A Sweet New-to-Me Fuji Touring

I am at Mount Shasta with a sweet new-to-me Fuji Touring 3x9 in 56cm

https://www.dropbox.com/s/j4olgr8ay1...fuji1.jpg?dl=0

On Friday, April 23, 2021 at 11:01:32 AM UTC-7, wrote:
I am at Mount Shasta with a sweet new-to-me Fuji Touring 3x9 in 56cm

https://www.dropbox.com/s/j4olgr8ay1...fuji1.jpg?dl=0
Nice looking touring bike though I would level the saddle. If it doesn't work that way I would then experiment with other saddles.

On 4/23/2021 11:01 AM, Doug Landau wrote:
I am at Mount Shasta with a sweet new-to-me Fuji Touring 3x9 in 56cm

https://www.dropbox.com/s/j4olgr8ay1...fuji1.jpg?dl=0

Nice. Fenders and all.

My friend just bought a Trek 620 on craigslist today for $75. Amazingly
beautiful condition and even a lugged frame, and even a Flickstand.

On Friday, April 23, 2021 at 1:01:32 PM UTC-5, wrote:
I am at Mount Shasta with a sweet new-to-me Fuji Touring 3x9 in 56cm

https://www.dropbox.com/s/j4olgr8ay1...fuji1.jpg?dl=0

1990s vintage? 1" threaded fork, quill stem.

What is up with the water bottle cage on the downtube? It looks like it is tilted upwards. The top screw is not screwed in completely?

On the brake cable outer housing going to the rear cantilever. Under the saddle. Shorten the housing 1/2" or so. It needs to flow more smoothly from the cable stop on the toptube to the brazeon mount in between the seattubes. Right now it is bending up too much after leaving the toptube guide. Adding extra friction to the rear braking.

My friend just bought a Trek 620 on craigslist today for $75. Amazingly
beautiful condition and even a lugged frame, and even a Flickstand.

Wow, sounds like an absolutely fantastic price

The fuji was 250 grin

On Sunday, April 25, 2021 at 10:55:34 PM UTC-7, wrote:
My friend just bought a Trek 620 on craigslist today for $75. Amazingly
beautiful condition and even a lugged frame, and even a Flickstand.
Wow, sounds like an absolutely fantastic price

The fuji was 250 grin

Screaming deal, and it looks a lot like the Trek 520. Gorgeous area, and I will not be riding down to see Tom, because it is all mountains from south of Cottage Grove, Or. to Red Bluff, Ca. with a few flat spots here and there. Climbing in the Siskiyou can be brutal. Are you going to ride over the Pitt River Bridge, or is there some way around that now? https://upload..wikimedia.org/wikipe...iverBridge.jpg. I've never done it on a bike but many times in a car, and its sketchy in a car with all the truck traffic. All my bike trips between California and Oregon have been on the coast -- or on the coast with a jog-in south of Mendocino.

-- Jay Beatte.

On Monday, April 26, 2021 at 10:17:15 PM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote:
On Sunday, April 25, 2021 at 10:55:34 PM UTC-7, wrote:
My friend just bought a Trek 620 on craigslist today for $75. Amazingly
beautiful condition and even a lugged frame, and even a Flickstand.
Wow, sounds like an absolutely fantastic price

The fuji was 250 grin
Screaming deal, and it looks a lot like the Trek 520. Gorgeous area, and I will not be riding down to see Tom, because it is all mountains from south of Cottage Grove, Or. to Red Bluff, Ca. with a few flat spots here and there. Climbing in the Siskiyou can be brutal. Are you going to ride over the Pitt River Bridge, or is there some way around that now? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...iverBridge.jpg. I've never done it on a bike but many times in a car, and its sketchy in a car with all the truck traffic. All my bike trips between California and Oregon have been on the coast -- or on the coast with a jog-in south of Mendocino.

Though I wouldn't mind riding with you, going 300 miles to do so probably isn't in the books unless there's a more important reason to draw me norther..

Thanks for the comments, all

- Ya the seat is all but unusable, too soft, one sinks into it
- Pit river bridge? Right on, sounds like fun! I will ride it

I rode the fuji for 2 days but after only a mile or so I get the tiniest little twinge of pain momentarily from under my left kneecap, so I stop instantly
So I've been hiking instead for the last few days, with good results. I'm coughing up last years' meth smoke by the gob, and, since the 1st of last 4 days, breathing easier than i have in idunno how long. I still have a constant wheeze - a death rattle - but that has been there for 4-5 yrs now and suddenly it is diminishing with every uphill mile.

I am as depressed as a person can be - two days ago I couldnt even get out of bed - have a motel room in weed - 1st bed i slept in in i dunno how long - i just kept putting myself to sleep with ganja and pulling th covers over my head. Recovered a bit yesterday, went to godaddy and reserved douglandau.com and freetopo.net and .org, and went to digital oceand and made a FreeBSD droplet and an Ubuntu 20.04 droplet and started laying out my old website on one of em

i kant seem to get a job here in town - pilot don wan me, grocery outlet don wan me - no surprise, i am sure I am going in to apply reeking like an ashtray from chainsmoking cigs and weed
im trying to get a job in alaska processing fish in a floating cannery 16 hours a day. At least there would be no time to smoke, and nopefully, none to think about myself. in any case they dont seem to want me neither.
I am blowing every application with desperation and over-eagerness

I could go grocery store, load up, and drive round the backside of my shasta, and probably find no shortage of places to camp briefly - open, not in closed campgrounds. I'll
go in a downward spiral of loneliness tho.

I see the pit river casino in burney is hiring. Maybe I'll go down to redding, to Ross n buy a cheap suit, and try to get to the casino to apply w/o reeking lkike an ashtray.

Ironically it is quite ez to live in the van, and doing so would seem to be an ideal time to work out, and emerge looking and feeling good. Problem is while living in it is ez, showering after working out is quite hard. So living in the van and doing athletics is... ugh. Lakes and rivers are cold and remote, usually, and while it is possible to get clean by heating water on cookstove and taking spongebath, the whole process takes a long time - hours, including fetching the water and scouting the location, and even then, draws nasty looks from passerbys, esp. those with children.

Well, ... sorry to be such a downer. The sun is shining and its 11am so I'll go hiking up the big cone again now and cough up more gobs, and escape the above for a few hours

On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 11:05:39 -0700 (PDT), Doug Landau
wrote:

went to godaddy and reserved douglandau.com and freetopo.net and .org,
and went to digital oceand and made a FreeBSD droplet and an Ubuntu
20.04 droplet and started laying out my old website on one of em ...

Did you own freetopo.org around 1990? If so, I still have the pile of
13" x 19" scanned USGS topo maps you mailed to me when I was working
on 3D topo displays. Unfortunately, they're half faded from 30 years
of exposure to sunlight. Also, you never billed me for them. In case
I forgot to thank you, they were quite useful at the time.

Please get rid of the drugs and good luck with whatever you decide to
do next.

--
Jeff Liebermann
PO Box 272 http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Ben Lomond CA 95005-0272
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558