phrantic09

I'm a little behind on my weekly mileage and would have preferred an extra 10 miles on top of what I did, but I spent too much time screwing around this AM and trying to get one of our dogs to go to the bathroom. Woke up yesterday and he was laying on his bend panting, wouldn't eat, wouldn't walk or anything else. We ended up taking him to the emergency vet shortly thereafter. $1,200 later we found out it was an infection in his foot. He had a 105 degree fever and his foot is incredibly swollen. We were so caught up on the other symptoms we didn't notice his foot and thought he'd been poisoned. Could have cut the bill in half by going to the farm vet we usually take him to, but it's good that he's feeling better. He's now on a broad spectrum antibiotic, methadone and an anti inflammatory.

genejockey 

Oh, yeah! Pictures:
Here's the headset with the covers in place:


Rear brake calipers with Black Rubber Nub


Shift levers with little gray covers over the cable end holes.


Cranks, complete with Biopace chainrings in all their oval-y goodness.

Jack Tone 

A while ago I got a great deal on a Lemond from Craigslist. Sold because it didn't shift well. Turns out it had 9 speed Ultegra levers and an 8 speed cassette.

Jack Tone 

Love that white groupset. I watched a Vegan Cyclist video where he was excited about oval chainrings. I decided to put an old Biopace 52 ring on an old bike. Rotated the ring forward one notch as per the internet. Gotta say, I really liked it. I'm not sure if it was the ring, or the fact that I went from 53 to 52 teeth that made it feel great.

genejockey 

Hmmmm. Just watched that video. I'll have to take the chainrings off to clean them, so that's an opportune time to adjust them.

MoAlpha

Reality has begun to suck so bad for so much of the population that they have decided en masse to invent alternatives and attack the meritocratic elites whose power comes from the old consensus on what's real. Once science, or even ethics, is just one of a hundred competing of points of view, we are good and ****ed and that's what some people want.

datlas 

Correct. People seeking alternative facts can certainly find them.

Quite worrisome, and I am not sure what to do about it other than carry on and take some Fukitol PRN.

datlas 

So we decided to pay the $150 ransom/fee and now have upgraded our FIOS from 75 to 200 Mbps.

MoAlpha

We have to be humble, under-promise, and over-deliver.

Jack Tone 

Weighed my new/old bike before with all the junk on it..29.5 pounds. Weighed it now, complete with new aluminum seatpost..24.25 pounds.

genejockey 

"“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” - Isaac Azimov.

So, not a new phenomenon, but has certainly been supercharged by the internet, and having all the false information at your fingertips.

genejockey 

I figure on getting at least a pound of dirt off the Circuit. Amazing to think that when new, its 21+ lbs weight was considered very light.

mvnsnd

Excellent!
Hopefully it will help with your Zwift dropouts.

genejockey 

Oh, yeah! So in addition to getting the Circuit and being tickled at how compete it is, I also did another Zwift race. Same one I rode last week, the 'Circuit Race' in Paris. Finished 5th, but the Anti-Sandbagging provisions eliminated 2 riders ahead of me so I got third. So far, in 4 races, I have made the Podium each time. Racing at 5 or 6 in the evening seems to be the key. 6 of us spent the bulk of the race in a tight group, with riders doing occasional forays off the front, only to be reeled in. I used my 'Feather' power-up to attack coming out of an underpass rather too far from the finish, and blew up about 200 meters out. Note to self: 0.4 miles is NOT 400 meters!

seedsbelize 

It seems, that with a smaller pool of unvaccinated folk, that pool will be where the virus tends to go. Is that an incorrect assumption?

seedsbelize 

Why won't you repack the bb?

bampilot06

roku channel has all the seasons of 24. Guess what I am watching.

This was my favorite show when I was in Middle/ high school. I think I have prolly watched all the seasons atleast 8 times, but it never gets old.

seedsbelize 

I'm using a roadbike with upright bars for my town bike, currently. It flats much more easily. It flatted this morning and I walked home. And found that the knee is no more amenable to distance walking than it is to distance cycling. But. We've had temps in the upper 90s for three days in a row, and there was no pain experienced on the ride in.

genejockey 

Because I don't have 1) Crank extractor, 2) Fixed cup wrench, 3) Adjustable cup wrenches.

genejockey 

Well, yes and no. The more vaccinees in the population, the fewer susceptible people there are for the virus to transmit to. With enough vaccinees, the rate of transmission will fall below 1 transmission per infected person and at that point the epidemic diminishes. Eventually, it could go away completely.

Unless....

Unless the people who insist on NOT getting vaccinated tend to live together or near each other. But even then, eventually it would burn out. The problem is, the larger the unvaccinated population and/or the slower the rate of vaccination, the more time the virus has to evolve. The goal should be to get as close to everyone in America vaccinated as fast as humanly possible, so the virus doesn't have time or opportunity to mutate into a resistant form

abshipp 

Bike nerdery content. TL;DR at the bottom:

I've known for a while that the aftermarket fork I have on my 710 is shorter than the stock one and it's bugged me terribly ever since I installed it. I finally took the time to take the bike apart and get some actual measurements to figure out exactly how much of a difference there is.

Turns out my new fork axle-to-crown is 10mm shorter than the stock one. This results the front end lowering quite significantly, and steepening all the effective angles on the bike by a little over .5°. Not a huge issue on paper - the 63cm frame that I have was brazed at 73.5°/72.5° so the HTA/STA steepened up to 74°/73°. Still a reasonably shallow STA and that HTA is steep, but not overly so.

What bugged me is that with the front end 10mm lower there is a quite conspicuous downward slope to the top tube, which just looks so wrong on a classic lugged frame. It's been on my mind constantly and there has been handwringing upon handwringing with the different options to fix it:

I bought a needle bearing headset with a tall lower stack height, but that only gave me a few additional millimeters.
I could go back to the original fork but I never really liked how it rode (5cm trail with wide 650b tires just feels a little weird), plus I'd have to get canti posts brazed on and powdercoated. Handling gets even weirder with a handlebar bag.
I could have the original fork re-raked to lower the trail and get the handling I want, but that's another pretty big chunk of change and the front end would drop a bit anyways so I'm still in the same situation, just not as bad.
Custom forks are $$$ I'd rather use for something different.

I eventually stumbled upon someone on eBay that makes taller crown races for MTBs - I guess sometimes for fat bikes you need some extra room below the head tube so a suspension fork doesn't smack the downtube - but all he made were for forks with 1 1/8" or 1 1/2" steer tubes. I figured something like that would my best option - using a cartridge bearing headset with 36°/45° bearings all I had to do was reproduce the fairly simple geometry of the crown race that came with the headset I wanted to use and then add 10mm on the bottom!

Drew up something up real quick and shot it off to him since he does custom parts as well. $30 and a day later the part is on it's way to my house!

Fingers crossed I designed it correctly. Also got a nice little boost to the ego when he told me he'd do it for the same price as his stock spacers - "Very nice drawing will make it easy."

Although, now I'm going to have a bit of a challenge because I'm about 5mm shorter than ideal on steer tube length...

TL;DR - I'm getting a custom crown race spacer to make up for a 10mm too short axle to crown on one of my bikes.

big john

I still haven't been vaccinated. Was hoping the lung thing would clear up some first but it just keeps on truckin'. COPD, asthma, whatever it is. Some days, like Saturday, I feel pretty good and climb well enough. Then Tuesday 3 of us met up and my friend took us up a couple thousand feet of climbing at the start. I couldn't get my breathing going and they had to keep waiting and I was embarrassed at how crappy I rode. Later I started feeling better and yesterday I went climbing alone and felt good again. Trying not to use the Albuterol too much. Last time I was at the doctor she wanted to prescribe another drug but I decided to wait. I guess another appointment is in the cards.

MoAlpha

Whatever it is, it's letting you do some impressive rides, old man! Has anyone told you to wait for that?

datlas 

Maybe. My suspicion is the virus infection rate will go UP not down over the next 2 months, because people are letting up their guard and the people who have been spreading the virus are NOT the ones getting vaccinated. Luckily the hospitalization/death rates should not go up much because the vulnerable are getting the vaccine and/or being careful.

How it plays out beyond the next 2 months is anyone's guess.

indyfabz

How crazy is Philly, you ask? The other day a guy gets released from prison and is murdered about an hour later while still on prison grounds.