[Harry Meatmotor]

@Vicegrip 86622 wrote:

I am guessing it is uncool to shell the wife out the back on a ride…..

that depends on whether this is a euphemism for something other than “riding faster than your wife”.

[Harry Meatmotor]

@VikingMariner 86329 wrote:

On a Spokes group ride last month, someone did that to me–snot on my shirt. Speaking as someone that has gone through survival training and used it in the field, the last thing an athlete should do is eject precious fluid anywhere outside of the body that isn’t urine. You have extra snot and spit, swallow it unless you have a team of people following you in a car passing you drinks. Just my two cents. Let’s see how many people that sends into another tizzy.

Was that me? i ride a salsa pistola. and i am rather snot-rocketty. if so – apologies!

[Harry Meatmotor]

@Mikey 86241 wrote:

Do we plan a cross-in (kind of like a sit-in) non-violent protest. Get about 200 bicyclists and pedestrians to show up at the intersection at a given time say 8:00 and then have about 10 bikes cross single file slowly during the entire cycle. I figure we could clog up about 20 cycles. Could you imagine 30 min of no one turning right on red there.

To get other people to solve YOUR problem, you need to make it THIER problem.

[Harry Meatmotor]

@TwoWheelsDC 86207 wrote:

Cat6 hustler

or plain-clothes Cat 3,4,5?

tan lines would be a dead giveaway, though I’m unsure of a non-creepy way of ascertaining Rule #7 adherence if said Cat6 hustler isn’t in full regalia.

[Harry Meatmotor]

hozn makes about eleventy hundred good points. Stack and reach are the only common measurements between frames really worth paying attention to when determining fit. I will add that one often overlooked dimension, however, is BB height/BB drop. you can set up two bikes identically based on contact points (h-bar to hand, seat to butt, and feet to pedals, i.e. matching stack and reach) and a bike with a taller BB shell is going to feel like you’re “up and over” the bike. I haven’t looked at the differences between the stragler and cross check, but if Surly is going for more stable handling on either bike, they might get the bike to feel that way by dropping the BB shell a cm or two. Changes in BB height will affect things like stack height with most “normal” (71/73-ish frames), too, because of tube fitting and the fact that most steel tubes aren’t as formable as something like aluminum.

[Harry Meatmotor]

@hozn 85952 wrote:

Though I’ll have to see the skin walls to believe it.

Rabobank started it – take a look at a bunch of pro tour teams this season, skinwall tires are the hot shoes this season. pm’d you about the saddle.

[Harry Meatmotor]

@vvill 85882 wrote:

Nice tube amp!

thanks! too many hobbies…

[Harry Meatmotor]

@mattotoole 85734 wrote:

Amtrak sells the boxes and they’re full-sized for minimum disassembly.

$$$ ???

[Harry Meatmotor]

…and so it begins.

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Full build to include:

Zipp Service Course SL cockpit in ‘beyond black’ w/ white tape

Specialized Romin Pro saddle in white on a Zipp Service Course SL 0mm offset seatpost

Full Force 22 gruppo

November Rail 52’s with Vittoria Open Corsa EVO skin walls

[Harry Meatmotor]

@Dirt 85686 wrote:

It is a light capable of vaporizing a human target from space.

covet!

[Harry Meatmotor]

@Dirt 85668 wrote:

Tomorrow is Bike To Work Day.

totally off the subject, but is that a beer can on your handlebars or are you just happy to see me (in the dark)?

couldn’t resist…

[Harry Meatmotor]

Happy BTWD, folks!!!

surprisingly, i didn’t melt or float away, and i was glad to see a decent amount of similarly crazy commuters up at the NOMA pitstop.

it’s a good thing i’ve got a new chain/cassette/chainrings for the commuter waiting… this winter/spring has been hell on my drivetrain.

[Harry Meatmotor]

@hozn 85373I am in the [small wrote:

camp that things Crank Bros pedals are garbage.

This is not a small camp. Crank Bros have tried to play the whole “we had a bad run from our supplier” but year on year, run on run, they’ve got problems. And they keep saying they’ve fixed the problems, but I still see spring failures. New ones, old ones, doesn’t make a difference. If you’re looking for mud shedding pedals, go Time Atac or just get some cheapo Shimanos and be done with it ’cause believe it or not, boring old SPDs ain’t that bad in the mud.

[Harry Meatmotor]

I’m almost ready to register for the 60 miler. Last fall I rode the Fairfax CCT from Reston to a bit south of Accotink on my cross check and it was a hoot.

[Harry Meatmotor]

Today’s ride in:

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