genejockey 

I've heard some folks don't tip, or tip very poorly, any place they don't expect to come back to, like if they're on vacation. When I was a busboy at a sit-down restaurant in Gettysburg one summer, I saw a table of 8 people who were there for hours, and left an ungodly mess (kids plastering food on every square inch within the range of their arms) and left a dollar tip.

BillyD

DougRNS

I thought you were a fatty. Pretty soon we will weigh the same as you balloon up and I waste away eating broth and instant mashed potatoes.
#FormerlyMightyDoug

Velo Vol 

You're missing out.

DougRNS

goNad is better.

genejockey 

Ah, but that uses different letters.

Velo Vol 

It's a new season. Sad.

big john

That chart lists bald-faced hornets similar to honey bees. I call B.S. I had one fly up the back of my shorts one time and it stung me on the glute. The pain was intense and quite startling. Like a honey bee times 10. It left a round welt the size of a silver dollar. This happened near Arcata, California. I don't think they live near L.A.

Mojo31

Thats just wrong.

Velo Vol 

In Vancouver radio news:

Velo Vol 

This is the future rjones28 wants.

LesterOfPuppets

PAOTD yellow edition

indyfabz

Those things are nasty. During a long weekend tour a year or two ago I arrived back at my campsite. I was sitting at the picnic table having a snack when one fell out of the tree above me onto the table. It had a cicada in its clutches. It proceeded to rip the cicada in half and fly off with part of it.

I didn’t know what it was at the time. Posted a photo of it. Can’t remember which forum, but a member identified it for me. Looked it up on Google Images. He was correct.

seedsbelize2

Wordle 6/6
brainfog

indyfabz

Anyone using any of the current Giro road helmets? I have always liked how well Giro helmets ventilate. The Kask Mojito 3X I bought last year, despite being very comfortable, seems to have negative ventilation and needs to be demoted to commuting/errand duty.

rjones28 

The future is now.

Velo Vol 

No one is pretending that's a "bike."

rjones28 

Northern Lights Motors does not pretend that their product is a bike.

rjones28 

It's more like an EV version of this.

datlas 

That's a fantastic song, both in music and message.

Velo Vol 

WhyFi

When I was a yut, one of the local radio stations looped R.E M.'s It's the End of the World as We Know It for a couple/few days, with no explanation. Turns out they'd been bought and came back with a modified format afterwards.

Mojo31

That thing is so friggin cool. For those that don't know, it has a fan that sucks it down to create downforce. Scary fast car.

big john

Something similar happened near here. A station played Creedence Clearwater's version of Heard it through the Grapevine continuously 24 hours. This went on for maybe months. No commercials, no talking, just Grapevine.

big john

There was a car called the Chapparral in the 60s with that and they were driving around the Ford GTs and the fan was quickly banned.

The most unusual Chaparral was the 2J. On the chassis' sides bottom edges were articulated plastic skirts that sealed against the ground (a technology that would later appear in Formula One). Two fans adapted from a military tank engine were housed at the rear, driven by a single two-stroke twin-cylinder engine.[5] The car had a "skirt" made of Lexan extending to the ground on both sides, laterally on the back of the car, and laterally from just aft of the front wheels. It was integrated with the suspension system so the bottom of the skirt would maintain a distance of one inch from the ground regardless of g-forces or anomalies in the road surface. The skirting produced a zone within which the fans could create a vacuum producing downforce on the order of 1.25 to 1.50 g when the car was fully loaded (fuel, oil, coolant).