Would you look at that, it's Friday already, where did the time go, etc.

Many exciting things are awheel here at Tan Tenovo headquarters!

Firstly, today's your last day to enter the Jones SWB Giveaway Contest:


I'm not even linking to the contest rules because I can't handle any more entries.  Just know that if your entry is e-postmarked after 11:59pm today (my time obviously) then I won't consider it.  Flipping through, I will say there are some worthy potential recipients so it's going to be a difficult decision on my part.  Then again, a lot of you are selfish people who don't deserve a bike, so that does make things a bit easier for me.

Secondly, the Tresca came yesterday!


Not to be confused with the soft drink:


Oh, Tresca's in London, and they also threw in some local delicacies:


As soon as the bike arrived I put it together, and this morning I took it out for a ride:


I should point out that my crappy photos don't do the bike justice.  Specifically, while it may look like it's painted grey and black, the "grey" is in fact raw aluminum, which looks really cool.  (At least I think it does, and you've probably noticed I like my bikes either black or metal color.)  Anyway, you can see it better on their Instagram.

As for sweeping pronouncements, I'm not going to make any after only one ride, but let's say for now that I enjoyed that ride very much and I'm looking forward to many more.

Then, if all that wasn't exciting enough, when I got home from my ride two (2) packages were waiting for me.  One of them was this package of brake pads:


See, I'm tuning the braking on my new-to-me "forever" bike (I love this bike and want everything about it to be perfect) and for reasons I won't bore you with I wanted to try these somewhat hard-to-find brake pads.

The other package contained something else for my "forever" bike:


As you may recall, I received the bike with a pair of Mavic Scaryums, which bike dorks know have a bushing in the freehub that can eventually wear out and shriek loudly.  While the freehub in mine is working just fine, there is some play in there, and even though it's extremely easy to open the whole thing up and lube it preemptively from time to time I'm much more the "set it and forget it" type.  So what you see above is an aftermarket kit, available on eBay, that replaces that bushing with a bearing.  I find all of this tremendously exciting, which should give you a good idea of where I'm at in life.  We'll see if it works.

And with that I'm going to sequester myself and spend all weekend reading Jones essay submissions.  Ride safe, ride safely, and above all, ride safe this weekend.

Love,


--Tan Tenovo