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09-28-17, 01:21 PM
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09-28-17, 01:27 PM
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Whatever, @datlas, we've all heard about your fancy 90s Saturn. We know you're raking in the big bucks.
09-28-17, 01:27 PM
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Funny you should ask, I just ordered tires last night.
For the race wheels, I use the Light version and for training I use the RBCC Road. Love em.
(3x) IRC Formula Pro Light Tubeless Tire
Product Id: 333222410629
size / color: [700x23c / Black]
originally: $99.95
now: $60.99
at 39% off
(3x) IRC Formula Pro RBCC Road Tubeless TireProduct Id: 333222410630
size / color: [700x23c / Black]
originally: $99.95
now: $62.93
at 37% off
09-28-17, 01:30 PM
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is right. Sounds like the guy is mentally ill. I have been seeing more and more seemingly mentally ill people in Philly over the years. Just yesterday an obviously mentally ill person accosted me on the sidewalk as I was running some errands. I tried to get around him, but he kept blocking my path and blabbering incoherently. I finally got around him and he followed me for maybe 20'. I am a big guy and grew up in the big city, so things like that usually don't bother me. But these days you have to worry about someone doing something like pulling out a knife and stabbing you from behind.
09-28-17, 01:30 PM
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09-28-17, 01:36 PM
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The most lucrative fields of vet med are surgery, radiology and ophthalmology. Derm ain't bad.
But neurology and neurosurgery does pretty well for itself and really is way more interesting.
Radiology is a sweet deal though because everything can be done remotely nowadays. So you can work from home and live wherever. Last year, when I was visiting my veterinary radiologist friend in Breckenridge, he'd go out at ride or ski every day around 11am. Even days he was working. He has cultivated a practice in which he reads for other specialists, so mostly his clients can read the studies pretty much as well as he does and for the most part aren't desperate for his opinion. We know if we're going to need him around 11am MT, we better call and ask him to delay the start of his mtb ride for a few minutes to look at whatever we might be needing to send him.
Pretty sweet life. He has since moved to Kauai.
09-28-17, 01:37 PM
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You should have been a witch doctor.
09-28-17, 01:40 PM
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My guy go up to 19.7 lbs., but he was still athletic too. (My ex used to over-feed him like she had done with all the cats she had owned.) We tried to measure him once. He seemed to be about 20" long from nose to butt. He went on a special diet of (expensive) Royal Canin food years and got back down to a lean 16.5 lbs. Then he was diagnosed with cancer just before last Christmas. His oncologist told me to try to get him to gain weight. Never happened. Something started affecting his brain and he basically stopped eating. He was losing at least .25 lbs. every week and was having trouble getting up and down the stairs and jumping onto the bed. I knew it was time when one night he stood over his dry food bowl and pretended to eat with his mouth about 2" above the food.
09-28-17, 01:44 PM
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Funny you should ask, I just ordered tires last night.
For the race wheels, I use the Light version and for training I use the RBCC Road. Love em.
(3x) IRC Formula Pro Light Tubeless Tire
Product Id: 333222410629
size / color: [700x23c / Black]
originally: $99.95
now: $60.99
at 39% off
(3x) IRC Formula Pro RBCC Road Tubeless Tire
Product Id: 333222410630
size / color: [700x23c / Black]
originally: $99.95
now: $62.93
at 37% off
For the race wheels, I use the Light version and for training I use the RBCC Road. Love em.
(3x) IRC Formula Pro Light Tubeless Tire
Product Id: 333222410629
size / color: [700x23c / Black]
originally: $99.95
now: $60.99
at 39% off
(3x) IRC Formula Pro RBCC Road Tubeless TireProduct Id: 333222410630
size / color: [700x23c / Black]
originally: $99.95
now: $62.93
at 37% off
09-28-17, 01:45 PM
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09-28-17, 01:50 PM
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Makes zero sense but then again it's Texas so . . . .
BTW, I can criticize because I did do 3 years there a long time ago.
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09-28-17, 01:57 PM
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I think the mud and dust and grass stains and water and scratches and bruises somehow make you feel more fulfilled than riding paved roads. I hear riding fast is overrated.
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09-28-17, 02:05 PM
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I mean, it's probably for the better, I would have easily of used one on someone's car window that was trying to run me off the road the other day... and then prolly been shot or shot at - so I'm keeping the peace by not retaliating.
09-28-17, 02:06 PM
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09-28-17, 02:18 PM
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09-28-17, 02:29 PM
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@Heathpack I trust you and the price was right, I went with the 25's tho.
Sweet.
I use 25s on the regular road bikes but don't have enough clearance with my brakes for the 25s on my TT bike.
The 25s are nice and wide, I think they measure 27or 28 mm on the bike. The 23's actually measure 25 on the bike.
09-28-17, 02:34 PM
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I need to pick up some 28s to put on the Fuji and then swap my 23 gatorskins over to the TT. I don't like the ultras I have on there now.
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09-28-17, 02:39 PM
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I realized that traction would be an issue.
09-28-17, 02:47 PM
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09-28-17, 02:56 PM
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09-28-17, 03:01 PM
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I remember posting photos in Addiction from the room of our guest house in Addis. Crazy. That was July 2011.
09-28-17, 03:02 PM
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Speaking of strangulation:
I live in one of the safest cities in California (not LA, my little suburb of LA).
Yesterday on the bike path in broad daylight, a homeless guy tried to strangle a 70 year old woman out for a run.
A friend I rode with today happened to pass the woman and then went to a leg of the bike path on the opposite side of the river to do some intervals. She could see the police on the bike path across the river and wondered what was up.
Turns out, two other friends were riding their bikes and came upon the homeless guy standing over the unconscious woman. They asked what was going on and the homeless guy said her tried to murder the woman.
One guy, a retired cop, detained the homeless guy. The other called 911.
The woman is in the hospital in fair condition. The homeless guy arrested and charged with attempted murder, bail set at 8 million dollars.
Today I rode home from coffee solo on the exact same stretch of bike path.
I live in one of the safest cities in California (not LA, my little suburb of LA).
Yesterday on the bike path in broad daylight, a homeless guy tried to strangle a 70 year old woman out for a run.
A friend I rode with today happened to pass the woman and then went to a leg of the bike path on the opposite side of the river to do some intervals. She could see the police on the bike path across the river and wondered what was up.
Turns out, two other friends were riding their bikes and came upon the homeless guy standing over the unconscious woman. They asked what was going on and the homeless guy said her tried to murder the woman.
One guy, a retired cop, detained the homeless guy. The other called 911.
The woman is in the hospital in fair condition. The homeless guy arrested and charged with attempted murder, bail set at 8 million dollars.
Today I rode home from coffee solo on the exact same stretch of bike path.
09-28-17, 03:06 PM
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09-28-17, 03:10 PM
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It is a shame. We were ready to start it again, but the country was closing to adoptions. Emotionally, it would have been too difficult to wait for years and get nowhere. Not many kids got out after my son.
I remember posting photos in Addiction from the room of our guest house in Addis. Crazy. That was July 2011.
I remember posting photos in Addiction from the room of our guest house in Addis. Crazy. That was July 2011.