rjones28 

Mark your walks as runs. Problem solved.

LAJ

From here on in, why don't you call it a run? I know some people can't run as fast as I walk. Of course, they're likely approaching 100 years old, but that's not my concern. 1 to 100, if they're ahead of me, the race is on.

LAJ

Like that.

indyfabz

New photos from Glacier N.P. posted. I would like to have that job right about now. Those first two are grizzlies. Look how big mom's left hind mitt is.

berner

A day or two ago turned out to be a genuine Spring day and well warmer than expected. Within a short distance of my apartment I stopped on a quiet street, next to a pond to remove a layer. Also at that same pond, but around the other side, was a girl and boy of about 10 y.o. with plastic pails and a dip net trying to catch polly wogs. We are used to seeing kids today with their faces buried in a smart phone and not paying attention to the real world. I grew up in a rural community and spent a good part of my life messing about in the woods. In fact, it was usually faster to get to playmates houses via the woods than by road. Anyway, seeing those kids and experiencing a real Spring day just made my day. Also saw a snappin' turtle in the pond.

abshipp 

It is kind of crazy. Similarly, my brother just bought a brand new Yamaha MT-07 for around $7500. Twin cylinder, liquid cooled, fuel injected ~700cc with ABS.

Should I use the bang-for-buck argument to try and convince my wife I should get a motorcycle?

ls01

oh

Trsnrtr

I already tried and I assure you that it didn’t work.

Btw, this was a Vulcan Classic.

Velo Vol 

Whose?
Thinking about this. Although my average speed would be terrible, at least you could see it on that graph.
The bears here are still hibernating if they're smart. #Winter

ls01

Sooner or later the bubble on bicycles will pop. It might have begun already with the Chinese manufacturing. Durain rider is selling his Pragma frames for around a thousand dollars if I read things correct. They are supposed to be as good or better than a brand name bike. They are "inspired" by a Cannondale model if I remember right. I believe if you go to Alibaba, and look for Yeolo, you can buy the same frame cheaper, direct.
. There really isn't any reason for the brand named to be a high as they have become. Its one reason there isn't any value retension in the used market. After the nonsense Sram dispensed with the 12 speed asx groupset, I am pretty much over it. I like it, I'll ride it. But its not worth all that over my 10 speed red groupo after the novelty has worn off.

Bah Humbug

Yes on both - sure a Wusthof or a Hampton Forge from Target will let you cook dinner, as long as you aren't too picky about smooth cuts. This is the same as saying a hybrid bike can certainly get you around town and let you lead an active lifestyle. An R5 is a whole different beast in every way though, lets you do more, and is nicer to use while doing that more.

Most people haven't ridden an R5 or anything comparable - hell, even I haven't. Most people in America haven't used a nice knife and have no idea what "sharp" is. One thing about the fact that I grew up poor in an old farmhouse on even older land is that I used a knife made back before... whatsisface (I'm trying to find the article about the history of stainless steel cutlery) decided that stainless makes good knives, which has only been even moderately true rather recently. A knife can't stay truly sharp indefinitely, no matter what Ginsu said, and even the "good" stainless steels are more difficult and less pleasant to sharpen. The old knives I grew up with weren't stainless, and one of my chores was to keep them sharp. That I did. The good knives today are much better than those.

The tricks are things like tomatoes (toughish skin, soft flesh) and peppers (tough tough skin, moderate flesh) where most consumer knives will just mash them instead of slicing cleanly. The difference is clear with other things too, but those are the easiest to see.

WhyFi

Subjective. There's sharp and then there's sharp. There's cooking and then there's cooking. If you do a lot of cooking, you'll probably appreciate sharp.

rjones28 

Ours

Velo Vol 

Oh boy.

WhyFi

This one kills me. I don't know what kind of bread this is, how old it is, etc, etc, but it doesn't matter - this is sharp.

abshipp 

Ah that's kind of what I figured. Thanks for the explanations

Is the discussion about knife metallurgy mostly related to how find of an edge you can get and how well it will hold it?

Oh.

Yeah, that's sharp.

Holy ****

rjones28 

rjones28 

Exactly

WhyFi

Pretty much. That, and how easy it is to sharpen when it comes time to do so.

Bah Humbug

It gets deep - the metals alloyed with the iron, even in small quantities, have huge effects on the carbides (the bits that make it steel instead of iron) and huge piles of other metallurgical terms I barely understand. A very lightly-alloyed steel, for example, can have very very fine carbides and can be easily sharpened to a fine edge, but that edge can be so smooth it has a hard time "biting" into tough pepper skins. Hitachi calls those "white" steels. The "blue" steels contain more added metals like bits of chromium, vanadium, and tungsten, by my memory. This gives it carbides of varying sizes (and a longer edge life) that gives it a "toothy" edge that bites into tough skins. It's slightly harder to sharpen, and won't take the sort of edge a sushi chef would want.

The trick with stainless is it's gummy - when you try to sharpen it, it feels nasty on the stones. Worse, instead of easily grinding off a layer of steel, it rolls a gummy sliver of steel to the edge, where it hangs on and then just flips back and forth as you try to sharpen each side. It sucks. The newer stainless steels (R2 especially) are much better about that, but still don't feel as good and aren't as easy as non-stainless. It's worth it for some things like paring knifes and the knife I use for pineapple, though.

WhyFi

Is there a TL;D(W)?

LAJ

WhyFi

LAJ

Bah Humbug

Like using a hammer and an adjustable wrench to fix your road bike. That’ll wreck the heat treatment and destroy the edge geometry.