My luck with Crank arms...

I was reminded of my former daily commuter - which was my mountain bike. I have had terrible luck with breaking parts on that bike, which was what led me to purchase a new bike about a month ago. This crank arm is one that I purchased in January and cracked a few weeks later. Fortunately, I was able to get it warranted.

Here it is in closer detail. Yeah... that is bad!

My luck with crank arms goes back to college. Here's one that I really broke from an older mountain bike. This one really hurt!

My new bike

It's an old school "Panasonic" single speed conversion

See! Only one gear! I love it though!

Just a front brake also

From Brokenness to Community

"To have a mission means to give life, to heal, and to liberate. It is to permit people to grow to freedom. When Jesus sends people off, he sends them to liberate and to heal others. That is the good news. And we can become people of liberation and of healing because we ourselves are walking along that road to inner healing and inner liberation. Jesus calls his disciples to bear much fruit. 'If you bear much fruit, you shall be my disciples, and bring glory to the Father.' To bear fruit is to bring life to people. Not to judge, not to condemn, but to forgive. It is to remove our neighbor's burden. Remember those last words of Christ: 'Father, forgive.' Essentially, a community is based on forgiveness and signs of forgiveness. It is not a group of people condemning or judging outsiders; it is not a people of violence. It is a people who trust that if their hearts are given to God, he will defend them." - Jean Vanier

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” - Marianne Williamson