bampilot06

I was hoping for a shirt.

abshipp 

The only website I have adblock disabled on is Wunderground since it really behaves badly when adblock is on. I mean, it behaves badly with it off too, but less so.

I currently have an advertisement for BAQSIMI.

Why the great algorithm in the sky thinks I have the beetus is beyond me.

abshipp 

Sorry, those are extra.

datlas 

I actually have a cheap-o BD SS bike (Dawes SST) and although it's a tank it has served me well since I got it about 7 years ago.

LAJ

Nothing says Bike Forums like a Women's Boy Brief.

MoAlpha

Good. You'll be nice and fit for COVID-19.

My brother is an ER doc/tech bro in Seattle. He said people are actively shunning him (because of the ER doc part).

Velo Vol 

How did you get rid of your surplus cytokines?

Asking for a friend.

WhyFi

Received a teaser email from Cycliq last week and got the reveal email today; refreshingly, the launch isn't a product, but a free service - UpRide

I haven't looked at it thoroughly, but it looks like an attempt to centralize info/video on bad drivers and hazards to improve awareness and (hopefully) prosecution. A good start, but one thing that I'd love to see is logging of/searchable license plates - it would be much harder for a driver to shrug their shoulders and say, "I didn't see them," if there was a searchable database that showed a pattern of aggression and punishment passes.

Anyway, for those of you with cams, check it out.

Oh, and IBTM.

edited to add: I went through the motions to add an incident/video (just to look at the data fields), and it does look like there's a field for license plates. I don't know that it'll be searchable for end-users, but still

WhyFi

Oh, also - for those interested, Cycliq is having a 30% off sale with the launch of the service.

abshipp 

My mid-70's Motobecane satisfies my fixed gear desires well enough, but N+1 never truly sleeps.

It's a bit of a tank, too, but at least it's got a real Reynolds 531 sticker on it

Heathpack 

We have a little dwarf palm tree in our front yard that really needs slightly warmer winter weather than we have. It was planted by the contractor we bought our house from. It was a cute little three trunk thing but with us being in not quite the right climate zone for the little tree, it’s been slowly dying. We’re down to just one of the side trunks and that arches off to one side which looked nice when there were 3 trunks but now looks weird.

So the dwarf palm has got to go. I want to replace it with a dwarf citrus tree of some kind. Help me decide which kind.

I already have Eureka lemons (these are the basic supermarket kind) and Oro blanco grapefruit which is a grapefruit pummelo cross that I super duper love.

Limes would be nice because: mojitos. I have a killer mint patch. But limes are pretty cheap at the grocery store in these parts.

Tangerines: attractive tree, but lots of fruit and peel. Potential to get overwhelmed with fruit that takes a lot of processing time to get rid of the excess (ie peeling a zillion tangerines and juicing then freezing would take forever, I ain’t got time for that)

Navel oranges overlap in season with the grapefruit (both ripen in winter), so: fruit salad. But also: overabundance of fruit. Then again: no need to buy much fruit all winter.

Valencia orange aka juice oranges, these ripen in summer. So I could have fresh citrus most of the year.

Blood oranges. Expensive at the store. Red color = phytonutrients, that’s good. This might be the winner.

Meyer lemons grow great here but I’m not wild about them, so they’re out.

I will go to the nursery this weekend and seek professional opinions. But you gotta ask Addiction too.

LAJ

https://closecalldatabase.com/

datlas 

I took 1g Tylenol every 8 hours for two days, and let my immune system neutralize the invasion. Worked great!

WhyFi

I saw that 6 months back or so. Couldn't get it to work for some reason (I don't remember why), but I got the impression that it had been left hanging out to dry. Is it usable/active?

Velo Vol 

Oh.

indyfabz

ftw!

big john

I lived on a property where there were 54 trees. The tangerines were great, sweet and juicy. The navel oranges were my second favorite, they were also very sweet.
We had the dark plums, one tree had so many plums we would give them away and everyone loved them.
When I lived in the mountains my ex planted trees including a pear tree. The cold didn't bother it and it started producing small pears I think in it's second year.

indyfabz

I always thought something like this might be worthwhile. Should be expanded to include reports by pedestrians even if there is no video. Auto insurance companies might be interested if there is license plate information.

MoAlpha

You're the legal eagle, but wouldn't it be pretty easy to shut down, or even get damages from, a database of unverified reports that was searchable by license plate number? Some municipalities, e.g., NYC, have public violation databases you can search by plate number. That's pretty good.

datlas 

Are you a man or a mouse?

LAJ

See if this shows anything. It's active, but it looks to be primarily in this area.

https://closecalldatabase.com/incide...w-detail/2375/

indyfabz

Someone could possibly go after a poster and maybe even the site (there is a law that protects U.S. websites by making them not publishers/speakers of information posted by individuals), but one would have to prove the report false. And you would likely have to show damages because I don't think it would be considered libel per se.

WhyFi

Okay, I poked through and now I remember the problem - I couldn't register. I think that there was only a register via Strava option before, but it was broken. There's an email option now, so I just registered. I might as well log on both, but I think that being able to provide video is a big bonus. Looking at the CCDB for my area, there are a number of reports, but only 3 or so since Nov, so it doesn't seem to be an active base around here.

seedsbelize 

Blood oranges without a second thought

WhyFi

This is what I like about having video. Also, the problem with violation databases is that law enforcement has been really reluctant to actually enforce close passes, even in states with 3' or 4' passing laws - calling and even providing video often results in crickets, not even an internal note on the PD's system. Someone could buzz cyclists for years and then, when they finally do go too far, it appears as if they have a clean history.