[MENTION=333534]SpeshulEd[/MENTION] my mom runs Ubuntu.

I update it when I visit AZ.

Yep, the whole sub-forum is laugh a minute!

He really was on life support for a while. He kept coming back, but just seemed... well... not long for the BF world.

I am not sure I understand the rationale here with the PVC pipe. If you take away the spacers (ie, the PVC pipe), there is no pressure being applied by the top cap downward on to the top bearing... and there is nothing to stop the whole lot from flopping around. Yeah, sure, the stem is there, but if there is six inches of bare steerer tube under it, it serves no purpose at all.

Ahhh... are the guys saying that the bike had spacers ABOVE the stem? That part is not clear to me.

With no paragraphs!!

there is a special place for people like you in the afterlife.

usually when a series of events like this happens at work i just walk across campus to wherever the person is and do it myself, and im considered a very patient man

When she was reading about it, it didn't sound fun. If I remember correctly, after the start you go about a half mile, then into the tunnel. The tunnel is about 3.5 miles long and not lighted. They recommend that you bring lights.

Did I mention running is stupid.

#overstatingtheobvious

You overstated the tunnel run. It's only 2.25 miles.

Here is another one. Why do SS bikes require more spokes than multi-speed?

Can't believe I missed out on sleep, sweet sleep, to watch that ****-show of a football game. Both teams were horrible in every facet during the first half, but only the Vikings had the grit and determination to be horrible the entire game.

I've written a lot of long papers in my day, but I'm not sure I could stretch the topic of being entertained by idiots arguing online into 12 pages.

The initial conjecture was that there was a very long steerer, but probably a couple of spacers below the stem, but they weren't sure if there were spacers ABOVE the stem or not. One of those weird instances where a guy didn't cut off the excess for some reason. Maybe he thought he wanted to ride it for a while before he committed to a length?

Yes.

I commend you sir. She'd never make it if this was the case for her.

If I could have went to her house and done it for her, I would have. She's in Michigan though so I have to do everything remotely. Which usually isn't too bad, until chrome disappears from her computer for whatever reason.

It's not a road that they're building. I'm not really sure what they're doing. I know eventually there will be bike trail running through the area to connect Hastings, MN with South St Paul, MN. I imagine this construction has something to do with that.

As I was leaving after making a few laps a bobcat was driving in. I timed my exit perfectly.

They don't. Mine doesn't, anyway.

Correct. Above the stem. I can see waiting to commit to a cut, but there ain't no way they're ever going to want the stem half a foot above the headset. I would have chopped it off to a respectable level before ever showing my face with it. It was a clean looking bike otherwise.

Stopped by the LBS on the way home yesterday. I had no idea there was something like 40,000 different styles of rear cogs for a SS bike and different tools depending on the style and 37,000 different styles of chainrings. I also didn't realize I will need another tool for replacing a chainring. Is that tool at least uniform between all cranksets in case I ever wanted to take the rings off my geared bike?

Congratulations.

Greetings Addicts.

I posted about this in the Masters Racing Forum, but I'm still happy about it, so I'm posting here.

Rode my first 20k TT on the new TT bike aka the Grasshoppa on Sunday. I won it, which was nice. But mostly it was awesome because the TT bike has been a huge struggle for me, I could not put out sustained power on it, I fatigued really easily and it was starting to have a negative impact on other rides.

But in the 48hrs before the race, I finally got the new aero wheels on it, tubeless tires and the new power meter with more TT-appropriate gearing. Then the day before the TT, I saw my fitter and we changed saddle position, height and arm pad position. Bingo! I was back in business. At full power (although I didn't realize it until after the TT, it's normal to be slightly down on power on a TT bike and I assumed I would be).

The huge happy thing for me is not so much the win but the fact that I rode a really good time trial, on a technical level, for a newby. I had a good start, a really good turn, nice splits, and very steady power- the ideal is that you ride +/- 10% of your FTP, which is a little hard to do on the course I was riding (overall flat but lots of little ups and downs). I was probably 95% of my time within my power range, you have to really concentrate to do that.

I PRed it in a big way, cut 2:20ish off my previous best, which was on the Magic Bike. It was just awesome. Mostly a big fat relief though because I was starting to feel sad about the TT bike, like it was a huge mistake. Also just feel this huge sense of gratitude, because between my coach and my fitter I am just so far ahead of the curve with this mega-technical TT stuff.

And Oh. My. God. The wheels. Incredible. Aero wheels, where have you been all my life?!

Im thinking with the remaining necessary equipment purchases (aero helmet and clothing) and more experience and riding at a little higher power, the next minute will come off my 20K time pretty readily. After that, its just going to be really hard work to get any faster. Looking forward to it.

Preserving resale value.