Le New Bike

So.
I got a new bike - a new SWEET bike - new sweet DISCOUNTED bike - this weekend. :)
I brought it to Buffalo, a nice drunk old man helped me get it out of my car (I didn't have any choice; he wouldn't go away), and my front brakes got messed up in the process.

I set forth to fix them.

Taking apart each area (above the front tire and in the brake lever), I carefully noted where each piece was supposed to go so that I could put it back exactly as I had taken it apart... That worked IN THEORY but sadly, not in practice. grins I'm sure all of you, at some point in your lives, have felt that needling, intertwining feeling of frustration and stubbornness. The more you try to do something (and fail at it) the more determined you become that you will CONQUER EVIL [insert whatever your mutterings and glarings are focused on]. I felt this. A lot. ;@

Finally, I conceded in doing a bit of online research (thank you google) on how to reassemble your front bike brakes, and in the process learned a ton. Like "brake calipers" and "adjusting barrel" and... my memory is failing me. Anyway, I learned how to fix my brakes!! woohoo! And I tested them a BUNCH - riding around - because the left hand side (that goes to the front brakes) turned out to be in a slightly different position than the right hand side (which I didn't touch).

I feel like my bike and I have now had a true bonding experience. ;) Now I need to come up with a name for it...

Any suggestions??? (It's white.) I'll take a picture and add it to the post later.