shovelhd

The pain is manageable at this point.

gsteinb

are you smoking a lot of pot for it?

Hermes

I thought that was obvious from the photo.

shovelhd

No. I tried to commandeer the numbing drops but was unsuccessful.

revchuck 

Carbon tubulars, Reynolds 46s. My boss has gone 11 speed, and these are ten speed. Now I can be even more of a poseur.

I've got until February (first race next season) to scare up the money for another powermeter...guess the Powertap wheelset is going up for sale. I can get Stages at cost, or find a used SRM. Thankfully there's no rush.

sarals 

You'll be a podium monster, Chuck!

Hermes

Reynolds 46s carbon tubes are perfect for Fredistan.

sarals 

Hermes, did your wheels make it to you today?

Hermes

Yes. They arrived late in the morning in perfect condition. SWA did not have a reason per se but the most probable was they were delayed by TSA in Salt Lake City.

sarals 

Herbie53

Guy that I went to a training camp in Spain with and have done some team rides with just won the 40-45 Nats.

I feel just a little better about how he always made me go cross eyed and blow spit bubbles just to hold his wheel on flat ground now.

Hermes

My mother (84 years old) shot a hole in one in one of her golf leagues yesterday. It was her first one since starting to play golf 50 years ago.

The round was a special charity event and my mother's group was the first group off. At the fourth hole (110 yard par 3), they had just set up the tent for participants to pay $5 for a closest to the pin contest AND if you got a hole in one, you got free golf for one year. My mother was the first one to sign up. She was the first one to tee of and hit a nine wood. They saw the ball heading toward the green but that was it. When they got to the green, my mother could not find her ball. After looking around for a couple of minutes, someone checked the hole and found her ball.

My mother golfs in two leagues and has the lowest handicap in both - 9 handicap and typically shoots in the 30s at executive courses. She is an A player and typically beats all the 50 and 60 year old players. Her average puts per 9 hole round is 14. I told her that her neurology is just off the charts. She just does not miss. In addition to the hole in one, she had a chip in off the green and had 13 puts for the hole in one round.

I bet the golf course thought no one would ever get the free golf for a year and this is a very nice course that I played a lot as a kid growing up.

shovelhd

Unreal. Good for her. Imagine how good she will be after free golf for a year. Does she know how to wager?

Racer Ex 

Crazy week. 800+ miles of driving, In-Laws came up while we were/are trying to get the house in order, just avoided punching out a guy who thought that taking 20 flash photos of his food in a high end restaurant was just dandy, slept here and there, unpacked 30 boxes, hooked up 3 TV's, a home theater, a printer, three cable boxes, internet, moved furniture, hung art, entertained in-laws, sold a big table saw, cleaned out our rental, and sort of celebrated 28 years of marriage.

Tomorrow I get up and go for a ride. Work follows.

Oh, and caught up a bit here. A hole-in-one at 80?

I hit one on the hole with the dinosaur at 12.

Hermes

The problem is finding someone to take the other side of the deal. In her 40s into her 60s, she was club champion 20 years in a row and two years ago, she shot 1 under for 18 in a tournament on an executive course. And she counts every stroke when you play with her strictly by the rules and makes everyone hole everything out - no gimmies. If you ask for a mulligan, she thinks you are a wuss.

Racer Ex 

Poop. No ride today.

On the other hand got a ****load of stuff done.

Last thing was checking out some audio equipment for the shop. Have a Bose system on a Technich receiver. Couldn't get it to work. Base unit lost a channel, figured this out after 30 minutes of messing about. Took the back off and found the board had broken out. McGyver'd it back in and we're ready to rock.

Hermes

Modern cars...technology...I got a message that the oil was low in my 2014 Porsche Boxster. I decided to run it up to the dealer and chat with the guy I use for service. First, there is no dip stick in the Porsche so the only way to measure the oil level is electronically via the instrument panel. The service manage calls over a tech to check out the level. The computer now indicates that the oil cannot be measured. WTF. The tech says that there is an interlock with the rear trunk such that if you open the rear trunk and the oil is low, it assumes you added oil and now the car must be driven for 6 miles to reset the logic. I drove off and did some errands. I was able to check the oil and it was low. I returned to the dealership and the tech confirmed my reading. We added a quart of Mobil 1.

However, the computer shows that the level is 1/2 way so one could assume that it was down 2 quarts. The tech told me that it only needs one quart and if you put in two it overfills the reservoir and then oil is sucked into the engine and ruins the catalytic converter which he claims many have done.

I knew how to check oil in a car until today and maybe interpret the findings. With the level of sophistication of the new models and especially Porsche, it now seems like a good idea to check on everything with the mechanic. Good grief. $10.19 for a quart of Mobil 1 and two hours...problem solved.

shovelhd

You got ripped on the oil. A 5 gallon jug is $21.

IBOHUNT

Wow Herme's
The only no dipstick cars I ever worked on only went 1/4 mile then made a turn and picked up the time slip.

Hermes

The guys at the Porsche dealership provide great service. I drove in without and appointment and the manager pulls a tech off working on another car to look at mine. Yeah, the oil is overpriced but I felt somewhat compelled to buy it and felt like I got a lot of value in aggregate.

Also, I learned that we are not driving the car hard enough. It has the PDK transmission with the electronic select package. That means that I can set the transmission shift point and suspension from the instrument panel. The default setting provides a great ride and gas mileage but according to the tech does not rev the engine enough to break it in - hence the oil use. He said to run the transmission in the sport mode for a couple of thousand miles. There is also a sport + mode that moves the shift points to 7500 rpm. That will yield a 0 to 60 in 4.1 seconds. And this transmission beats its manual counterpart in acceleration due to the continuous flow of power between shifts due to its dual clutch system.


It is pretty weird not to have a manual visual oil check which is why I took it to the dealer. Any time one has electronic measurement of pressure, level or flow, one has to be concerned with calibration. Of course, one would assume that it is correctly calibrated when it leaves the factory and Porsche has run testing on the reliability of measurement over time.

IBOHUNT

Drive it like you stole it... sweet!



Reminds me of a quote my pop told me when I was young that involved wheels and 'stuff'. I can't post it since it would probably be a TOS violation.

shovelhd

Hermes I was just pulling your chain. My VW has a DSG option which is faster 0-60 than my stick shift but I just prefer the manual except when in bumper to bumper traffic. Then it sucks.

Allegheny Jet

Finally back to a normal life after Master's Track Nats then the vacation that went from great to FUBAR in a heartbeat. After driving across the country with my wife and visiting a few National Parks I competed at the Nats in a very pedestrian manner. My sister and her husband then then flew out Seattle and met up with us for a few days of driving/vacation on the Olympic Peninsula then set off on a 7 day cruise to Alaska. After the cruise my wife and I planned to spend another 8 days driving back to Ohio with extended stops in Washington State, Yellowstone and the Badlands. On the third night of the cruise my brother in law suffered a fatal heart attack and passed away in his sleep. John was 60, healthy and with no medical issues. He had even rode on a recumbent exercise bike on the ship the day before while I rode the upright. I had to complete several very hard to do phone calls for my sister as well as to my family members. We couldn't leave the ship for two days until we reached Juneau where there is an airport, during that time my wife and I comforted my sister as well as possible. From that point we flew back to Seattle and raced across the continent in our car to make it to the viewing and funeral for my B-I-L.

Life happens...

Well, after a few attempts I'm feeling back to normal on the bike again although my thoughts don't stay focused on riding very long. Being back at work also helps focus on other things.

I'm back on BF and still hate riding up hills or doing TT's, but may ponder change while doing my reassessments every time I'm on a bike.

shovelhd

My condolences to your family AJ.

Hermes

A'Jet. My condolences to you and your family. That is awful.