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After the trashing my legs took last week, today was the first ride where I felt sort of good. Going to keep going easy for the next few and then really hammer next week.
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My instinct would be to keep axes away from kitchen knife stuff, but I have no evidence for that (nor any experience with an axe in the last three decades).
Knife-wise, the default budget option would be a King 1000/3000 combo. The bang-for-the-buck would be the Bester 1200/ Suehiro Rika 5000 (and Beston 500 if you need a coarse starter).
For nicer options, I like this one (out of stock now): https://www.japanesenaturalstones.co...-matukusuyama/ and pair it with this: https://www.japanesenaturalstones.co...-matukusuyama/ (WhyFi - it's in stock!). Then there's the JapaneseKnifeImports diamond stone set, which is awesome but expensive. The 1k is OOS, but the 6k is in stock: https://www.japaneseknifeimports.com...6000-stone-kit. His in-house Gesshin three-stone combo kit is well-regarded but I haven't used it. I haven't seen him stock anything bad, though.
Don't be shy if you have any follow-up questions!
Knife-wise, the default budget option would be a King 1000/3000 combo. The bang-for-the-buck would be the Bester 1200/ Suehiro Rika 5000 (and Beston 500 if you need a coarse starter).
For nicer options, I like this one (out of stock now): https://www.japanesenaturalstones.co...-matukusuyama/ and pair it with this: https://www.japanesenaturalstones.co...-matukusuyama/ (WhyFi - it's in stock!). Then there's the JapaneseKnifeImports diamond stone set, which is awesome but expensive. The 1k is OOS, but the 6k is in stock: https://www.japaneseknifeimports.com...6000-stone-kit. His in-house Gesshin three-stone combo kit is well-regarded but I haven't used it. I haven't seen him stock anything bad, though.
Don't be shy if you have any follow-up questions!
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Also, my sock height was a little low for conditions.
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Most general cooks have little need to go above that 4k level, but there’s not a reason to not use a 5k as a final step from a 1k or 1200 if that’s what you have, or makes sense in the budget.
Those different finish types even affect favored steels; I like the highly-alloyed steels like the blue papers over the whites because of those alloys providing highly-differentiated carbides.
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Yesterday one climb of about 3 miles had a stiff headwind and I tried to get as low as possible. This is the situation that usually gets the back to hurt but it wasn't too bad as long as I straightened up from time to time. I think the key is to keep doing climbing and keep riding the drops regularly, otherwise it can get bad on climbs.
Of course, a couple weeks ago I slammed into a pothole while seated and that night I had trouble standing up from a chair.
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Really helpful info--appreciate it. What would be the difference between 5000 and 6000 grit? I don't think I need to go for a mirror polish on my kitchen knives, exactly but if there's a performance benefit I'm all for it. They're Shun knives. So better than Target, but not the best obviously.
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1000 grit.
A lot of professional chefs don't even go beyond 1 or 2k. That kind of toothiness might not shave arm hairs very well, but it cuts food very nicely. It wouldn't be a bad idea to concentrate on that region exclusively before moving on to finer stones.
A lot of professional chefs don't even go beyond 1 or 2k. That kind of toothiness might not shave arm hairs very well, but it cuts food very nicely. It wouldn't be a bad idea to concentrate on that region exclusively before moving on to finer stones.
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As with... other things, there are very few things that can’t be cooked with a Target knife, let alone a premium commercial knife. Just as there’s really nothing my GX460 can do that a 4Runner can’t, and it certainly won’t get me to my destination faster. It’s nicer, though, just like one knife can be nicer than another.
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Hell a lot of people show up to Chopped or even Top Chef with not even a Shun.
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Last night I had this weird dream that AG and I were in HK, but the hotel was the office building I worked in back in Albany. And I had the R2 there, and was insisting I was going to go out on a real morning ride. In Mong Kok, the highest-density neighborhood in the world.
Freaking weird.
Freaking weird.
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Lower back? In about 1982 I got knocked off my dirt bike by another rider who was trying to pass me on a trail which was barely handlebar wide. I bounced on my spine and hip point and my lower spine is "lumpy" and will revolt against me sometimes.
Yesterday one climb of about 3 miles had a stiff headwind and I tried to get as low as possible. This is the situation that usually gets the back to hurt but it wasn't too bad as long as I straightened up from time to time. I think the key is to keep doing climbing and keep riding the drops regularly, otherwise it can get bad on climbs.
Of course, a couple weeks ago I slammed into a pothole while seated and that night I had trouble standing up from a chair.
Yesterday one climb of about 3 miles had a stiff headwind and I tried to get as low as possible. This is the situation that usually gets the back to hurt but it wasn't too bad as long as I straightened up from time to time. I think the key is to keep doing climbing and keep riding the drops regularly, otherwise it can get bad on climbs.
Of course, a couple weeks ago I slammed into a pothole while seated and that night I had trouble standing up from a chair.
I do these rides in the drops, except for the climbs, but I only have about a 3.5" drop from the saddle to the bar top and the drop is very shallow. My back gets pretty unhappy by the end and in direct proportion to how rapidly I'm breathing. Fortunately, a quick jump out of the saddle relieves the strain. I think I hunch up and flex my spine when I'm tired, going hard, and trying to stay low, and I need to work on keeping it in extension and getting more hip flexion. I'm doing dead lifts with resistance bands these days and I really need to get back to actual weights.
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