Using hacksaw blades as a measuring tool when slotting for dropouts. Building at full speed and feeling good. I was just talking to Hilary yesterday about how I’m not entirely motivated right now in the shop (end of summer blues?). So I’ve been doing some mindless sort of tasks that are part of the bike building process until the real inspiration strikes which happened just now. I had finished listening to the latest Built to Spill album and I was not entirely impressed because I live in the past when it comes to music. So I put on Keep It Like a Secret which came out in 1999. The song “The Plan” came on and everything changed. I felt a physical charge come over me. I was immediately transported back in time to when Modus Operandi was released (Transworld Skateboarding video that had this song in it). Marc Johnson’s part is incredible and Ty Evans and Jon Holland’s videography is perfectly in sync with the song. It is so inspiring to hear the intro to that video part and then to see how all their hard work came together in the end. If I was a skateboarder, I’d to be so pumped to skate right now but instead, I’m channeling it to making bikes and it’s working! I’m so psyched right now. #builttospill #starrett #forkblades #modusoperandi #marcjohnson
