DangerousDanR

Beautiful bike. The couplers start to matter when you start putting it in the travel case. If you have a good set of bicycle cables cutter they are not difficult to install. If you don't, you need to leave the job for someone who does.

The Ritchey couplers are just plain smart mechanical design. I also have Thomson posts on both of mine.

big john

A regular mountain goat.

Mojo31

34/34 is my most used gearing.

DougRNS

This is surprisingly faithful to the original. I miss Tom.

Eric F 

I’m starting to understand this.

Eric F 

You got more than me - 131k’. However, I might barely crack 2500 miles for the year (including fake miles). I expect ‘23 to be much better.

genejockey 

15 miles shy of 6000 for the year, and 314,000 feet of climbing. BUT this is BOTH IRL and ITG. I need to copy the last few weeks of rides, paste them in Excel, and do a little fiddling...

big john

Spin to win.

genejockey 

IRL = 4758 miles, 260602 feet. I doubt I will get to 5000 real world miles by the end of the year, though it's not impossible.

big john

Funny, yesterday on the ride one of them mentioned something about their sister's ex-husband and I tried to sing Tom Petty' "Yer so bad". None of them knew the song.
Mrs John doesn't know it either. Have they all led sheltered lives?

mschwett 

wow, what a huge range ... and 574,000 feet for datlas THAT'S NO JOKE. 1,700 feet a day.

i'm at 332k. 28k to go.

big john

It's about 10k per week which is doable in 2 rides. Actually doable in 1. My friend who has done over 600 every year used to get all of his climbing in 3 rides per week.

mschwett 

i can’t decide what i’d find most doable, but probably 3 at 3k plus the occasional “extra” flattish back to back day. my 2-4k rides aren’t really ones i can fit into a weekday though, in an hour and a half i’m looking at 2k max.

big john

You must have one of those "job" things?

mschwett 

yep. and three womenfolk at home ranging from ages 4 to 40something!

luckily the good riding is close to home and work.

indyfabz

Happy National Brownie Day!

phrantic09

I’m at 5800 miles with 217k climbing so far- not really enough, I’m going to shoot for 450k next year.

1500 if those miles are trainer road w. 0 elevation, if I were doing Zwift it would probably add 75k

phrantic09

I talked to my wife last night about ordering the 12s di2- she said since it was $1,999 it was under the notification threshold and so I didn’t even need to ask. I think it’s a trap

Bah Humbug

Actually slept late, tackled the puzzles before much coffee, only lost about one guess per above normal.

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datlas 

QFT

Luckily, one daughter is already off the payroll, and daughter #2 is a Junior so only 1.5 more cars to buy/burn.

bampilot06

I havnt taken it apart since I bought it 2 years ago. Or maybe 3 years ago. I can’t remember, bought it in Columbus Ohio, flew out to pick it up and had the owner teach me how to put in the bag and flew it home.

I thought I would have been bringing it to work all the time with me, but realistically the 737 would be more of a hassle, and commuting doesn’t help the situation.

June I am hoping to be DCA based, and i’ll be flying the Bus, which is super roomy, so The Ritchey should start going with me all the time.

Hopefully I’ll start riding with more of you guys. San Fran overnights with Genejocky, LAX with bigjohn. I shouldn’t lose MsP or PHX I don’t think.

Maybe even make it to where cypress lives. Not sure if he still post here.

bampilot06

I think it’s on sale for less at Merlin.


Man I wish I had 1,999 number threshold. An emonda would be sitting where my Creakvelo sits.


Also, Zipps would be where superteams sit.


1,999 is this a one time thing, or can you make like 7 purchases at 1,999, as long as they are separated you don’t have to notify?

bampilot06

Well Dallas is pretty windy……..

bampilot06

Mountains are only 90 mins away. Just havnt been able to coordinate with other riders when to go. The groups I ride with go a couple times a year, I am just always working when they go.

I would like to go once with someone who knows the area, and then I will start going up there by myself.
If I left my house at 430 am, I could be on the blue ridge parkway by 6-630 latest, ride for 3 hours and be home by 2 pm. Wife would be cool with this once in a while.