the name of the article on page 39 of issue #4 of XXCMAG (it's free to read on-line) and I'll send you an XXCMAG.COM sticker. As a bonus, I'll throw in one of my own stickers too.
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| TS-8 with missing Ball Plunger Screw |
On Screwing . . .
For Christmas I received some money to buy myself a truing stand. I am ashamed to say that I've gone all these years without one. I would have liked to get myself the shwanky danky Park T2 2.2 Professional Truing Stand, but Santa wasn't that generous and really, am I that professional? The Park TS-8 Home Mechanic Truing Stand looked to fit the bill nicely. At a local bike shop I found one during the boxing week sales, but it was missing the Ball Plunger Screw for some reason. The shop had it on display and the screw seemed to have gone missing, as well as the manual and box. I asked for a discount on it and was surprised at the killer deal they gave me - it was a steal I tells ya!
So I call up Park Tool Co. and tell them what I'm missing and the details around the purchase and within a week they sent me the replacement part sans charge (see, "sans" . . . I am learning French). Not only did they help me out quickly, they were uber friendly. Pretty awesome on Park! I have a lot of Park tools and go to their website on a regular basis for repair help (cause I'm stupid). Pretty solid company in my opinion.
*Truing stand review to follow sometime soon.*
On Candy . . .
And finally this . . . |
| Sch-weet deal on pedals. |
I must be on their e-mailing list cause I received this last night. If you're in the market for new pedals, here's a deal from Speedgoat.
