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06-18-21, 07:42 AM
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So on the centerville this morning I came upon an old man on a motor scooter. Wouldn’t have been a big deal but he was in the bike lane. I passed him and went on my way. Sometime later I was going up a “hill” and he passes me, again in the bike lane and just about pushed me into the grass. Never said a word, it was like I didn’t exist. I’ve never seen anything like it before.
06-18-21, 07:43 AM
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06-18-21, 08:14 AM
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Dual sided data junkie technology:
https://www.westernbikeworks.com/pro...gl=1&ssn=17022
And still will work with the Rally pedal shells.
https://www.westernbikeworks.com/pro...gl=1&ssn=17022
And still will work with the Rally pedal shells.
06-18-21, 08:19 AM
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06-18-21, 08:54 AM
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Dual sided data junkie technology:
https://www.westernbikeworks.com/pro...gl=1&ssn=17022
And still will work with the Rally pedal shells.
https://www.westernbikeworks.com/pro...gl=1&ssn=17022
And still will work with the Rally pedal shells.
not a terrible price.
06-18-21, 08:55 AM
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I always figure that anything you can do remotely, somebody else could, too.
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06-18-21, 08:59 AM
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I used to do the same almost every time. Turn around check.... just simpler to keep the expensive bike inside the house.
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06-18-21, 09:05 AM
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Indeed. 
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06-18-21, 09:05 AM
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Put them in your living room. That way you can always watch them when you are home.
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06-18-21, 09:11 AM
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06-18-21, 09:27 AM
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In the 25 years we've lived here, I don't think we parked in the garage at all.
Part of the problem is, in 1946 when the house was built, they called it a '2-car garage', but I'm not sure even then you could have parked 2 average cars in there. Just not wide enough. Just for grins, I checked the size of your average car in 1946, in this case a Mercury sedan. a little over 16 feet long, and a little over 6' wide. The inside of the garage is only 19' x 16 feet. So, with the car fully in the garage, it would be nosing up against the steps down from the kitchen. With two cars in the garage, you'd have about a foot on either side and maybe a little over that between them.
Maybe you could park two Fiat 500s in there, but you might have to crawl out the sunroof.
Part of the problem is, in 1946 when the house was built, they called it a '2-car garage', but I'm not sure even then you could have parked 2 average cars in there. Just not wide enough. Just for grins, I checked the size of your average car in 1946, in this case a Mercury sedan. a little over 16 feet long, and a little over 6' wide. The inside of the garage is only 19' x 16 feet. So, with the car fully in the garage, it would be nosing up against the steps down from the kitchen. With two cars in the garage, you'd have about a foot on either side and maybe a little over that between them.
Maybe you could park two Fiat 500s in there, but you might have to crawl out the sunroof.
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06-18-21, 09:40 AM
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06-18-21, 09:42 AM
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FYI, we live in a world of savages 
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06-18-21, 09:47 AM
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Folks in our neighborhood got a warning from the local constabulary about some people breaking into cars parked in driveways looking for garage door opener remotes, who then come back and steal what's in the garage. In fact they broke into the Dodge (though, to be fair, I probably left it unlocked), but of course since I don't use the garage for cars, I don't carry one. Our garage door opener is engaged with the door and unplugged, which serves as an effective lock, but we also have two bolts screwed to the door that go into holes in the track.
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06-18-21, 09:54 AM
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06-18-21, 09:55 AM
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06-18-21, 09:57 AM
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06-18-21, 09:57 AM
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Did you do a good deed?
Speaking of which, I did one yesterday. On the other side of a busy four-lane road from where I was mowing I saw a hubcap come off a car and was sitting where traffic kept running over it. I waited for the right moment and then dashed across and got it off the road.
It was like playing real-life Frogger.
Speaking of which, I did one yesterday. On the other side of a busy four-lane road from where I was mowing I saw a hubcap come off a car and was sitting where traffic kept running over it. I waited for the right moment and then dashed across and got it off the road.
It was like playing real-life Frogger.
06-18-21, 09:58 AM
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Dual sided data junkie technology:
https://www.westernbikeworks.com/pro...gl=1&ssn=17022
And still will work with the Rally pedal shells.
https://www.westernbikeworks.com/pro...gl=1&ssn=17022
And still will work with the Rally pedal shells.
06-18-21, 10:04 AM
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06-18-21, 10:11 AM
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06-18-21, 10:20 AM
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06-18-21, 10:23 AM
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In the 25 years we've lived here, I don't think we parked in the garage at all.
Part of the problem is, in 1946 when the house was built, they called it a '2-car garage', but I'm not sure even then you could have parked 2 average cars in there. Just not wide enough. Just for grins, I checked the size of your average car in 1946, in this case a Mercury sedan. a little over 16 feet long, and a little over 6' wide. The inside of the garage is only 19' x 16 feet. So, with the car fully in the garage, it would be nosing up against the steps down from the kitchen. With two cars in the garage, you'd have about a foot on either side and maybe a little over that between them.
Maybe you could park two Fiat 500s in there, but you might have to crawl out the sunroof.
Part of the problem is, in 1946 when the house was built, they called it a '2-car garage', but I'm not sure even then you could have parked 2 average cars in there. Just not wide enough. Just for grins, I checked the size of your average car in 1946, in this case a Mercury sedan. a little over 16 feet long, and a little over 6' wide. The inside of the garage is only 19' x 16 feet. So, with the car fully in the garage, it would be nosing up against the steps down from the kitchen. With two cars in the garage, you'd have about a foot on either side and maybe a little over that between them.
Maybe you could park two Fiat 500s in there, but you might have to crawl out the sunroof.
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06-18-21, 10:27 AM
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I hate it when people do that, and I'm always putting up carts that people leave out. Mainly so they don't roll into my car. I'm selfish in that way.