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Old 08-31-20, 07:20 AM
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I'm on coffee.
That's a good drug of choice.
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Old 08-31-20, 08:15 AM
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I'm on coffee.
Maybe that's why you're burned out.
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Old 08-31-20, 08:23 AM
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Hitting the high seas?
No, just the mighty Chesapeake.
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Old 08-31-20, 08:33 AM
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
No, just the mighty Chesapeake.
Anything beyond a lake/river is the same difference to me.
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Old 08-31-20, 08:38 AM
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
Was the lender not able to give you a close prediction? We wired most of our down payment and there was a small difference when we got to closing.

Double check the math so you don’t have the same thing happen to you that I went through.
I had a prediction, just needed to wait for the final number. Was 2k less than I thought, so that’s good.

sitting in a conference room now waiting for all of the attorneys to stop wasting my time
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Originally Posted by rjones28
I'm on coffee.
Well,duh...
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Anything beyond a lake/river is the same difference to me.
Average depth of 21 feet. Does that help?
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
Rained out this morning, on the last day of the month.


....so it's a good thing that I hit my 1,000 mile goal for the month yesterday (1053mi total).
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Maybe that's why you're burned out.
Unpossible!
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Old 08-31-20, 08:49 AM
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
Average depth of 21 feet. Does that help?
A person (or at least me) could drown in five feet. Just sayin'
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Old 08-31-20, 08:55 AM
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
Rained out this morning, on the last day of the month.


....so it's a good thing that I hit my 1,000 mile goal for the month yesterday (1053mi total).
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Old 08-31-20, 09:10 AM
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
105. I didn’t know trim was a thing when I got the bike. And it was rubbing bad. So I attacked it with park tool videos and did my best to fix it. It wasn’t until whyfi mentioned the trim that I realized I was a dumb ass. It probably came from CC dialed in and I messed it up.
I had to tell AG about trimming the front, yesterday. She’s been riding for over a decade and raced Kona three times. I was gobsmacked.
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Old 08-31-20, 09:21 AM
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
goal for the month
Same.


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Old 08-31-20, 09:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
There's a lot of stress going around, and that can make it hard to be motivated to do anything past the bare minimum.
That sounds like a good excuse for me, and I'm sticking with it.
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Old 08-31-20, 09:35 AM
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
Rained out this morning, on the last day of the month.


....so it's a good thing that I hit my 1,000 mile goal for the month yesterday (1053mi total).
I only hit 866 as of this morning... but that’s still a monthly record for me. And 2500 for the year, which also handily beats past year with plenty to go.
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Old 08-31-20, 09:41 AM
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Originally Posted by phrantic09
I had a prediction, just needed to wait for the final number. Was 2k less than I thought, so that’s good.

sitting in a conference room now waiting for all of the attorneys to stop wasting my time

We were only there for about 40 mins when we find started closing.. Maybe even less. I didn’t count the time that I had to go back.
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
Average depth of 21 feet. Does that help?
Really, is that all? I haven't studied the situation but that shallow depth tells me the bay is more an extension of all the rivers and streams than it is an incursion of the ocean.
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
I only hit 866 as of this morning... but that’s still a monthly record for me. And 2500 for the year, which also handily beats past year with plenty to go.
I'm tapering for the last TT of the season on Thurs. Then I'll goof around until the 12th, take two weeks off to go cruising, and come back in off-season mode. I just wish I felt better about going into a gym to do some real squats, etc.
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Originally Posted by BillyD
Really, is that all? I haven't studied the situation but that shallow depth tells me the bay is more an extension of all the rivers and streams than it is an incursion of the ocean.
It's an interesting story. First an asteroid hits, forming the basin of the lower Bay. That diverts a bunch of rivers in its direction. Then the Susquehanna erodes a canyon toward it and rising sea levels at the end of the last Ice Age cause the whole thing to flood.

The old river course is now a little over 100' in spots.
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
It's an interesting story. First an asteroid hits, forming the basin of the lower Bay. That diverts a bunch of rivers in its direction. Then the Susquehanna erodes a canyon toward it and rising sea levels at the end of the last Ice Age cause the whole thing to flood.

The old river course is now a little over 100' in spots.
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
I had to tell AG about trimming the front, yesterday. She’s been riding for over a decade and raced Kona three times. I was gobsmacked.
There are plenty of "serious" cyclists who are clueless about trim. I suppose if the FUTURE is electronic shifting it does auto-trim so being able to trim a FD will go on the trash heap of skills along with driving a stick shift and adjusting the vertical/horizontal hold on a television.

I was REALLY good at adjusting the tv controls when I was a kid. A lost art.
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Hey datlas - I'm making some home made bread for dinner. It's just naan, but baby steps.
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Originally Posted by datlas
There are plenty of "serious" cyclists who are clueless about trim. I suppose if the FUTURE is electronic shifting it does auto-trim so being able to trim a FD will go on the trash heap of skills along with driving a stick shift and adjusting the vertical/horizontal hold on a television.

I was REALLY good at adjusting the tv controls when I was a kid. A lost art.
We grew up poor and rural enough I actually learned how to too. I also learned how to adjust the controls on the backs of the final CRT monitors, which judging by everything I saw no one else did. Now I'm not even sure where I'd get a CRT.
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Old 08-31-20, 11:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
We grew up poor and rural enough I actually learned how to too. I also learned how to adjust the controls on the backs of the final CRT monitors, which judging by everything I saw no one else did. Now I'm not even sure where I'd get a CRT.
There is a pocket of enthusiasts that swear that gaming on a CRT is way, way better than on current monitors. I'd be kind of curious to try it out, but the prices have been driven up on the desirable widescreens and desk space would be problematic - they're so damn deep.
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