big john

I worked with a guy who slathered that crap all over everything he touched. Whenever I worked on a car he had before me, I had silver hands and tools.

big john

It was supposed to start raining around 10:00 this morning but we rode until noon and not a drop fell. We saw our now retired LBS guy, well, LBS guy for three of us, as he was running on the bike path. I haven't seen him in 3 years, since he sold out his store. I was a customer of his for 30+ years but I only rode bikes with him a few times. He was an ultra runner for years and never really rode that much, anyway.

Anyway I was very happy to see him and he promised we would all ride together soon. We'll see.

seedsbelize2

30 hours after going off my meds I'm beginning to feel alive. That was quite the short-lived cold. I must be doing something right.

Trsnrtr

That ship has sailed.

Mojo31

There is always a way to salvage a sunken ship.

bampilot06

Aluminum wheels are all set up.

Went to Richmond today to spend one last day with the wife before the new offspring arrives. I let her do some shopping and then she surprised me at a bike shop. Asked me what I wanted. I said aero bars for The Ritchey and the C2. Shop had both.

The cervelo carbon bars have a little flare, but it’s nothing too extreme and the price was right.

Eric F 

Nice!

I've come to appreciate the flare on my gravel bike bars (not weirdly extreme like some). On a road bike, I could see how narrow hoods would be nice for aero rolling, and wider drops would be good for handling on descents and sprinting. The carbon bars on my gravel are pretty compliant, which is nice for gravel, but way softer than I would want for a road bar. 38 on the tops and 44 in the drops would be perfect for me on the road. I like it wider than that for gravel, however.

bampilot06

I think mine is less than that.

I honestly didn’t even notice the flare initially. Says they are 42, but i think it’s 40 up top 42 on the bottom.

LesterOfPuppets

PI is blowing out their super bright Pro road V5s in small sizes for only $75, unfortunately they're for 3-hole cleats only

Mojo31

U-Haul sucks donkey nuts.

My son needs to move to Dallas by Saturday. Weeks ago I reserved a truck with U-Haul and hired an unloading crew through it, and paid for the crew in advance. Scheduled the truck to pick it up tomorrow in College Station. The crew is on tap for Thursday. Today I got a call to tell me that the truck will be available 50 miles south of College Station and not in CS. That adds almost three hours to the trip. SMFH.

Now trying to find a different truck, even if I have to drive it to CS. It’s as bad as the Southwest Airline f’up.

WhyFi

U-Haul does suck. I used them for my first few moves because they're the default and all that I knew at the time. When U-Haul fell through for me once in Brooklyn, I scrambled to find an alternative. I ended up with Penske and, holy crapinoly - so, so much better. Haven't touched U-Haul since.

thin_concrete

Speaking of Southwest, my cousins were in Tampa (where I was supposed to be) and Southwest can’t get them back to Baltimore for the foreseeable future. They are taking an Amtrak 21+ hours back Thursday at $1.6K each!

No one told Southwest the world has moved on from DOS? Do they still use dot matrix printers and print to green bar? I’ve avoided them like the plague and am glad I have.

Mojo31

Have used both in the past for college moves. This is the first time I’ve had this happen.

I have a Penske truck reserved in CS that they say is guaranteed. But, my wife and son went to the pickup spot to confirm that they will have the truck in the morning, but there is only one in the lot that has been assigned to another customer. They said they are hoping that three that are scheduled to be dropped off today will be returned. The last thing I want to do is drive down only to find no truck.

And, the Penske rental is a smaller truck, and the price is more than double the U-Haul reserved price. Don’t like it, but will pay it to get this done.

Mojo31

I’ve avoided SW for as long as I can remember, and will pay more to fly AA (which has its issues as well).

big john

I had a similar experience with them. Went to get the truck I had reserved well in advance and they said they didn't have one. Crew was waiting at the house. After a lot of waiting they found one someplace and we got a very late start.

thin_concrete

JetBlue had always been great to fly on for me, but their quality of service is inverse to their growth. They’re no better than any other airline now and I can’t imagine what their purchase of Frontier or Spirit is going to do to them. I’m going back to flying Delta or AA.

seedsbelize2

I have never found a better price on Southwest. International only. Maybe they do have lower prices domestically

DougRNS

Reminds me of this


#ThatsAShame

Mojo31

Out of DFW, AA and SW are priced virtually identical for economy seats

bampilot06

All the airlines use DOS. Apparently switching it to modern would cost more and cause more issues.

bampilot06

Does not.

Mojo31

SW’s problem in all this is it’s point-to-point system. When one flight fails, the rest domino more quickly as compared to a hub system.

Mojo31

LOL.

You don’t pay to fly much, do you?

bampilot06

I don’t think I ever have come to think of it.

Mojo31

Only when they run their special fare sales.