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06-10-19, 04:18 PM
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I bet they BOTH needed prostate exams. Am I right?
06-10-19, 04:21 PM
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06-10-19, 04:33 PM
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shaken, not stirred.
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It was lustworthy. I was actually lusting after their Hetchins, Moulton APB and the Penny Farthing. They are proper cycle nuts. Their best bikes are stored in the lounge.
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06-10-19, 05:15 PM
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Haven't been on a bike since I had the kid, thinking about putting one on the trainer.
06-10-19, 05:49 PM
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cowboy, steel horse, etc
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06-10-19, 06:37 PM
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I'm hoping the road is in decent shape. I've been told by a cyclist on another forum that the ID is really quiet. I'll be riding it on a Monday and am curious about how many vehicles I will encounter. Camping that night along the St. Joe River.
The next day is mostly dirt and includes three rail-trails (two are dirt), including this, which I am excited to ride:
https://www.ridethehiawatha.com/
Once I make it up to Lookout Pass on the NorPac Trail I can descend for 7 miles on I-90, but I am going to try to take the NorPac Trail down.
The next day is mostly dirt and includes three rail-trails (two are dirt), including this, which I am excited to ride:
https://www.ridethehiawatha.com/
Once I make it up to Lookout Pass on the NorPac Trail I can descend for 7 miles on I-90, but I am going to try to take the NorPac Trail down.
06-10-19, 08:06 PM
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Wow that’s pretty fascinating, I never realized large bodies of water contained all those smaller individual semi-autonomous components.
If you look at the tracker, you'll see everyone going south of the most direct route initially, which is because the Gulf Stream pushes you north. Also, virtually everyone is using routing software, which should put you in the most favorable wind and current for your boat.
Here's a recent snapshot of the Gulf Stream across the course. We'll have to hit the favorable sides of that "coldˇ eddy" shown in blue and deal with the subsequent "warm eddies" in orange. We are paying for proprietary info, which may help with that, but it's going to be tricky. Wind forecasts look pretty good so far. I'm hoping for a finish latish on the fourth day, but if the wind decreases near the island, which it sometimes does, or we break something in the Gulf Stream, which happens, we could be out there for a week.
If you look at the tracker, you'll see everyone going south of the most direct route initially, which is because the Gulf Stream pushes you north. Also, virtually everyone is using routing software, which should put you in the most favorable wind and current for your boat.
Here's a recent snapshot of the Gulf Stream across the course. We'll have to hit the favorable sides of that "coldˇ eddy" shown in blue and deal with the subsequent "warm eddies" in orange. We are paying for proprietary info, which may help with that, but it's going to be tricky. Wind forecasts look pretty good so far. I'm hoping for a finish latish on the fourth day, but if the wind decreases near the island, which it sometimes does, or we break something in the Gulf Stream, which happens, we could be out there for a week.
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06-10-19, 11:58 PM
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A huge storm in the 1998 Sydney-Hobart race was like a cyclone, and killed six people, and of the 115 start boats, only 44 made it to Hobart, six of them sinking. I had moved out of newspaper journalism at that stage, but the tragedy had a huge impact on me, and one of the yachties I was involved in with sailing alongside after that year had his father killed in that race (if I remember rightly).
The weather attack was unexpected, as was one in the 1979 Fastnet Race in England that killed 15 people.
So while we can be a bit hilarious about yacht racing, it has conceivably killed more people than cycle racing worldwide.
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06-11-19, 03:59 AM
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06-11-19, 06:22 AM
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Not really. They have what I call CLS (Crap Life Syndrome) so mostly I feel bad for them. I was as kind as I could be.
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06-11-19, 07:15 AM
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06-11-19, 07:15 AM
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Bike is on the truck for delivery to REI this morning.
06-11-19, 07:36 AM
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06-11-19, 07:44 AM
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So...I saw an ad on FB for a new campground that has opened along the GAP. It's in West Newton, PA. Part of the description reads as follows:
"Enjoy our unique Hobbit Showers, you may even want to shower with a friend."
?
"Enjoy our unique Hobbit Showers, you may even want to shower with a friend."
?
06-11-19, 08:20 AM
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Is it possible to re-size a photo taken with, and stored on, an iPhone? I want to upload photos while on the road. I have been unsuccessful during prior trips. I think it's a size issue.
06-11-19, 09:09 AM
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06-11-19, 09:16 AM
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06-11-19, 10:50 AM
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I don't know about resizing, but the current version of the forum allows very easy uploading of pics if you use the full site, at least for me it works better than in the past.
06-11-19, 11:04 AM
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So it is
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06-11-19, 01:32 PM
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06-11-19, 02:56 PM
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The Bikeforums file size limit for jpegs is 1.9 MB. Found out you cannot resizer on the phone itself. One was around the problem is to send the photo to one of your email accounts. The phone gives you an option to send a smaller size of the photo. Then you open the file in the email and save it back to the phone. Doing that does not replace the original, larger image. One would think that Apple would have included a way to shrink the original without doing all that. After all, it lets you shrink the file size when emailing it.
06-11-19, 03:08 PM
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The Bikeforums file size limit for jpegs is 1.9 MB. Found out you cannot resizer on the phone itself. One was around the problem is to send the photo to one of your email accounts. The phone gives you an option to send a smaller size of the photo. Then you open the file in the email and save it back to the phone. Doing that does not replace the original, larger image. One would think that Apple would have included a way to shrink the original without doing all that. After all, it lets you shrink the file size when emailing it.
06-11-19, 03:21 PM
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Test.
BTW...Part of "The Revenant" was filmed there.
06-11-19, 03:22 PM
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