Under the Knife

I went to Crunchy's pad this past weekend with Eric and Andrew and started stripping down the beaut to her frame.



Here's Eric.







^^His dad decided to help us out, too.^^


Eric and I cleaned and degreased the parts. Here's my old dirty ass crank set.



Here's a bad picture of the yucky old grease gunk I saw after taking out the bottom bracket.



Not pictured, but the Mr. Miyagi-looking fellow who sold me my bike gave me a shadyyyy bottom bracket with its bearings destroyed!! Right when I took the bracket out, Eric and I saw little metal beads from the bearing fall out. He's lucky that I like that he reminds me and Bianca [my gf - check out her blog The CasaBianca.Blogspot.Com] of Mr. Miyagi - otherwise.. I'd go back to his effin store and...


...probably do nothing to him. I mean - it's Mr. Miyagi for Mr. Miyagi's sake!


Anyway, I'll be getting a new crank set and bottom bracket for myself. Crunchy found a deal on an Origin-8 crank set - 46 tooth chain ring.



Some pics of the parts.





Pink handle!! ^^ [don't worry - not keeping it]






I had originally planned to roll on my new black mags with a flat black painted frame, but that early morning in front of the paint guy at the home depot in fountain valley, I changed my mind. I mean, I still think black would've been fine, but I fell in love with this.



I proceeded with sanding off the super hideous covering shell that was considered my bike's paint job. Check out the sexy.





THanks for stoppin' by - more to come!

..and by that I mean more to come of Andrew's leg. ;-)