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Addiction LXXIX

Old 08-16-20, 07:41 PM
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is anybody going to participate in the great cycling challenge? I signed up yesterday.
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Old 08-16-20, 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
is anybody going to participate in the great cycling challenge? I signed up yesterday.
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Old 08-16-20, 07:59 PM
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
Try to match Velo Vol's awesomeness doing laps at the office park.
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Old 08-16-20, 08:03 PM
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Originally Posted by big john
It was 110 or so here yesterday, down to 100 today. It's a big difference in the house here with the poor A/C we have. Yesterday it was ridiculous in the bedroom where the A/C doesn't reach. Mid to low 90s sounds pretty good to me.
You don't have any obligations keeping you in town? Take a different bike for the jeep trails.
Yeah, I need to be in town about 30 hours a week. I think I can get away Wed-Fri again.

Bike will depend on mood upon departure

Plenty of gravel to be had if you don't just wing it and do route planning based on how the road looks on sattelite view.

I might take the plus bike though, since I still want to explore more of the olde abandoned AT&SF ROW, some of which involves some rough stuff.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Or in my case 87.5 km. Sad.


I'm surprised anyone is surprised.

Very much so.
Windows open. No heating required.
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Old 08-16-20, 08:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Yes. Still.
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Old 08-16-20, 08:29 PM
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
is anybody going to participate in the great cycling challenge? I signed up yesterday.
Probably not.
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Old 08-17-20, 04:19 AM
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Happy National I Love My Feet Day.
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I use a wooden half H with holes drilled in the legs and a dowel
I got up to take a picture and the internet went. It just came back.

Here in rural(poor) Mexico, we don't bother with an earth ground when wiring buildings. Why pay for three wires when two will do the job?. Until lightning strikes. Our isp lost a tower during that series of thunderstorms on Saturday. And 90% if his equipment along with it. It is highly unlikely that tower was grounded.
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Old 08-17-20, 05:55 AM
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
I use a mount that has a metal plate (bolted to the wall) and some fold down arms/hooks.
Do you use the one from Feedback? I'm too ascared to hang from the wheel and I need a better solution for the new house.
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Old 08-17-20, 06:13 AM
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Originally Posted by phrantic09
Do you use the one from Feedback? I'm too ascared to hang from the wheel and I need a better solution for the new house.
No, it's an inexpensive thing, probably from the hardware store. This isn't the exact one that I have, but it's pretty similar -



The only problem is that those hook covers will start to split after a couple years, so I wrapped 'em when that started.
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Old 08-17-20, 06:25 AM
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Aaaah an unusually peaceful Monday morning, no trouble reports to look into, much like a Sunday morning.
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Old 08-17-20, 06:32 AM
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
Happy National I Love My Feet Day.
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Old 08-17-20, 06:35 AM
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Originally Posted by phrantic09
Do you use the one from Feedback? I'm too ascared to hang from the wheel and I need a better solution for the new house.
If a wheel can carry all of me over the rugged roads of Central New York without complaint, they can handle the weight of a 16-to-20 pound bike.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
If a wheel can carry all of me over the rugged roads of Central New York without complaint, they can handle the weight of a 16-to-20 pound bike.
I know it’s a ridiculous fear. I’m sure 16 lbs of weight on the rim is not going to damage the carbon.
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Originally Posted by phrantic09
I know it’s a ridiculous fear. I’m sure 16 lbs of weight on the rim is not going to damage the carbon.
Carbon rims are strong. I wouldn't recommend hanging one of those old aero rims that have a carbon fairing bonded to an aluminum hoop though.
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Old 08-17-20, 07:21 AM
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Carbon rims are strong. I wouldn't recommend hanging one of those old aero rims that have a carbon fairing bonded to an aluminum hoop though.
Not just old; they still make Jets like that. I have a pile of them.
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Finally feeling better this morning. Was missing my daily outdoor rides, but then going on my brick run this morning there was fresh glass all over the bike lane on the big downhill at the start. Need to find a new route to the MUP. But at least running felt better than it has in months.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
If a wheel can carry all of me over the rugged roads of Central New York without complaint, they can handle the weight of a 16-to-20 pound bike.
I think they complain but you ignore them.
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I am a member of a bike touring group on Facebook. This morning I noticed that the current cover photo is of an old gas station in Oxford Jct., IA, which now serves as City Hall. In 1999 half our group were invited to spend the day and night at the senior center in Oxford Jct. to beat the heat while crossing the country. (The other half of the group had taken a side trip.) Having AC was a welcomed relief after constant days in the 90s. A reporter from the county paper stopped by and interviewed us. She later mailed us a copy of the edition with her story and group photograph to our rest day in Bowling Green, OH. I made a copy of the piece and still have it somewhere at home.

I cannot share the cover photo, but you can see place here:

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9837...7i13312!8i6656
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Originally Posted by Heathpack
We are just back from a trip to Kings Canyon and Sequoia NPs. Saw some very handsome trees, a bear, a few deer and, at our AirBnB daily visits from a flock of wild turkey, many rabbits and some guinea fowl. The girl dogs could see the critters out the glass front door. Bonkers.





We couldn’t take the dogs to the NPs but there’s a lot of adjacent National Forest, so we did NP stuff super early (when it was cool and they could snooze in their crates in the car). Then we’d have a picnic lunch and afternoon activity in the National Forest, where the dogs could join in. Took them hiking and “swimming” in the lake, etc. “Swimming” because they think water is dangerous and it takes all their bravery for their feet to leave the lakeshore, dog PDFs notwithstanding.

Yesterday we took them on an epic (for dachshunds) five mile hike up to an alpine meadow at 9000ft- Rowell Meadow. They did great and had a very fine time- digging for burrowing things, mucking about in mountain streams, chasing butterflies in the meadow.





Now I want to buy 40 acres of land in the Sierra foothills. Seriously.

PS Bike content: I rode one day in Kings Canyon. There was almost zip traffic, and the scenery was epic. But still- no shoulders, narrow road, I didn’t love it. In retrospect could have ridden some forest roads but I didn’t have the lay of the land enough to know. Had a fine time anyway.

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Looks like a blast, and it's even better that the pups had fun!

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I need to hire @Heathpack to plan MY vacations, her latest ones seem like such fun.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
The only problem is that those hook covers will start to split after a couple years, so I wrapped 'em when that started.
I've got those too and one of them has split, what did you wrap it with?
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Originally Posted by abshipp
I've got those too and one of them has split, what did you wrap it with?
Just some electrical tape, I think.
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