seedsbelize2

Since I lost that bit of weight, almost a year ago now(wow!), my wedding ring has been falling off a lot. I'm thinking of wrapping it with angora yarn to make it fit better. Thoughts?

Velo Vol 

Now I've got another problem. I try to Firefox screenshot on Google Maps and it come up a black image when I post here.

wut

Mojo31

Neon orange. That way if it falls off in the jungle it'll be easier to find.

datlas 

I just did a telemedicine visit with a patient who is also a fellow cyclist. He said he knows FOUR cyclists who have been killed while riding, including an ex co-worker who got hit head-on by a car that crossed the center lane recently. He said he is pretty much done with road cycling due to safety concerns. I told him I respect that decision. Sad.

seedsbelize2

My older aluminum ones have that grey crust too.

Velo Vol 

It wasn't rusted.

Fatigue? From a small bottle of water? What is this nonsense?

genejockey 

It may not happen in your lifetime, but someday, they'll break! Mark my words!

genejockey 

It's not the bottle per se, but rather the flexing of the cage when you put the bottle in and take it out.

Eric F 

Unlike some other metals (steel and ti, for example), aluminum doesn't have a fatigue limit where it can cycle an unlimited amount of times under that threshold without failure. Aluminum will eventually succumb to fatigue failure. It's inevitable. (This is stuff I learned recently, thanks to BF).

genejockey 

Turns out there's an interesting side-effect of Facebook being down - if you used "Login Using Facebook" to set up your Strava account, you can't get into it at the moment.

EDIT: Unless you remember your old account info, that is.

sbxx1985 

It is important. For example, when I was young, I paired the new Zipp carbon cages with Enve wheels. The horror.

Eric F 

rjones28 

Cheap aluminum cage. Prolly.

WhyFi

Yes, disappointment is SOP when expecting the delivery of a new groupset.

Eric F 

If is wasn't for that blasphemous blunder, that would be a really hot bike.

sbxx1985 

I would give you a weight on the Mandible, but it's being held hostage by Photobucket.

WhyFi

I couldn't spend 100 bucks on bottle cages, either... unless they were normally 200 bucks and on sale for 50% off - that's totally different.

Mojo31

Can't unsee that. SMH

rjones28 

Bottle cages on bikes found in the drop bar section of the rjones28 motorpool.

S-Works Carbon Rib Cage III in natural carbon weave
Standard Rib Cage II in red and white

Velo Vol 

What about an aluminum bat?

genejockey 

Though, seeing the brand name makes me think of "The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty" - the original James Thurber story, not the Ben Stiller movie. Every mechanical item in his daydreams always went, "pocketa...pocketa...pocketa"

LesterOfPuppets

I guess that Specialized cage wasn't neon yellow afterall.

Is $55 for a pair of 30-year-old plastic bottle cages a good deal?

genejockey 

You should replace the two white cages with a yellow and a green one, just to drive VV mad with your lack of matching.

sbxx1985 

Thanks. I came to my senses on the next one. Mandible was the best strength/weight option. Two cages for serious riders.

genejockey 

The other thing about Facebook being down is that I am unable to respond to my niece's most recent antivax post which tries to tug at your heartstrings about how "You were okay with me when I took care of your Dad..." and similar things a healthcare worker would do, but then "You threw me away because I made a choice about my healthcare..." which is all very well, but my niece is a used car salesman, not a HCW.

I was going to point out that unvaxed HCWs made a "healthcare choice", and we are also making a healthcare choice by requiring them to be vaccinated, but FB went down before I could share this pearl of wisdom with her.