Today has been a day. Last evening, Jack's Bicycle called me to say that my trike was ready to pick up, so I went over this morning and brought it back to Ann Arbor. But by the time I began to assemble it, about 11:30, I was dismayed to find that I could not attach the seat, because the posts that extend from the bottom of the seat hook into posts that extend up from the rack on the back of the trike ... and that rack was missing from the new rear end that TerraTrike had supplied.
After a bit of head scratching, I finally decided I might as well head back to Dearborn, since I could do nothing without their assistance. So I loaded it back into the car and headed back there. When I arrived and explained, Richard (with whom I have worked consistently since I first went there to research options back in late March) said that when he put it back together yesterday, he hadn't realized what was missing since he was not the one who had taken it apart. (I took it there last Friday, and Fridays are his day off.) Anyway, a few minutes later, he had me all set.
By the time I got home, though, and got the trike assembled (with all its parts there as they should be this time), it was nearly 2:00 p.m., I was tired and discouraged from all the maneuvering today, and the weather was not promising (47°, with steady 27 mph winds, gusting to 42, and steadily increasing), so I decided to cave in and give myself the day off.
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