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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

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Old 02-18-21, 10:04 AM
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It's 23F outside but precipitation has changed from snow to sleet. Heavy!
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My neighborly duty done for today. Six houses.

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Originally Posted by seedsbelize
I lusted after Cannondale for awhile. I really like their gear. I have a set of rear panniers, two handlebar bags and a tubular tire underseat bag. Possibly more that I'm not thinking of.
Not a Cannondale bike?
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
I would never make it as a car parker there.
You don't need to know how to park anymore, modern cars do it for you.
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize
Our new debit cards took two weeks from NY to our bank in Ohio. The woman at the bank says it's normal.

How long from Ohio to Mexico?
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Originally Posted by rjones28
You don't need to know how to park anymore, modern cars do it for you.
I have a stick shift.
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Old 02-18-21, 10:16 AM
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize
Our new debit cards took two weeks from NY to our bank in Ohio. The woman at the bank says it's normal.
This reminds me: what kind of rewards do you'uns get on your credit card?
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Old 02-18-21, 10:22 AM
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Originally Posted by BillyD
The idea is to do your civic duty while it's (literally) light stuff.
Easier to keep up with, too.

I did my neighbor's driveway after I did my own this morning. I'm trying to balance my karma scales. Seriously, they are young professionals with a baby on the way and can use all of the help they can get.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
I have a stick shift.
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize
Working up to gluing my first ever tubular tire. Anyone have any good tips? Well wishes?
We are having unseaonably warm weather here. Hard to believe it's so cold and nasty just on the other side of the gulf.
I's been the early '90s since I installed any tubulars but stretching is paramount. Also, it helps if you have a centering tool or at least the thumbs of an Olympic thumb wrestler to get the tire perfectly straight. I'll be rooting for you.
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize
I lusted after Cannondale for awhile. I really like their gear. I have a set of rear panniers, two handlebar bags and a tubular tire underseat bag. Possibly more that I'm not thinking of.
Remember when they were primarily a pannier/bag manufacturer long before they got in to bicycle manufacturing? Their logo was a train station.
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Old 02-18-21, 10:38 AM
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize
Working up to gluing my first ever tubular tire. Anyone have any good tips? Well wishes?
We are having unseaonably warm weather here. Hard to believe it's so cold and nasty just on the other side of the gulf.

This would be Grumpy McTrumpy
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
Remember when they were primarily a pannier/bag manufacturer long before they got in to bicycle manufacturing? Their logo was a train station.
My touring bike had that logo. You can see the corner of it.

My CAAD5 had the big yellow "C".
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The drive side cone looks fine. The non-drive side cone looks like this:
Bad batch of steel? Just for ***** and giggles, you could put a multi-meter between them and see if there's a voltage.
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Originally Posted by genejockey
No. Not yet, anyhow. And I'm 98% certain I won't.
I've always wanted to get one of the older Cannondale frames and put modern components & carbon fork on it. Especially something like a Black Lightning or any of the models with cantilevered dropouts.

Ever since my mountain bike cracked though, I've become very leery of used aluminum bikes.
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Done for the day? There is a lot more snow coming, I suspect.
It's sleeting now. I wanted to get the slushy bottom layer off early so it didn't harden. We get sun during the day so what initially falls usually gets slushy and then eventually gets covered with snow.
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Old 02-18-21, 11:43 AM
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Originally Posted by datlas
Pre-stretch it on an old CLINCHER rim. When mounting it use bare feet and hold mounted part of rim with your TOES and pull with your hands to get last bit mounted.

Those are the tips I recall. Of course I have not mounted a tubular since 1988 or 1989.
Bare feet is good. Thanks. It's been stretching for some months now, pumped to 40 psi originally.
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Not a Cannondale bike?
Yes, that too. But I had an al bike once and wasn't fond of it. I don't know if the bigger tubes make for a nicer ride or not.
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
How long from Ohio to Mexico?
FedEx overnight. To the city. Usually Fed Ex stuff sits in Merida for a week to ten days before coming out here. I don't know if overnight would makw a difference. Prolly not. We're having them shipped to a friend in the city.
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This reminds me: what kind of rewards do you'uns get on your credit card?
We have a plain old credit card. No rewards. No annual fee. Old school.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSjzcxMtKDA
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize
Yes, that too. But I had an al bike once and wasn't fond of it. I don't know if the bigger tubes make for a nicer ride or not.
Well...the CAAD5 in that picture was extremely stiff with a jarring, jolting ride on rough roads. Great handling bike, other than that. To go the other way I bought the Gunnar and whenever I pulled the CAAD5 out for a ride I wondered how I tolerated it for the 5 years it was my main bike. I sold it cheap to a friend's brother.

After the Gunnar was my main bike for a while I bought the Seven used. It reminds me of the CAAD5. Quick handling, responsive climber, and brutal on the rough stuff.

The Cannondale touring bike was a nice smooth ride. It had a steel fork and long wheelbase with slack angles.
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize
We have a plain old credit card. No rewards. No annual fee. Old school.
You could get rewards.
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