Originally Posted by genejockey (Post 22274464)

I've been looking at the free trial of Wahoo's Syst'm, what with it's 4DP test. I need to decide what the goal of my winter riding will be. Previous years, I just kinda stopped riding after October, made a few half-hearted efforts at riding on a dumb trainer, maybe a couple Sunday rides under 30 miles and then started rebuilding fitness after DST started again and I could ride after work. Last winter I rode through the whole time, and in fact since July of 2020 I have not fallen below 20 hours of riding/ month. But there's been no structure. So, do I WANT structure? And if so, to accomplish what, exactly? Previously, I never had to think beyond building my my fitness over the summer, losing it during the winter, building it up again next summer. And Now I'm facing the reality that you don't just keep getting faster and faster, that there will be some sort of periodicity to it.

Life was less complicated when I was lazier.

Originally Posted by WhyFi (Post 22274491)

The 4DP test is awesome and the absolute worst. I rode Sufferfest for a couple of winters and really appreciate the approach with four distinct power zones, since my profile doesn't adhere well to the typical power curves.

Originally Posted by LAJ (Post 22274468)

Yep.

Now align the B's on the top cap properly, please. It looks like the Cane Creek is OK as long as it's Cane Creek on both sides.

Originally Posted by indyfabz (Post 22274502)

Popped up on Facebook. From my 2017 hi-rail trip in NJ. Probably cannot see it, but there is a dainty fox on the outside of the right rail. It was so small it could run along the railhead. I got to drive for a while.


https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...667c0ecbe.jpeg

Originally Posted by genejockey (Post 22274505)

They weren't afraid you'd take a wrong turn?

Originally Posted by indyfabz (Post 22274523)

True story: In college I had a FWB (before that term existed) who thought locomotives had steering wheels. When I told her otherwise, she asked "But how does it stay on the tracks?" Bless her little heart.

BTW...There is a Velcro harness system that immobilizes the steering wheel so you cannot steer it off the tracks.

Originally Posted by genejockey (Post 22274530)

I wonder if that, like so many safety devices, was added in response to discovering that somebody would do something nobody would have thought anyone would do. Like the sign on the dessicant pack in vitamins that says "Do Not Eat", or the one telling you not to stick your hand underneath a running lawnmower?

Originally Posted by Trsnrtr (Post 22273911)

LesterOfPuppets So you wait and wait for that pic of that rare oldie train and...

https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/s...780295172?s=20

Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets (Post 22274550)

Ooof. 50/50 chance you get the wrong platform.

Originally Posted by big john (Post 22274460)

I've been trying to find shock mount bolts for my mtb. No luck and the dealer I got it from has changed hands and they weren't sure how to get them but I told them to hold off for now. I wrote an e-mail to the company (KHS) and a guy from there called me today to discuss things and told me he would send out some bolts, no charge.

Excellent service!

Originally Posted by genejockey (Post 22274530)

I wonder if that, like so many safety devices, was added in response to discovering that somebody would do something nobody would have thought anyone would do. Like the sign on the dessicant pack in vitamins that says "Do Not Eat", or the one telling you not to stick your hand underneath a running lawnmower?

Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets (Post 22274571)

Hmm, maybe I should drop them a line about my '97 ish Montana Comp that I broke the right rear dropout on. :)

Originally Posted by rjones28 (Post 22274403)

Nice tape job.

Originally Posted by rjones28 (Post 22274415)

IKR. Looks like a classic ends-to-stem without reversing direction.

Originally Posted by LAJ (Post 22274468)

Now align the B's on the top cap properly, please

Originally Posted by Trsnrtr (Post 22274558)

True story: My uncle was mowing tall wet grass and his mower kept clogging and dying. He was wearing ear protection and he thought the mower had died and lifted the deck and cut all 4 fingers off one hand.

The fingers were reattached but had to have a couple more surgeries to make them work properly. It was a success and you would never know it had happened.

Originally Posted by Trsnrtr (Post 22274558)

True story: My uncle was mowing tall wet grass and his mower kept clogging and dying. He was wearing ear protection and he thought the mower had died and lifted the deck and cut all 4 fingers off one hand.

The fingers were reattached but had to have a couple more surgeries to make them work properly. It was a success and you would never know it had happened.

Anyway, he grew up on a farm working around farm machinery and was an agg professor at a Big 10 university. However, like wood shop teachers that cut their fingers off, it only takes a slip of mind…

Originally Posted by Velo Vol (Post 22274783)

Finally someone noticed.

No. The camera angle makes it look worse than it is.

Originally Posted by DougRNS (Post 22274784)

Pretty slow night, everyone must be streaming the ALCS game 3 with Joe Suck at Fenway.

Originally Posted by Velo Vol (Post 22274805)

Nope.

Originally Posted by Trsnrtr (Post 22274558)

True story: My uncle was mowing tall wet grass and his mower kept clogging and dying. He was wearing ear protection and he thought the mower had died and lifted the deck and cut all 4 fingers off one hand.

The fingers were reattached but had to have a couple more surgeries to make them work properly. It was a success and you would never know it had happened.

Anyway, he grew up on a farm working around farm machinery and was an agg professor at a Big 10 university. However, like wood shop teachers that cut their fingers off, it only takes a slip of mind…

Originally Posted by LAJ (Post 22274468)

Yep.

Now align the B's on the top cap properly, please. It looks like the Cane Creek is OK as long as it's Cane Creek on both sides.

Originally Posted by Velo Vol (Post 22274783)

Second, he chopped his fingers off, and you now can't tell, but they say they aren't able to fix my joint that won't straighten out all the way?