genejockey 

As long as she was ACTUALLY correct.

MoAlpha

Stashed my backpack at the rendezvous and rode straight to work from this a.m.'s group thrash. I don't seem to be recovering very well.

genejockey 

Years and years ago, I think after I'd graduated from college, Mom and Dad, with a big empty nest, took in a refugee from Romania - which you may recall was ruled by Nicolae Ceaușescu, a really nasty guy. Anyway, he got a job working for a local orchard. He was supposed to be paying M&D a bit for his food and lodging, but instead, he kept buying pork chops at the local store, and bringing apples from the orchard, because they were cheap if not downright free. Mom got really tired of making pork chops and apples, lemme tell ya.

tbh, Mom wasn't really the "take in boarders" type, so that was the last time. I think she was more the "prepare to repel boarders" type.

genejockey 

I wonder if it's like painting over chrome plating - done properly it sticks, but chips like mad at the slightest provocation (which is where Mrs. Peel got her name)

Bah Humbug

Nope. If it's rude, it's rude. I fired back a semi-rude email and will allow her to field all questions on that matter. No, I'm not playing that game.

genejockey 

I was thinking more that as rude and annoying as "Well, actually..." is, it's MUCH worse if the corrector is wrong.

Mojo31

I'm glad I don't have employees to coddle any more.

genejockey 

I miss having minions. My last group didn't need coddling. They just needed to know the objective and the priorities, plus occasional troubleshooting. A good group makes you look like you're a better manager than you actually are.

big john

I've heard there is some sort of etching for painting certain metals used in marine applications. My Seven is painted on the front half of the ti frame. It looks good but it chips very easily. I bumped it against the seat clamp on my old mtb and it took off more paint than I thought it should have.

BillyD

Admirably.

WhyFi

Packing up the R3, signaling the official (for me) end of the VA trip.

The schmutz on my Varia suggests that I had an otherwise unnoticed puncture stone time over the last couple rides. Tubeless ftw.

Like most VA trips, some good times were had, but we're all ready to go home.

MoAlpha

Sailing buddy had one. He also converted a beetle to electrical power and actually drove it around. This is what he has now:




He's an unusual guy and spent way too much time on submarines.

LesterOfPuppets

What's the MPG 5 hwy, 4 city?

MoAlpha

Roughly. Point of pride with him.

genejockey 

At least twice in the last week, I've seen forum posts where the OP describes a problem, and attempts to foreclose any discussion of bike fit with "I've had a bike fit, so it's not that." It does make me wonder about the quailty, or perhaps the priorities of their bike fitters, especially when others post that they went to two bike fitters and got contradictory advice.

Bah Humbug

Ah... yes, that makes sense. Regardless, I let her field aaaaaaall the questions on the next meeting until she got in over her head. Strong opinions without full knowledge (but had to make sure to correct me on the one thing she did know, rudely, after letting me answer all the questions over email this morning. Happy to have someone else want to deal with the crap I've been on for a year and half, honestly.

Not like there aren't polite ways to correct someone.

Bah Humbug

'Tis a very hard thing.

Bah Humbug

I'm also not sure that if you have to ask BF about how to do a hillclimb TT, you ought to hope for high results.

big john

There is one of those (a 5 ton?) at the end of my street. I don't know what the guy does with it but he does drive it.

A guy in our road bike club converted an old Fiesta to electric. It only had a range of about 20 miles, I think. He just did it for fun.

Almost forgot, one of our regulars was on a submarine and another who used to ride with us was a Captain and wrote a book about it.

seedsbelize2

We always had applesauce with homefries. Thanks for the reminder
I wonder if applesauce is available for purchase here.

seedsbelize2

This morning I passed my citizenship test. It will now take six to eight months to work its way through the system.

genejockey 

About 20 years ago (Christ, THAT long?), I had a woman working for me. The project we were doing ran into an unforeseen problem, and while I was doing my best to troubleshoot it and determine a way to avoid it in the future, she went around me to MY boss, who called a meeting, where she rather triumphantly described the problem. After some discussion, where I was rather in the hot seat, my boss turned to HER and said, "Okay, Veronica, why don't you take the responsibility for designing protocols for avoiding this in the future?"

Her eyes got real big, and her face got a little pale, and she visibly shrank back in her chair. She quietly said, "Uh... I think Doug is probably better suited to do that."

She wanted to make me look bad in front of as large an audience as possible, but she didn't want any responsibility for fixing the problem.

MoAlpha

Is the guy with the M-939 also former military? I don’t know any military cyclists, but the Chesapeake sailing community full of current and former officers…and spies. I retired as the equivalent of a Navy Captain from the Public Health Service, so they accept me as a sort of half brother. My very best friend, who died a couple of years ago, was a Navy CAPT, carrier pilot, and XO of the Kittyhawk. Another good friend is a retired USAF Medical Corps 2-star and was the commander of the hospital at Landstuhl. My buddy with the M-939 is one of the few former enlisted guys I know and thinks all officers are idiots.

datlas 

Kudos. Do you have to renounce your USA citizenship or can you be dual citizen??

big john

I don't know, I haven't ever spoken to him except to say hi.