Stoner Dictionary  "Lid"

Lid: noun 1. a slang term for roughly one dry ounce / or 28 grams of marijuana

Example: “Man, I’m about one finger short of a lid.” ..."Dude, Can I get just one lid off you, I don't have bookoo bucks?"

Lids are always a good thing to have around your home and can assist you in any measuring occasion. Lid was common terminology used in the U.S. during the ’60s and ’70s and is now used to describe roughly 1 ounce of marijuana --Measured using the lid from a common Canning Jar such as "Ball" or "Mason", or the "LID" from a finished jar of Skippy Peanut Butter. Back then the Jars were all Glass, and the lids generally shallow. People were far more chill, and stoners even more mellow, so being exact on transactions was (umm like) un-sportsman-like.

An ounce of Mary Jane (one Lid) is about 28.35 grams of weed, a fairly good amount, and this measurement was profanely simple to do without any special tools. a scale, or any other apparatus.

On my painful, and deliriously amazing recovery ride today, As my mind drifted into that special silent whirring space where we center ourselves by bicycle -- I'd wondered , Just how much my bike weighed, [in "70's speak"]. Since upgrading some bits -- I'd wondered in particular, how much it weighed in "Stoner Parlance" rather than in that mythical "Metric System", which we only vaguely know.

First we need to establish what a Lid is not.  A lid is not the top of a shoe-box... It's basically four fingers. and a Basic Jar lid use as measure for a rough ounce.

To do the calculation properly one would have to first forget all of the above B.S., because "A Lid" had no real analog to Decimal Points nor to Fractions, as it was simply fast math, or ...well, simply "A Lid". 

This said, I set about to weigh my bike with many "Lids" on one side of a balance, and soon realized that absolutely nobody was going to understand what The fuck I was talking about.

So I reeled it in and thought it better to explain why I'd Upgraded anything whatsoever.

What will follow will be a decent into Superlatives, and Bike Bullshit.

You see, Last week a lady rolled the stop and nearly broke me and my bike into two pieces broadside.  So when I chose the lesser damaging evasive path -- I slid into a culvert, broke two ribs and my right hand.  Or...Rather, she broke my ribs, three fingers on my right hand, and removed a lot of the skin from my right side, as well as ruining my favorite jersey, and cracking my helmet.

But well, she took off.

In short I was about Three fingers short of a LID.

My body took the brunt of the spill, sparing my bike much damage. I reassembled myself, and rode the final 12 miles back bloody and battered, cool  clotting had cementing my hand to the right brake hood, which required a cool garden hose to release it.

A week later, When I felt capable (but not comfortable) to ride again, I'd promised myself a recovery gift. I'd set out to replace my venerable but aging 11-Speed Dura-Ace kit with New Campagnolo Super Record 13 Wireless. This meant procuring a new Group-set, and retiring my aging Dura-Ace kit, and Power Meter crank for two more sprockets, and some sexy Black-Carbonara Italian Couture.

I didn't do this because my shit was totally fucked, because my Dura-Ace 11 worked fine lest a bent UDH... I did this upgrade because a total wreck, some missing skin, and a bad week in Bandages, and Bactine, felt like a great excuse to upgrade. 

Nothing more.

Any way, I was channeling Jonas and Tadej, and wondered, "If Tadej's last winning bike sold for $163,430... [Then, I soon wondered], "What will their wrecked bikes be worth to a collector?"

Is there nostalgic value in holding onto crashed juju?  The Ghisallo Bike Museum and Madonna del Ghisallo Church in Italy would certainly be looking forward to new crushed bike donations, Right?

Perhaps their wrecked bikes were still rideable. Perhaps Not.

Well, what follows is my impression of Campy 13 Super Record, in the context of a bad hand, some compromised Body positioning, and the venerable Campy Brand's Comeback from sustained bodily injury.  This all in light of the fact that with little exception there seems to be a void of useful clarity on what Campagnolo have created in Super Record 13.

By the way, My bike now weighs: ~224 LIDS with pedals, bottle cages, and a computer mount. That review follows next...

Nice!