etherhuffer 

Really worried that with my new restoration project I might spin so fast that my jockey wheels go up in flames, consuming the entire bike. Plus the frame was really old and could be full of molybdenum mites. Horrid invasive critters.

See what being locked up for two years has done to my brain? Getting some projects going again has been so nice and takes one's mind off the news!

Wildwood 

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Pic of flaming bike desired, if you ever spin that fast.

edit: Get in a ride today, the weather is simpático.

etherhuffer 

Stuck indoors. The cedar and juniper pollen this year are horrid. I want to get out but even with every allergy med onboard its awful.

Wildwood 

Mask up?

Snot rocket ride?

noobinsf 

Wear an allergy mask — it’ll change your life.

https://www.bikeforums.net/commuting...ergy-mask.html

SurferRosa

What's the world coming to when you can't even insult ants in a thread title? Is the eusocial insect contingent really that sensitive?

etherhuffer 

No mask here. I just get too much going on to make it worth the effort. Biking should be fun, not a medical experiment!
I give an annual lecture to my fellow eye doctors every year about this time. I know every nook and cranny of allergy meds, side effects, choices. I wear a mask when mowing grass but that is sort of my limit. I did de-sensitization shots in the past, but the effectiveness has worn off. Time to do them again. They activate IgG instead of IgE immunoglobulins, thereby bypassing a histamine cascade. And, climate change has made Spring arrive earlier after warmer wetter winters. The pollen loads you see now are far larger than a few decades ago. If there are fellow sufferers out there, pollen.com is a great website. Plug in your zip code and you can see pollen load forecasts and specific pollen types
Spring: cedar, juniper, alder are the worst in Pacific Northwest
Summer: grasses, weeds.
Fall: weeds and molds/mildews
Winter: dust mites, molds
Molds are year round as well. Small particle allergens are the worst, as they have to be ingested and metabolized to be removed. Larger pollens can be expelled.
Add on top of this all the skin issues from masks the last two years. Eczema, rosacea, etc are all higher from masks against skin.

Good luck fellow sneezers and wheezers. At least its warmer out!

Kabuki12

Well I clicked on this expecting it was really about ants! Now that I’m here I will share an experience that is about ants. Back in about 1990 I bought a mountain bike thinking it would be fun (it was) and about 10 miles into the trail I got a flat, yes I had tuffy strips in the tires but goat heads don’t care. I have been cycling long enough to know how to fix this . I sat on a nice flat area off the trail and was pinching the tube with its newly installed patch waiting for the vulcanizing effect to occurs when I got a very uncomfortable feeling in a place on my body that is concealed by my shorts. Those nasty ####### fire ants , tiny little beasts that they are had found their way up my shorts and turned me into a brake dancer. My wife still laughs about it.

Korina

If the drought continues the way it’s going, wet winters won’t be a problem for too much longer. And you’ll need more ants.