brain Vomit #7 trial and error.

Trial and error and error and error.

The only way to not make yourself crazy and get super frustrated is to approach the challenge you want to solve knowing that it will most likely fail. You’ll probably fail many times till you get it right. But with every failure you learn something new. I don’t take advice from strangers well, because most likely they’ll tell me a hypothetical solution that I had thought of and tried 5 iterations ago. I can confidently tell them it’s not going to work, they get upset. There’s about 10 years of me failing over and over again while coming up with something new on my bikes. But with every iteration my work gets a little bit better.

With all the repairs I do I also study how other bikes fail. What worked and what didn’t. If it is an idea worth pursuing. Failures are not the end, failures are works in progress.

I could go the easy route and buy stock tubes and drop outs. Cut and glue. But I like it my way. Not because I enjoy frustration, I really don’t, but I find immense joy in seeing my idea work the way I planned it.