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03-03-19, 03:41 PM
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I liked Albany when I was a kid, i.e., before Rocky built the Empire State Plaza, when the New York Central wasn’t Amtrak, and it stopped downtown at a real station instead of that God-forsaken place in Rensselaer. We used to pick my dad up there on summer Friday evenings. A happy memory.
03-03-19, 04:16 PM
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I just dropped in to the Di2 wireless unit thread. NFW I ever get electronic shifting. Why introduce infinitely more problems for something that already works almost flawlessly.
SMMFH
Yes, @rjones28 I'm passionate about this issue.
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Yes, @rjones28 I'm passionate about this issue.
03-03-19, 04:17 PM
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03-03-19, 04:28 PM
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I just dropped in to the Di2 wireless unit thread. NFW I ever get electronic shifting. Why introduce infinitely more problems for something that already works almost flawlessly.
SMMFH
Yes, @rjones28 I'm passionate about this issue.
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Yes, @rjones28 I'm passionate about this issue.
03-03-19, 04:29 PM
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03-03-19, 04:31 PM
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I have a theory you don't lose that much in a short period of time. Over an extended period, let's say a year, sure you'll lose perhaps 50%, but it doesn't take that long to get back to 90-95%. Over a short period, say a couple of months, I think you only lose maybe 10-15%, because I've seen fitness come back too quickly for it to be significantly depleted.
I liken it to pouring beer into a glass. The top 5% of your fitness is like the head of foam on a beer, so long as you keep working out (pouring) you can maintain that fitness, but shortly after you stop you'll lose that top fitness, the foam. But if you start pouring right back again the foam returns quickly. Maybe not a perfect analogy but I think the principle holds true.
I liken it to pouring beer into a glass. The top 5% of your fitness is like the head of foam on a beer, so long as you keep working out (pouring) you can maintain that fitness, but shortly after you stop you'll lose that top fitness, the foam. But if you start pouring right back again the foam returns quickly. Maybe not a perfect analogy but I think the principle holds true.
03-03-19, 04:48 PM
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03-03-19, 05:45 PM
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So it is
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I just dropped in to the Di2 wireless unit thread. NFW I ever get electronic shifting. Why introduce infinitely more problems for something that already works almost flawlessly.
SMMFH
Yes, @rjones28 I'm passionate about this issue.
SMMFH
Yes, @rjones28 I'm passionate about this issue.
03-03-19, 05:50 PM
#3512
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03-03-19, 05:51 PM
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03-03-19, 05:51 PM
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My garage miles didn't feel anywhere near fake to me.
03-03-19, 06:13 PM
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03-03-19, 06:19 PM
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03-03-19, 06:40 PM
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cowboy, steel horse, etc
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Check out the crazy uniforms the Reds were rockin' (#48, obv)
03-03-19, 06:42 PM
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03-03-19, 06:46 PM
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I have a theory you don't lose that much in a short period of time. Over an extended period, let's say a year, sure you'll lose perhaps 50%, but it doesn't take that long to get back to 90-95%. Over a short period, say a couple of months, I think you only lose maybe 10-15%, because I've seen fitness come back too quickly for it to be significantly depleted.
I liken it to pouring beer into a glass. The top 5% of your fitness is like the head of foam on a beer, so long as you keep working out (pouring) you can maintain that fitness, but shortly after you stop you'll lose that top fitness, the foam. But if you start pouring right back again the foam returns quickly. Maybe not a perfect analogy but I think the principle holds true.
I liken it to pouring beer into a glass. The top 5% of your fitness is like the head of foam on a beer, so long as you keep working out (pouring) you can maintain that fitness, but shortly after you stop you'll lose that top fitness, the foam. But if you start pouring right back again the foam returns quickly. Maybe not a perfect analogy but I think the principle holds true.
I like the beer analogy.
03-03-19, 06:49 PM
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03-03-19, 06:52 PM
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The spectacular part of Di2 is-there is no fussing. Set it, forget it. Check the charge here and there, and call it good. My latest bike is the first with the battery in the seat post, so I will have to be more vigilant. It's not as easy as popping a fresh battery in like my other two.
03-03-19, 07:00 PM
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03-03-19, 07:08 PM
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Wait until they want to put a long cage rear derailleur on. One needs to download a Shimano program called "E-tube" into a laptop and learn to
reprogram the lost memory that was in each lever and derailleur before you took the old one off. It took me and a friend a few hours each of two days, after a non computer literate person took the old derailleur off because Shimano told him it was just plug in the new one.
reprogram the lost memory that was in each lever and derailleur before you took the old one off. It took me and a friend a few hours each of two days, after a non computer literate person took the old derailleur off because Shimano told him it was just plug in the new one.
03-03-19, 07:23 PM
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The levers are switches, the derailleurs are set spacing, and all the brains are in the battery.
03-03-19, 07:36 PM
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I saved this one...
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[ST-6870-L]
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;Switch Front Shift Up:0 Front Shift Down:1 Rear Shift Up:2 Rear Shift Down:3 D-FLY Ch1:10 D-FLY Ch2:11 D-FLY Ch3:12 D-FLY Ch4:13
SwitchX=0
;Switch Front Shift Up:0 Front Shift Down:1 Rear Shift Up:2 Rear Shift Down:3 D-FLY Ch1:10 D-FLY Ch2:11 D-FLY Ch3:12 D-FLY Ch4:13
SwitchY=1
;Switch Front Shift Up:0 Front Shift Down:1 Rear Shift Up:2 Rear Shift Down:3 D-FLY Ch1:10 D-FLY Ch2:11 D-FLY Ch3:12 D-FLY Ch4:13
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