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What’s wrong with flirting? One good thing about being old and fundamentally unattractive is that women aren’t afraid of me.
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04-03-24, 05:56 PM
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Oooh, Lumberjacks band and baton twirlers setting up at the brewery!!!
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It's pretty much summertime here even though we're supposed to get snow Friday.
Hot damn, the colour guard just got here!
Hot damn, the colour guard just got here!
04-03-24, 06:02 PM
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Hahaha, tuba player is playing some Zeppelin while everyone else continues to tune.
04-03-24, 06:10 PM
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Tuba players rock. That includes Sousaphones, of course.
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Cold front warning in effect, for Tamaulipas, Veracruz and Yucatán. For our part expect temps to drop to 71, with a high of 87 tomorrow..
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I wonder if we still get that swill out here. They tried to push it on us all through the 90s
Then they decided to try pushing Iron City on us in the late 90s. Then Old German showed up in the aughts.
East Coast lowbrow beer attempted invasions of the West Coast are all kinda silly.
I'll welcome Yuenglings with open arms however.
Then they decided to try pushing Iron City on us in the late 90s. Then Old German showed up in the aughts.
East Coast lowbrow beer attempted invasions of the West Coast are all kinda silly.
I'll welcome Yuenglings with open arms however.
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04-04-24, 12:20 AM
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04-04-24, 01:19 AM
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Second "shakedown" ride on the new, bigger Circuit. I fixed the headset issue - I hope. I replaced the short, 80s-style Sakae seatpost with a longer, but similar-looking SR Laprade, and jacked the seat up about a cm.
First impressions: MUCH better! No longer felt like I was riding a BMX bike! However, after about 15 miles it was clear that the Rolls has to go. I was getting a hotspot where no hotspot should be, and I was unconsciously hunching over rather than rolling my pelvis torward. So that's it for the original seatpost and saddle. Maybe I'll put them back on the 22 inch frame. I decided to use the dark gray Avocet that I picked up last month.
The other issue that arose was that the Giro d'Italia bar lowers the hoods at least a cm compared to the Highway One, so I gave up half of what I gained with the larger frame. On the plus side, once the saddle height and setback were right, the bike no longer felt like a toy and I could get out of the saddle without it feeling weird. Still, I want to go back to the Highway one, which means getting a 110 stem. Then, when that guy in Poland is able to get me the reproduction Sante hoods in gray, I'll swap in the new stem and Highway One, since I'd have to take the levers off the bars to get the new hoods on anyhow. That's why bought TWO packages of bar tape!
The ride itself? Pretty good! I'm still getting used to the bike, so I'm a little tentative. Plus it was windy, and cold, and it was inceasingly drizzly rain for the last two miles. So, a baptism by...water, I guess!
It's supposed to rain tomorrow, so no ride, but I do hope to get in a few miles on Friday, ahead of the Monthly C&V Ride on Saturday.
First impressions: MUCH better! No longer felt like I was riding a BMX bike! However, after about 15 miles it was clear that the Rolls has to go. I was getting a hotspot where no hotspot should be, and I was unconsciously hunching over rather than rolling my pelvis torward. So that's it for the original seatpost and saddle. Maybe I'll put them back on the 22 inch frame. I decided to use the dark gray Avocet that I picked up last month.
The other issue that arose was that the Giro d'Italia bar lowers the hoods at least a cm compared to the Highway One, so I gave up half of what I gained with the larger frame. On the plus side, once the saddle height and setback were right, the bike no longer felt like a toy and I could get out of the saddle without it feeling weird. Still, I want to go back to the Highway one, which means getting a 110 stem. Then, when that guy in Poland is able to get me the reproduction Sante hoods in gray, I'll swap in the new stem and Highway One, since I'd have to take the levers off the bars to get the new hoods on anyhow. That's why bought TWO packages of bar tape!
The ride itself? Pretty good! I'm still getting used to the bike, so I'm a little tentative. Plus it was windy, and cold, and it was inceasingly drizzly rain for the last two miles. So, a baptism by...water, I guess!
It's supposed to rain tomorrow, so no ride, but I do hope to get in a few miles on Friday, ahead of the Monthly C&V Ride on Saturday.
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04-04-24, 02:46 AM
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Lester get its.
I uploaded the langley race a couple weeks back. There was one picture of me in the break, had about a 20 second lead over the pack. Won’t let me upload it.
04-04-24, 05:08 AM
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I wonder if we still get that swill out here. They tried to push it on us all through the 90s
Then they decided to try pushing Iron City on us in the late 90s. Then Old German showed up in the aughts.
East Coast lowbrow beer attempted invasions of the West Coast are all kinda silly.
I'll welcome Yuenglings with open arms however.
Then they decided to try pushing Iron City on us in the late 90s. Then Old German showed up in the aughts.
East Coast lowbrow beer attempted invasions of the West Coast are all kinda silly.
I'll welcome Yuenglings with open arms however.
Never understood the RR craze. The only upside is that they sold 7 oz. “Ponies” so they would not get warm during summer BBQs.
We used to sell Old German quarts at the deli where I worked in ‘86. $1.
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One of my school friends (middle thru high school) played tuba/Sousaphone. We used to raid his parents liquor cabinet.
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04-04-24, 07:22 AM
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