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04-10-19, 07:55 AM
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Bummer.
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04-10-19, 07:56 AM
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04-10-19, 08:02 AM
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Anyone see the record-setting performance on "Jeopardy!" last night? Dude won $110K in one game, shattering the old record of $77K. I missed it, but I did see him a couple of days ago. He's incredibly fast with the signaling button and extremely knowledgeable. He is also calm and collected. Could be around for a long time. He's a professional sports bettor, so it's not as if he has a day job he needs to get back to.
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04-10-19, 08:06 AM
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04-10-19, 08:30 AM
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04-10-19, 08:58 AM
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I have had the G1 wheels for about a year, so far they have been awesome. They came with everything for 12 or 15mm axles. I've ran them tubeless from the start with no issues on 40mm tires,
04-10-19, 09:50 AM
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And have a great ride yourself @WhyFi. Or will you be on the trainer? I kind of remember...................
04-10-19, 09:59 AM
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Single lane of traffic in each direction, no shoulder, I was coming off of a slight downhill, doing about 35 in a 30 with an elementary school and a church on one side of the street and a playground and another church on the other side. SMFH, as one of the Dougs would say. When some people are behind the wheel and they see a cyclist, some lizard part of their brain tells them that they're just not going fast enough if they're not passing.
04-10-19, 10:05 AM
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04-10-19, 10:34 AM
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And to kvetch about our motoring brethren, at the tail end of my ride, some soccer mom in her 5,000lb SUV decided that she needed to blow by me. Single lane of traffic in each direction, no shoulder, I was coming off of a slight downhill, doing about 35 in a 30 with an elementary school and a church on one side of the street and a playground and another church on the other side. SMFH, as one of the Dougs would say. When some people are behind the wheel and they see a cyclist, some lizard part of their brain tells them that they're just not going fast enough if they're not passing.
Single lane of traffic in each direction, no shoulder, I was coming off of a slight downhill, doing about 35 in a 30 with an elementary school and a church on one side of the street and a playground and another church on the other side. SMFH, as one of the Dougs would say. When some people are behind the wheel and they see a cyclist, some lizard part of their brain tells them that they're just not going fast enough if they're not passing.
04-10-19, 10:37 AM
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Helmet
Not wishing to start a helmet debate but I've heard a zillion anecdotes where people claimed that they would have been severely injured or worse if they hadn't had a helmet on. But, and it's a controversial but, how do we know for sure? There are no measurements or recordings to be had after the fact and I'm pretty sure that no one is going to go out and try to repeat their accident without a helmet.
And then there is the helmet itself which increases the size and weight of the head. I know in my construction field, I wasn't required to wear a hard hat until after at least 20 years of work and I was amazed at how any times that I hit my head on bridge beams and such after that. I don't ever remember smacking my head before I started wearing a hard hat. My own anecdote, I know.
Regardless, I wear a helmet religiously. Just always wondered.
And then there is the helmet itself which increases the size and weight of the head. I know in my construction field, I wasn't required to wear a hard hat until after at least 20 years of work and I was amazed at how any times that I hit my head on bridge beams and such after that. I don't ever remember smacking my head before I started wearing a hard hat. My own anecdote, I know.
Regardless, I wear a helmet religiously. Just always wondered.
My fork failed leaving me airborne. The helmet was severely damaged. My head, not so much. I jumped up and hauled myself and my bike off the street before passing out.
04-10-19, 10:43 AM
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04-10-19, 11:50 AM
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Addiction is good enough for me.
04-10-19, 12:38 PM
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I wish that I could justify another nice wheelset. Instead, @MoAlpha will have to buy them and I'll have to live vicariously.
I liked the look of the Mercuries, but got mildly spooked by the minimum recommended tire gauge of 35 mm and the fact that several retailers are selling them for < half the MSRP.
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04-10-19, 01:13 PM
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Ol' Mo opted for a set of Ardennes SLs, which he got for 925.00, but paid state tax and had to buy a centerlock to 6-bolt adapter (because he has at least three good discs to use up and is fundamentally cheap). Cost came to 1022 all-up, so not much over budget and a slightly wider and possibly lighter set of wheels than the regular old LTs.
I liked the look of the Mercuries, but got mildly spooked by the minimum recommended tire gauge of 35 mm and the fact that several retailers are selling them for < half the MSRP.
Thanks again, gents.
I liked the look of the Mercuries, but got mildly spooked by the minimum recommended tire gauge of 35 mm and the fact that several retailers are selling them for < half the MSRP.
Thanks again, gents.
04-10-19, 01:44 PM
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04-10-19, 01:46 PM
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Incidentally, I don't know where I got the idea that the SL was wider than the LT. The rims are the same. The SL has lighter spokes. It's nice being a lightweight in this case.
I used to tell my daughter she was "an expensive little project." My wife used that phrase last night when I told her the plan.
04-10-19, 02:05 PM
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Just saw Shazam! Fun movie. Exited the theater to wet, heavy snow being driven by wind. Yay.
04-10-19, 02:09 PM
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Oh! One other cool thing upon exiting - I took my phone off of Do Not Disturb and got a notification from my Tesla PowerWall. Evidently they upgraded the functionality recently, because it now has something called "Storm Mode" wherein it automatically charges from the grid when we're under storm warning so that it'll have a full charge if/when the grid goes down. Sweet.
04-10-19, 03:22 PM
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Flying into Cleveland, busing to Youngstown, in NE Ohio; then biking to Athens, in SE Ohio, over the course of nine or ten days, visiting relatives along the way. Only one suburban area and the rest rural. But I have this fear of the US drivers, like Americans have fear of Mexican violence. Senseless. I'll get over it, I'm sure.
04-10-19, 03:40 PM
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Flying into Cleveland, busing to Youngstown, in NE Ohio; then biking to Athens, in SE Ohio, over the course of nine or ten days, visiting relatives along the way. Only one suburban area and the rest rural. But I have this fear of the US drivers, like Americans have fear of Mexican violence. Senseless. I'll get over it, I'm sure.
I wound up with about 20 miles of shoulderless road but I rode that section in the pre-dawn hours so I had plenty of warning of approaching cars.
04-10-19, 04:09 PM
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I'm deathly afraid of unknown roads myself. While planning the non-railtrail parts of my last tour I zoomed all the way in on Google maps and panned through the entire route, and checked out streetviews at several locations. I finally decided I was done with shoulderless roads about 15 years ago.
I wound up with about 20 miles of shoulderless road but I rode that section in the pre-dawn hours so I had plenty of warning of approaching cars.
I wound up with about 20 miles of shoulderless road but I rode that section in the pre-dawn hours so I had plenty of warning of approaching cars.
04-10-19, 05:04 PM
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Ahhhh, Spring!
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