KONA WO (2020) 29er Custom
ファットバイクを29erMTBにするためにホイールを組みました。
ファットバイクでキャンプツーリングをしたときに思ったこと、「別にファットタイヤじゃなくてもいい。むしろもったいない。」
僕がファットバイクを導入した理由は、冬でも乗れるからであって、その他の時期は別のバイクに乗る…つもりだったのですが、キャリア用のダボ穴があるバイクは現状この一台のみ。キャンプツーリング用に増車するほどの余裕はないため、「ならばファットバイクに普通のMTBタイヤを履かせよう」という発想に至りました。
フロント15x150mm、リア12x197mmのファット用ハブを市販しているメーカーは限られており、今回はその中でもハイエンドブランドのHOPE製のハブを選択しました。
リムは下り系やストリート系でお馴染みのSpank製。
重そうですが、その分丈夫そうでもあります。
すでに同社のシートクランプを使っていますが、やはり切削の質感と鮮やかなアルマイト塗装が素敵です。
手組ホイールで最も重要な要素となる、スポーク長の算出はインターネットの叡知を活用しました。
フロントが284mmに対し、
リアが286mmあれば組めると出てきました。
ゼロからホイールを組むのは今回が初めてだった僕は、この情報を鵜吞みして284mmと286mmのスポークを買いました。
結果、フロントは組みあがったものの、リアはどう頑張ってもスポークが届かず、組めませんでした。
FreeSpokeに記録されているハブとリムの採寸値から別のサイトで計算したところ、リアのスポークは297mmと算出。
冷静に考えれば幅が50mmも違うのに2mm長いスポークで29in.のホイールが組めるわけがない。この後いくつかの計算サイトで見比べると297mmだと長すぎると判明…
結果としては294mmのスポークを買い足して無事に組むことができました。
頑丈なリムのおかげか、横振れは素人でもかなりいい制度が出せました。
ちなみにPWTの振れ取り台だと197mmハブは広すぎてTAアタッチメントが使えませんでした。
タイヤはIRC TANKEN 29x2.6を選択。結構しっかりとしたブロックパターンの割にお値段がお手頃。
短期間で使い分けるつもりはないので、スプロケットは取り外して使うこととしましたが、ディスクローターは従前のセンターロックから6穴になるので、シマノ製RT-66を組みました。
もともと履いていた26x4.8との比較。外径はほぼ同じ。
実際に履かせると幅はスカスカ。外径もまだ余裕がある。
最初に部品を注文してから組みあがりまで2ヵ月近くかかりましたが、無事組みあがって一安心。
ここまで出来たのだから、もうバラ完も怖くない。
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Just a reminder: intent is much, much more important to genocide than the amount of people dying. simply put, the amount of dead civilians isn't what makes a genocide a genocide.
for example, up to 33k bosnians are estimated to have died because of the bosnian genocide. in contrast, the estimated amount of japanese civilians dead during WWII is between 330k and 900k. yet most (serious) people wouldn't ever consider that there was a genocide against the japanese people. why? well, no government wanted to, planned or carried out systematic attacks with the intent of erasing, in whole or in part, the japanese people. yet, however, it is fairly easy to prove that the serbs wanted the bosnians gone and acted accordingly. You can even fullfill the material criteria for the Genocide Convention (ie killing people, or causing body or mental harm to a population) to a certain extent but if the intent behind those actions isn't to destroy a national/ethnic/etc group, then it's not genocide, the fullfilment of the material elements themselves aren't proof that there's a genocide without fullfilment of the mental element.
This isn't to overlook civilian deaths, but truth is, in modern warfare, civilians ARE gonna die, and that sucks massively, but we have a a whole branch of international law that help mitigate a lot of civilian deaths and allow for criminals to be held accountable for violation of civilian rights and livs, without having to erroneously call every single conflict where people die a genocide.
Similarly, it may be true that a lot more people are dying in the Israel-Gaza war than in the 7/10 attacks, but why did Hamas attack Israel in the first place? Why has Israel been attacked fairly frequently since it's independence? Because they want to completely erase Israel as a whole and expel (and kill, or best case scenario, convert) the jewish people out of the Middle East. This is very easy to prove, read Hamas founding charter and literally any history book that talks about wars against Israel or the expulsion of Jews from several ME countries. It's what the whole "from the river to the sea" slogan is about. It's also the very reason Israel needs to exist. But meanwhile, there's little to nothing that points out Israel wants to wipe out Palestinians as a group: 20% of their citizens are Palestinians who enjoy the same rights as Jewish citizens of Israel and aren't targeted, even Palestinians of the West Bank aren't usually targeted in a way that would even imply the IDF wants to erase them as a group, and even considering the Gaza campaign, its objective is to erradicate Hamas, not Palestinians, and nothing in Israel's policy outwardly implicates they want to erradicate all Gazans. Palestine, and especially Gaza, has massive population growth, which wouldn't make sense if there was a genocide campaign against them. This isn't to say the IDF is doing everything perfectly or that there aren't war crimes being commited. But war crimes don't mean genocide.
Calling what's happening in Gaza genocide is antisemitic, because not only are we applying different standards to Israel than we do any other country, we are also saying that Jewish people defending themselves is, inherently, a crime, one of the worst crimes defined at that. But it's also harmful to palestinians, because claiming that Israel's war against Hamas is a war against Palestinians equates Palestinians (many of whom just want to live regular lives, not war) with terrorists (who also target them, by the way), which seems islamophobic as hell if i'm being honest. it is also insensitive and damaging to every group that has been the victim of genocide, and every group which might be a victim of a genocide in the future, because how you're twisting the definition of the word to mean whatever you want it to mean. If everything is a genocide, nothing is.
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ok im way too busy and sleepy to actually engage in the current wheeler family discourse but i will say
“the wheelers are a normal family/that behaviour is the norm” is Not an effective defense of them. “Its Okay Because Its The Norm” does not work in the context of the The Norm Is Bad Show.
“normal” does not equal good or acceptable or healthy.
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CW : L0l1, CSA, CSAM, Harassment
Apparently there's a hate brigade running after me because some people cannot separate fiction from fantasy. I've had to say it on my Twitter and despite my lack of adult content on this account, people have made it their prerogative to harass me on multiple platforms.
if you genuinely think that drawings of fictional characters is equal to the suffering of real children put in abusive situations, get the FUCK off of my blog. I dealt with CSA my entire childhood and all of my teens years, including being groomed. I tried not to let this whole thing get to me, but people calling me a child predator because I made a fucking DRAWING that they found icky is one of the most insane things they could have possibly done. ESPECIALLY to someone who was a victim and would never wish that pain on anyone else.
My ASSAULT is not equal to demon children in a cartoon. Real people are not equal to fictional characters. You can say it's gross, you can say you don't like, hell, you can even be a fascist and say we should censor art you don't agree with! But don't ever compare me to an abuser because I drew naughty art of cartoon characters without sentience.
I will not apologize for having tastes that don't align with some online fascists who save art that THEY think is CSAM to their own hard drives to "call people out." You're a freak if you are saving material that you think is genuinely CSAM. You're a freak if you are encouraging people to go interact with someone who you think is a predator. You're a freak if you think human children are as worthless as cartoon drawings. You're a freak if you equate the real abuse and suffering of real people in any capacity to a factitious scenario created for kicks.
If you actually give a fuck about protecting children, stop wasting your time on a random artist (a CSAA victim) who drew a singular piece of l0l1 art and maybe volunteer your services to charities that help REAL CHILDREN.
Get over yourself and go touch some damn grass.
TLDR; If you think real children being abused is even remotely equal (legally OR morally) to cartoon drawings of fake demon characters, I do not want you following me or interacting with me as a CSA survivor.
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making good on my promise to draw Estraven (my beloved) because i have a lot of feelings about how he is described vs. how he shows up in most of the art i've seen. plus a little body sketch with Genly for a height/build comparison! i can feel how fucking rusty i am, need to go back to figure drawing bootcamp. hooray for sideblogs where you can post half-assed fanart :')
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im gonna make a virus info post soon.. i need to draw stuff for it but have these little YAAI sibling doodles for now hehehe.. @cephalonheadquarters @superbellsubways
they're virus matter in the sense that they've grown accustom to their body and don't need a host or shell in order to survive 😁 they're fleshy and more humanoid rather than a pile of goop. i guess advanced virus matter but that sounds kind of stupid so i'll think of something later..
i divided virus matter into three stages - conception, goop and modification .. these r basic names and i'll most likely change them going forward but yeah just to give u an idea. the YAAI siblings are at the third stage if u want a clearer idea of what it looks like before i. actually draw up concepts har har har
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