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07-16-21, 08:31 AM
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07-16-21, 08:35 AM
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You mean goggle it.
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07-16-21, 08:37 AM
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I just spent $7 in shipping for a $2 part-- the 31.8mm spacer for my Barfly computer mount. I've been using a piece of innertube and it works absolutely fine but my new bike came in and I just can't have something so inelegant on such a pristine machine even though literally no one will ever see it or notice it or say anything about it.
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07-16-21, 08:42 AM
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I just spent $7 in shipping for a $2 part-- the 31.8mm spacer for my Barfly computer mount. I've been using a piece of innertube and it works absolutely fine but my new bike came in and I just can't have something so inelegant on such a pristine machine even though literally no one will ever see it or notice it or say anything about it.
07-16-21, 08:43 AM
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I'm definitely strong enough to hold on to wheels at that speed under steady effort, but this is on metro area streets and I expect that there would be plenty of slow-downs and surges.
Not familiar with the course (it recently changed), but the old course had no real climbing but it did have some kickers that could leave me gapped if I didn't plan accordingly.
Not familiar with the course (it recently changed), but the old course had no real climbing but it did have some kickers that could leave me gapped if I didn't plan accordingly.
07-16-21, 08:44 AM
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I just spent $7 in shipping for a $2 part-- the 31.8mm spacer for my Barfly computer mount. I've been using a piece of innertube and it works absolutely fine but my new bike came in and I just can't have something so inelegant on such a pristine machine even though literally no one will ever see it or notice it or say anything about it.
07-16-21, 08:49 AM
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Back when my Dad was 91, we were visiting. It was summer in PA, one of those 90 degree days with high humidity where simply walking to the car leaves you bathed in sweat. We were all in the house, hanging out as close to an air conditioner as we could. I had a question for Dad, so I looked for him all over the house, but couldn't find him. I walked out the the garden - which you can't see from the house - and there he was, in 90 degree heat, on his hands and knees, weeding the garden by hand.
He was one tough old bird, my Dad.
He was one tough old bird, my Dad.
In his late 90s he ultimately had to go into assisted living and he went downhill shortly after that and passed. We all think that once he couldn't work on the farm any more he just kind of was done with life.
Grandma went shortly after. Same thing, really.
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07-16-21, 08:49 AM
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07-16-21, 08:58 AM
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07-16-21, 09:07 AM
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The other day, on an early morning ride, I had a flyby with a pretty fast guy that occasionally rides with my group. Afterwards, he reached out and invited me out to a fast kids ride that happens weekly at the crack o' dawn. I looked at his ride and saw that they averaged 24+ on the course. I've been curious about this ride, and I'll probably take him up on it some time this summer (there is a bit of a conflict as it takes place the morning after my regular group ride night), but jeezuz do I anticipate some pain before being spit out the back.
There's a whole big long article on DCRainmaker about it but basically someone on Twitter complained about it being a security and privacy risk, it went viral, and so Strava nuked it and made it an opt-in feature without telling anyone. (I think the security and privacy concerns are valid but there were other solutions and also the thing the guy was complaining about wasn't even a Flyby feature, it was a privacy settings feature.)
Oh well when something is free you're the product and all that. I still use it to log my miles but the social aspect, which I was never that invested in, has definitely lost its shine.
07-16-21, 09:10 AM
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OK this is going to bug me because there's a song that uses "high toned" in the lyrics and I'm sure it's semi-famous but I can't for the life of me remember. Probably some country song complaining about city folk.
07-16-21, 09:12 AM
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That is not the correct answer.
Then I would only be down to one bike, which is absurd, and when I got another bike I would only be at 2 bikes.
Creaky BB is a problem with the BB not the bike right? Really sad if my china wheels lived longer than my cervelo frame, just saying.
Then I would only be down to one bike, which is absurd, and when I got another bike I would only be at 2 bikes.
Creaky BB is a problem with the BB not the bike right? Really sad if my china wheels lived longer than my cervelo frame, just saying.
07-16-21, 09:13 AM
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I'm still salty about how Strava nerfed the flyby feature. It was fun looking at how my ride intersected with other people and I've made a few acquaintances and riding buddies with it. It was especially fun on long gravel races -- nothing like comparing how my ride stacks up with Ted King (hint, it doesn't.)
There's a whole big long article on DCRainmaker about it but basically someone on Twitter complained about it being a security and privacy risk, it went viral, and so Strava nuked it and made it an opt-in feature without telling anyone. (I think the security and privacy concerns are valid but there were other solutions and also the thing the guy was complaining about wasn't even a Flyby feature, it was a privacy settings feature.)
Oh well when something is free you're the product and all that. I still use it to log my miles but the social aspect, which I was never that invested in, has definitely lost its shine.
There's a whole big long article on DCRainmaker about it but basically someone on Twitter complained about it being a security and privacy risk, it went viral, and so Strava nuked it and made it an opt-in feature without telling anyone. (I think the security and privacy concerns are valid but there were other solutions and also the thing the guy was complaining about wasn't even a Flyby feature, it was a privacy settings feature.)
Oh well when something is free you're the product and all that. I still use it to log my miles but the social aspect, which I was never that invested in, has definitely lost its shine.
07-16-21, 09:15 AM
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I'm still salty about how Strava nerfed the flyby feature. It was fun looking at how my ride intersected with other people and I've made a few acquaintances and riding buddies with it. It was especially fun on long gravel races -- nothing like comparing how my ride stacks up with Ted King (hint, it doesn't.)
There's a whole big long article on DCRainmaker about it but basically someone on Twitter complained about it being a security and privacy risk, it went viral, and so Strava nuked it and made it an opt-in feature without telling anyone. (I think the security and privacy concerns are valid but there were other solutions and also the thing the guy was complaining about wasn't even a Flyby feature, it was a privacy settings feature.)
Oh well when something is free you're the product and all that. I still use it to log my miles but the social aspect, which I was never that invested in, has definitely lost its shine.
There's a whole big long article on DCRainmaker about it but basically someone on Twitter complained about it being a security and privacy risk, it went viral, and so Strava nuked it and made it an opt-in feature without telling anyone. (I think the security and privacy concerns are valid but there were other solutions and also the thing the guy was complaining about wasn't even a Flyby feature, it was a privacy settings feature.)
Oh well when something is free you're the product and all that. I still use it to log my miles but the social aspect, which I was never that invested in, has definitely lost its shine.
07-16-21, 09:17 AM
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https://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...ad-waves-sways
07-16-21, 09:42 AM
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In light of the winter storm aftermath, and other things that can’t be discussed here, currently seems more likely than not that we’ll be leaving the nation of Texas next year. Raleigh and Saratoga Springs are the current front-runners.
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07-16-21, 09:44 AM
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Dolly Parton - A Lil' Ole Bitty Pissant Country Place
Barry Manilow - Never Met a Man I Didn't Like
Various artists - My Baby Just Cares for Me
Pick one
07-16-21, 09:45 AM
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I'm still salty about how Strava nerfed the flyby feature. It was fun looking at how my ride intersected with other people and I've made a few acquaintances and riding buddies with it. It was especially fun on long gravel races -- nothing like comparing how my ride stacks up with Ted King (hint, it doesn't.)
There's a whole big long article on DCRainmaker about it but basically someone on Twitter complained about it being a security and privacy risk, it went viral, and so Strava nuked it and made it an opt-in feature without telling anyone. (I think the security and privacy concerns are valid but there were other solutions and also the thing the guy was complaining about wasn't even a Flyby feature, it was a privacy settings feature.)
Oh well when something is free you're the product and all that. I still use it to log my miles but the social aspect, which I was never that invested in, has definitely lost its shine.
There's a whole big long article on DCRainmaker about it but basically someone on Twitter complained about it being a security and privacy risk, it went viral, and so Strava nuked it and made it an opt-in feature without telling anyone. (I think the security and privacy concerns are valid but there were other solutions and also the thing the guy was complaining about wasn't even a Flyby feature, it was a privacy settings feature.)
Oh well when something is free you're the product and all that. I still use it to log my miles but the social aspect, which I was never that invested in, has definitely lost its shine.
07-16-21, 09:46 AM
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Not sure the Carolinas would be much different though on that topic.
07-16-21, 09:47 AM
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07-16-21, 09:47 AM
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07-16-21, 09:49 AM
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Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
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We have irrigation - can't have a lawn without it here! - but running it during Extreme Drought doesn't seem very responsible.
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07-16-21, 09:52 AM
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There are often watering restrictions in place during summer months in this area, although the perimeter of your house is exempted.
07-16-21, 09:53 AM
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than the other.
07-16-21, 09:54 AM
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Georgia bridges are garbage. Arkansas bridges are garbage.
Velo Vol is trapped.
https://www.11alive.com/video/news/l...16?jwsource=cl
Velo Vol is trapped.
https://www.11alive.com/video/news/l...16?jwsource=cl
