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07-01-22, 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted by phrantic09
Pretty pricey too. 8 grand for 105?!
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07-01-22, 09:28 AM
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Originally Posted by phrantic09
Pretty pricey too. 8 grand for 105?!
You are paying 8 grand for the R in SLR, not for the 105.
Price will come back down eventually.
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There will be a Madone SL with 105 Di2 some day. Prolly just like Bams, but with different drive trains. Prolly less than Bam paid, too.
07-01-22, 11:12 AM
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Originally Posted by big john
This will be our 6th Fourth of July at this house. In the past there have been fireworks for weeks before and after the holiday. An absurd amount of fireworks. This year has been mostly quiet. A few loud explosions, sure, but the nightly house rattling, car alarm triggering barrage has been absent. My neighbor mentioned this lack of "world war three" as he put it and the only thing we could think of is it must be money. People are not buying the rockets or not driving to wherever they have to go to get them.
For years the city has had a hot line and supposedly enforcement but it never mattered.
I suppose it's possible they are hoarding their munitions for a hellish weekend ahead. We shall see.
For years the city has had a hot line and supposedly enforcement but it never mattered.
I suppose it's possible they are hoarding their munitions for a hellish weekend ahead. We shall see.
Enforcement of illegal fireworks activity is pretty ineffective. By the time cops show up in response to a report, people are long gone.
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
You are paying 8 grand for the R in SLR, not for the 105.
Price will come back down eventually.
Price will come back down eventually.
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Originally Posted by big john
What does the R mean? Is it a different frame?
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07-01-22, 11:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Mojo31
We had a cold front come through this week. Temp is down to 98 right now. Will ride about 7:00 as it should cool off to about 96 by then.
07-01-22, 11:43 AM
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Somehow my browser logged me out of BF. I got a glimpse of all the ads that non-paying members get. What a distraction!
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07-01-22, 11:48 AM
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Originally Posted by big john
What does the R mean? Is it a different frame?
07-01-22, 11:57 AM
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Originally Posted by ls01
Brrrr, put on a sweater...
07-01-22, 12:02 PM
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Originally Posted by datlas
Somehow my browser logged me out of BF. I got a glimpse of all the ads that non-paying members get. What a distraction!
It keeps me up at night.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
SLR are their best frames in a given model: best carbon/layup, often with features and/or geometry options not available in the SL.
Im really interested in what the new emonda will look like and how light it will be in the future.
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Opening lines describe the current weather conditions here.
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Originally Posted by big john
This will be our 6th Fourth of July at this house. In the past there have been fireworks for weeks before and after the holiday. An absurd amount of fireworks. This year has been mostly quiet.
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When I was a wee bairn, we had a railroad track within 500' of my bed room window and a train would wake me up every night. I found the sound comforting. Many of the railroads have disappeared in my area and I miss the rumbling sound. Don't miss the crossings, though.
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
You know...I didn't think about it until I read your post but the same is true here. Two years ago was probably the worst, with last year being better. I don't think I have heard anything at all while out on my back deck. During the height of the pandemic there seemed like constant fireworks weeks before the holiday and for a good while afterwards. People were even shooting off rockets before dark, which seemed stupid to me.
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
When I was a wee bairn, we had a railroad track within 500' of my bed room window and a train would wake me up every night. I found the sound comforting. Many of the railroads have disappeared in my area and I miss the rumbling sound. Don't miss the crossings, though.
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
Weight savings typically were not much. I think the new frame saves a lot of weight. Havnt gotten a chance to really do any research other than drool over the picture.
Im really interested in what the new emonda will look like and how light it will be in the future.
Im really interested in what the new emonda will look like and how light it will be in the future.
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
Weight savings typically were not much. I think the new frame saves a lot of weight. Havnt gotten a chance to really do any research other than drool over the picture.
Im really interested in what the new emonda will look like and how light it will be in the future.
Im really interested in what the new emonda will look like and how light it will be in the future.
Brought up the desire for a lighter bike again as it seemed the door might be a bit open. If there was a crack, it was quickly slammed shut in my face.
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Originally Posted by Mojo31
New frame and bars supposedly shed 300 grams. Gets it down to Emonda SL weight. Supposedly.
Brought up the desire for a lighter bike again as it seemed the door might be a bit open. If there was a crack, it was quickly slammed shut in my face.
Brought up the desire for a lighter bike again as it seemed the door might be a bit open. If there was a crack, it was quickly slammed shut in my face.
Go out and buy the damned thing!
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Originally Posted by big john
2 Saturdays ago a friend showed up on a new Canyon and she said it was under the UCI limit, like 14 pounds or so. I picked it up, it was feathery.
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
When I was a wee bairn, we had a railroad track within 500' of my bed room window and a train would wake me up every night. I found the sound comforting. Many of the railroads have disappeared in my area and I miss the rumbling sound. Don't miss the crossings, though.
Not sure if I ever posted this video in this thread. I shot it when I heard a train approaching Rockwood, PA, which has a few crossings in town. I was camping across the river along the GAP trail during the second day of a cross-PA tour. Turn up the volume to simulate the effect. Turned out to be Amtrak's Capitol Limited from D.C. to Chicago, but there are a lot of freights that use that line.
I shot this one from my campsite after the first day of my 2019 tour in MT and ID.
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize2
And you, my friend, have fallen unde the spell of our domestic overlords. *****whipped mayhap?
Go out and buy the damned thing!
Go out and buy the damned thing!
I get away with spending a lot on stuff I want, but I know when my physical and emotional happiness is at risk.
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
Maybe a decade or so ago the federal government preempted the field of train horns at crossing because local government were creating a patchwork of rules that were not practical to follow. For example, a township might ban the use during certain hours, but a rail line could pass through that township, leave it then reenter it again a mere mile or two away. Way too confusing to comply with the patchwork. (Pennsylvania to a similar preemption approach to the use of phones while driving after more and more local governmental bodies started adopting their own rules.) Now, trains are required to sound their horns at public crossings unless what is known as a Quiet Zone has been established. I won't bore you with what it takes to establish one, but I will say that it is usually an expensive undertaking involving a traffic study and physical improvements to the crossing. And the municipality requesting the QZ has to pay for it all. I worked on a couple many years ago that required hundreds of thousands of dollars in improvements and payments for future maintenance for the railroad-related improvements. Things like signs and concrete median to dissuade people from driving around the gates were not included in the amounts. That is why you usually find them in well-off areas.
Not sure if I ever posted this video in this thread. I shot it when I heard a train approaching Rockwood, PA, which has a few crossings in town. I was camping across the river along the GAP trail during the second day of a cross-PA tour. Turn up the volume to simulate the effect. Turned out to be Amtrak's Capitol Limited from D.C. to Chicago, but there are a lot of freights that use that line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eBa1j8F0dk
I shot this one from my campsite after the first day of my 2019 tour in MT and ID.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH-E1yO7lw4
Not sure if I ever posted this video in this thread. I shot it when I heard a train approaching Rockwood, PA, which has a few crossings in town. I was camping across the river along the GAP trail during the second day of a cross-PA tour. Turn up the volume to simulate the effect. Turned out to be Amtrak's Capitol Limited from D.C. to Chicago, but there are a lot of freights that use that line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eBa1j8F0dk
I shot this one from my campsite after the first day of my 2019 tour in MT and ID.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH-E1yO7lw4
My first exposure to the wonderful world of railroad law: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-5th-circuit/1592763.html. I represented Maalt, LP.
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Originally Posted by Mojo31
God bless ICCTA, right?
My first exposure to the wonderful world of railroad law: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-5th-circuit/1592763.html. I represented Maalt, LP.
My first exposure to the wonderful world of railroad law: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-5th-circuit/1592763.html. I represented Maalt, LP.
