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Old 09-06-20, 03:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
Pretty sure I've never gotten a tire down past half-TWI. Michelin and especially Continental must love the crap out of me.
What's TWI? Google is no help.
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Originally Posted by Pirkaus

Properly fruited pancakes
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We made waffles and bacon for breakfast today. Topped with maple syrup.

I make a mean 100% Whole Wheat pancake, which is really good topped with a little honey. But generally speaking: maple syrup
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
What's TWI? Google is no help.
Thread wear indicator
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Originally Posted by datlas
No, it feels ok. I will keep it for now.
It's fine. Quit worrying.
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Originally Posted by DougRNS
tell me about it. I have to avoid most areas because of traffic and I am burned out on the silver comet trail. I long for the days that I could set out in any direction and not have to worry about traffic.
There’s 400 miles of MTB trails here in Park City. You can set out in any direction and not have to worry about traffic.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Thread wear indicator
Thanks. I run tires to the cords a lot.
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After some close calls yesterday, I am seriously considering a loop video camera for my bars to record the license plate of any driver that hits me and/or does me bodily harm. I don’t want a fancy GoPro and have no desire to post on YouTube or social media. Ideally said device might also have a rear-facing camera so encounters from behind can be recorded in their entirety.

One close call yesterday that motivates this was not mine but a friend’s. We were on the last climb of the day and the road was totally straight. A big black pickup with big side mirrors buzzed us. I was near the white line but my friend was in the middle of the lane. Truck passed us way too close at very high speed and from my vantage point came a few inches from hitting the back of his head with passenger side mirror. There was no reason for such a fast and close pass as there was no oncoming traffic. Driver was either careless or a menace, maybe both.

Any suggestions on a budget camera to record my demise so my family knows whom to blame??
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
It's fine. Quit worrying.
I stopped worrying two posts ago. But thanks!
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Originally Posted by datlas
After some close calls yesterday, I am seriously considering a loop video camera for my bars to record the license plate of any driver that hits me and/or does me bodily harm. I don’t want a fancy GoPro and have no desire to post on YouTube or social media. Ideally said device might also have a rear-facing camera so encounters from behind can be recorded in their entirety.

One close call yesterday that motivates this was not mine but a friend’s. We were on the last climb of the day and the road was totally straight. A big black pickup with big side mirrors buzzed us. I was near the white line but my friend was in the middle of the lane. Truck passed us way too close at very high speed and from my vantage point came a few inches from hitting the back of his head with passenger side mirror. There was no reason for such a fast and close pass as there was no oncoming traffic. Driver was either careless or a menace, maybe both.

Any suggestions on a budget camera to record my demise so my family knows whom to blame??
For this purpose, wouldn't rear-facing be more important?
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Originally Posted by datlas
Sidewall cuts/fails??
A few of those, a few "too many nicks for my liking"s, many "squared it off like a tri geek"s.
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
For this purpose, wouldn't rear-facing be more important?
In PA cars don’t have a front license plate. So to identify vehicle it’s gotta get in front of me.

I am thinking one that has both front and rear would be ideal.
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If AG continues her not-really-riding I may try Campy on the disc bikes.
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Originally Posted by datlas
In PA cars don’t have a front license plate. So to identify vehicle it’s gotta get in front of me.

I am thinking one that has both front and rear would be ideal.
Wow, I thought everywhere was front plate. Interesting.

The problem is post-impact it's highly unlikely to be aimed right to get a clear view of the rear plate. Better than nothing, but your bars might be pointed at the sky or ground.

Damn that's a morbid topic.
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So. We left for vacation on Aug 26 and we don’t start making our way home until Thursday. It’s been a deliciously long trip.

First we stayed in a sweet little cabin around 30 min outside Bryce Canyon NP. We’ve stayed there before, it has a nice little mini kitchen. Now with COVID, contactless check in and check out. So we cooked in, had no contact with anyone at all except when we went into the National Park.

Theres a horse pasture right out the front door of the cabin, and this year there were two mares and two little fillies in the pasture. We spent a lot of time just watching the horses, scratching their itchy parts etc.






The afternoon after we arrived, I rode my MTB down the dirt road outside the cabin. A few miles later, I found a trailhead. Rode back to the cabin and looked it up, then pieced together a route to ride into Red Canyon, which is just outside Bryce. I had the place to myself. Later on, we went into Bryce Canyon itself and did a short hike along the rim around sunset time. On the way out of the park, we had this crazy deer sighting. Family group in a meadow and then this buck crossed the road and walked right over to me, standing in the open car door snapping pics of his family. Handsome fellow.







After two days at the cabin, we left for Park City. We came here on a timeshare exchange a few years ago and wound up buying a resale every other year timeshare at Marriott Mountainside, which I stretched into a 13 day stay. The reason we bought the TS is I loved the MTBing around here, there’s gobs of intermediate cross country trails around here. We’ve been here 9 days and I’ve ridden 100 miles/11000ft of trails already. It’s been heaven. All the locals have been complaining that it’s “hot”. They have no idea. The highs are in the 90s but when I start my rides at 7am, it’s typically in the 40s or 50s. So not only are the trails delicious, the weather is too.





Wasatch Crest Trail, at 10000ft. It’s a beauty of a trail.

This is the Land of The Switchback. If you need switchback practice, come ride Park City.

Mid Mountain Trail. You can ride this one for many miles, transversely across the mountain, from Deer Valley to Park City Mountain to the Canyons.

Today I rode up up up to Shadow Lake, at 9000ft. So cool and crisp. This is Keystone Trail.

Tomorrow will be a rest day. Then three more days of riding, before we head home. Tuesday Park City will be on the back side of the big storm that’s heading to Colorado. Highs forecast to be 58F, and it will be windy. But otherwise the weather is expected to stay fine. At home there’s a miserable heatwave going on, so we’re feeling lucky to be here.

We have cooked in every meal except a few takeout meals. Other than me riding, we are just hanging out playing Yahtzee and binge watching Amazon Prime. It’s been a super chill and enjoyable trip.
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A boyhood friend in my home town that I get to see about once a year, frequently says, "I don't drink anymore". This statement is followed by, "I don't drink any less" as he pours a good measure of bourbon into a glass.

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Originally Posted by Heathpack
Tomorrow will be a rest day. Then three more days of riding, before we head home.
Where are the roads?
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Originally Posted by datlas
When I put the bike on the stand I was half expecting to see threads or at least go on a dimple-hunt but obv that did not happen. I am thinking that tire has 1000 more miles of life. Now if I get a couple flats I may pitch it, of course.
I recently rode 1000 miles AFTER threads were showing on a REAR tire...and I'm not a waif. You have a 2000 year old Saturn and ask this question? SMFH
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Where are the roads?
Ever since COVID, reading what people express on social media has left me unsettled. I feel like there’s so many hostile people in the world and somehow COVID has brought voice to the hostility. It’s weird, but on a subconscious level it has kind of left me uncomfortable with road riding. Not that COVID has brought up anything about bikes. But more that you realize there’s a lot of people who aggressively have no regard for their fellow human beings. At least that’s how it feels to me. I still ride the road, of course, but I don’t feel the same way about it. I feel hugely less vulnerable out on trails. We have very few trails at home sadly. So I’m gorging on it while I can.
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Hey BillyD hows the shoulder?
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Originally Posted by Heathpack
So. We left for vacation on Aug 26 and we don’t start making our way home until Thursday. It’s been a deliciously long trip.

First we stayed in a sweet little cabin around 30 min outside Bryce Canyon NP. We’ve stayed there before, it has a nice little mini kitchen. Now with COVID, contactless check in and check out. So we cooked in, had no contact with anyone at all except when we went into the National Park.

Theres a horse pasture right out the front door of the cabin, and this year there were two mares and two little fillies in the pasture. We spent a lot of time just watching the horses, scratching their itchy parts etc.






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Wasatch Crest Trail, at 10000ft. It’s a beauty of a trail.

This is the Land of The Switchback. If you need switchback practice, come ride Park City.

Mid Mountain Trail. You can ride this one for many miles, transversely across the mountain, from Deer Valley to Park City Mountain to the Canyons.

Today I rode up up up to Shadow Lake, at 9000ft. So cool and crisp. This is Keystone Trail.

Tomorrow will be a rest day. Then three more days of riding, before we head home. Tuesday Park City will be on the back side of the big storm that’s heading to Colorado. Highs forecast to be 58F, and it will be windy. But otherwise the weather is expected to stay fine. At home there’s a miserable heatwave going on, so we’re feeling lucky to be here.

We have cooked in every meal except a few takeout meals. Other than me riding, we are just hanging out playing Yahtzee and binge watching Amazon Prime. It’s been a super chill and enjoyable trip.
Idyllic.
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Originally Posted by Heathpack
Ever since COVID, reading what people express on social media has left me unsettled. I feel like there’s so many hostile people in the world and somehow COVID has brought voice to the hostility. It’s weird, but on a subconscious level it has kind of left me uncomfortable with road riding. Not that COVID has brought up anything about bikes. But more that you realize there’s a lot of people who aggressively have no regard for their fellow human beings. At least that’s how it feels to me. I still ride the road, of course, but I don’t feel the same way about it. I feel hugely less vulnerable out on trails. We have very few trails at home sadly. So I’m gorging on it while I can.
I guess a benefit of riding here is that I've known that people are hostile all along.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
I guess a benefit of riding here is that I've known that people are hostile all along.
What about southern hospitality?
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Originally Posted by DougRNS
What about southern hospitality?
I live in the quasi-north. Try to keep up.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
I live in the quasi-north. Try to keep up.
you moved back to Sharpsville?
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I was near the white line but my friend was in the middle of the lane.
Was the road one lane in each direction with no shoulder? I was surprised to just learn that on such roads you can take the entire lane thanks to a 2016 amendment to PA law.

Last month I nearly got doored near my house by a NJ driver. She got out and said she would never try to hurt me. I noted that she just broke the law. Her ass of a husband asked “How? By opening the door?” I paraphrased this: “No person open any door on a motor vehicle unless and until it is reasonably safe to do so and can be done without interfering with the movement of other traffic…” Shut him down quick
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