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06-29-15, 08:23 PM
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So it is
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Nice to see you @halfspeed. Positive thoughts on the home front.
06-30-15, 06:08 AM
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Quiet on the home front, I'll tell you that. 
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06-30-15, 06:12 AM
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06-30-15, 06:26 AM
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Stand and Deliver
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The sheriff is looking for the next thread to lock down.........
06-30-15, 07:15 AM
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06-30-15, 07:17 AM
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Should Be More Popular
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06-30-15, 07:47 AM
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06-30-15, 08:26 AM
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It's been a year. What did I miss?
06-30-15, 08:44 AM
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So I havent told y'all yet what happened to Hillclimber last week.
He was descending a local hill, 5% grade, 3 miles long, a little technical but not too difficult. Hit a loose rock, his tube exploded and it popped his tire off his rim. Rim hit the pavement, bike ground to a halt pretty much instantly and he was thrown to the ground at high velocity. Broke his pelvis, had surgery last week. In a rehab hospital right now, should be home in a few days. He is the one that organized our Death Ride training group, so it's a shame after all that work for months that he will miss the ride. He has a good attitude about it, though.
I was talking to MBR about the crash, is this what he meant when he said the tubeless tires made him a faster descender because he has more confidence in his equipment? The answer is yes. I was asking him too if this kind of thing could happen with tubeless tires, he said effectively no. He thinks it would take about a one inch cut in the tires for them to suddenly deflate and even then it would not be as instantaneous as Hillclimber's experience. His feeling is you could maybe get it down to 15 mph before you crashed, way better than suddenly crashing at 35-40 mph. Not sure if he's right, but I hope so.
Of course not trying to talk anyone into tubeless. There's a lot of factors that should be weighed and this is just one of them. But food for thought, this is an interesting aspect of tubeless to put on your list of things to consider when making a decision.
He was descending a local hill, 5% grade, 3 miles long, a little technical but not too difficult. Hit a loose rock, his tube exploded and it popped his tire off his rim. Rim hit the pavement, bike ground to a halt pretty much instantly and he was thrown to the ground at high velocity. Broke his pelvis, had surgery last week. In a rehab hospital right now, should be home in a few days. He is the one that organized our Death Ride training group, so it's a shame after all that work for months that he will miss the ride. He has a good attitude about it, though.
I was talking to MBR about the crash, is this what he meant when he said the tubeless tires made him a faster descender because he has more confidence in his equipment? The answer is yes. I was asking him too if this kind of thing could happen with tubeless tires, he said effectively no. He thinks it would take about a one inch cut in the tires for them to suddenly deflate and even then it would not be as instantaneous as Hillclimber's experience. His feeling is you could maybe get it down to 15 mph before you crashed, way better than suddenly crashing at 35-40 mph. Not sure if he's right, but I hope so.
Of course not trying to talk anyone into tubeless. There's a lot of factors that should be weighed and this is just one of them. But food for thought, this is an interesting aspect of tubeless to put on your list of things to consider when making a decision.
06-30-15, 08:45 AM
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06-30-15, 08:45 AM
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On a more serious/somber note, we lost @coasting this year. Still miss him.
06-30-15, 08:49 AM
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Still sticking with #4 . Or more importantly, she's sticking with me. 
06-30-15, 08:49 AM
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On a more serious/somber note, we lost @coasting this year. Still miss him.
06-30-15, 08:54 AM
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The dry humor is very effective. Like the deadpan attitude of the "cleaner" crew and the nonchalance of the cop who rings his door bell. Definitely some similarities to "The Whole Nine Yards."
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06-30-15, 09:03 AM
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06-30-15, 09:07 AM
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Or an incident involving beetroot and a long stem.
06-30-15, 09:10 AM
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I'm afraid to say it, for fear of offending the Steel Gods of C&V... but I'm discovering the joys of aluminum and carbon. (But in a vintage-ish fashion.)
06-30-15, 09:16 AM
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You're dead to me now.
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06-30-15, 09:17 AM
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Just keeding, just keeding, welcome back.
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06-30-15, 09:18 AM
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06-30-15, 09:20 AM
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I don't think anyone knows for sure, perhaps Pcad knows the most. All we know was he was here like normal, his entertaining dry wit apparent, then a couple weeks later we got the news he had passed away. Nothing much since. A lovable guy.
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06-30-15, 09:24 AM
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I remember back in 2004 when I was shopping for a new bike at a prominent joint in NYC, and the guy tells me dismissively "nobody rides steel any more". I walked out the door . . . . how could I possibly trust anything further he might say.
Eventually I got a Ti bike that year, but it wasn't going to be from him.
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