Black wallnut 

@photoJoe Let the game begin! poundsignepic right @IBOHUNT

dagray

okay, so I am going to go out and see how far I ride before coming back home as it is 23 degrees outside and I don't have long pants How many carbs does that earn me? can I has a donut on my ride with a hot cup of coffee?

okay 1.5 miles and at about the 0.5 mile point I quit being able to feel my fingers....https://www.strava.com/activities/460864648 oh and we are getting just a few very small snow flakes coming down

I guess cold weather riding will be done on the BKool Pro trainer until I get some fleece bib tights, full finger gloves, and outerwear for cycling.

DrIsotope

In my estimation, if you ride far far enough and/or fast enough, you can eat whatever you want. I punctuated my first century with blue cheese and bacon covered chili fries. I did 115 miles on Dec. 30th, and fueled it with mini donuts, chocolate milk, and candy bars. Followed post-ride by 80% of a pepperoni pizza. My riding mantra is "beast mode to feast mode." Ride a lot, eat a lot. So eat all the donuts you want.

I'm going to go eat some leftover Xmas fudge.

Black wallnut 

While starting breakfast this morning our water quit running. We had an overnight low of -2°F and at the time I think it had warmed to +3°. We had just used the water and coffee was making. I had my wife take over the cooking so that I could put warm clothes on and go out and check the pump breakers. They were fine. Went back inside to have breakfast. After breakfast I put on my really cold weather layered clothing and went out to open the pump house. It has a press fit door, no hinges. A fully contained small outbuilding with well insulated 2x6 walls and roof over a concrete slab. This is the first time we have had issues in 12 years of owning the house. It has been colder for longer however a bit more than two years ago our pump leaked its smoke and had to be replaced and because of that the plumbing was changed a bit. I start testing for power and soon discover power is not getting through the pressure switch. Take the cover off and sure enough the contacts are open. When i manually close them, with an insulated tool of course the pump turns on. Although a pain in the a..... this is much better than my pump quitting. Make a call to my friendly local pump and well guy and he's busy as all get out but will sell me a switch for $20. I go fetch it. Set about replacing it and discover that the pipe leading to the switch was clogged with ice as was the switch. Now I'm taking a lunch break before going back out to finish the install of a 60 watt light bulb in the pump house to keep it above freezing in cold temps. The pump house currently only has one single 220 VAC feed so this is a bunch more complicated. I'm doing a temporary fix that I'll have to modify in the future when real electrical supply stores are open. Not how I wanted to spen my new years day!

PhotoJoe 

Thanks for getting the year started out...on time. I was at the rose parade and fingers were too numb to work the phone.

Erwin8r

I was sitting at home, sipping egg nog, looking at my bikes... Tomorrow morning will be the 2016 maiden voyage for me...

Black wallnut 

Finally feel better. Spent an hour and half on the trainer. Had a good dinner. Life is better.

jsigone

stuck again w/ being sick.. haven't touched my bike in a week

indyfabz

What's done is done. Now what?

IBOHUNT

I hate it when all the smoke leaks out rendering the device useless. In the past 18 years I've been here I've had to replace the pump twice; never been fortunate that it's only the switch. Even though my well is only 170' it's a PoundSign Epic haul getting it out of the ground. Saw what plumbers used and fabricated one to use along with the 4 wheeler winch

Erwin8r

Cool. Wish I had the patience for lego's again...

dagray

My youngest son got a lego ladder truck this Christmas, and so far has put it together and taken it apart no less than a dozen times.

TrojanHorse

Ah, back in town after an epic winter vacation in Mammoth. I've been severely limited in my ability to ski since I got hit by a car in 1997 and I managed THREE FULL DAYS this time, along with a day of cross country. I'm usually crying after 1 day, and I even hit some nasty mogul runs this time around. I think that perhaps all the cycling I've done has strengthened my knee joint but who cares - I had a blast. Most of it was spent hanging out with my kids on greens and easy blues but that was pretty fun too.

2016 cycling starts up tomorrow. I can hardly move my right arm, I must have slept on my shoulder funny, hopefully I won't care by tomorrow.

Erwin8r

So, somewhere between Christmas and New Year's Eve, my 7 year old's Redline mini BMX was stolen (Bike thieves should be castrated!!). She was just learning how to ride, and she was extremely sad... So I pulled some Craigslist-fu and found her this, at an extraordinary price:



She absolutely loves it! It's much lighter than her Redline--I paid a bit more than the $30 her Redline cost a swap meet, but not much more

Now, to teach her...

indyfabz

Time for a new one then. The ferris wheel has 2,464 pieces. That will keep him busy for a while.

DoubleTap

What's this thread about?

PhotoJoe 

Exactly!

DoubleTap

About to hop on the trainer for some Zwift. I didn't see any takers today, so I'll be out in the wasteland with all the 3.5 w/kg riders.

dagray

oh I can hear his frustration if he were to get that set. He gets frustrated the first couple times putting a new set together... he is only five.

Now to ride the BKool Trainer in a virtual environment while my TV gets commandeered by my oldest son and my wife as they watch football.....

DrIsotope

I think I had 75 trainer miles for all of 2015.
The eastern Inland Empire has had just under 6 inches of rain... from Feb. 2015 though today.
Today was partly cloudy with a high of 66º.

Not a lot of call for the trainer.
Should hit my 100 miles for the year tomorrow.

dagray

17 miles with an average of 2.875 miles per minute on the BKool trainer... now I am going to eat a snack (donut?) and drink some hot coffee.

skidder

First sunrise of 2016, about 7AM on the Huntington Beach (Calif) Pier. Great sunrise, but lousy surf.

PhotoJoe 

sounds good. My plans are in limbo. We'll be cutting it down to one night, at most. May do an out and back the same day. We want to use that money on some projects around the house.

Beachgrad05

That is the nice thing about it. You can do it without staying overnight

Black wallnut 

Finally upgraded my trainer to a KKRM!

Ahhh the smoothness and quietness.