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10-18-21, 01:29 PM
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I've been looking at the free trial of Wahoo's Syst'm, what with it's 4DP test. I need to decide what the goal of my winter riding will be. Previous years, I just kinda stopped riding after October, made a few half-hearted efforts at riding on a dumb trainer, maybe a couple Sunday rides under 30 miles and then started rebuilding fitness after DST started again and I could ride after work. Last winter I rode through the whole time, and in fact since July of 2020 I have not fallen below 20 hours of riding/ month. But there's been no structure. So, do I WANT structure? And if so, to accomplish what, exactly? Previously, I never had to think beyond building my my fitness over the summer, losing it during the winter, building it up again next summer. And Now I'm facing the reality that you don't just keep getting faster and faster, that there will be some sort of periodicity to it.
Life was less complicated when I was lazier.
Life was less complicated when I was lazier.
10-18-21, 01:37 PM
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10-18-21, 01:38 PM
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Popped up on Facebook. From my 2017 hi-rail trip in NJ. Probably cannot see it, but there is a dainty fox on the outside of the right rail. It was so small it could run along the railhead. I got to drive for a while.
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10-18-21, 01:39 PM
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Maybe he's into wabi sabi.
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10-18-21, 01:41 PM
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They weren't afraid you'd take a wrong turn?
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10-18-21, 01:53 PM
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True story: In college I had a FWB (before that term existed) who thought locomotives had steering wheels. When I told her otherwise, she asked "But how does it stay on the tracks?" Bless her little heart.
BTW...There is a Velcro harness system that immobilizes the steering wheel so you cannot steer it off the tracks.
BTW...There is a Velcro harness system that immobilizes the steering wheel so you cannot steer it off the tracks.
10-18-21, 01:58 PM
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True story: In college I had a FWB (before that term existed) who thought locomotives had steering wheels. When I told her otherwise, she asked "But how does it stay on the tracks?" Bless her little heart.
BTW...There is a Velcro harness system that immobilizes the steering wheel so you cannot steer it off the tracks.
BTW...There is a Velcro harness system that immobilizes the steering wheel so you cannot steer it off the tracks.
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10-18-21, 02:08 PM
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I wonder if that, like so many safety devices, was added in response to discovering that somebody would do something nobody would have thought anyone would do. Like the sign on the dessicant pack in vitamins that says "Do Not Eat", or the one telling you not to stick your hand underneath a running lawnmower?
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10-18-21, 02:16 PM
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LesterOfPuppets So you wait and wait for that pic of that rare oldie train and...
https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/s...780295172?s=20
https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/s...780295172?s=20
10-18-21, 02:22 PM
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True story: My uncle was mowing tall wet grass and his mower kept clogging and dying. He was wearing ear protection and he thought the mower had died and lifted the deck and cut all 4 fingers off one hand.
The fingers were reattached but had to have a couple more surgeries to make them work properly. It was a success and you would never know it had happened.
Anyway, he grew up on a farm working around farm machinery and was an agg professor at a Big 10 university. However, like wood shop teachers that cut their fingers off, it only takes a slip of mind…
The fingers were reattached but had to have a couple more surgeries to make them work properly. It was a success and you would never know it had happened.
Anyway, he grew up on a farm working around farm machinery and was an agg professor at a Big 10 university. However, like wood shop teachers that cut their fingers off, it only takes a slip of mind…
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10-18-21, 02:27 PM
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Years ago, when The Older Boy was going through his "Obsessed with trains" phase (ages 2-6), it coincided with the completion of the restoration of SP 2472, a 1921 passenger locomotive. So it ran numerous excursions on the old SP tracks on the Peninsula. One time, we were there for the "Christmas Train", and as the train was pulling into the station, of course people were trying to get the best shots. I was videotaping. As I watched, some guy who'd set up on the other side of the tracks decided to move. He crossed the tracks no more than 2 seconds ahead of the engine barreling into the station. On the video, you could hear me say, "Jesus Christ!"
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10-18-21, 02:31 PM
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I've been trying to find shock mount bolts for my mtb. No luck and the dealer I got it from has changed hands and they weren't sure how to get them but I told them to hold off for now. I wrote an e-mail to the company (KHS) and a guy from there called me today to discuss things and told me he would send out some bolts, no charge.
Excellent service!
Excellent service!
10-18-21, 03:17 PM
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I wonder if that, like so many safety devices, was added in response to discovering that somebody would do something nobody would have thought anyone would do. Like the sign on the dessicant pack in vitamins that says "Do Not Eat", or the one telling you not to stick your hand underneath a running lawnmower?
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10-18-21, 04:04 PM
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Seems like a pretty old bike but you never know what they might have. I didn't expect to hear from them but the guy was on the phone with me twice to make sure he had things right.
10-18-21, 06:07 PM
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Finally someone noticed.
Because it's impossible to reverse directions and keep the dimples visible all the way around. TTKU
No. The camera angle makes it look worse than it is.
wut
First, I wish my ear protection worked that good.
Second, he chopped his fingers off, and you now can't tell, but they say they aren't able to fix my joint that won't straighten out all the way?
Because it's impossible to reverse directions and keep the dimples visible all the way around. TTKU
No. The camera angle makes it look worse than it is.
True story: My uncle was mowing tall wet grass and his mower kept clogging and dying. He was wearing ear protection and he thought the mower had died and lifted the deck and cut all 4 fingers off one hand.
The fingers were reattached but had to have a couple more surgeries to make them work properly. It was a success and you would never know it had happened.
The fingers were reattached but had to have a couple more surgeries to make them work properly. It was a success and you would never know it had happened.
First, I wish my ear protection worked that good.
Second, he chopped his fingers off, and you now can't tell, but they say they aren't able to fix my joint that won't straighten out all the way?
10-18-21, 06:08 PM
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Pretty slow night, everyone must be streaming the ALCS game 3 with Joe Suck at Fenway.
10-18-21, 06:11 PM
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Vol in case you missed it see below.
https://www.bikeforums.net/22273920-post2680.html
https://www.bikeforums.net/22273920-post2680.html
10-18-21, 06:21 PM
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True story: My uncle was mowing tall wet grass and his mower kept clogging and dying. He was wearing ear protection and he thought the mower had died and lifted the deck and cut all 4 fingers off one hand.
The fingers were reattached but had to have a couple more surgeries to make them work properly. It was a success and you would never know it had happened.
Anyway, he grew up on a farm working around farm machinery and was an agg professor at a Big 10 university. However, like wood shop teachers that cut their fingers off, it only takes a slip of mind…
The fingers were reattached but had to have a couple more surgeries to make them work properly. It was a success and you would never know it had happened.
Anyway, he grew up on a farm working around farm machinery and was an agg professor at a Big 10 university. However, like wood shop teachers that cut their fingers off, it only takes a slip of mind…
10-18-21, 06:28 PM
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The parallax effect doesn't change the fact that the B is not even close to being inline with the split in the stem. I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt, but it was just a bridge too far.
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10-18-21, 06:30 PM
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10-18-21, 06:37 PM
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Bars and stem ordered. 
10-18-21, 06:38 PM
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True story: My uncle was mowing tall wet grass and his mower kept clogging and dying. He was wearing ear protection and he thought the mower had died and lifted the deck and cut all 4 fingers off one hand.
The fingers were reattached but had to have a couple more surgeries to make them work properly. It was a success and you would never know it had happened.
Anyway, he grew up on a farm working around farm machinery and was an agg professor at a Big 10 university. However, like wood shop teachers that cut their fingers off, it only takes a slip of mind…
The fingers were reattached but had to have a couple more surgeries to make them work properly. It was a success and you would never know it had happened.
Anyway, he grew up on a farm working around farm machinery and was an agg professor at a Big 10 university. However, like wood shop teachers that cut their fingers off, it only takes a slip of mind…
10-18-21, 06:40 PM
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10-18-21, 06:42 PM
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