ksryder

Pretty much this. The location tracking concerns, especially for women, were legitimate concerns and should've been addressed. Unfortunately Strava tends to take a "nuclear weapon to kill a gnat" approach to everything. Plus they were already under the spotlight because of the aforementioned military security issues which, to be fair, were not Strava's fault. That was a "soldiers and contractors surprised to find that their workouts uploaded to a public site are public" sort of thing but Strava took the heat for it.

Mojo31

Once you take off the left arm, the crank should come. Just give it a pull.

Mojo31

Never want to be "that guy."

genejockey 

I did notice one street where the lawns seemed a lot greener, so I suspect there's a lot of 'monkey see/monkey do' going on.

LesterOfPuppets

OMG, they ruined the Gorilla in Rock Springs!

Bah Humbug

Yeah, believe me that’s a topic. Feel like it has to be better than Texas, but…

genejockey 

I wonder how many women who might otherwise really enjoy cycling get out of it because of some of the guys in it. I see a lot more groups of 2-5 women riding together occasionally with one guy, than I see one women riding with a group of men.

datlas 

I am tracking the covid case count carefully. Looks like asplosion is imminent. Sad.

Velo Vol 

Nope.

LesterOfPuppets

We're what, about a month behind the UK for the Delta variant?

datlas 

About that. The daily case count in LA County had been under 2 per 100K for the past few months but in the last few weeks has gone up to over 10.

Mojo31

Any reports of the vax'd getting it in significant numbers? Or, are those primarily unvax'd people?

Bah Humbug

Price-wise? From the Zillow browsing I’ve done, they’re both tolerable. It’s not like Austin is cheap. It mat not really matter; AG’s career is just on a rocketship. She’s up for a mid-cycle promotion right now, and as a result will probably make double what I do shortly. When I finally get severed whenever they want to make me move, my job search is going to be mostly based on being able to take all non-work tasks off her plate.

Bah Humbug

I thought I saw that that was over.

Mojo31

Austin is going crazy right now. My daughter just moved back. When she was shopping for a place to rent, these are some of the things she and her two roommates ran into:

1. They put in their app and a deposit for a place, but were then told that someone else offered $2,000 per month over the listed rental rate so they got bumped.

2. At another place within their comfortable rent range, they were told that they would only qualify if each of them (all 25 with good paying jobs) made at least $165,000 per year for a combined household income of right at $500,000. Hard to do when you are just two years out of school. Seems their combined incomes of about $300,000 was just not enough.

SMH

Mojo31

It is in Texas. Why would you want to move someplace where it is still a problem?

Velo Vol 

No. Quality of life. Raleigh is flat, but otherwise OK.

Velo Vol 

A lot of west coasters moving there thinking it's "cheap."

datlas 

I don't have details on that, but by report the vast majority of those hospitalized are un-vaxxed.

WhyFi

Well, it never was a problem in TX because it was all fake news in the first place, amiright?

Mojo31

That's what I understood.

Might need some cataclysmic event to get the anti-vaxxers off their stupid platform. I know plenty, and their reasons just don't make sense.

Of course, nobody likes to be magnetized.

Mojo31

You are right.

datlas 

Yeah, maybe if they took the microchip out of the vaccine and gave free tinfoil hats with each shot, they would have more success.

Bah Humbug

Oh. SS is building a nice bike system, and there's that massive system in NYS. It's cold, but I've dealt with that before. Would definitely need a full-bore trainer system. Mainly just the addition of a big rocker plate.

WhyFi

I think it's great - I don't need pockets for my keys anymore.