Grumpy McTrumpy

mistake:

just finished updating my "2010 races" spreadsheet

not very impressive.. piss poor is more like it :/

kensuf

We've officially set a record for the hottest summer in North Florida. The only five day period where the temps were not in the 90s was that four day weekend I was in the Caymans, go figure.

botto 

i think you're confusing bikeforums for styleforums.

forget dickies are for skateboarders and gas station attendants, not office work. the polyester twill looks ok for the 1st wear, then they go south quickly.

look at jcrew. i was just in one of their outlets the other day, and they had a big sale on chinos/khakis (of all colors).

substructure

Fricken strange:

I have a door in my office that separates my office with another. The door remains closed.
I got here early and was sitting here. The place is real quiet. Suddenly the door sounded like it shut hard or was knocked on real hard.

The building that our offices are in was an old hotel back in the late 1800s to early 1900s. Most of the rooms on this floor were old bedrooms. Some of them, like mine, were two rooms joined by a door. The history in this building is pretty cool. Read some history here

The fire in the hotel, from what I was told, had taken place in this part of the building.

ridethecliche

Thank you kindly. I'll check it out if I find one. I think I found something else though.

/styleforums

hammy56

waterrockets 

Whatever you do, don't have sex. They always get you when you're having sex.

substructure

Well, that would have been difficult to do ... well, not really. But I was by myself here.
Does that happen in the movies too?

big john

I wish someone had taught me these things, like maybe one of my brothers. Sure couldn't ask Dad anything like that.

waterrockets 

No, you should do that. Pay attention!



"Doesn't anyone knock any more?!?!"

ridethecliche

Are you talking about mike's girl thing or my clothing thing?

substructure

Indubitably

Flatballer

140mm (5.51") in the front, 120 mm (4.75") in the rear. I'm thinking somewhere around 24 lbs, but that's a WAG. Most of my stuff is light. Magura Marta SL brakes, XTR all around, Thomson stuff isn't heavy. The wheels are beefy but still only 2000g. The fork is really light for a 140mm AM fork (1785g including 20mm Maxle) and the frame isn't all that heavy (somewhere in the 6 lb range I believe).

I'll have it weighed tomorrow probably. Gotta swing by the shop to get the front disc tightened. Won't be off work in time tonight thanks to getting in late.

big john

Both.

Flatballer

I'm in the top 10. That's my best finish ever in a race. Some pretty stiff competition too. A few national champs, and one world champ poster (pcad, world champion of posts).

rankin116

Front disc tightened? Do you have a torx wrench?

Be sure to get pics up, sounds like this is going to be a nice ride.

Flatballer

I too would like to know how to get girls to touch my wee wee. It's happened before, but I think I just got lucky (see what I did there?).

big john

That seems very light. I broke my old K2 (3 in front, 3.5 in back) and it was about 28 pounds. Very cheap frame, though. I bought a low end KHS and the lbs threw in a Manitou fork (130mm) and I think the thing is about 32-33 pounds. Fine for riding alone but a bit more challenging trying to keep up with skinny climbers on 24# XC machines.

Flatballer

It needs a special tool. They're both centerlock discs/hubs, which I wanted since it's elegant and lighter. The rear (Q/R) uses a lock-ring tool to tighten, which I have. The front has a 20mm through axle, so you can't use the same lock ring style (because the axle is bigger than the tool), so they use a BB style lockring. It's for some BB that I don't have, so I don't have the tool.

Flatballer

like I said, WAG. Probably an optimistic WAG. I think my old S-works XC bike was 22. Wheels are the same weight essentially, frame is probably 3 lbs heavier, fork is probably .5 lb heavier. So maybe more like 25.5 or 26.

carpediemracing 

At UCONN, when VCRs were getting less expensive, they had a bunch of desks in the Student Union where you could go and watch videos of classes and such. You could also watch some movies. They also had two TV screens in the main lobby area, usually playing movies. We'd go there after buying food, sit, eat, hang out. One day they had the Fast Times movie playing on the main screens. Got to that part of the movie. Everyone started speculating if UCONN would have some kind of censored version of the movie (like public TV would). Everyone kind of grinned when Phoebe revealed all - UCONN was broadcasting the actual movie.

Then it got interesting.

The clip started looping back, showing her dropping her top over and over, then going to slow mo. Everyone started grinning at first, then laughing. We had no idea what was going on.

Well, ends up that some of the desks can be used by someone making a presentation in the Student Union "lobby"/hang-out area - you hit some button and the feed goes to the lobby TVs. So someone (I'm assuming a guy) happened to be watching Fast Times on one of those particular VCRs.

btw the song in that scene is classic. I know it's a classic because they played it on the "classic alternative" station.

cdr

Homebrew01

I usually let my co-workers be the guide. Generally, wear what your peers wear, or something slightly nicer.

waterrockets 

Nice.

Looping that scene over and over.

Hmm.

I'll be in my bunk.

ZeCanon

Me and Johnybuts in a dead heat.


Bring it.

Flatballer

and they say racers are competitive.