Lol, there's no treatment. You just suffer. Once the oil has registered on you immune system, I don't believe anything can be done. It's your immune system doing the damage, not the oil. That's why it gets worse every subsequent time you're exposed.

Learn to identify it next time. I got into some apparently on the trail not too long ago.

When I moved to texas and bought a house on a creek (which is covered in the stuff) I had no reaction. But after years of cleaning that crap off the bank, I'm terribly sensitive to it now.

Not personally, but if you've got a question I could ask one in my office that does this all the time if you'd like.

Yeah, perhaps I haven't been exposed enough; in woodworking, some woods are classified as sensitizers - skin contact and dust may not bother you at first, but it can make you prone to increasingly severe reactions down the line.

So the rains never really came this weekend, so yesterday was a bonus ride day. I was already at my goal of 5 hours a week, and tired and sore, but there was a cool wind blowing and it was pretty out so I went for a long ride.

I did the same long route I took [MENTION=411791]topslop1[/MENTION] out on, but a solid hour faster (not the way strava reports, though) ;) I also finally made it up the 50yd long rock garden climb on the WESTSIIIIDE that beat us down last time.

I did manage to set some good strava PRs, etc, but that wasn't the point. I spent more than 20 minutes on the trail aiding people with broken bikes. One guy with a flat, and another guy who was just a wee newbie who snapped his chain. Took a while to figure out how to fix it, but eventually I got him on the trail again. Also, the crank brothers multi tool kinda sucks. After this fix, the chain thingy seized in place, I'm going to have to chuck it. I guess maybe the park tools one would be better?

Anyways, 'twas a good week. There is more to cycling than Strava.

Fitness wise I'm feeling benefits, but strangely still gaining some weight. My body is a bastard like that. FML.

I would say you've been exposed enough even if you've never been exposed at all!

I wouldn't wish that crap on anyone... even you!

Bike is stripped down mostly to the frame. Is it safe to run the brakes and derailers through the dishwasher if my wife doesn't know? Or will the water get in places I don't want it?

Who'da thunk a bike race with no brakes would cause a big crash?

The twitch hunt threads on slowtwitch were quite telling. It's been a long time, but the deception was more than I could stomach... even virtually.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...%29_edited.jpg

Seriously.

That's a good coffee mug. I have one sitting on my desk right now. I'm not cool enough for white. Mine is black.

Amazing all the Allez Sprints sold out already. Sweet frameset for $1200.

My first road bike was a black Allez with Sora from Ubikes for $700. Buddy still rides it. Still looks great.

Best cure for poison ivy is avoidance.

If it's a medium exposure, you can get away with benadryl and/or OTC hydrocortisone cream.

If it's a bad case but on small amounts of body and not face, you use high-potency topical steroids (prescription only).

If it's a bad case on lots of the body and/or face, you may need systemic steroids.

It gets worse with each successive exposure due to immune system memory/antibodies.

They used to have a shot to PREVENT poison ivy but it had liver toxicity, so no longer an option.

Best cure for poison ivy is avoidance.

If it's a medium exposure, you can get away with benadryl and/or OTC hydrocortisone cream.

If it's a bad case but on small amounts of body and not face, you use high-potency topical steroids (prescription only).

If it's a bad case on lots of the body and/or face, you may need systemic steroids.

It gets worse with each successive exposure due to immune system memory/antibodies.

They used to have a shot to PREVENT poison ivy but it had liver toxicity, so no longer an option.

I guess I could have saved some time and just stated the question the first time. :lol:

I do drawings at work and we're reviewing our formatting standards and there has always been a bit of a back and forth regarding First Angle vs Third Angle view drawings. I guess Solidworks defaults to Third Angle and this is supposedly the world standard, but lots of old school machinists in the U.S. are used to First Angle and anything else pisses them off.

EDIT: Backwards. We are using First Angle, not Third Angle. Machinists are used to Third Angle, but have done out stuff long enough it doesn't matter at this point.

LOL at your workaround

So I spend way too much time trolling Google Maps aerial imagery, just kinda poking around my city.

I found this today-

https://historicaerials.com/

Includes relatively high resolution aerial mapping imagery going back to the 50s. So many questions have been answered!

At least 0 of you will be interested and may also waste your entire morning looking at old railroad infrastructure and pondering suburban sprawl.

BikeForums seems glitchy today. Not seeing responses. Come back and hour later and go back a page and finally see them...

@rpen, can't use roundup within 50' of water without committing a federal crime. Also, said water was one of the main drinking water supplies to the city of Dallas. So... not happening. The only thing you can do about ivy on a creek is to manually rip it out in basically a biohazard suit (which worked pretty well).

No creek now, so it's not my problem anymore.

injection!!!
 

Shhh... don't get me in trouble.

But a site like this is ripe for injections.

Actually, next time I'll just quote my own post. That seems to have worked.

I get being bent over someone who cheats who is competing in the standings, but for a scrub who's just trying to be a finisher, let bygones be bygones.

You can hire goats - they love the stuff.

Like grasses and many other plants, I'm deathly allergic to poison ivy and can verify all of the above. I remember getting a shot years ago and wondered why it hasn't been offered in recent years.

As a construction engineer, I use to routinely clean my surveying tools with fuel oil to remove the resin from hammer handles, surveying tapes, etc. and even my boots.

Most US documents are Third angle. Most European documents are First angle. You really just need to choose one for your drawings and stick to it. We have separate formats for US and ISO/European drawings that depict the drawing angle used.

If you don't have a copy already, the Drawing Requirements Manual (DRM) is a great reference to what to include on drawings and how to show it. A bit pricey though.

https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Requi...oding=UTF8&me=


https://global.ihs.com/drawing_draft...m?&start_row=1

Historic street view would be cooler.

Another poison ivy story: I was shooting in an offset line for a road. I had a technician driving spikes in the earth and I kept seeing him pulling what looked like baby poison ivy before driving his spike. I finally walked down to see and sure enough, there were small ivy plants that he was pulling up bare handed. After I told him, he said that it was OK because he was immune.

It was a very hot day with a lot of sweating going on and he managed to transfer the resin from head to toe. He found out a few days later that he was NOT immune to poison ivy.

Yeah, I went back and read some of it. Eventually I will finish it. The slowtwitch too.