WhyFi

That would be cool, but I bet that this would be too much overhead if all of the users are on a single server (which I suspect they are); if you could do private group rides, I would think that would be easier and very welcome.

LesterOfPuppets

How do you get the monkey back to the zoo?

Full rigid MTB obv.

WhyFi

*ape

LesterOfPuppets

I knew someone would grumble about that

rjones28 

More price reductions ahead. Will we have a market share battle?

WhyFi

One of my old industry buddies names all of his speakers after apes (an influential family member is a primatologist and anthropologist) and I got in the habit of correcting the "monkey" names.

rjones28 

Sadly, the shop has some left-over trainer inventory. Including smart trainers. Current season MSRPs are about even with previous wholesale pricing.

ls01

No, just why waxng is not worth talking about.

WhyFi

Yeah, I'm assuming that there was already enough typical market forces at play, but Zwift jumping in is like selling printers at low/no margin so that they can rake in the ink money. It just makes me wonder if the other manufacturers might grumble and start thinking of other ways to skin the cat.

rjones28 

Zwift are saying that the trainers aren't loss-leaders. I guess if you make a pennie a unit, it counts as a profit.

big john

There is a Filipino club here and I have joined several of their supported rides. The food is legendary and there is always a huge pot of Adobo chicken at the finish along with all manner of home made treats. Adobo Velo.

WhyFi

IIRC, Heathpack used to ride with a Filipino club fairly regularly, too. I'm not aware of a huge population in MN, though I'm starting to see Pinoy foods pop up here and there, in addition to the one market that's been around for forever on the other side of the metro.

big john

Only 2 of us on the Tuesday ride, the other regulars are out of town. We took it easy with no big climbs, stopped for a bagel and finished at 11:00 when it was 98 degrees. One motorist stopped next to us at a light and advised us to be off the road before it got too hot. Told him we had it covered.

datlas 

I think that's true. I wish our resident Addiction vet would pop in once in awhile, but times change and people change. I hope she is ok. I don't think I have seen anything on her Strava feed for awhile....

WhyFi

Occasionally walking the wires, but that's about all that I can recall.

big john

These guys would run 3 or 4 event type rides per year and our club was invited so about 10 or 12 members form our club would go. They only asked for a donation to cover expenses and it was limited to around 100 riders.
They had home made food at the lunch stop including hot soup on cold rides. They always take hundreds of pictures and post them for free.

Word got out and all kinds of people started showing up and not contributing so they made it members only. I never joined, I guess I should have.

They were always tough rides like this 10,000 foot century. That's umd in the white kit.

big john

I used to see her on the road from time to time but haven't for a while. She got upset with me for mentioning it here.

genejockey 

Our ancestors spent many millennia getting rid of those tails, after all!

genejockey 

Just at the moment, it seems impossible to believe it was ever, or ever will be cold enough to require dressing in all those layers.

Eric F 

Who's the weirdo with the not-black bike?...

genejockey 

Has the person with the Canyon Aeroad in the front complained about the creaking seatpost yet?

Mojo31

Don't know. Kind of looks like a Walmart bike of some sort.

Eric F 

Not that I've heard, but I don't know everyone in this group well enough to field their bike complaints. Or, maybe his complaints were drowned out by the creaking of my bike (also the seatpost, I'm pretty sure)

Eric F 

It's probably plastic.

big john

It might never be again. Those rides were in winter and one year there was ice on the road and a couple riders slid out.