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10-04-21, 03:51 PM
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My shed is full of landscaping **** and just one bike. No room for another.
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10-04-21, 03:52 PM
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This made a formidably large, and hard lump, which hurt A LOT when I got smacked in the head with it for violating what she saw as 'The Rules' at the dining table.
I have since forgiven her.
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10-04-21, 03:55 PM
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If you hit the sweet spot it will also “crack”, and go far away. But the most typical sound is a “pop”.
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10-04-21, 03:57 PM
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I dunno, man. "The pop of the bat" doesn't have the same feeling as "The crack of the bat", and of course "The ping of the bat" was never all that great.
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10-04-21, 04:03 PM
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It's rare to see aluminum bats in the softball world these days, beyond the very youngest age groups playing in their local rec league. My daughter's HS team has some old team bats that are aluminum, but no one really uses them. My daughter has been armed with composite bats since she was 9. I have no idea if youth baseball is the same or not. They seem to change the regulations on bats every couple of years, and I have no idea what the current standards are.
You got rid of your other "bikes"? Kudos.
10-04-21, 04:03 PM
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My daughter's current bat sounds a lot like a small-caliber rife shot when she squares one up. The barrel is dual layer, and a big part of it is the sound of the outer layer slamming into the inner layer. It's quite satisfying. The sound does vary a bit from manufacturer to manufacturer depending on the construction of their barrel. Some are a little more muted, some more brittle-sounding, There was a model out a few years ago that almost sounded like breaking glass. I was not a fan of that sound.
EDIT: Here's a reasonable example of how my daughter's bat sounds. I've found the recorded sound varies a LOT depending on which device I'm using . This sounds a lot like what my ears hear...
https://youtu.be/cbNG53wAsnU
EDIT: Here's a reasonable example of how my daughter's bat sounds. I've found the recorded sound varies a LOT depending on which device I'm using . This sounds a lot like what my ears hear...
https://youtu.be/cbNG53wAsnU
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10-04-21, 04:04 PM
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A bat got impaled on one of my chainrings while I was flying down I-95 one night after our club’s Brooklyn ride. I discovered it a few days later as I was packing the bike for Oregon. I screamed like a little girl.
10-04-21, 04:38 PM
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10-04-21, 04:45 PM
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10-04-21, 04:53 PM
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10-04-21, 04:55 PM
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10-04-21, 04:56 PM
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10-04-21, 04:58 PM
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10-04-21, 05:00 PM
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10-04-21, 05:21 PM
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Can confirm. Got tired of them breaking so I switched to stainless cages. I liked them because the main cage is plastic coated steel and didn't mark the bottles like aluminum does. Every so often I would slam into a pothole or rr track and the bottle on the seat tube would go through the stupid little tab and I would carry it in my pocket for the rest of the ride.
10-04-21, 06:02 PM
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10-04-21, 06:22 PM
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We have no shed.
HOA would not approve.
HOA would not approve.
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10-04-21, 06:50 PM
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So I was passing over I-75 (far right) when up ahead, coming around the curve, were two CSX locomotives. They went overhead just as I arrived. Talk about timing.
10-04-21, 06:56 PM
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10-04-21, 06:58 PM
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gnome gets it.
10-04-21, 06:59 PM
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I don't see a train.