It's a good compromise - if you want tube power amps and control/attack, you've gotta spend a goodly chunk on the amps and/or speakers. Tube pre and ss amp gets you a lot of the way there.

My dog was a dumb-dumb, too. When visiting the in-laws, she'd plop right in front of one of those glowing-heat-element-in-a-parabolic-dish space heaters. I don't know how her skin didn't blister.

One of my club mates swears by mustard packets for cramps. I am willing to try almost anything.

A tube amp that would drive the Magneplanar speakers I have would have been a lot more expensive than I could have swung at that time, even though I was single then.

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Tube pre with solid state amp, but no cats. Only a dog that thinks she's a cat.

Probably works due to all the water you consume trying to get the taste out of your mouth.

Got stuck @ work yesterday so I missed out on the Tuesday night ride. Did an hour of Zwift instead. Prolly same tonight. I have been chasing a creaking/groan on the Zwifting machine. It comes and goes pretty frequently during a ride. I can alter it by moving my feet around. So I pulled the crankset, serviced the B.B. reinstalled it in preparation for a ride. Walked into the kitchen to get my bottle..... found my noise. The cleats are making the noise on the shoes. I would never have found it if I wouldn't have left the bottle in the kitchen. Now how do I fix it?

Unscrew each screw in turn, grease the threads, and torque it down real hard?

I spent a significant chunk of cash swapping the standard pressfit BB on the Canyon for a screw-together one, and the creaking turned out to be the seat post needed more assembly paste.

yeah, these bottom bracket......sheesh!

My creaking bottom bracket was because of my pedal. That damn Cervelo with its crappy BBRight can break anything.

Kind of like @Velo Vol interacting with...everyone else in the world.

New shoes or better yet, new bike. Naturally.

:foo: Do you mean dnam?

Anyone, will I be able to ride around Asheville, NC in 34/30? That may get my weak little ass up a little bit of 10%, but not much. I don’t feel like buying and installing a new RD for a weekend.

I think I mean dman.

At an outdoor concert. The adult spotted lantern flies are here too.

Didja wear your stompin' shoes?

The concert is Sarah Shook and the Disarmers. Country-Rock. Not bad.


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Shoes off. Like the sock tan lines?


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Should be fine. Most of the hills there may be long, but fairly gentle in the 4-6% range. I don’t think I even used my bailout gear of 34-28.

Thanks. I am going to order an 11-30 anyway. There are even rides near here where it could come in handy.

Any suggestions for rides of a polite length for visiting in-laws?

Take Town Mountain road to the Blue Ridge parkway. Take BRP either direction. If you take it south, have a headlight for the tunnels.

Song of the day week month.

Pickle juice.

I love mustard, all kinds. Spicy brown, regular yellow, even the hot Chinese mustard.