Dang!, I should be working on my Bottechia project, but it just been too hot in SF!
09-04-17, 06:20 PM
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Dang!, I should be working on my Bottechia project, but it just been too hot in SF!
It kinda sucks,when really hot, humid weather times itself with a rare long weekend! So hot that even biking or motorcycling would not have been too much fun.
Anyway, I'm too broke these days to get together replacement parts and sundries to build up the Bottechia SL to its best possible state...... maybe I'll do the full teardown and clean of the bike this coming weekend instead, when it's a bit cooler......
So, how did you spend your Labor day weekend this year??
Anyway, I'm too broke these days to get together replacement parts and sundries to build up the Bottechia SL to its best possible state...... maybe I'll do the full teardown and clean of the bike this coming weekend instead, when it's a bit cooler......
So, how did you spend your Labor day weekend this year??
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09-04-17, 06:57 PM
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Yep, picked up a bike Saturday and finished putting together a Univega, in the heat...You'd have thought I was out laying in the sprinklers. Nice cool down today.
09-04-17, 07:56 PM
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Hot and a bit humid in PDX as well. Smoke east of here.
No riding, just working on some racks that needed finish work.
No riding, just working on some racks that needed finish work.
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09-04-17, 07:58 PM
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Worked this morning in order to get ahead some. and no one was there to get in my way. The afternoon was ride time for me. Nice day out and little traffic to be alert about.
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09-04-17, 07:59 PM
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there was a tentative thought to ride with some friends on saturday, but it was 104 or so... not my cup of tea. over the hills it was 114... forget it.
09-04-17, 08:14 PM
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It actually cooled down here in Colorado today. Low 80's apparently but it felt even cooler. Lots of smoke in the air though, from fires burning in Montana. I spent some time finishing up a couple things on my early 90's Specialized Epic, and then took it out for a short easy ride along the river.
09-04-17, 08:25 PM
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Have been down in So-Cal this week; just as hot and humid here. We actually got a tiny bit of rain yesterday. Helped out a bit with the La Tuna Wyldefyre -
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Have been down in So-Cal this week; just as hot and humid here. We actually got a tiny bit of rain yesterday. Helped out a bit with the La Tuna Wyldefyre -
LA Times
The combination of heat and humidity always takes the starch right out o' me person, can no get ennythin' accomplished.
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I guess I'm the mad dog or the Englishman of the California folks. I went on a 30-mile MTB ride yesterday with 7,000 feet of climbing. The heat was indeed oppressive.
"Why?" you may rightfully ask.
I'm afraid that in the case of bike rides I'm a slave to tradition. Our little local mountain-biking and trail-building club has been doing this ride around the valley where we live every Sunday-before-Labor Day for 23 years. I had 23 years of inertia behind me. Of the 14 who began only 2 of us finished. The other 12 are, I'm afraid, the more sensible lot.
Tradition can be a cruel master.
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"Why?" you may rightfully ask.
I'm afraid that in the case of bike rides I'm a slave to tradition. Our little local mountain-biking and trail-building club has been doing this ride around the valley where we live every Sunday-before-Labor Day for 23 years. I had 23 years of inertia behind me. Of the 14 who began only 2 of us finished. The other 12 are, I'm afraid, the more sensible lot.
Tradition can be a cruel master.
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09-04-17, 09:29 PM
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Spent most of the weekend feeling a bit under the weather. Got out today for an easy 30 miler; mix of pavement and trail. Tad bit smokey here also.
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The worst part of the weather has been the hot, humid nights. Sunday morning the temperature ROSE to 88F from 2 to 4 am. We got a bit of rain Sunday afternoon and have returned to normal, so I guess I have to get back to work. 
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Spent my weekend here in North Florida readying for hurricane Irma. I just finished, last week, painting the entire exterior of my house. I used a good weather-guard paint, hope it holds up to 180mpg winds. I'd hate to have to repaint it, especially since I used a paintbrush on the whole job!
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Spent my weekend here in North Florida readying for hurricane Irma. I just finished, last week, painting the entire exterior of my house. I used a good weather-guard paint, hope it holds up to 180mpg winds. I'd hate to have to repaint it, especially since I used a paintbrush on the whole job!
If the storm misses us, can I sell all those extra batteries I bought on the Classic and Vintage Sales forum? Anybody need 50 cans of Spam?
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It was pretty miserable in Cupertino at about 107. We have 2 small portable ACs that were no match for it. One is dedicated to my daughters room, the other for the living room. It was about 91 inside the house so we sat in front of fans, tried not to move, and basically got used to feeling sweaty and nasty 100% of the time.
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We had it pretty easy up here in the far left corner of CONUS; mid-eighties and a nice cool Lake Crescent to jump in. "Cousins Day," which falls on the Sunday before Labor Day, had a a record turnout of nearby and far-flung cousins this year, including some nieces who were experimenting with the local lake bottom silt to create their own spa treatments:
Like me, a large majority of my adult cousins are alums of the University of Washington, and one of my more affluent and avid Husky cousins hired a significant portion of the Husky marching band to come out a serenade us with "Bow Down to Washington," "Louie Louie," "Tequila" and other traditional (to us) tunes. The kids in the pic don't seem too impressed, but the adults were all grinning ear to ear, I tell ya. It was a gas.
Like me, a large majority of my adult cousins are alums of the University of Washington, and one of my more affluent and avid Husky cousins hired a significant portion of the Husky marching band to come out a serenade us with "Bow Down to Washington," "Louie Louie," "Tequila" and other traditional (to us) tunes. The kids in the pic don't seem too impressed, but the adults were all grinning ear to ear, I tell ya. It was a gas.
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Triple digit temperatures in San Francisco... Good thing is is no global warming, as our government leaders tell us, or things would really be bad! 
09-05-17, 05:47 PM
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Rode in the morning on Saturday and Monday before it got too hot. Worked on a bike on Saturday afternoon but rather than deal with the blast furnace heat of the garage, I moved into the dining room with the air conditioning. Nobody ever dines in there anyway....
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Hot and humid is a matter of course here in Houston. Nothing worse than working on your bike and trying not to sweat all over it in the process. We still ride often though. Not uncommon for me to lose 6 pounds during a hard 40 mile ride in August.
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I feel bad for you folks out west. It's been a pretty marvelous summer weather-wise here on the Third Coast. Spent Friday and Saturday vacuuming up drywall dust in South Haven, MI. (Crikey! Those drywall guys are messy!) Got rides in Sunday (Redcay) and Monday (Xtracycle, schlepping some wheels over to Billy Ketchum - who some of you will know as both a C&V bike guy and raconteur as well).
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