I hope you ordered several. Spoke breakage tends to be like celebrity deaths - they come in groups.

If you're going to watch snoozeball, you could at least watch history being made.


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Maybe

Wheel building came to a halt with covid.

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Rain. Always a treat.

Are you sad?

I'd signed up for the April Grand Fondo Challenge on Strava, and I realized this morning I only have 6 days to complete it. SO I figured I'd go for the requisite metric century. I ended up going 70 miles, which makes this the longest ride I've done since at least 2014.It was a nice day for it, right up until the 6 miles of headwind on Canada Rd. Silly me, I'd gone too hard on another straight segment, making myself "That Older, Fatter, Faster Guy" to about 4 other guys who were doing the same 4 mile stretch. There was one guy, must have been 6'5". I found myself drafting him, but then felt bad and moved out of his slipstream.

I missed a water stop and ended up thirsty and hungry by the time I got to about 60 miles, but there's one along Canada, so one bottle and two gels later I felt a lot better. I learned my lesson years ago - if I feel like that 10 miles out, I'll feel a hell of a lot worse by the time I get home, if I don't eat something!

I took a couple pics...

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Tree tunnel in Woodside
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Somebody's white Dogwood in Portola Valley.

When I bought Ksyrium wheels they came with the spoke wrench. The first time I broke a spoke they were still under warranty and they gave me a handful of spokes. Then a spoke nipple ripped out of the rear rim and they put on a new rim under warranty. The next time a nipple ripped out it was close to the end of warranty, maybe just out and they gave me another rim for free. The next time one ripped out I was far from home and got dropped by the group so I tried to limp into the next city and 2 more ripped out so it wouldn't even roll. Ended up taking a cab home for $100. Mavic said no more warranty so I paid for another rim and sold the wheelset after it was fixed.

Not for me. Did several builds at the shop. And even a set for myself.

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It's springtime.

I like that stand. Never seen one before.

Got it to build my first set of wheels, eight or nine years ago. It was affordable and works very well.

The new-and-improved version Pro Truing Stand | Feedback Sports | Wheel & Rotor Truing Station

So? I get sad when it gets cold in the falltime.

It was warm and sunny today.

Some people really struggle to answer simple questions.

Does anyone use Telegram?

There is a guy that lives behind me, but a house down. I’ve never met the guy. His backyard is a mess as he never trims the bushes or weeds his flower beds, and allows his pool to go green (we have iron fences so his backyard is visible to us and the other neighbors. Today he decided to drain his pool by running a hose into my backyard and pumping water thru it so it would run into a storm water drain on my property. It is illegal to put pool water into that drain because of environmental contamination concerns. It’s also illegal here to divert water from one property to another. So, I asked him tonight not to do so. He tried to argue with me, but I insisted that he not drain his pool onto my property.

Am I the a-hole?

Need more info. What's the "proper" way for him to drain the pool.

Not anymore.

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Lots of people do.

Oooh, I'd like to tap ...













out a series of dots and dashes.

Into the sanitary sewer system. That way it gets treated at the water treatment plant to remove chlorine, bromine, Algiers, and other chemicals.

Not relevant to the question.

Speaking of Algiers, I think I'll watch it tonight. Haven't seen it since the late '80s

https://www.pbs.org/video/algiers-1938-avuhfg/