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02-03-22, 04:03 PM
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02-03-22, 04:21 PM
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was supposed to be sunny and 65 today. Neither of those things happened.
Anybody have experience with time trial bikes? Buy new or used? could I just throw aero bars on the madone?
Coach says my next bike purchase should definitely be a TT bike. I am leaning more towards cycle cross if not the emonda. But I think I will just race the C2 for now. Thinking of use. I don’t see myself riding a TT bike for fun, and I don’t see myself doing more than one TT event. Crits and Road is more what I want to do. I would like to do cycle cross in the fall, plus I can use the cycle cross bike on gravel. Not to mention they are a lot cheaper than a TT bike.
Anybody have experience with time trial bikes? Buy new or used? could I just throw aero bars on the madone?
Coach says my next bike purchase should definitely be a TT bike. I am leaning more towards cycle cross if not the emonda. But I think I will just race the C2 for now. Thinking of use. I don’t see myself riding a TT bike for fun, and I don’t see myself doing more than one TT event. Crits and Road is more what I want to do. I would like to do cycle cross in the fall, plus I can use the cycle cross bike on gravel. Not to mention they are a lot cheaper than a TT bike.
02-03-22, 04:26 PM
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edit: it's called the Madone Speed. May have been discontinued, but again, look for the bars.
02-03-22, 04:58 PM
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02-03-22, 05:02 PM
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check the hanger alignment
02-03-22, 05:12 PM
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I drove through 3 PA counties yesterday. Pit stop in Monroe.
02-03-22, 05:17 PM
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02-03-22, 05:23 PM
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02-03-22, 05:29 PM
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They have a bit of a special edition of the Madone for just this use case. The only real difference, as far as I know, is the handle bars - the TT version comes with some bolt-on aero bars. I would imagine that you'd be able to buy them separately.
edit: it's called the Madone Speed. May have been discontinued, but again, look for the bars.
edit: it's called the Madone Speed. May have been discontinued, but again, look for the bars.
02-03-22, 05:30 PM
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The trek speed concept does look sweet, but I just don’t see hopping on that for fun, and the capital trail isn’t really clear until you get past Charles City.
02-03-22, 05:37 PM
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When I was a kid in the 1970's we went to Hershey and back then you could actually get a tour of the chocolate factory.
When we moved there in the late 90's, they had eliminated the factory tour and replaced it with a Disney-esque faux factory *** giftshop travesty called "Hershey's Chocolate World."
edit: fun fact, the stupid censor won't let me use the 3 letter word, starting with c and ending with m, that means "combined with" because it's stupid.
When we moved there in the late 90's, they had eliminated the factory tour and replaced it with a Disney-esque faux factory *** giftshop travesty called "Hershey's Chocolate World."
edit: fun fact, the stupid censor won't let me use the 3 letter word, starting with c and ending with m, that means "combined with" because it's stupid.
02-03-22, 05:40 PM
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02-03-22, 05:43 PM
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Some people love riding those things. I am not one of them, but they are definitely fast, so I deal with it.
02-03-22, 05:46 PM
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I've had the same thought. Pactimo has their best winter long tights at 50% off, but nah.
This year, when the temps started getting down into the upper 40s, I found that if I dressed so that I was comfortable for the first hour or so, I got progressively cold after that, even when going hard, and by the time I got home from a two hr ride, I was pretty unhappy. I am scared of hypothermia, which I have had in the past and is just one mechanical away in this weather, and I took it as nature's of saying, "fake miles for you, old man."
This year, when the temps started getting down into the upper 40s, I found that if I dressed so that I was comfortable for the first hour or so, I got progressively cold after that, even when going hard, and by the time I got home from a two hr ride, I was pretty unhappy. I am scared of hypothermia, which I have had in the past and is just one mechanical away in this weather, and I took it as nature's of saying, "fake miles for you, old man."
02-03-22, 05:51 PM
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02-03-22, 05:52 PM
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It’s looking more and more as though I am going going to need a Twitter “presence” in order to function professionally in today’s scientific “space,” in other words, ever hire another postdoc. Maybe this is a sign I should retire.
02-03-22, 05:53 PM
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02-03-22, 05:54 PM
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you need blubber to protect you likeVelo Vol
02-03-22, 05:55 PM
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02-03-22, 07:30 PM
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02-03-22, 07:30 PM
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Map-adjacent?
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02-03-22, 07:33 PM
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I hope I never have to sign up for that or facebook to do my job. If that becomes a thing I may be forced to retire too.
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02-03-22, 07:34 PM
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02-03-22, 07:35 PM
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I was jst about to leave work, having completed a bunch of scRNAseq analysis, and I noticed a little distortion in my vision, just below my focal point and a bit to the left. "Is this another ocular migraine?" I asked myself. Spent the nex 5 minutes trying to see it, with little success. Just about the time I decided it wasn't, I realized that it is, indeed, an ocular migraine. So I guess I'mma stay here at work for a while. especially since it's decided to expand right into my focal point.
Should be gon ie in 20 minute or so. The first one freaked me right the f*** out, but everything I read on them says they're nothing to worry about. Just seems like a bad idea, driving at night while having one.
Should be gon ie in 20 minute or so. The first one freaked me right the f*** out, but everything I read on them says they're nothing to worry about. Just seems like a bad idea, driving at night while having one.
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02-03-22, 07:36 PM
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well, tomorrow is going to suck for multiple reasons.