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#5051
Mostly Harmless
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#5052
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I wonder which brand AMain is going to dump? I mean, The Nashbar and Performance sites are pretty much the same, as far as I can tell.
#5053
VFL For Life
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#5054
VFL For Life
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#5055
he said member
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Location: is everything
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#5057
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#5058
VFL For Life
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#5059
he said member
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#5060
he said member
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I hope it is warm enough for my to bed in my brakes tonight. I'm looking forward to it? That feels kinda odd...
#5061
serious cyclist
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Austin
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#5062
Senior Member
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#5063
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I've never really understood the knife fascination, what do you gain with something boutique over something like a production Wusthof (which is the chef knife I have)? It stays sharp and cuts everything I need it to - I've never had the want for anything more. Although I suppose the same logic could be applied to bicycles, a bike's a bike, right?
Is it one of those things that you don't understand until you've actually used one?
Is it one of those things that you don't understand until you've actually used one?
#5064
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I really need to get the thru-axle dropouts for the rear on my Canfield. Twice now I've pulled the rear wheel out of alignment, and I don't really want to tighten the skewer any more than it already is - I've broken them before.
#5065
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#5066
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Nova had an excellent special called "Secrets of the Viking Sword". They had a guy reverse-engineer how these were built. Sword-making presents many of the same challenges as with making high quality steel bicycle frames. You want lightness, you want strength, you want flex (to keep the sword from breaking off during battle) but not too much flex. In essence, you want durability, and you want the metal in your sword lighter and stronger than your opponent's, for maximum tactical advantage.
The techniques used to produce these swords, I found very interesting. Lot of heat treating, pounding out, and adding of special ingredients at critical times, and building of specialized kilns capable of reaching extremely high temps. Must have seemed like sorcery at the time. I think a lot of the knowledge gained from building swords during the middle ages was later used in developing materials like Reynolds 531, which was also used by the Brits during WWII to build strong, lightweight airplane frames, and helped win the war for the Allies.
The techniques used to produce these swords, I found very interesting. Lot of heat treating, pounding out, and adding of special ingredients at critical times, and building of specialized kilns capable of reaching extremely high temps. Must have seemed like sorcery at the time. I think a lot of the knowledge gained from building swords during the middle ages was later used in developing materials like Reynolds 531, which was also used by the Brits during WWII to build strong, lightweight airplane frames, and helped win the war for the Allies.
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#5067
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I've never really understood the knife fascination, what do you gain with something boutique over something like a production Wusthof (which is the chef knife I have)? It stays sharp and cuts everything I need it to - I've never had the want for anything more. Although I suppose the same logic could be applied to bicycles, a bike's a bike, right?
Is it one of those things that you don't understand until you've actually used one?
Is it one of those things that you don't understand until you've actually used one?
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Where else but the internet can a bunch of cyclists go and be the tough guy? - - jdon
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#5068
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Slow morning, everybody must be studying the Google hip-hop tutorial.
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#5069
Fat n slow
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Saratoga, NY
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It’s something like $8 to ride up right? I don’t mind paying, bigger concern is whether or not the road will be open
#5070
Senior Member
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55 and windy today. Gunna be a fun one.
#5071
Super Modest
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Location: Central Illinois
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I had a friend stop by with his new motorcycle, some sort of v-twin thing similar to a Harley. Said it was $8,000. Drives home the high prices of bicycles especially since I’ve been looking at a higher end Giant TCR with discs and Di2. Top TCR is $11,000.
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#5072
VFL For Life
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#5073
Senior Member
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It was a little bit of running mixed in with a lot of walking. Not enough to count.
Still stupid, though.
Still stupid, though.
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#5074
Mostly Harmless
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#5075
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Supposed to be warm this afternoon, and here i sit with nothing to grill. I see a shopping ride in my immediate future.