bampilot06

take that over rain. seems like it’s raining a lot here lately. Hoping I can get short ride in tomorrow.

datlas 

Same here. Weather saying rain supposed to end around 8AM tomorrow so I am hopeful that I can get a good ride in, even if the roads are wet.

bampilot06

I hit 36 mph yesterday down a hill for the first time. The road was soaking wet and I was also unfamiliar, I prolly could have gone faster. The whole time I was thinking what would happen if a debris or a hole appeared. Bike handled beautifully though.

abshipp 

I hit 44 mph Saturday on the Trek. Low trail geo in the front end is kind of weird once the speed gets up there. The whole idea is to have lighter steering, especially with a front load and at low speeds, but it remains quite light even as the speed increases

It was generally stable, but certainly caught my attention and made me think about switching back to the stock fork...

datlas 

I always back off on speed when it's wet and/or unfamiliar roads. Unless it's a race there is really no role for pushing it.

#OlderButWiser
#RideTomorrow

genejockey 

A few years back, I was riding on a bike path that connects two parts of my road ride. I happened upon another rider, going the other way, stopped. He'd stopped because there was what looked to be a juvenile rattler lying across the path, sunning itself. I pulled out my full-size frame pump, flipped up the thumb-lock like a hook, and extended it to its full length. Got the thumb lock underneath at about mid-snake, lifted it up and gently tossed it into the bushes about 5 feet from the path, all from pump-length away.

Velo Vol 

I looked a the bios and one of the Drs went to med school in Barbados? On paper, it's difficult for a lay mouse to know who's good and who isn't.

The most glaring problem now is I can't even say if I have a decent witch doctor or not. I got transferred to him (prior one moved away) last March. I've been following directions since and have had one full appointment with him in 18 months. That isn't going to cut it.

I believe I have an appointment with another nurse next week and I'm going to bluntly ask "wut is happening?" See how it goes from there.

LAJ

Serpents and tongues.

#2020

genejockey 

I've got two spots on my Sunday route where I routinely exceed 40 mph, but recently I've been playing with going no pedals/no brakes on the one to see how fast I can go with just the speed I carry through the turn onto that road between that turn and the stop at the end. It's also helping me gain confidence on curves - there's one I've always braked for, but I'm finding I didn't need to and I can easily do it at >34 mph.

And the other one, the City of San Mateo, in its infinite wisdom, changed the settings on the light at the bottom of the hill so that instead of it being green 90% of the time when I reach it it's now red 90% of the time. It's a T intersection between a 4-lane boulevard and a side street, but they've set it to trigger for a 30 second cycle at exactly the interval that will stop any traffic through the previous green light. I've gone as fast as 45 on that one, admittedly with a tailwind, but 40+ is routinely achievable.

genejockey 

"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child"?

Velo Vol 

There's nothing more frustrating than them changing lights so you get more red time.

MoAlpha

I agree.

Velo Vol 

Whilst walking yesterday an excellent question came to mind: given that weather moves from west to east, why is it that I always get the dumb, freezing weather from you, WhyFi, et al.?

How come I never get the warm, pleasant weather that LesterOfPuppets has?

DougRNS

here's a second opinion. He's obtuse.
#HereAllWeek

MoAlpha

Because the weather moving from west to east comes in the form of air masses rotating counter-clockwise around areas of low pressure. The trailing halves of those big vortices contain cold air sucked from the northwest.

abshipp 

Plus a cold air mass will just push warmer, less dense air up above it as it moves across the ground. So even if a warm and a cold air mass arrive at the same time, you won't ever feel the warmth.

LesterOfPuppets

We're still in the hot, oppressive weather portion of the year. Maybe next week the warm pleasantness can begin, or at least by Halloween I hope.

Velo Vol 

No one asked you.

Alternative theory: Nature hates me.

LAJ

I think you/they did.

That's your opinion.
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2manybikes

Moving right along....the dog days of summer?? Autumn?? Fall??

https://www.flickr.com/photos/946973...57716165452173

Velo Vol 

I apologize.

Please DougRNS, tell us what you think about the quality of the rheumatologists at UTMC. The thread is dying to know.

LesterOfPuppets

Programming alert:

Twinkies vs Astros is on ABC in our market.

Had to reschedule my day a bit.

seedsbelize 

Same. Looking forward to all day riding weather.

Trsnrtr

We'll start getting rain soon, I'm sure. This time of year, we often get those 2-3 day drizzly rains that are super annoying.

Velo Vol 

Got an all-day ride planned?