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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

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Old 06-05-22, 12:19 PM
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Holy ****, a guy I ride with has 495 miles this week. That’s crazy!
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Daughter’s 2010 Corolla driver side mirror glass was all cracked. It’s heated and electric remote. To replace the whole assembly at a shop costs several hundred bucks. I bought the replacement glass off ScamBay for $35. The problem was the replacent part’s two plastic connectors in the back of the glass were crap and small parts broke off when I tried to remount. I took the original parts and put them on the back of the replacement mirror, and after some grunting and swearing, the operation was a success.
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Daughter’s 2010 Corolla driver side mirror glass was all cracked. It’s heated and electric remote. To replace the whole assembly at a shop costs several hundred bucks. I bought the replacement glass off ScamBay for $35. The problem was the replacent part’s two plastic connectors in the back of the glass were crap and small parts broke off when I tried to remount. I took the original parts and put them on the back of the replacement mirror, and after some grunting and swearing, the operation was a success.
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Old 06-05-22, 12:54 PM
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Daughter’s 2010 Corolla driver side mirror glass was all cracked. It’s heated and electric remote. To replace the whole assembly at a shop costs several hundred bucks. I bought the replacement glass off ScamBay for $35. The problem was the replacent part’s two plastic connectors in the back of the glass were crap and small parts broke off when I tried to remount. I took the original parts and put them on the back of the replacement mirror, and after some grunting and swearing, the operation was a success.
Measured in days, how long would it take VV to do that?
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Old 06-05-22, 01:07 PM
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I don't know how a parent can remain sane with even three kids. That's crazy.
I'm not sure they do.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
I don't know how a parent can remain sane with even three kids. That's crazy.
I was half kidding, but turns out there's science!

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I don't know how a parent can remain sane with even three kids. That's crazy.
2manykids (2) is more than enough for me.
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I woke up early this morning, so I figured I'd roll out early, too. So, all ready to go at 9 AM, stepped outside, and...Rain.
Rain?
RAIN?!? In JUNE?

Yes, rain in June. It wasn't very hard rain, mind you. But there's maybe 4 months of oil on the road and with just enough wetness on the road to make it slick. And I'd ridden 27 miles yesterday. So, I resigned myself to Zwift. 2 hours on the trainer is about as much as I really want to do.

And, of course, when I came back up out of the garage, the sun was out.
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Had an easy, short ride with my girl this morning, stopped at a diner for brunch and had a Greek omelet, mowed the lawns, cooled off in the pool for awhile, and now time for a nap. Good day so far.
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Pretty cool looking. Bam just became obsolete.

Between that and the new Domane, it’s starting to look like the end of IsoSpeed.
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The above post reminds me that I finished mowing the lawns and cut my hair today. Now enjoying baseball. No nap today.
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize2
So you never got to ride it the third seat facing backward!.
Sad!
Nope.
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Gave the Snakes a 3-0 ass beating and took 2 out 3 for the series. 2 out of 3 ain't bad.
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A nail biter for the Mighty Owls as they are facing elimination.
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize2
We all piled into one of the Ford station wagons, with rear facing seat, and went to the west coast and back. That was in 69 and I was a junior in high school. That is quite the age gap between you and your brother. We four are all within six years.
My dad bought a Chevy C-20 Silverado crew cab pickup truck in 1977. Put a cap on the 8 foot bed. Four adults and six kids hit the road for a month, touring the Western US. Most of us kids road in the bed.
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Ouch. All tied up bottom of the 9th. We've seen this movie before.
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Greetings from Gilford, VT.


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Measured in days, how long would it take VV to do that?
All of them.
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
Greetings from Gilford, VT.


Do you carry a lifestraw or other filter in case you have to drink wild water?
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Do you carry a lifestraw or other filter in case you have to drink wild water?
I'm going to bring a LifeCatheterStraw to the market. It'll be all the rage with the randonneuring/touring crowd once I overcome the uh, mild discomfort while pedaling obstacle.
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Do you carry a lifestraw or other filter in case you have to drink wild water?
No, Vermont isn’t THAT rural. Little country stores are relatively common.

One day I’ll be riding passed a “shed market.” Stopped there in 2010 during a supported trip. It’s a cute self-service place that is on the honor system. It even had cold drinks and sandwiches. Hope I don’t blow by it.

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