Brrr! Take me back to the present

August 4 2004
E-mail from Peter Owen with a lovely shot of his Hubjub-sourced Kogswell, built up, according to Pete, with 'a mix of road, BMX and mountain bike components'.

We're still out of stock of Kogswell frames, but we're getting so many enquiries that a restock is inevitable. I'll announce here once the order's in...

August 7 2004
Hubjub is getting to be like an icebaerg: the greater part of the business is in the sourcing of high-end custom parts. Yet another transatlantic order went in today, the bulk of it being NJS components for a keirin fan (you'll see the bike here when it's built up.) One tiny thing: I have at last found a cheap viable lockring wrench, and that will be the trigger for the new--and long-promised--Tools page.

August 12 2004
Interesting Catch-22 style screwup by ParcelForce. Although the latest shipment has arrived safely in the country, PF apparently can't trust their drivers with cash payments above a certain level. My alternatives are thus to travel to Southampton--a 30 mile round trip--with cash, or to wait a week for a mailed cheque to clear. Portable card readers are apparently a step too far. And so...

August 13 2004
...most of the afternoon of Friday 13th is wasted travelling down to the ParcelForce office to pick up a large and very heavy box of bicycle components. I get home at 6.00pm, and have to stay up until 3.30 am to get all the back orders packed. I resolve to kick up a fuss.

August 27 2004
Ah, heck. I really am having a lot of problems with this Blog thing. It's OK when I'm working from Winchester, but during mobile phases it goes to hell and then people assume that the site's dead. It isn't; there's all sorts of interesting stuff going on--the long-awaited Kogswell 120 hubs are nearly a reality, and the new generation Kogswell FG framesets are due for Christmas, and Scott nearly has the LeVeLs ready for commercial release, and 63xc.com had 30,000 visits last quarter. Well, here's to September, anyways. Must try harder.

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