I prefer pepperoni, myself. The "sausage" most places give you tastes flat and unappealing.

Next favorite is chicken-bacon-ranch. Yum!

Springtime weather here. Preparing garden beds.

Who TF are those guys from 1981 to 1994? I never heard of them.

I knew everyone but Mike Witt but got it by process of elimination.

Wiring update. System quit already. Same 2/3 switches are working. May have to get pro help.

Same, as far as the names go.

The electrician is here as we speak. Granted, we pay significantly less than you do for equal quality work. But then we live in an economy of scarcity.
He's installing a bathroom reading light and a kitchen light over the sink on my side. Today. We have a fairly long list of small projects.

The in thing is pepperoni with hot honey. When I first saw on I thought the honey was pools of grease.

that's nuts !! our STI had several on the fenders, they always said something like "it's too near that crease/character line" or "there are too many layers on the inside to take apart to get on both sides of it" or something similar! i gave up.

I have no electrical or dent issues to discuss at this moment.

Shocking news.

A few incidents out of thousands of club rides. Of course, I haven't mentioned crashes, clubs have crashes.

Club riding is what has kept me going, kept me from quitting riding, got me out on the bike even when I didn't think I would enjoy it. I was never one of the fastest riders but those were the people I liked and became friends with. The problem now is I have slowed and my endurance is not what it was. They've slowed but not as much. I used to have pretty good endurance, now it's hit and miss.

Today there was a small group of friends and acquaintances doing an 80+ mile ride with 5K climbing. If I started with them they would have to wait a lot on all the climbs. So I drove to the corner of the valley and rode to the coast to wait for them at a Sbux. They got there about 15 minutes later and we drank coffee and played with some dogs who were tied up there.

I left before they did to try and reach the featured climb ahead of them. 12 miles of PCH later, I turned up Encinal canyon and they came up as I was standing along the road. More perfect timing. I didn't ask how long they waited at the top for me but they didn't seem to mind. We stayed more or less together until we went our separate ways with them waiting a couple more times despite me insisting they go on. Good day.

Last Saturday I did a similar thing. Started ahead of the fast group and waited at the top of the long climb and we stayed together after that, more or less.

Today's truncated route. encinal · Ride with GPS

Ever since the ALCS of 1972? this Detroit native has had the Oakland A's as his least favorite team, since a bad call let the A's win against the Tigers. Now, I don't much follow sports at all.

Outdoor fall maintenance activities. Portia supervised.

That's just wrong.

Pepperoni is a type of sausage.

Same

I played the nice rando veteran and rode with a newbie today on his first ever brevet. 200k in 10:53. Light rain the 2nd half, not too unpleasant. That is not my slowest 200k; I once ushered a friend through his first 200k and we just squeaked under the 13:30 time limit. Evidently I'm a really nice guy.

Strava estimates my average power was 104w; I think that's heavy.

The other newb was quicker and rode away from us.

Since it was rainy and then full on raining, I took out the steel classic today with fenders. The gearing is equally classic, which means it really sucked to climb anything above 10% and there were several 12 to 15% kickers. To be honest, those were painful. The 5%s weren’t too bad and the flats were a breeze. At mile 20 the sky really opened up, but had tights, a medium jacket and a very light water proof over jacket so was still warm with only 5 to go. On the flats, the old iron is super comfortable, and was able to run between 18 and 19 MPH. Fenders really helped with splatter and not getting the super annoying skunk stripe. Finished the ride in a real downpour and was so happy to get out of, but still was warm - but things were soaking through from the inside and out, so the timing was perfect. Stats: 26 miles, 1700’, at about 16 MPH average. Top speed in the wet: 43 MPH, but the bike and tires are super stable in the wet.


Trofeo del Mundo

Faster than me

42T will make a man out of you alright!

39 in front and 25 in the rears. Was a 42 but, but, but….so kind of a man.

Speaking of rain, I checked the temp, because my arms are cold this morning, and found that a sizeable portion of the country is suffering from too much rain. Floods, mudslides, etc. Death and destruction. The peninsula is decidedly isolated from the rest of the country. Just across the gulf, in Veracruz, is some of the worst. We just had two rare dry days. That is scheduled to change today though. Record setting wet in this current wet season. Bumper crops of farm products.

We got some rain overnight and roads are wet, but still time to ride.

Don’t worry, BAM, your top spot on the podium is safe.

Today is family reunion luncheon. Our family is politically diverse. It could be bad.

That’s impossible,