Agree. Do your part to be one of the 2.2 million projected.

My rig needs help. Among other things, it's creaking going uphill. The BB only has like 2000 miles on it. :foo:
How about snow blowing?

My boy was definitely a percher. One time I moved us to an apartment where the kitchen ceiling was lower and there was no space above the cabinets. As soon as he discovered this, he climbed to the top of the fridge and howled his disapproval down at me.

Somehow I didn't get any pics of him up on one of those, but here's one of him on a bathroom shelf shortly after I moved to Boulder.

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Growing up we had one who figured out doorknobs. She tried to teach the others, though only one learned.

As of this week, masks mandatory away from home. But There are still some holdouts. As of today, only one person per car, unless going to the hospital, and all occupants must be masked. In Merida, Walmart an Home Depot open, but not for people over 60

Telework extended through 31 May.

Are you sure it's the bike?

Nope. Haven't had enough at once to need that in at least a month.

2.2 million? Last I heard it was60,000/ Once italics is turned on, it can not easily be turned off

Did you ever get your shifting problems worked out?

I'd say overall, general masked population is around 25-30%.

Interesting to see if that changes May 1.

here it’s close to 100% based on my observations

Here. Hold my beer.


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Be sure to check the use-by date.

My creaking is less audible.
I haven't had another multi-attempt fiasco as I did right before I posted that, but sometimes it still takes two clicks.

Someone here suggested it may be a cable-related, which is plausible, as my cables are old. I sprayed WD40 on them to the extent possible.

A local guy posted a ride yesterday that included a ~17 mile loop/Strava segment. I decided to check it out today.

That was dumb. I could not, for the life of me, find my lungs until I was 12-13 miles in. Then there's being at the mercy of the lights - I hit a full traffic light cycle literally one block in to the segment and another four or so significant traffic light delays throughout the loop. I'll probably ride it at tempo every once in a while, just for the variety of having a new-to-me short route, and then try to turn myself inside-out again in another month or so.

That sounds like it just shouldn't be a segment. We have a few long ones on the tri-training highway, but they have essentially zero cross traffic. Lights? No.

Thought question of the day:

Money is worthless except in the context of what it can buy you. Doesn’t take much thought...

It's one of those "it is what it is" deals. There might be some sections of bike path along the river that are a few miles long, without a traffic light, but there sure isn't anything longer than that within... probably a good 40 miles of me. I'm willing to accept that there's a roll-of-the-dice/do-you-want-to-be-an-idiot factor associated with longer segments - I'm not threatening the leader board without an accompanying paceline and I'm not going to take any of this **** serious enough to put myself in jeopardy.

I was thinking about that looking for how many left turns across the oncoming traffic lane that segment had.

At the end of most of my rides I have to make a left 90° turn across incoming northbound traffic. The pavement is nice and smooth and it's tempting to take at speed in order to beat oncoming traffic, but I have this mental image where I screw up the turn, crash, and slide into oncoming 55mph traffic. I chicken out every time.

Also, can you spare a few degrees of your Fahrenheit, WhyFi ?

Not sure how you're 20 degrees warmer than we are right now :notamused:

Agree to disagree.

I think that there were only one or two left turns, so not bad on that count. But yeah, a left in front of oncoming traffic is usually something that I'll give myself a bit of margin for error.

Honestly, that was giving me problems. I was wearing bibs, base layer, ss jersey, sun sleeves, cycling cap and light (but full fingered) leather gloves... and I was too hot. I'm still acclimated to 40° riding. I went through a similar thing last year - I'd ride solo 2-3x per week in the cooler mornings, but then the warmer evening group rides would kick my ass until I got used to it in the late summer.

What else would you do with it? You can't eat it, as they say. Even saving it only has value in terms of what you or someone else could buy with it in the future.

It's 95* here; I'd be happy to loan someone up to 15 or maybe 20 of them.

Nice mellow trail ride on the full rigid plus bike today. Only saw two other riders, :bday:

I was pretty stoked to only see one other vehicle at the trailhead, since the trails have been PACKED the past month or so. Maybe the heat scared them off.

You misspelled "stupid".

That was the original projection, from one of the models. It began dropping quicker than the stock market, once sanity prevailed.

Oh. Wait.

The fact that we have savings accounts strongly suggests B.
<raises hand>

Why are Bah Humbug and WhyFi hogging all the heat while Velo Vol remains in winter?

I just want some dry weather. I even tried a different bike today in hopes of changing my luck, but that didn't work either.