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It's far away, but we are plotting a trip to LA for mid-August to deposit daughter #2 at USC. We plan to spend at least a week in the LA area so I will have to find somewhere to rent a serious road bike and do a few epic rides. I am guessing Mt Baldy must be on the list, yes?
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It's far away, but we are plotting a trip to LA for mid-August to deposit daughter #2 at USC. We plan to spend at least a week in the LA area so I will have to find somewhere to rent a serious road bike and do a few epic rides. I am guessing Mt Baldy must be on the list, yes?
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We did Lower Big T - Angeles Forest - Angeles Crest. I don't love the traffic on the descent from Clear Creek to La Canada, especially on the weekends, but it wasn't too bad that day. However, everything came to a stop about halfway down where there was a motorcycle reduced to a pile of rubble on the side of the road. We learned that the rider had been helicoptered out just a few minutes before we got there. When things were cleared up, CHP sent the flock of bicycles down the road ahead of everyone else, so we got a clear run for the last half of the descent.
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I can. 1990. I had 2 Lite beers at my friends house in Hope, Arkansas after a 3000 mile bike ride. Those were the first drinks I had after I quit drinking in the late 80s. Not a drop since then.
Lite beer is yuck and so is Bud Light. I liked Bud and if I had a dollar for every one I drank I could buy some nice new bikes.
Lite beer is yuck and so is Bud Light. I liked Bud and if I had a dollar for every one I drank I could buy some nice new bikes.
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In the summer we sometimes drive up there and ride from Red Box or Clear Creek. One time on the way up there was a burned motorcycle in the road, still smoldering, and the cops and rescue were looking over the side for the rider but someone came by and told them he was picked up by someone in a car. It seemed odd that he would abandon his bike but when we got to Newcomb's Cafe on our ride, he was there. He had a full leather suit pulled down to his waist and he was pretty drunk by the time we got there.
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It's far away, but we are plotting a trip to LA for mid-August to deposit daughter #2 at USC. We plan to spend at least a week in the LA area so I will have to find somewhere to rent a serious road bike and do a few epic rides. I am guessing Mt Baldy must be on the list, yes?
I like the Santa Monica mountains a lot and there are a lot more roads than the Baldy area. You could spend weeks getting to know the roads there but at Baldy you can do most of them in a day. A lot of the pictures I post are from the Santa Monicas. The bad part is they top out at 4000 feet so they get pretty hot in summer, even on the beach side.
To get altitude we go to the San Gabriel mountains via Angeles Crest highway. Limited number of roads but lots of miles and you can spend a hot day above 5000 feet and go up to 8000.
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Giving up booze during the week turned out to be amazingly easy and also had the effect of reducing our desire for alcohol on the weekends. These days, one drink or glass of wine and I'm done. The exception being on the boat, at anchor after a long day of short-handing with the wife or at the dock after a race. The combination of massive thirst and physical and mental fatigue just removes all the stop signals.
Does your wife mentally fatigue you also when just the two of you are on board?
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Question for you bike mechanics.
Gott off work early, picked the bike up, and headed out. Fifty feet into the ride, tried to shift into the big ring, and no go. Couldn’t even move the outside lever over. It’s like the derailleur is locked in place. Two weeks ago it worked perfectly. The only thing I did with it since is swap the bars. There is no kink in the cable. Could removing the grifter from the old bar have done anything to it? All I did was loosen the bar clamp bolt and slide it off.
My efforts to figure this out have completely failed. The new 105/Ulgegra style front derailleur is driving me bat**** crazy.
Gott off work early, picked the bike up, and headed out. Fifty feet into the ride, tried to shift into the big ring, and no go. Couldn’t even move the outside lever over. It’s like the derailleur is locked in place. Two weeks ago it worked perfectly. The only thing I did with it since is swap the bars. There is no kink in the cable. Could removing the grifter from the old bar have done anything to it? All I did was loosen the bar clamp bolt and slide it off.
My efforts to figure this out have completely failed. The new 105/Ulgegra style front derailleur is driving me bat**** crazy.
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Question for you bike mechanics.
Gott off work early, picked the bike up, and headed out. Fifty feet into the ride, tried to shift into the big ring, and no go. Couldn’t even move the outside lever over. It’s like the derailleur is locked in place. Two weeks ago it worked perfectly. The only thing I did with it since is swap the bars. There is no kink in the cable. Could removing the grifter from the old bar have done anything to it? All I did was loosen the bar clamp bolt and slide it off.
My efforts to figure this out have completely failed. The new 105/Ulgegra style front derailleur is driving me bat**** crazy.
Gott off work early, picked the bike up, and headed out. Fifty feet into the ride, tried to shift into the big ring, and no go. Couldn’t even move the outside lever over. It’s like the derailleur is locked in place. Two weeks ago it worked perfectly. The only thing I did with it since is swap the bars. There is no kink in the cable. Could removing the grifter from the old bar have done anything to it? All I did was loosen the bar clamp bolt and slide it off.
My efforts to figure this out have completely failed. The new 105/Ulgegra style front derailleur is driving me bat**** crazy.
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Question for you bike mechanics.
Gott off work early, picked the bike up, and headed out. Fifty feet into the ride, tried to shift into the big ring, and no go. Couldn’t even move the outside lever over. It’s like the derailleur is locked in place. Two weeks ago it worked perfectly. The only thing I did with it since is swap the bars. There is no kink in the cable. Could removing the grifter from the old bar have done anything to it? All I did was loosen the bar clamp bolt and slide it off.
My efforts to figure this out have completely failed. The new 105/Ulgegra style front derailleur is driving me bat**** crazy.
Gott off work early, picked the bike up, and headed out. Fifty feet into the ride, tried to shift into the big ring, and no go. Couldn’t even move the outside lever over. It’s like the derailleur is locked in place. Two weeks ago it worked perfectly. The only thing I did with it since is swap the bars. There is no kink in the cable. Could removing the grifter from the old bar have done anything to it? All I did was loosen the bar clamp bolt and slide it off.
My efforts to figure this out have completely failed. The new 105/Ulgegra style front derailleur is driving me bat**** crazy.
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I'm W'ing FW today (actually at work), and my office overlooks the end of Guadalupe Canyon Road in Brisbane - ever seen "Bullitt"? Remember the end of the chase? The Charger running into the gas station that obligingly blows up? Yeah, right across the street. Anyhow, a lot of nice cars go by because driving Guadalupe Canyon is fun. I look out my window, and there, sitting at the stop light waiting to turn is a Mercedes Benz 300 SL Gullwing, from the mid 50s. I'd have paid real money for a pair of binoculars just then.
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Tried adjusting cable tension. No go.
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One of my favorite car stories is how Sam Posey, who went on to become a racer, convinced his parents to buy him a used one in, I think, the early 60s, when it was just a slightly-out-of-date used car. He still has it, and still drives it, and it's never been restored. Just kept up properly.
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One of my favorite car stories is how Sam Posey, who went on to become a racer, convinced his parents to buy him a used one in, I think, the early 60s, when it was just a slightly-out-of-date used car. He still has it, and still drives it, and it's never been restored. Just kept up properly.
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Well, I’m not sure if he is. The ones he read during the pre race shows were motor sports themed, and not particularly good to my low brow, but again I can only name 7 main colors and am a knuckle dragging mouth breather, so I’m not the best judge of artistic endeavors.
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