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#2276
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fun question of the day. Meant to ask this earlier. When climbing a hill, does one pick the gear they wish to tackle the said hill before starting so they don’t change gears while climbing, or use the gears that you have as needed? Today I shifted up, was doing 24 mph when starting the hill with a cadence of 115 half way through the hill speed dropped to 19 mph, cadence hit 89 so I down shifted but it was under load which doesn’t feel healthy for my bike.... as I am typing this I feel that I am over thinking this.
#2277
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fun question of the day. Meant to ask this earlier. When climbing a hill, does one pick the gear they wish to tackle the said hill before starting so they don’t change gears while climbing, or use the gears that you have as needed? Today I shifted up, was doing 24 mph when starting the hill with a cadence of 115 half way through the hill speed dropped to 19 mph, cadence hit 89 so I down shifted but it was under load which doesn’t feel healthy for my bike.... as I am typing this I feel that I am over thinking this.
#2278
VFL For Life
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That's another thing. I'm not at all sold on the doctor I'm seeing. But it's a lot easier to find an infusion center than it is to find another rheumatologist.
#2279
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#2280
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cool thanks for the feedback, I was more worried about breaking something than anything. And I tend to over think things really bad.
#2281
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fun question of the day. Meant to ask this earlier. When climbing a hill, does one pick the gear they wish to tackle the said hill before starting so they don’t change gears while climbing, or use the gears that you have as needed? Today I shifted up, was doing 24 mph when starting the hill with a cadence of 115 half way through the hill speed dropped to 19 mph, cadence hit 89 so I down shifted but it was under load which doesn’t feel healthy for my bike.... as I am typing this I feel that I am over thinking this.
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#2282
Silver Comet Fred
lazy generalizations have been around since there have been lazy people. Lazy people have been around since...forever. Lazy generalizations are still bad. All bears are lazy. See, even I make lazy generalizations. I do agree it is amplified now.
Maybe I should stay in my lane and talk about awesome things.
Maybe I should stay in my lane and talk about awesome things.
#2283
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#2284
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Nobody cares about the pre-Boomer generations anymore.
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#2288
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fun question of the day. Meant to ask this earlier. When climbing a hill, does one pick the gear they wish to tackle the said hill before starting so they don’t change gears while climbing, or use the gears that you have as needed? Today I shifted up, was doing 24 mph when starting the hill with a cadence of 115 half way through the hill speed dropped to 19 mph, cadence hit 89 so I down shifted but it was under load which doesn’t feel healthy for my bike.... as I am typing this I feel that I am over thinking this.
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#2291
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#2292
Silver Comet Fred
you're the demographer, before the boomers it was what - the greatest generation? Not a lot of those folks left on the earlier part. Not many at all before the greatest generation who were the turn of the century folks.
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#2295
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lazy generalizations have been around since there have been lazy people. Lazy people have been around since...forever. Lazy generalizations are still bad. All bears are lazy. See, even I make lazy generalizations. I do agree it is amplified now.
Maybe I should stay in my lane and talk about awesome things.
Maybe I should stay in my lane and talk about awesome things.
#2296
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It gets used places. I do find it funny ("funny") that after years of disparaging comments about millennials, one mildly sarcastic comment about boomers becomes literal fodder for the supreme court.
#2297
Silver Comet Fred
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