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Old 06-19-21, 08:48 PM
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Originally Posted by DougRNS
Hey, you are on to something!
An idea to ponder while you are inverted.
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We mow twice per week at LoP gardens.
Why?
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Why?
It's a good balance between keeping it looking good and not spending every waking hour out on the lawns

I" twice a week does the trick for me.

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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
An idea to ponder while you are inverted.
Or I can revel in the current 2 game winning streak The Mighty Pirates are on.

In other news, have you recovered from the disappointment of our meet up being delayed? No Datlas sofritos in June.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
It's a good balance between keeping it looking good and not spending every waking hour out on the lawns

I" twice a week does the trick for me.
Real grass only needs mowed once a week.
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In other news, have you recovered from the disappointment of our meet up being delayed? No Datlas sofritos in June.
Nope. It's almost as depressing as watching this:

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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Not sure how it balances out, all other things being equal versus a single.
Theoretically, they should be faster everywhere. The power of 2 riders with the aero resistance of 1 (almost) and the bike weight can be a non factor. The problem with getting 2 great climbers on a tandem is they may prefer different cadences and have different ways of dishing out the power.
That's how my friends made it work, they had the same cadence. The captain was a good, not great climber on a single and the stoker was one of the best climbers I knew then. On the tandem they meshed so well they could drop great climbers on double centuries and other timed events.
They finished first on some local events.

The story of Joe Breeze and Otis Guy on a tandem was similar.

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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Real grass only needs mowed once a week.
I mow 2x a week. Grass grows too fast
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I mow 2x a week. Grass grows too fast

my grass cutting is based solely on the amount of rain is sees.
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Bedroom A/C system failed yesterday.

Happy Father’s Day.
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I’m not a father. That I know of. But happy Father’s Day to those who are. Hope you get nice ties. 😀
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A few years ago, my wife and I were at a tandem rally near Huntsville, AL and went up a steep short climb on our tandem. The next morning, a local came up and asked if we knew that we had taken the KOM on Strava.

I'm sure the local single bikes were out on that climb the next day to make sure that their KOM was back in their grasp.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
It's a good balance between keeping it looking good and not spending every waking hour out on the lawns

I" twice a week does the trick for me.

If I cut the rjones28 area lawns at 0.5 to 1.5 inches with a reel mower three time a week, I'd never have time to do anything else.
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That's a human-powered reel mower.
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Originally Posted by phrantic09
I mow 2x a week. Grass grows too fast
We have powered lawnmowers now, you know.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
We have powered lawnmowers now, you know.
That has no bearing on the rate of vegetation growth.
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Originally Posted by Mojo31
Bedroom A/C system failed yesterday.

Happy Father’s Day.
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RIP Wildcats. At least it took Vanderbilt 12 innings to beat 'em.

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Originally Posted by rjones28
That has no bearing on the rate of vegetation growth.
Normal grass does not grow fast enough that a weekly cutting is not sufficient.
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Guess I'd better get out there and mow the two front lawns before it gets any hotter.
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RIP Wildcats.
They're not dead yet.
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Guess I'd better get out there and mow the two front lawns before it gets any hotter.
I went out early to weed the tree plot before the sun started hitting my side of the street.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Nope. It's almost as depressing as watching this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8-ez1tXEu8
Yet the Brown Squirrel remains open!
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Inversion activity achieved.

We know what @Velo Vol will be doing this afternoon.
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Yet the Brown Squirrel remains open!
I didn't go there very much, as with the exception of a couple years, I lived on the other side of town. But it was bad enough seeing how dilapidated the now-demolished mall became.

But even worse, at the end of the video they found several photo albums in the mall security office with pictures of the mall in it's heyday ('80s-'90s). They showed the mall full of people, and different types of holiday/community events. It was kind of sad thinking about how we're never going to see that kind of thing again.
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Originally Posted by big john
Theoretically, they should be faster everywhere. The power of 2 riders with the aero resistance of 1 (almost) and the bike weight can be a non factor. The problem with getting 2 great climbers on a tandem is they may prefer different cadences and have different ways of dishing out the power.
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They finished first on some local events.

The story of Joe Breeze and Otis Guy on a tandem was similar.
Was he a friend of J. J. Cale?
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One more reason not to be me. I have to cut 90 of these for me plus 50 Pet Meds for little Roscoe. If we can put a man on the moon...

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