There was another big thing that went on this weekend, I finished the paint job on my bike. Hurrah! Shame that I don't like it though, so I'm going to sand it all down and start again. It's not that I don't like the colours or anything, but I really should have done a masking tape test, you see, where I'd ripped the tape to make the curves of the tiger print, it left a kind of feathery edge, as if I've painted on, well, a feather or something. This meant that all of the stripes had white edges, which I tried painting over with a brush but it still didn't look quite right so I'm going to start again from scratch but go a brighter, cleaner, simpler way. Metallic red with white highlights. Maybe that red with silver glittered bits in it to make it really shine in the sun, I'm not sure yet. It depends what Halfords have in stock. As for the issue with the crank and the bottom bracket, well I'm going to take it down to my local bike shop and get them to remove it (I don't mind paying now, even it it mean wrecking the cranks) so that I can get a perfect finish this time. Ideally I would blast sand the frame, but it'd be horribly expensive to have done, so I'm going to do it by hand. Sure it'll take ages, but hey, I've got time!