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#2451
smelling the roses
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Location: Tixkokob, Yucatán, México
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I performed my furst dollar bill tire boot this morning. It needs to hold for a few blocks across town, or I walk again. I will hang at my daughter's home awaiting the Amazon delivery.
#2452
cowboy, steel horse, etc
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The lawns are too soggy to mow this morning, this is supposed to be a Portland Problem, not a Phoenix problem!!!
Upside: they have greened up quite nicely with the near constant rain the last couple days
Upside: they have greened up quite nicely with the near constant rain the last couple days
#2453
cowboy, steel horse, etc
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#2454
VFL For Life
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i've been putting it off 'til i was required to interact with people for work. And even though i don't have to yet, i have a feeling that time is right around the corner...
maybe in a couple weeks i'll go see a baseball game. I'll have to bring the binoculars and sit in the worst seats so there's no one within a safe radius though, it being a mostly indoor stadium. Or i guess i could buy a block of 9 good seats to keep a distance, if i hit the lottery
maybe in a couple weeks i'll go see a baseball game. I'll have to bring the binoculars and sit in the worst seats so there's no one within a safe radius though, it being a mostly indoor stadium. Or i guess i could buy a block of 9 good seats to keep a distance, if i hit the lottery
#2455
cowboy, steel horse, etc
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Are you telling me you wouldn't buy 9 Diamondbacks tickets for yourself behind home plate if you hit Powerball? C'mon, live a little, D-Backs tickets are probably about the same price as Tennessee Smokies tix unless the Dodgers are in town!
I guess if you can get a front row seat, you only need 6 seats to keep a nice buffer!
I guess if you can get a front row seat, you only need 6 seats to keep a nice buffer!
#2456
Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
Join Date: May 2007
Location: SF Bay Area
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I bet the Romulans were pissed.
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"Everybody's gotta be somewhere." - Eccles
#2457
Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
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Maybe you'll reach 100 'Real Feel' for both temperature and age.
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#2459
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I used to wake up on days after long rides feeling like I'd been taken apart by a brilliant surgeon and put back together by a shade tree mechanic. Since I lost the 30# and have been riding so much, I've found that the days when I feel like that are fewer and farther between. It's been a slow process, almost too slow to notice, but real.
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#2460
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Location: Hudson Valley, NY
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There was the one exception at my nephew's graduation ceremony. We sat through a downpour for almost the whole ceremony yet by the time we got down on the field to congratulate the graduates our clothing was bone dry. It was the strangest thing I had ever seen, it was almost as if the rain really wasn't wet.
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#2461
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#2462
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I used to wake up on days after long rides feeling like I'd been taken apart by a brilliant surgeon and put back together by a shade tree mechanic. Since I lost the 30# and have been riding so much, I've found that the days when I feel like that are fewer and farther between. It's been a slow process, almost too slow to notice, but real.
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#2463
Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
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I've been feeling bad recently about driving the 8 miles back and forth to Canada Road to ride on weekday afternoons - ever since the Heat Event in the PNW. So I've been Zwifting instead, even though it's summer and good riding weather. I don't really feel safe riding from home in the late afternoon - or more to the point, I would not feel safe riding home in the late afternoon, since that's when commuters are coming home. I'm thinking maybe until I go back to 'work at work' I will try taking an early afternoon break, once I'm all done with potential Zoom meetings with folks on the East Coast.
First world problems, I know.
Anyway, last night instead of tossing the Schwinn in the Dodge and going for a ride IRL, I decided to toss the Ritchey on the Snap and ride in the garage. There was a Circuit Race on the Champs-Elysees, so I signed up for that. Started with 17 riders, but 4 of us went off the front early and stayed there. Every time I tried to take a pull one of the other three would go ahead of me, so I figured, 'Fine! I'll just wheelsuck and we'll see what happens in the final sprint!" And sure enough, I pipped the leader at the line by 0.12 seconds and won the race! So I'm still kicking ass in the D's, and haven't yet been 'coned' for being too powerful for my category. "Yeah, that's me. King of the Dips***s."
First world problems, I know.
Anyway, last night instead of tossing the Schwinn in the Dodge and going for a ride IRL, I decided to toss the Ritchey on the Snap and ride in the garage. There was a Circuit Race on the Champs-Elysees, so I signed up for that. Started with 17 riders, but 4 of us went off the front early and stayed there. Every time I tried to take a pull one of the other three would go ahead of me, so I figured, 'Fine! I'll just wheelsuck and we'll see what happens in the final sprint!" And sure enough, I pipped the leader at the line by 0.12 seconds and won the race! So I'm still kicking ass in the D's, and haven't yet been 'coned' for being too powerful for my category. "Yeah, that's me. King of the Dips***s."
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#2464
serious cyclist
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Austin
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#2465
serious cyclist
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Next week will be a recovery week. Is anyone going to take the top step of the podium?
#2466
cowboy, steel horse, etc
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#2467
Super Modest
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Central Illinois
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#2468
Super Modest
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I felt great today, no problem. However, we had a guy who has had open heart surgery kept dropping 20 miles from home. I hated to pull him in since I felt so good but the humidity was killing him and I couldn’t have lived with myself if he keeled over in the middle of the corn fields.
#BalancingTheScales
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#2469
smelling the roses
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The boot held, and the rear gatorskin is mounted. 25mm is the widest I could get. It replaces a 27mm. It'll do. It gets me back on the road. I don't suppose there's any reason to hang onto this new tire with a blown sidewall. Never in my cycling career did I have a sidewall blowout til I fell for the gp4sll scam. A sidewall blowout within 100 miles. And now the same parameters for this sidewall blowout. Perhaps I can make a pair of the leftovers
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#2471
VFL For Life
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Location: Knoxville, TN
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Not sure why you are waiting to vaccinate.
Or why you think you can isolate in the middle of a metro area for months and months.
And why it is baseball, of all things, that may finally persuade you to re-join society.
Facepalms all around
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#2472
VFL For Life
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#2473
serious cyclist
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I am probably the most isolated of this group and I still wanted my shot ASAFP. And I don't even mind isolating; it's hardly a change for me.