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Dan Selman is a CTO with over 25 years of experience in the IT industry. He has created software products for BEA Systems, ILOG, IBM and others. He co-founded Clause, Inc. (acquired by DocuSign in 2021) and is a founder and maintainer of accordproject.org under the Linux Foundation.

Trust your Teamates

In this series of posts I will use lessons from 20+ years of playing and coaching rugby to make you a better business leader.

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Business is more similar to rugby than you might think. No, I’m not referring to scrums, communal showers and alcohol abuse! In this series of posts I will use lessons from 20+ years of playing and coaching rugby to make you a better CTO and business leader.

Rugby is a team sport. I’d say it is the best team sport, but that’s an argument for another day. In a team TRUST between teammates plays a huge role in a good overall performance. In a team where players trust each other, players have a role and trust each other to perform it well. The team reacts very quickly to complex new situations, because very little explicit process or oversight is required.

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Strength through Adversity

For the past several months my mental state seems to be more Schrödinger than Newton, resisting serious observation, and oscillating wildly between euphoria, guilt, outrage, depression, anxiety, frustration, and all states in-between. The most palpable side-effect has been loss of concentration; with the incessant drip, drip, drip of 24-hour news and social media causing my brain to fizz from one emotion to the next, almost at random.

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Mountain Bike Makeover — Finale

If you have an old Specialised Rockhopper from the late 90s that you’d like to convert to a gravel bike or adventure tourer, this is the post for you! This is a project that is perfectly possible (even I succeeded!) and I hope to give you a couple of tips and to save you some time choosing parts.

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Mountain Bike Makeover — Oval Shaped

I’ve fitted an 36T oval chainring from Absolute Black, giving a bit more speed on the flat. I’ve done a couple of short test ride and don’t feel the oval too much yet, but it must be better, right? Bike is handling great, fixed a squeaky front brake and feels very nice out of the saddle climbing.

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Mountain Bike Makeover — Final Push

It feels like the past couple of weeks have been two steps forwards, one step back, but progress has been made!

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Mountain Bike Makeover – Cables

This weekend I finally got around to running the brake and gear shift cables and getting the gears indexed. I’m sure they will need further tweaking once the top-tube gets cut and I can ride, but they should be pretty close.

It was quite fiddly and time consuming, but mostly because it was the first time I’ve done it from scratch with no existing cables to replace. Good news is that the Gevenalle shifter covers the whole range of the cassette and the shifting seems pretty smooth. Time will tell!

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Mountain Bike Makeover — Seat Post and Saddle

I had to resort to eBay to find a 30 mm seat post and found a very nice secondhand Thompson Elite in black, to pair with the classic Brooks B17 saddle in black leather. No issues fitting either, and I’ve kept the original seat clamp for now.

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Mountain Bike Makeover — Bars and Shifters

I’m really happy with the PNW Components Coast Handlebar and the long-pull Gevenalle GX Shifters. The bars are nice and wide for stability, offer lots of hand positions, and the shifters are easy to reach. The flare on the bars gives the bike a more aggressive “gravel” look, while the drop is fairly shallow which I hope will make for comfortable all day riding.

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Mountain Bike Makeover — Headset and Fork

I was nervous fitting the Cane Creek 40 Headset EC34/28.6 I EC34/30 headset, worried that I’d damage it as I forced into the old frame. In the end, thanks to a headset setting tool, it all went off pretty smoothly and it seems to be well seated and the bearing cups popped in without an issue.

Seating the crown race on the fork was another matter, and despite having purchased a cheap crown race setting tool (a glorified metal pipe) I spent a nervous 10 minutes pounding it into place on the Surly Cross Check fork with a hammer. I finally got it seated and it seems to have survived the pounding. It just feels very wrong to be pounding precision made bike parts with a big hammer!

I’ve not cut the fork to size, fitted the star nut and tightened everything down yet as I’m still debating geometry and how high I’d like the bars. I’m waiting on the seat post to be delivered and then will compare the geometry of the whole setup with my existing bike.

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