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Old 05-02-21, 05:12 PM
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
Meatloaf is too fat for this sport.
Yes, but who among us isn't?
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
There is a qualitative difference between posting on a forum of extremely narrow membership and posting a video on Twiktok trying to pick the exact right hashtags for your dancing to go viral. Equating the two is more than a little reductivist.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
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Originally Posted by genejockey
I can understand why some C&V folks develop the "Everything after single pivot brakes and 5 speed freewheels is unnecessary!", because on my ride today, I was marveling at just how well the Cannondale works with 1994 technology. The brakes work great, the shifter clicks and I'm in the next gear, the bike handles well, etc. But does this mean I'd give up the disk brakes, STIs, CF frame, and 11-34 11 speed cassette from the Canyon? **** NO!!
We had brifters in 1994.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
February 2020 or 2021?
That's what I was wondering.

Better be 2021. Sealant wouldn't even dream of lasting a year in Phoenix.
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
The numbers went away a while ago, but until recently-ish the more famous ones were kept around in the names of the forums. Road Cycling is the 41, yes, and Racing is the 33. They've done away with even that, though, so it's a beautiful mystery for anyone newer than that.
Mountain Biking was 26.
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Originally Posted by genejockey
Yes, but who among us isn't?
Me, possibly.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Mountain Biking was 26.
Because 26 inch wheels??
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Originally Posted by rjones28
You say that like it's a bad thing.
That was very much not my intent.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
Before I got my first PC, I had a Smith-Corona portable electric typewriter like this one.

I'll quasi-date myself and say when I first went to college I had a Smith-Corona I used for papers. But it was a smart typewriter with memory and a little screen. So you could enter/edit short papers before printing them out.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
I'll quasi-date myself and say when I first went to college I had a Smith-Corona I used for papers. But it was a smart typewriter with memory and a little screen. So you could enter/edit short papers before printing them out.
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Rainy afternoon activity: decided on gearing for the next Schwinn build. Back to the original chain rings.

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Originally Posted by DougRNS
I understand your point on a) but it's really anti-social media since I'm hiding behind an alias and am unknown. I'm interacting but not very social.
Unless you're a < 35-year-old female, no one cares about your whereabouts on such things.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
I'll quasi-date myself and say when I first went to college I had a Smith-Corona I used for papers. But it was a smart typewriter with memory and a little screen. So you could enter/edit short papers before printing them out.
I think that was called a word processor. It was a half step away from a PC.
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Originally Posted by DougRNS
I think that was called a word processor. It was a half step away from a PC.
Hard to believe now, but I entered college not having taken any computer classes, or even with a working knowledge of how to use them.
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Originally Posted by Mojo31
Newb Q: what is the 41?
Correct.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
We had brifters in 1994.
They were available, but the Cannondale did not come equipped with them. When I rebuilt it, I chose not to use them. That, and buying STIs that old is a crap shoot.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
rainy afternoon activity: Decided on gearing for the next schwinn build. Back to the original chain rings.

52/40 or die!
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Hard to believe now, but I entered college not having taken any computer classes, or even with a working knowledge of how to use them.
We had a computer lab in high school.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
We had a computer lab in high school.
Well, a computer at the back of one of the math classrooms.
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Originally Posted by genejockey
52/40 or die!
No pins or ramps. Perfect for friction shifters.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Hard to believe now, but I entered college not having taken any computer classes, or even with a working knowledge of how to use them.
I graduated not having taken any computer classes, or even a working knowledge of how to use them.

They were pretty new in Mol Bio. when I started out, but quickly became essential. A few months before I started at Genentech, the guy I worked for was doing sequence alignments by pulling strips of paper with the sequenced on past each other, looking for a match. By the time I started, some smart guy in what would later be called IT had developed a program to do it in seconds.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
February 2020 or 2021?
I checked my journal and it was actually early December 2020 so it has been 5 months or so since I checked and a lot of cold weather if that makes a difference.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
We had a computer lab in high school.
We had one Commodore PET in the G&T classroom in middle school. Our highschool had a lab with a couple dozen Apple II.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
We had one Commodore PET in the G&T classroom in middle school. Our highschool had a lab with a couple dozen Apple II.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
We had a computer lab in high school.
My memory is that there was a room with computers, and some kind of class offered (not sure if it was a proper computer class or some kind of "keyboarding"). At any rate, it wasn't a required course and for whatever reason I didn't take it.
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