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Old 11-12-19 | 07:33 PM
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Old 11-14-19 | 11:19 AM
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Old 11-14-19 | 12:48 PM
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A live mouse.
Eeeek!

This morning, for the first time in nearly two weeks, I didn't find fog* on the highway, so I rode to work. It was nice.



*I barely trust cagers to drive in a straight line on a sunny morning, and not at all on a dark, foggy morning when their reaction seems to be 'drive faster!'
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Old 11-14-19 | 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by noglider
A live mouse.
So what kind of bike was he riding?
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Old 11-14-19 | 01:58 PM
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So what kind of bike was he riding?
Just a trasher.
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Old 11-14-19 | 02:14 PM
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Who leaves baby shoes behind???
For sale: Baby shoes, never worn.

Attributed to Hemingway but he probably didn't write it. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/...ory-ever-told/
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Old 11-14-19 | 03:40 PM
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For sale: Baby shoes, never worn.

Attributed to Hemingway but he probably didn't write it. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/...ory-ever-told/
Great minds?

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I like it. Not the flat spot, but the flash fiction aspect. "For Sale: Two Bikes, never ridden."
Missing the tragic overtones of "For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn."
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Old 11-14-19 | 04:16 PM
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Great minds?
Gotta get some use out of that English degree, right?
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Old 11-16-19 | 07:43 PM
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Yet another perfectly good bike tail light.
That makes four this year, (so far).
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Old 11-18-19 | 10:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Shimagnolo
Yet another perfectly good bike tail light.
That makes four this year, (so far).
Nice! That's how I got my first cygolite hotshot (100 I think), it worked great for me for a few years, until recently. I bought a 150 to replace it
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Old 11-18-19 | 04:23 PM
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Nice! That's how I got my first cygolite hotshot (100 I think), it worked great for me for a few years, until recently. I bought a 150 to replace it
The best of the four are a Cygolite Hotshot, and a Specialized Stix.
The focus if very different between the two:
- Hotshot - tight focus like a spotlight.
- Stix - wide focus like a floodlight.

The Hotshot can be seen much further, IF it is pointed directly at you.
But the Stix is brighter if you are off center of it.
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Old 11-22-19 | 04:08 PM
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Cool! [MENTION=122290]Shimagnolo[/MENTION], do you take requests?
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Old 11-23-19 | 01:58 AM
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A 1/2" shallow-depth socket – Husky brand. Are all Husky tools black in color as opposed to chrome?

Sockets are the most common tool I find on the roads. I love adding them to my toolbox, especially knowing they've been dropped from work trucks and their bicyclist-hating drivers.
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Old 11-23-19 | 03:36 AM
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I feel like Charlie Brown. You guys find all the good stuff and all I find is rocks!!
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Old 11-23-19 | 09:06 PM
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Originally Posted by thriftyswift3
A 1/2" shallow-depth socket – Husky brand. Are all Husky tools black in color as opposed to chrome?

Sockets are the most common tool I find on the roads. I love adding them to my toolbox, especially knowing they've been dropped from work trucks and their bicyclist-hating drivers.
Black sockets are often used with impact guns, chrome ones aren't.
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Old 11-23-19 | 10:18 PM
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A 1/2" shallow-depth socket – Husky brand. Are all Husky tools black in color as opposed to chrome?
No.

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Old 11-25-19 | 08:14 AM
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Originally Posted by bpcyclist
I feel like Charlie Brown. You guys find all the good stuff and all I find is rocks!!
I'm there with you. After more than a decade of daily commuting I can probably count on one hand the number of things I've found worth keeping.
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Old 11-25-19 | 08:31 AM
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Black sockets are often used with impact guns, chrome ones aren't.
Oh, that's so true. Thanks for the reminder.
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Old 11-26-19 | 08:05 AM
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Originally Posted by bpcyclist
I feel like Charlie Brown. You guys find all the good stuff and all I find is rocks!!
For some reason that reminds me of a tale of the old west. Mule skinners were throwing black rocks at their mules to "encourage" them. They later found the black rocks contained gold. Not sure how true it is..
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Old 11-26-19 | 08:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Tundra_Man
I'm there with you. After more than a decade of daily commuting I can probably count on one hand the number of things I've found worth keeping.
that is because most of the time you are commuting all the stuff is underneath snow, ice, etc. haha
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Old 11-26-19 | 09:07 AM
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For some reason that reminds me of a tale of the old west. Mule skinners were throwing black rocks at their mules to "encourage" them. They later found the black rocks contained gold. Not sure how true it is..
Possibly, but the gold would be obvious, since it doesn't form compounds easily.
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Old 11-27-19 | 04:04 PM
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Consider yourself lucky; I find trash and road kill.
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Originally Posted by RidingMatthew
that is because most of the time you are commuting all the stuff is underneath snow, ice, etc. haha
Either that or Tundra_Man traverses a sparsely-traveled route.
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Old 12-02-19 | 08:02 AM
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Originally Posted by noglider
Either that or Tundra_Man traverses a sparsely-traveled route.
that is another possibility. I was just thinking since Tundra_Man rides on a tundra it might be covered with snow, ice, etc. It was a weak joke.
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Old 12-02-19 | 08:27 AM
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Originally Posted by RidingMatthew
that is another possibility. I was just thinking since Tundra_Man rides on a tundra it might be covered with snow, ice, etc. It was a weak joke.
I got it. It's ok that it was a weak joke, because I am a weak man.
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