Originally Posted by bampilot06

fun question of the day. Meant to ask this earlier. When climbing a hill, does one pick the gear they wish to tackle the said hill before starting so they don’t change gears while climbing, or use the gears that you have as needed? Today I shifted up, was doing 24 mph when starting the hill with a cadence of 115 half way through the hill speed dropped to 19 mph, cadence hit 89 so I down shifted but it was under load which doesn’t feel healthy for my bike.... as I am typing this I feel that I am over thinking this.

Originally Posted by bampilot06

fun question of the day. Meant to ask this earlier. When climbing a hill, does one pick the gear they wish to tackle the said hill before starting so they don’t change gears while climbing, or use the gears that you have as needed? Today I shifted up, was doing 24 mph when starting the hill with a cadence of 115 half way through the hill speed dropped to 19 mph, cadence hit 89 so I down shifted but it was under load which doesn’t feel healthy for my bike.... as I am typing this I feel that I am over thinking this.

Originally Posted by MoAlpha

What could possibly be wrong about looking for someone else to provide that service? I am so glad I work in a socialist system.

Originally Posted by DougRNS

uh huh.

Originally Posted by bampilot06

fun question of the day. Meant to ask this earlier. When climbing a hill, does one pick the gear they wish to tackle the said hill before starting so they don’t change gears while climbing, or use the gears that you have as needed? Today I shifted up, was doing 24 mph when starting the hill with a cadence of 115 half way through the hill speed dropped to 19 mph, cadence hit 89 so I down shifted but it was under load which doesn’t feel healthy for my bike.... as I am typing this I feel that I am over thinking this.

Originally Posted by LAJ

It's the world we live in now.

FWIW, well said, and I agree 100%.

Originally Posted by Velo Vol

I'm Gen X. No one care about us enough to even bother.

Originally Posted by rjones28

Slacker

Originally Posted by LAJ

I would show up two hours early to preclude the one hour cancellation.

Originally Posted by Bah Humbug

GenX is numerically much smaller than the two generations around it, so it's paid much less attention for marketing and everything else. Also, I'm pretty sure the conflict has been intentionally stoked, but that's a topic for a different forum.

Originally Posted by Velo Vol

Either you're a lot stronger than I am or you define "hill" a lot more loosely than I do.

Originally Posted by Velo Vol

What if you step north into Tennessee?

Originally Posted by bampilot06

fun question of the day. Meant to ask this earlier. When climbing a hill, does one pick the gear they wish to tackle the said hill before starting so they don’t change gears while climbing, or use the gears that you have as needed? Today I shifted up, was doing 24 mph when starting the hill with a cadence of 115 half way through the hill speed dropped to 19 mph, cadence hit 89 so I down shifted but it was under load which doesn’t feel healthy for my bike.... as I am typing this I feel that I am over thinking this.

Originally Posted by DougRNS

you lose 25 IQ points.

Originally Posted by rjones28

Nobody cares about the pre-Boomer generations anymore.

Originally Posted by rjones28

Nobody cares about the pre-Boomer generations anymore.

Originally Posted by DougRNS

you lose 25 IQ points.

Originally Posted by Velo Vol

OK Boomer.

Originally Posted by DougRNS

lazy generalizations have been around since there have been lazy people. Lazy people have been around since...forever. Lazy generalizations are still bad. All bears are lazy. See, even I make lazy generalizations. I do agree it is amplified now.
Maybe I should stay in my lane and talk about awesome things.

Originally Posted by DougRNS

I have said this before, i have never heard that comment anywhere but here. I understand it is a derisive remark. It doesn't bother me. Use it on me to your hearts content. I'm just a stupid boomer.

Originally Posted by Bah Humbug

It gets used places. I do find it funny ("funny") that after years of disparaging comments about millennials, one mildly sarcastic comment about boomers becomes literal fodder for the supreme court.

Originally Posted by LAJ

So it's just easiest to label folks, and rationalize it in that manner. Check.

Originally Posted by Bah Humbug

Maybe we should just stop tossing people into boxes so that we can make lazy generalizations about them.

Originally Posted by Velo Vol

That's another thing. I'm not at all sold on the doctor I'm seeing. But it's a lot easier to find an infusion center than it is to find another rheumatologist.