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Old 02-23-20, 07:09 PM
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any reason why I can spray my rear derailer spring with wd 40 to clean it? Once clean I will spray with some tri flow.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
Maybe it just needs to be trued.

Thanks. Nope. See above.
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Old 02-23-20, 07:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Now on this intersection I do go to the left side of the lane, because there's kind of a turning lane which I don't want to block. It all depends on how traffic behaves.


For an intersection with a right turn lane, I'd be in the right tire track of the rightmost lane that's going straight. At the above, with yield sign and stillborn right turn lane? Yeah, I'd move over to the left a little more.
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This guy was confused about a lot, but not about my intentions. I did, however, manage to just shut up and let him do his idiot thing, rather than perform my outraged weenie dance.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
I have a level app on my phone.
Man, are you missing out.
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Old 02-23-20, 07:14 PM
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
burger king made robert downy jr become sober.
So we can essentially thank BK for the MCU?
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Old 02-23-20, 07:14 PM
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Originally Posted by datlas
The others are vulnerable and defer to their spouse or kids who, while well intentioned, forget to focus on QUALITY of life. Sad. I wish everyone would read “Being Mortal” by Atul Gawande. Says what we in the field know all too well, in an eloquent and honest way.
Atul Gawande is the son of my former urologist, in Athens Ohio. I've read some of his stuff. A sharp cookie.
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
any reason why I can spray my rear derailer spring with wd 40 to clean it? Once clean I will spray with some tri flow.
WD40 leaves a gunky residue. I wouldn’t use it to clean anything.
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Old 02-23-20, 07:18 PM
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Should you mistakenly use dish soap in a dishwasher, instead of dishwasher soap, WD-40 will save your bacon.
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Old 02-23-20, 07:32 PM
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I regularly use WD 40 to clean bikes and their parts
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
So we can essentially thank BK for the MCU?
I was thinking the movie Due Date but yours works too.
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
more specifically burger king coffee.
The horror
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Old 02-23-20, 07:36 PM
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Just did my taxes.
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Addiction is all about class.
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Just did my taxes.

I knew I forgot to do something.
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Dr. Stephen Gundry.has pulled the wool over Bf's eyes, apparently. And why is BF still using the old logo on these announcements
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Old 02-23-20, 07:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Heathpack
I’m taking Puppy Love to Cedar City Utah to run a Hunt Test on jackrabbit. I’ll check the place out for you. Close to Brian Head, so: mountain biking.
Gooseberry Mesa in UT was the most amazing MTB trail I've been on, and it kinda makes me wanna move to Hurricane, but there's some pretty eerie FLDS vibes going on there. And I'm not even sure if that would bother me, but...
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Man, I haven't been to a BK in more than a decade. A couple visits to BKs on the NJ Turnpike turned me off for good, but even before then I would have rather gone to McD's for anything breakfast (which is about the only time that I'll go to McD's).
I think I see the problem.
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Originally Posted by LAJ
Same. Plus, they get very confused as to whether they should pass or not. Then they start yelling at you, which means even more cussing in front of their fiance. You best not yell back, because that may entail cussing in front of the moron's fiance, and that's apparently quite bad, in moron-land.
So true.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
Man, are you missing out.
I also have a few spirit levels. 4' I-beam, 9" torpedo, and a couple of line levels. But I don't usually carry them around with me.
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I mainly use the level app down at the bike shop. I can never find the shop level when I need it, but my phone is always in my pocket.
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But no laser level.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
But no laser level.
Well that is something that we shall have to remedy, isn't it?
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I like the level app. It works in two planes and is nicely damped, but I sure wish you could zero it in any orientation and use that as a baseline. Seems like that would be easy.
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