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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 08-05-21, 11:24 AM
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Originally Posted by rjones28
It has a battery, but that's just for firing up the mighty Kawasaki V-Twin.
At a rate of 25 minutes per day, how long would it take to cut your lawn?
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Originally Posted by datlas
You know, the GP5000 tires have magic wear indicators which could prevent such a calamity.
The Michelin have Tread Wear Indicators, too; the dimples still looked dimpled last week.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
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IKR? I'm still trying to decide who'd be best to portray me in the movie adaptation.
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Old 08-05-21, 12:10 PM
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
The Michelin have Tread Wear Indicators, too; the dimples still looked dimpled last week.
The threads are the wear indicator.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
The threads are the wear indicator.
#natureswearindicator
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
The threads are the wear indicator.
I mean, that's what I usually do - ride to the threads. I just keep an eye on the dimples so that I have an idea of when I need to start paying attention more closely.
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Got invited by a la firm we use to watch the Phillies-Reds game in the firm's box next Friday. Tempting. Don't have to RSVP until Monday.
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I now feel happier about trashing tires when they look used.

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Half the 14 guys on this a.m.'s ride were scratching oak mite bites.

LSS's path came back with > .3cm clear margins and negative sentinel node. Looks like they got the little bastard.
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
Half the 14 guys on this a.m.'s ride were scratching oak mite bites.

LSS's path came back with > .3cm clear margins and negative sentinel node. Looks like they got the little bastard.
That's gotta be a relief for both of you. Good news!
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
Half the 14 guys on this a.m.'s ride were scratching oak mite bites.

LSS's path came back with > .3cm clear margins and negative sentinel node. Looks like they got the little bastard.
Good news. Kudos. They may still want her to take an AI or Tamoxifen, depending on ER/PR status and other details.
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Originally Posted by ls01
It's not as bad as failing to get old.
how do you do that?
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Originally Posted by sshakari
how do you do that?
Ride in the middle of the lane in Texas and refuse to move to the side when a dually is approaching. That's one way.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Good news. Kudos. They may still want her to take an AI or Tamoxifen, depending on ER/PR status and other details.
XRT and anti-estrogen therapy for certain, as far as I know. Rad and med onc consults pending.

The plastics outcome is pretty good too, but quite a change so late in life!

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Originally Posted by MoAlpha

LSS's path came back with > .3cm clear margins and negative sentinel node. Looks like they got the little bastard.
I don't know what this means but congrats?
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
Oh, and here's some tire usage that'll make the frugal among us proud. I noticed this when waiting around for the boys to show up last night -

I had inspected my tires last week and thought that I had some good miles left, so this snuck up on me. I'm actually kind of glad that I didn't see this before leaving home - I would have been tempted to stay home. Instead, I just tried to be a little more conservative with rear brake and not hop too many curbs or do anything else dumb.
I started experiencing this a few years ago. Tires seem to look fine and then the tread goes all at once. I had one of those last Spring.
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize
And my left knee was in pain in bed last night. A first.
I worried all day and all night about hamstring attachments behind my knees before today’s metric century but I felt fine, even on the hills. It was a very sedate group with perfect weather.
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Originally Posted by datlas
You know, the GP5000 tires have magic wear indicators which could prevent such a calamity.
If you are a high mileage rider, they can show belts not long after one notices the indicators are gone.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
The Michelin have Tread Wear Indicators, too; the dimples still looked dimpled last week.
Yep. I just posted something similar. Dimples gone today and tread showing tomorrow.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
At a rate of 25 minutes per day, how long would it take to cut your lawn?
Why would I do that?
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IKR? I'm still trying to decide who'd be best to portray me in the movie adaptation.
Meryl Streep. She has amazing range.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
Meryl Streep. She has amazing range.


I don't know if she has the guads, though.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi


I don't know if she has the guads, though.
Nicole Kidman has prior cycling experience

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Originally Posted by indyfabz
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They are flirting with first place in the NL East!
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Nicole Kidman has prior cycling experience

That's looking like the era of BMX bikes that I fell in love with as a kid. I can't remember for sure, but I think that I had a subscription for BMX Plus. I loved thumbing through that magazine.
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