Originally Posted by
FXN56
So, two people mention the topic of divorce and the whole thread fizzles out? How depressing. Another reason to be happy I never married.
On a lighter note... We still have our bikes, right?
A young couple from back home visited last week. Young being 40ish. At some point she said healthy couples discuss divorce frequently. I guess we have problems, because in 39 years it's never come up.
Did somebody say bikes? I love talking bikes. I'm at 4 right now, with
* Detroit Bikes Sparrow build fixie my daily commuter, utility bike, 100k RUSA pop machine, and sometimes rando bike when I get the itch for a stupid long fixie ride.
* Carbon Trek Domane as my main brevet bike. Performed admirably on two 1200s. Next up is LEL for 1500km. I'm stressed and excited. DNF'd last time, my only grand brevet DNF.
* Soma Fog Cutter, former brevet bike, now relegated to foul weather brevet bike, backup commuter, and wannabe gravel or bikepacking bike in case I ever do gravel or bikepacking.
* Focus Mares CX bike, from my brief foray into cyclocross. For sale, but nobody is buying.
Unicycles and trainer bikes do not count as bikes fyi. BI meaning two, and the unicycle has one wheel as does the trainer bike.
I just switched the fixie from square taper with nondescript alloy cranks to a more modern external bearing hollowtech Ultegra crankset. Then I ran into
about water intrusion and corrosion on hollowtech cranks, so maybe that was a bad idea. Oy.
Related to that, the carbon Trek itself potentially has the carbon/alloy battery electrolysis thing at a few places, so maybe I'll consider the Fog Cutter backup for when the alloy bits turn to dust. It is wet here in the PNW, and water always finds a way.
Two craigslist ads have only uncovered scammers for the Focus. Annoying. Eventually I'll donate the d**n thing just to free up garage space.
September '24 on a RUSA Dart to Seattle I crashed when an oncoming pickup came into our lane and freaked out the pace line leader. No serious injuries, and we all finished within the time limit. Pretty gnarly road rash on my right knee is finally scarring up under the surface. It's been super tender until recently. Kind of a weird injury, I wonder if the weird and slow healing is age related.
On a final note, my boss is retiring and I no longer have him between me and the VP, who's an ass. Rage quitting may happen, which means my 2 week trip to the UK in August could extend to three or four.