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#677
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What kind of repair was it? And did it hold up?
I've got a MTB frame with a cracked weld, you can see grease pushing through in the below picture. I'm thinking about using a 30.9-27.2 seatpost shim as an internal reinforcing sleeve and JB Weld-ing it in place:
I talked to the manufacturer of the frame and they told me that it would be possible to weld, but I'd need to get it heat treated and honed afterwards, and the frame really isn't worth the expense. But it's worth it to spend $15 on a shim and a tube of JB, if it would hold up a decently long time.
I've got a MTB frame with a cracked weld, you can see grease pushing through in the below picture. I'm thinking about using a 30.9-27.2 seatpost shim as an internal reinforcing sleeve and JB Weld-ing it in place:
I talked to the manufacturer of the frame and they told me that it would be possible to weld, but I'd need to get it heat treated and honed afterwards, and the frame really isn't worth the expense. But it's worth it to spend $15 on a shim and a tube of JB, if it would hold up a decently long time.
#678
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This is an older picture, I rode it a few months more and the crack propagated on each side to about double the length pictured. I stop drilled it with a 1/16" bit but got a new frame shortly after.
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Was out on a walk to the baker and saw a young lady walking a very big, very lupine dog. Chatted with her from across the street, we were all walking the same direction, and I asked if he was a hybrid. She said that he was a Blue Bay Shepherd from CO and that he did have some wolf in him. Handsome beast - he looked straight-up wolf to me. She said that he was very sweet, and I believe her, but I don't think that any rational person would mess with you if you had one of those on the end of the leash.
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The last one I cracked.
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You have three fluid compartments to fill. The first is circulating plasma; the second is the interstitial space (in tissue between cells); and the third is intracellular. Transfer from compartment to compartment, particularly from interstitial to intracellular is slow. You can dilute your plasma and piss like a race horse while your cells are still dehydrated.
Then there is the weight of muscle and liver glycogen and the water bound in its crystalline structure. That can take a day to replenish too.
Then there is the weight of muscle and liver glycogen and the water bound in its crystalline structure. That can take a day to replenish too.
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Both aren't catastrophic failures, so I have a hard time getting rid of them because I'm
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Looks like I have been invited to do a century on Saturday. That, along with a 50 mile recovery ride on Sunday and yesterday's metric, should get me a bit over 200 miles for the week.
Prolly not enough to even get on the podium. Any way we can change to leaderboard to be based on elevation instead of miles??
Prolly not enough to even get on the podium. Any way we can change to leaderboard to be based on elevation instead of miles??
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Looks like I have been invited to do a century on Saturday. That, along with a 50 mile recovery ride on Sunday and yesterday's metric, should get me a bit over 200 miles for the week.
Prolly not enough to even get on the podium. Any way we can change to leaderboard to be based on elevation instead of miles??
Prolly not enough to even get on the podium. Any way we can change to leaderboard to be based on elevation instead of miles??
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Looks like I have been invited to do a century on Saturday. That, along with a 50 mile recovery ride on Sunday and yesterday's metric, should get me a bit over 200 miles for the week.
Prolly not enough to even get on the podium. Any way we can change to leaderboard to be based on elevation instead of miles??
Prolly not enough to even get on the podium. Any way we can change to leaderboard to be based on elevation instead of miles??
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#688
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Well and that was the subtext of my point. Just like you have WAY flatter than I do, but I still couldn't outclimb datlas if I tried; there's just not that much per mile out here.
And then gravel is stupid slower, and group rides or TT bikes are faster. Mileage is just the crudest measure, but that's what we've picked.
And then gravel is stupid slower, and group rides or TT bikes are faster. Mileage is just the crudest measure, but that's what we've picked.
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#691
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I talked to my guy at the Honda dealer. He said he could knock a few hundred bucks more off the price. I told mrs datlas we should get the Fit but she also wants to see the base Civic model. We are going there after work to check them out.
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The Civic seems like quite a bit more car. Wife was interested in a Fit a few years ago. It looked like a nice, utilitarian, in-town runabout, with great interior space, but I didn't like the idea of it on the Interstate.
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At least look a the Civic hatchamawagon. The regular coupe and sedan are just sad.
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4 years ago today I met my now-wife on our first date, and at the end of the night this little scrawny kitten followed us for 2 miles back to our car. Wife couldn't just leave her out in the elements so she brought her home and planned on taking her to the shelter the next day.
Well, you know how that goes
I always forget how little that cat was, she sent me these pictures the next morning:
Well, you know how that goes
I always forget how little that cat was, she sent me these pictures the next morning:
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4 years ago today I met my now-wife on our first date, and at the end of the night this little scrawny kitten followed us for 2 miles back to our car. Wife couldn't just leave her out in the elements so she brought her home and planned on taking her to the shelter the next day.
Well, you know how that goes
I always forget how little that cat was, she sent me these pictures the next morning:
Well, you know how that goes
I always forget how little that cat was, she sent me these pictures the next morning:
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#699
Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
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I'd actually be really interested in fool-proof methods for fitting myself to a bike. And figuring out proper geometry. Cicli Barco is happy to make something in the Aspero geometry (even a discount for using an existing geometry) but the 54 is actually closer to my road position than the 56. Is that good? Who knows! I'd like to know before I drop that kind of money.
1) Buy bike in 1997. Get the '10 Minute Fit' at the store.
2) Go in for a professional fit after 6 months of riding it, with a couple specific issues.
3) Make slight adjustments to the fit. Ride lots.
4) Replicate that fit for the next 23 years and 3 bicycles.
I dunno. When I was deciding what model and size of Canyon to order, I measured my 3 bikes carefully, and repeatedly, and then spent several evenings working out which would allow me to replicate that without having to go with a 140mm stem or a crapload of spacers, or a different seatpost.
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Update you don't need on a story you don't care about: I finally took the Ritchey out for a ride with the new stem and bars. First thing I noticed is it felt "taller", which is odd because I measured and adjusted the height of the bars to exactly match what it had been. Second thing I noticed was that, instead of the bar blocking my view of the front hub while in the drops, the hub is clearly visible behind the bar - which I guess makes sense, since the stem is 1 cm longer, but the bar has 7mm less reach. This is a little disconcerting because I've always used 'bar blocks view of hub' as an indicator of proper position.
After 8 miles. I rotated the bars down. That was a bit too much, so 4 miles later I turned them back up about halfway. The rest of the ride, about 8 miles, was into the wind, so I spent most of that distance in the drops or on the top of the hoods, which felt pretty good. No lower back issues, reach to brakes felt right, hands comfy on the drops.
After 8 miles. I rotated the bars down. That was a bit too much, so 4 miles later I turned them back up about halfway. The rest of the ride, about 8 miles, was into the wind, so I spent most of that distance in the drops or on the top of the hoods, which felt pretty good. No lower back issues, reach to brakes felt right, hands comfy on the drops.