Originally Posted by
NoRacer
Jeff saw that I was shivering and offered me a ride back. At first I tried to be stubborn and insist on riding home, but after more of the water soaked in, I decided that the prudent thing was to take up Jeff's offer. Besides, they were stopping for lunch at the Lancaster Brewing Co. :
My bad, should have never said the four letter word. I work up this morn @630(to work on taxes
) and thought about you. It was really coming down. How was the brew?
Originally Posted by
joshandlauri
what is that? I spelled a $$ (w/o the space) and it changed it to a bunch of asteriks
It knows you have a potty mouth.
Originally Posted by
greaterbrown
Yeah, NAHBS looked great this year. When I was researching bikes before buying the Kogswell, I found many nice stock builds-
Velo Orange,
Gunnar "Sport",
Marinoni "Sportivo",
Surly "LHT",
Co-Motion "Nor'Wester",
Salsa "Casseroll",
Soma and of course,
Kogswell. The Marinoni was a real close 2nd to the Coho. Although all of these bikes are stock geometries, there are lots of custom changes you can make to them.
And, then... there's the full customs. There are so many small builders out there now making really great b
(whoa, you really got me talkin. Check out all those links! Shall I type another page on this topic?
)
You really got "it" bad. I like the Ellis as well, Doug's bike was awesome.
Originally Posted by
The Human Car
My progress:
On the minus side: I totally wimped going up Gun Rd coming back from MDOT today.
On the plus side: I looked at my bike computer and my last two rides combined 53 miles, moving average 12.6! It's moving up!
Gunn is hard for people with original hips
Originally Posted by
greaterbrown
Feels fine just walking around. I've been doing the metro + bike commute this week- no twinges so far. I talk to a sports med/PT doc on monday and I've got a comprehensive bike fit appointment with Jill at Proteus on friday. By next week I should know much more about why it's happening and how to avoid recurrence.
I work near Proteus if you want to go for lunch or a nooner ride. We can test out your fit and knee.