WhyFi

Awesome - congrats!

Trsnrtr

It's just a fixed gear though it does have a flip-flop hub so one can coast if they flip the wheel. It started out as a Pure Fix Roosevelt and then I replaced the bars and stem with a Cinelli 1A stem and Cinelli Criterium bars. Replaced the crank with an IRD Campy knock-off and mounted Campagnolo brakes.

I've got more in upgrades than the original bike cost.

BTW, I was mistaken, it's a 54 cm and it's been ridden about 75 miles.

PepeM

Oh. Too big.

rpenmanparker 

I just found out Hillary's mother was named Dorothy. Small world. My mother too. And Mrs. rpen's too. NO, MRS. RPEN AND I ARE NOT SIBLINGS! We are from Louisiana, not Appalachia.

f4rrest

Is that you're shot? It's impressively composed.

rjones28 

Well done.

rjones28 

Blame. I think the word you're looking for is blame.

rjones28 

rjones28 

f4rrest

Nice!

Rowan

I sincerely hope that everything is OK. Silence on the web here is the worst part of all this. For me, it was not being able to let people know what was happening and that I was all right; for Machka in particular, it was praying that the worst had not happened when it was evident that people were being killed all around me.

Trsnrtr

@Heathpack Hope all is well this morning.

Doug28450

Thanks everyone. I appreciate your wishes.

Doug28450

Thank you very much.

WalksOn2Wheels

Lazy weekend. Just catching up.

Wishing for @Heathpack's safety and sad for the loss happening all around her.

Nice job @Doug28450 on being an addictionite high achiever.

Cool new bike @jtaylor996. And you definitely get points for riding it at all that late in the day. It was pretty stupid hot this weekend, even by typical North Texas standards.

I took a lazy ride on Saturday morning. It was a local shop group ride I had been meaning to go on for a while now. They posted on FB that it would be a recovery pace, so I knew I would at least be able to go on the ride without embarrassing myself. Other than the 2 or three steep hills that people went after and that one long drag they did a "sprint finish" on, it was a super slow pace. It was good for me because I don't think I've ever actively done a true recovery pace on a ride before. Plus I met a couple of new people and got to know a couple of the shop people a little better.

It looks like rain for us this week. I might have to break out the rollers again for morning workouts. I managed to not ride at all the previous week. The long gravel ride coupled with the business travel put me off of riding during the week. I definitely need to do something this week to keep on it.

WalksOn2Wheels

Wow! I haven't seen that one before. I bet his drivetrain was really clean.

The worst I saw was the typical WD-40 soaked drivetrain. In one instance, the guy told me he was just getting the bike ready for his kid to take to college. You could smell the WD-40 right away. The whole rear of the bike was soaked. I decided the thing would probably end up sitting on a bike rack for ages, so it was probably smart to keep it doused in the stuff. I just adjusted the gears and made sure the brakes and rim were clean.

WalksOn2Wheels

I was reminded of how fat I am this weekend. On the group ride, I had a good 50 pounds at least on everyone there. I've been stuck at 210-215 since I stopped calorie counting. I know, I know.

But on the downhill sections, I was just coasting in a relaxed position while the smaller guys were getting aero and pedaling high cadences. I kept having to hit the brakes to stay out of their rear wheel. yeah, I should start calorie counting again...

RPK79

Ugh, I'm not catching up on 12 pages. Page 123 had beer talk. I'll pretend you're still on that subject.

I've tried the New Belgium 1554 a while back, I seem to remember thinking it was okay, but not worth repurchase.

I stopped at a new restaurant called New Bohemia in Eagan, MN yesterday. I guess it's a growing regional chain with 6 locations and a food truck here in MN. Not bad. They just have fancy sausages and a few burgers and apps on the menu, but then they have 36 beers on tap.

The Eagan location is right next to one of the bike shops I hit a lot. If they ever switch their group rides to a day I can do I'll push to have a round or two there after the rides.

I had the Lift Bridge Farm Girl Saison. Yummy.

Doug28450

Those fire photos are amazing.

PepeM

Are 30 of them IPAs like in most places?

Heathpack 

@doug24850, major kudos! Now we can all say we knew you when...

The nighttime fire pic is not mine. I took it from a friends FB page but I don't know who should get credit. The pics of the TV images- those are mine!

Amazingly, although we are up to 33000 acres burned and still only 10% containment with 20,000 people evacuated from 10,000 homes, zero additional structures were burned, including the houses in the TV images.

They are having trouble getting the planes in the air to drop fire ******ant because of the poor visibility and winds. It's been mostly water drops from helicopters and firefighters on foot. They are concentrating their efforts on keeping the fire from crossing the 14 freeway because that's where 95% of the population sits in our town. The 18 homes that have burned so far are all out in side canyons. In town, not in remote boonies, but the beautiful outskirts.

One of my favorite roads to ride is Sand Canyon. It's shady from a live oak forest and full of small horse farms. This is where the fire started, where Sand Canyon Rd intersects with the 14 freeway. They thought the fire was moving away but this fire is very erratic, in part because of an unexpected wind event. So it burned in one direction and then turned around and came back, burning fuel that it didn't get the first time. So people were hastily evac in the night from Sand Canyon and everyone was expected to get back in yesterday to evac the horses. But the fire did the unexpected yesterday and people can't get to the horses they left behind. It just so distressing because a lot of these horses are within 5 miles of safety, you could walk in there and lead them out, you don't even need a trailer. No dice on that, though. So it's just horses and firefighters back there now.

Mostly what's burning is chaparral and dry brush, this stuff is no great loss, it will come back quickly. The live oaks, though. The idea of those being gone is heartbreaking. Some of them are I'm sure 100+ years old.

As to me personally, we live pretty smack dab in the middle of town. If things get to apocalypse level, we could be in trouble. Otherwise, it's air quality and commute chaos and feelings of empathy/heartbreak and loss of cycling routes that impact me personally. No personal danger yet.

RPK79

It was a good mix.

WhyFi

I've been to the one in the St Anthony area, came away with roughly the same feeling - not bad at all, but not necessarily something that'll make me go out of my way for a return trip. The problem with that particular location is that it's on the same block as an Eastern European place (Kramarczuk's) that also has a terrific selection of sausages (and meatballs, cabbage rolls, goulash, pirogi, pirozhki, etc, etc).

RPK79

This one is right next to a Genghis Grill which has great food and horrible bottle only beer selection. There is also the Granite City Food & Brewery nearby that I've been meaning to check out. I did get a burger at one of those, but was on the clock and couldn't try the beer.

WhyFi

I take it that Genghis is a Mongolian BBQ place? Love those. Could never track one down in NYC so I was always sure to hit one when I was visiting MN. Man, I could go for some Khan's for lunch...

You ever hit up any of the breweries in M/SP? Some good places, many within walking distance of eachother.