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rhodeskc: Phones, as explained to my Dad (motorcycle enthusiast) →
Hi Dad,
Coralee told me you were looking for a smart phone. Here’s my assessment of the 4 major players:Blackberry - It’s like owning a Hyosung. Inherent design flaws, cheap, and designed to be thrown away. Friends don’t let friends ride a Hyosung.
Android - It’s like owning a secondhand,…
I had to look up the word “farkle” and assumed that it was more of the inscrutable Australian slang. Turns out it’s an acronym from motorcycle fans that means “Fancy Accessory, Really Kool, Likely Expensive.”
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I bet I’m going to be seeing a lot more brake pads look like this soon. The sidewalls are already pretty worn down, so I think I’ll have to hit up the LBS again to teach me how to build a bicycle wheel.
This is why I switched to disk brakes on my commuting bicycle. Once they put the sand down, they don’t clean it up and even with wiping my rims each night and doing a thorough cleaning of rims and pads every weekend, I still wore through thick pads—much thicker than these on my cantilevers—in a matter of weeks and wore all the way through my rims in no more than 3000 miles.
It’s a brutal environment around here with sand on the roads, rain coming down, a hilly, short commute like I have with lots of intersections, and carrying my weight and the weight of my cargo in the panniers.
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We could be getting snow tonight
The very first thing I’ll do if we get snow is take Betsy outside and see how she reacts to snow for the first time :).
I’ll be switching my bike over to studded tires.
Well, truthfully, the first thing I do is take Sam outside, but then I do that every morning.
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The Agony and Ecstasy—and 'Disgrace'—of Steve Jobs | The Nation →
Far more significant are the societal roles Jobs played. And here, despite the myriad ways his companies improved our lives, Jobs was a hero only in the Ayn Randian sense.
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Bear McCreary - "Prelude to War" for Accordion Orchestra →
Bear McCreary re-arranges a song from the second season of Battlestar Galactica and performs it himself on accordion.
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Does anyone know any info on Myofascial Release for cyclists? I just bought a foam roller and I don’t know what the hell to do with it.
Foam Roller Exercises rumble search terms for my rumble roller exercises.
Links to this page as the top link: http://www.rumbleroller.com/foam-roller-exercises.html
Want to know how to use a foam roller? You can figure it out by experimentation: whatever hurts the most is the best way to use it. Or so it seems, anyway.
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This is hilarious.
Fairdale is so ahead of the curve. Knowing that a front-loaded backing on a high-trail bike can be dangerous, these guys developed the first Dograck.
Hey Tommy, reckon’ you could do this on your Civia with your dog :D? (Betsy is too little to do this)
I don’t think there’s any chance that Sam would stay still for that.
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Mr. TW Williams, I present to you this:
Schwalbe Marathon Plus, 700x28 rear tire @ 10,016 miles riding fixed (no skid if possible)
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I was mostly joking when I told him to go for the solid line of blue around the tire but I should have known Kris wouldn’t miss an opportunity to do something extreme with his bicycle.
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