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Are we happy?

FLvector

I don't ever go to A&S, so maybe that's why I'm happy. For me, ignorance is bliss in the 41.

Rowan

We did our coasting memorial ride today. Left from the front door and road a loop into the city and back again. Over 48km. I was on the Merlin C110 Works carbon bike that I mentioned in an earlier post. It was actually quite nice to get back on that bike; I hadn't been on it since we moved to Hobart 18 months ago. It was built as a "trophy bike", but has done more than 8000km of various rides including several longish randonnees.

I also trialled a GPS unit that I bought cheap from Torpedo7. It's a Soleus and frankly... I am a convert to this newfangled stuff that allows you to upload to Strava and get maps and stuff. I am locked away in a private account, but it should enable me to keep a record of my rides.

So, thanks Charlie for the ride today. I am a bit solemn in the picture for obvious reasons, but the ride in general was pretty darned good.

Trsnrtr

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Trainer is allowed but not to me. Road or it doesn't count for me in this case.

Trsnrtr

Big help if I had drone shipping. Need today.

Trsnrtr

Chapeau!

Trsnrtr

Canadian link. Probably spam or a virus.

BillyD

Memphis.

BillyD

Very nice.

BillyD

Trsnrtr

Quick look out the window:

Untitled by trsnrtr, on Flickr

Heathpack 

Nice ride.

Heathpack 

Lol, trainer is looking pretty good right now, I'll bet.

Trsnrtr

Yeah, and the temps are in the 40s at the moment, too.

3alarmer 

...am I wrong in saying HTFU ?

UnfilteredDregs

Thank you Good Sir... 'twas a test. There's wind then there's Wind.

I'm thinking of having an affair. Going for a second opinion with another mechanic at a rather high-end shop in Greenwich. I have a very good mechanic but, I still have this shifting issue when downshifting...where it hangs up a bit at times, and then with enough load, "Pop!"

They say it's because I'm too much finesse and not enough smartly-snappiness with my lever stroke.

I say bull****. The rear shifted like buttah for 5K miles now all of a sudden this ever so subtle, yet annoying, and foreboding indicator of bad things to come...like a snapped derailleur cable 50+ miles from home in a damned state park.

I used to work on tactical combat aircraft. I got wrenches, I got the cable stretchy-plier-thingamajig, cutters, etc..

I'm sure I can run new cable, housing & all that nonsense, what perplexes me, and it seems no one has a definitive answer is...

How much tension is enough on the cable when you install it? What is the actual metric?

I'd rather break my bike a few times and 1000% learn how to do this myself. It's frustrating to know there's a problem and the "set in their ways experts" send you on your way.

They're Brooklyn mechanics after all. They are en thrall to hipsterdome. Hipsters don't have guad-wattage.

WhyFi

I don't know, but I've never had issues with a moderate amount of tension and then finessing with the barrel adjusters.

3alarmer 

...I'm presuming you have some sort of brifter (ergonomic shifter/lever combination) ? Cables are less sophisticated than you seem to presume. There is no standard for tensioning them of which I am aware, you just set the thing so it has zero slack in your small cog in back, and then you fiddle around with the threaded fine adjustment barrel thing at the derailleur end of the cable housing on the chainstay to get it dialed in for exact placement on your cogs so it shifts smoothly onto every one of them.

The limit screws on the derailleur itself take care of excessive travel issues. Teh onliest hard part with breefters is that unless the thing is fully released when you pull out the old cable, and left in that position, it can be veeeeery tedious to get out the old cable (or what remains of it) and to run the new one through the tiny access hole provided.

There are also some hanging up issues that are caused by accumulated schmutz inside the brifter, which has some teeny weeny mechanical pawls/springs/pieces. this is best approached by turning your bike upside down in a stand, placing a bucket under the brifter, and running about half a can of WD 40 through the thing while shifting it up and down repeatedly.

I never looked, but there are probably Youtube videos on this operation. If you do not have brifters, apologies for the assumption.

3alarmer 

...this was wrong of me, because I am warm and drinking coffee in a dry place. My apologies.

BillyD

Ok, who ARE you, and where have you disposed of 3alarmer?

BillyD

And why have you bothered to take over his account? Does he have money stashed away?

(asking for, eh, family.)

Bunyanderman

I feel the same way some days, but I still have some love for swimming. I am not amazing at swimming, nothing like a record setting swimmer, but for my school and the division we are placed in, I am hitting the wall first in the majority of my races. And It feels pretty good to be a major factor in our school winning our League title.

Coming late May or early June I will look into investing 15 hours of training per week into racing. I will be sure to hit the race scene again, as I loved my first race.

3alarmer 

...the family fortune is all tied up in old bikes. I do think some of them might be your size, IIRC.

Bunyanderman

I don't want to spam a gofundme, but this is a pretty sad story Tyler's treatment fund by emma weaver - GoFundMe . I know who has created this and it would never be faked.

3alarmer 

...not saying this is faked, so don't misunderstand me here, but one of the more humane things that came about because of the ACA (Obamacare) is that pre-existing conditions are now covered by legal mandate. Insurance companies cannot exclude them from coverage.

So if youir friend is unaware of this, she should be made so. That said, not all plans will allow you to choose the Mayo clinic as your treatment option, so that might be what's going on.