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01-29-19, 08:40 AM
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It's 25F. The wind is blowing the snow around, making large drifts and leaving bare patches on the ground.
01-29-19, 09:01 AM
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People who wait until the snow starts to call for repairs, are the stupidest. Cracks me up when they tell me I don't understand it's going to snow, and they can't clear their driveway.
01-29-19, 09:23 AM
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Question for the braintrust. I noticed a slow leak on my rear tire, so I pulled it and did an inspection. Found the usual tiny bits of glass embedded in the tread, plus the culprit... a hair-thin bit of metal wire that was poking a tiny hole into the tube. Thin metal wires cause probably 90% of my flats. What are they coming from that makes them such a common bit of debris on road shoulders? I'd think they're from car tires, but do tires explode so frequently that there are bits of radial belting wire pretty much everywhere? I feel like I don't see tire carcasses on the roadside that frequently unless I'm driving on the highway.
01-29-19, 09:34 AM
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01-29-19, 09:35 AM
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Question for the braintrust. I noticed a slow leak on my rear tire, so I pulled it and did an inspection. Found the usual tiny bits of glass embedded in the tread, plus the culprit... a hair-thin bit of metal wire that was poking a tiny hole into the tube. Thin metal wires cause probably 90% of my flats. What are they coming from that makes them such a common bit of debris on road shoulders? I'd think they're from car tires, but do tires explode so frequently that there are bits of radial belting wire pretty much everywhere? I feel like I don't see tire carcasses on the roadside that frequently unless I'm driving on the highway.
01-29-19, 09:36 AM
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01-29-19, 09:41 AM
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Yessir. Should be soon. Not a total weight weenie build, simply because I was going after a bit of a budget. Paper light Easton E100 bars, which were found in the post your hot deals thread. Those calipers, the light frame, and those Reynolds wheels, should get it in the 14 pound range.
01-29-19, 09:45 AM
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Latest forecast is we'll be leaving Thursday morning at -23ºF around 7 AM and pass through Nashville 7 hours later at 40ºF. Going to be a 60º spread. Nice. 
Edit: Now the weather report is -24º for Thursday morning and a high tomorrow of -12º actual, Billy, not windchill.
Edit: Now the weather report is -24º for Thursday morning and a high tomorrow of -12º actual, Billy, not windchill.
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01-29-19, 09:53 AM
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Question for the braintrust. I noticed a slow leak on my rear tire, so I pulled it and did an inspection. Found the usual tiny bits of glass embedded in the tread, plus the culprit... a hair-thin bit of metal wire that was poking a tiny hole into the tube. Thin metal wires cause probably 90% of my flats. What are they coming from that makes them such a common bit of debris on road shoulders? I'd think they're from car tires, but do tires explode so frequently that there are bits of radial belting wire pretty much everywhere? I feel like I don't see tire carcasses on the roadside that frequently unless I'm driving on the highway.
01-29-19, 09:59 AM
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01-29-19, 10:35 AM
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I also never see metal on the roads; only in my tires. My last two have appeared to be staple size. One wouldn't expect large quantities of those on the road either. When I ride higher traffic roads, it's the hair-like wire almost every time. My theory is that radial tires must shed those, like dogs shed. On low traffic, nice surfaces I rarely get flats. It happens when I venture off onto the tertiary roads, with even less traffic, but slower.
01-29-19, 10:59 AM
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No wind here, snowing sedately.
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01-29-19, 11:16 AM
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Latest forecast is we'll be leaving Thursday morning at -23ºF around 7 AM and pass through Nashville 7 hours later at 40ºF. Going to be a 60º spread. Nice.
Edit: Now the weather report is -24º for Thursday morning and a high tomorrow of -12º actual, Billy, not windchill.
Edit: Now the weather report is -24º for Thursday morning and a high tomorrow of -12º actual, Billy, not windchill.
Also, does your car have a heat shield? A temperature increase like that could be catastrophic.
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01-29-19, 11:22 AM
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01-29-19, 11:45 AM
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Question for the braintrust. I noticed a slow leak on my rear tire, so I pulled it and did an inspection. Found the usual tiny bits of glass embedded in the tread, plus the culprit... a hair-thin bit of metal wire that was poking a tiny hole into the tube. Thin metal wires cause probably 90% of my flats. What are they coming from that makes them such a common bit of debris on road shoulders? I'd think they're from car tires, but do tires explode so frequently that there are bits of radial belting wire pretty much everywhere? I feel like I don't see tire carcasses on the roadside that frequently unless I'm driving on the highway.
01-29-19, 11:55 AM
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01-29-19, 11:59 AM
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Sadly tonight's Knoxville Community Band rehearsal has been canceled due to the 1/2 inch of snow.
No accumulation on the roads (here).
I wonder if @DougRNS was wistfully scraping his shovel back and forth on his wet driveway this morning, thinking of what might have been?
No accumulation on the roads (here).
I wonder if @DougRNS was wistfully scraping his shovel back and forth on his wet driveway this morning, thinking of what might have been?
01-29-19, 12:11 PM
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01-29-19, 12:33 PM
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01-29-19, 01:08 PM
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Remember when I used to ride with that Filipno club with the big endurance component? The guy who was endurance director when I was a member died this past weekend. He was hiking a snowy trail in the San Gabriel Mountains (ie here in LA) with his son, lost his footing on an icy section and started sliding. Couldn't stop himself and went down an ice chute. Fell 500 feet, was not killed immediately, was able to shout back and forth with his son. It took his son 2 hours to hike into cell reception and then search and rescue got out looking for him. They didn't find him until 2:30am and by then he had died. Has was 56 years old and had ridden something like 150 double centuries.
Wow. Life is short.
Wow. Life is short.
01-29-19, 01:11 PM
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01-29-19, 01:12 PM
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Remember when I used to ride with that Filipno club with the big endurance component? The guy who was endurance director when I was a member died this past weekend. He was hiking a snowy trail in the San Gabriel Mountains (ie here in LA) with his son, lost his footing on an icy section and started sliding. Couldn't stop himself and went down an ice chute. Fell 500 feet, was not killed immediately, was able to shout back and forth with his son. It took his son 2 hours to hike into cell reception and then search and rescue got out looking for him. They didn't find him until 2:30am and by then he had died. Has was 56 years old and had ridden something like 150 double centuries.
Wow. Life is short.
Wow. Life is short.
That's heartbreaking.
01-29-19, 01:14 PM
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No heat shield on the family assault vehicle. I’ll wear two pair of sunglasses. I figure that I’ll be able to remove my balaclava somewhere in Kentucky.
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01-29-19, 01:31 PM
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This 1-2" of snow thing looks likes it's going to be a bust. But Thursday, the windchill is 'posed to be below zero all day.