Repacking wheel bearings by the side of the road, in the dark, is no fun.

Guess there's good wind to work with.


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No confidence in your welding skills?

Probably.

I don't own any welding equipment.

Have now been at The Ancestral Home for a day. It looks much the same - which in itself requires some doing. Siblings look much the same too. Scrapple for Sunday breakfast has been obtained. we had corn the last two days, each time picked that day. Peaches for dessert.

Wishing I had a bike here, because then I'd have a reason and a method to escape the more talkative. Instead, I just kept making noises that indicated I was listening until he went away.

There is no winter there.

👍:bday:

Had a not as good as usual ride yesterday. Which is odd gor this bunch. Some guys didn't show up, some didn't bring their game faces. It was slow. One left the group on the way back. 2 went to look for him. Then we all had to wait for them to come back. I punished them all by going up front and pulling. Hard into a headwind for as long as I could. At least they stayed on my wheel.....
Good sprint at the end.

:bday:

Something has been getting into our garden/compost pile.

Today, mrs datlas found the culprit:


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p.s. btw if any serious gardeners are looking, you might notice my asparagus patch to the right of the fence.

Woodchuck? Groundhog? Capybara?

South Carolina?

Fat Groundhog.

chukacabrea...

Ok, we are going to be in LA starting in 1 week and I do want to download some possible routes onto my Garmin as I will likely NOT be taking my computer with me.

Any tips on finding/choosing a good route online? Reminder we are staying in West LA so my inclination is to head out to some of the gorges north of Malibu (eg Latigo/Gibraltar) but I am open to other options.

They start a series with the Mets today. Mets are in 1st.

Yeah but Phillies are only 0.5 game behind, so if they win the series they will be in first.

#Bestoftheworst

How hard can it be to find bike routes in SoCal?

You can check do searches for full, user-made routes on Ride with GPS and on Strava. Those routes may or may not have comments on them (it's helpful when they do). They both also have popularity/heatmaps to show the roads that people are riding with the most frequency - putting together a route yourself with the heatmaps can work well, but note that MUPs will be very well represented on their maps, so routes created will often snap to the MUPs more readily than to roads.

The other thing that I like to do in conjunction, and this can be a bit time consuming, is to check with Google Maps, both the satellite view and the StreetView, so that you can get a feel for the road surface and the shoulder situation. StreetView is slow going, but zoomed in on the satellite images, you can see the shoulders pretty well. I still like to confirm with a StreetView peek every so often and will pay particular attention to points where the satellite view might indicate trouble spots, like pinched bridges, etc).

as a former cyclist I have no opinion on this topic. Especially in SoCal.

When you were a cyclist did you literally ride the same route every day?

Same thing.

Really? Those tricky bastards.

At least they were in a car. I had to pass these guys while riding in SD.


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My bigger concern is how easy it can be to get hurt by a motorist in SoCal.

#SafetyFirst