Too soon :(

Today during my ride I explored the western slopes of Mt. Soledad for the first time - La Jolla Scenic S, and many of the twisty, low-grade roads around it: La Jolla Rancho, Muirlands... just wow. I can probably count on one hand the total number of roads that I have ridden that have been that nice. Takes some climbing and traffic to get up there, but boy is it nice.

Calm, quiet, smooth, with stately trees and tasteful, well maintained lots - fantastic.

Rode 25 miles in all kinds of wind. Fun but tiring.

Decided I will join the full moon ride that starts in 2 hours (midnight CST).

Today I feel like I can barely walk. Went on my longest ride yet on Saturday, 125 miles -- SF -> SC -> SJ. 7.5 hours moving time, 2.5 hours drinking/eating time, 3 hours waiting for my friends to catch up to me time. Not too shabby I'd say.

Nice! What route did you take to get from SC to SJ? Isn't there a road that is parallel to 17?

Today I have an eye exam. Desperately need spectacles again.....can no longer ignore the fuzziness

Yeah, climbed Soquel Road over the pass, which runs parallel to 17. Then down Old Santa Cruz Highway (funnest descent ever) to the Los Gatos Creek Trail. The first mile or two of the trail is unpaved and has a couple pretty sketchy deep gravel bits, which was some unexpected fun -- most of my friends walked the steeper gravel bits, I rode it all and almost ate **** twice, still not sure how I saved the second one. But after that, it's mostly well-paved, and goes all the way to SJ ending pretty close to the Diridon Caltrain station which was our final destination.

Route: https://www.strava.com/activities/297052037

Glasses = life in ∞k HD

Yeah I was in denial once.

I can't see the end of my nose without glasses.

Well, the end of my nose is fuzzy. Maybe I need glasses too?

Today I lost a little bit of faith in humanity.

today i rode 68 miles on the nature boy.
i'm ranked 13,000 out of 134,000 on the strava challenge! :lol:

today im pretty sure ive sneezed 68390487503945 times

allergies man, why?

Debating on if I should book a trip to Nashville for the end of this month.

I tried to remove a seized pedal from a customers bike on and off for 3+ hours and no luck. We eventually tried drilling it out (after liberal amounts of PB, WD40, spray lubes, a soak in the parts washer lots of cranking, tapping and muscling) and the friggin' bit broke off in the thing.

I have seen a decent amount of stuck pedals but this was absolutely nuts. 4 people tried to get it off, 4 freakin' people and more WD40 than you could shake a stick at not even a little movement. The pedal was the correct pedal for the side in case you were curious.

A good note to the people who change out their pedals or the folks who try and build their own bikes from the internets...USE GREASE ON THE THREADS, IF YOU DON'T THINK YOU HAVE USED ENOUGH PUT MORE ON!
Seriously just pretend the pedal threads are a chip and the grease is guacamol' and load them suckers up, you can always wipe off excess.

How long did you let the penetrating fluid sit? Letting it work in overnight helps. Otherwise get a mile long cheater bar

You removed the crank arm and clamped it in the biggest available bench vise? Super long cheater bar on the pedal wrench? Direct impact force perpendicular to the wrench?

Take the pedal body off and use a box ended 15 and a 3ft breaker bar. A couple pedal straps around the crankarm and the seat tube will hold things in place.

Dynomite

Hahahahahahahaha. If only that had worked. You couldn't use a pedal wrench because it was rounding off so we had to use a 6mm allen on the backside. Trust me there was no getting that pedal off without destroying the crank and spending more time than one should on it.

All the various penetrating stuff was on there for various segments probably could have let it go overnight but alas I was trying to get it done before I left. Basically I kept spraying and soaking all day in between folks trying to get it off.

How can you even round off the flats on a pedal axle ? I mean, really ? I've never ever ever seen that happen, and I've removed dozens of pedals of all types over the past 40 years. Did you use a proper pedal wrench ? Did you use the correct end of the wrench ? Some pedals are metric 15mm rather than the more normal 9/16". Even if the threads were seized, you should have been able to break it loose before rounding the flats on the pedal. The crankarm aluminum threads will strip out before the steel axle on the pedal gives way.

Who's the mechanic here....

Uh.... You've really never seen stripped pedals?

Wtf hahaha