Not much is going on here, so I’ll share some minor and likely boring updates.  I haven’t mentioned any computer issues, projects or upgrades recently.  So, here is one:  I swapped the 2.5″ 500GB 5400RPM hard drive in the newest of the Mac Minis for a 2.5″ 500GB 7200RPM drive.  In an equally interesting news, I used that 5400RPM drive to upgrade the TV Mac Mini from an internal 100GB plus external 250GB to a single internal 500GB.

While waiting for my 380GB disk image to transfer to the new drive via a painfully slow SATA to USB adapter, I made some unexciting changes to the Gunnar.  After reading about cloth grip tape and the interesting ways in which it can be applied, I changed the chainstay protector.  Don’t follow?

The Gunnar did have the standard inner tube chain stay wrap.  However, the Gunnar doesn’t see much trail use these days, so the inner tube was overkill.  I would just leave the chainstay bare, but it is pretty beat up.  What to do?  Start with two colors of vinyl electrical tape and a lot of patience.  Electrical tape isn’t the easiest to work with as it stretches, folds and sticks to everything (it is tape, after all). After several attempts, this was the result:

While not pictured, the grey and black electrical tape matches the grey and black Gunnar logos.  Oh, and this technique also works with inner tubes.  Inner tubes are easier to work with, protect the frame better, and will probably soon end up on the Eriksen:

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