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Here’s the perfect solution:

https://laughingsquid.com/neighbor-sneaks-out-of-house-dressed-like-bush/

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@SarahBee 199394 wrote:

Headline should read “Biking back from a movie night more dangerous than regular commuting.” I am that statistic.

And this doesn’t appear to be limited to just biking

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@bentbike33 199294 wrote:

I don’t know. If you keep your cycling kit on all day that should help with social distancing at work.

Please do so and report back. Actually, you just gave me an idea for an all-purpose vaccine!

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What exactly is the main objective of the scoring system? Is it to prevent a runaway winner? or is it to improve competition? I do not believe there is a solution that can address the former, but if one looks at the overall competitiveness of teams, it is definitely an improvement over the previous. Furthermore, the fact that I rode TEN TIMES more per day as I did last year solely because of this new point system alone is a winner to me.

How about have the data do the talking? Do we have the data from past seasons for comparison?

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@Steve O 199254 wrote:

Whoever wrote the headline did not read the article. They got it backwards!

26 injuries, 3 serious
v.
21 lifestyle diseases, 3 DEATHS

You choose.

Perhaps the coronavirus needs to factored in now. Wonder how that would skew the odds as going to work now can potentially kill you.

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Can’t as I might do my part in helping humanity:

https://www.complex.com/life/2020/03/human-guinea-pigs-wanted-for-coronavirus-and-theyre-paying-4600

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@Tania 199158 wrote:

https://www.arlnow.com/2020/03/09/just-in-coronavirus-patient-worked-in-crystal-city-office/

Same building as the garage races.

Just lovely… Let the virus cycle!

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Love it! I feel much safer.

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@josh 199020 wrote:

My vote goes to more yoga, losing the spacers, and a -17 degree, 140mm stem.

Slam it baby, slam!

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@jrenaut 199018 wrote:

Just looked it up, and it’s a 58. My Bianchi is a 57, so maybe it is just setup and not actually too big.

1cm should not make a big difference. Assuming you are satisfied with the fit of the Bianchi, can you do the following measurements on both bikes?

1) Distance from the center of the crank to the top of the saddle at where the seatpost would intersect, measure parallel to the seat tube

2) Horizontal distance from the front tip of the saddle to the centerline of the stem/handlebar, I suggest project/extrapolate these to the toptube and measure from there.

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@EasyRider 199031 wrote:

I think swapping the spacers from under the stem to over it wonÂ’t give you joy. It will lower your bars, and I think too-low bars is actually the main problem here, given how much lower your bars are than your saddle in the picture.

Removing spacers under the bar and using a shorter stem will to some degree cancel each other out. ThatÂ’s because as a bikeÂ’s stem and handlebars are raised, they also get closer to the rider. As they are lowered, they also get farther away. Picture looking at the bike from the side, as the stem and handlebars move up and down an imaginary diagonal line through the head tube.

Since the bike is actually not that much bigger, having the stem so elevated can throw off proper positioning. One way to “shrink” a frame is to increase one’s back angle, but this would result in a awkward hand position with how high the stem is. This is why stem height should be part of fitting process. Besides, if asthetics is in the equation, that stack of spacers is a definite no go.

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It’s much harder to make a larger frame fit than one that is smaller, unfortunately.

But here we go:

Here’s a bar with very short reach and shallow drop:
https://www.jensonusa.com/3T-Ernova-Road-Alloy-Handlebar

combined with a short (60mm) stem like this:
https://www.jensonusa.com/Whisky-No7-6D-Stem

you might be able to pull back over an inch of reach. Changing seat position can cause all sorts of issues with you knees, so be really careful about that. Also, I noticed a rather large number of spacers between the headtube and the stem, this can have the effect of making the matter worse. You might want to play with that to see how it affects the fit. There is no shame in stacking these on top of the stem for now so you don’t have to cut anything.

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@jrenaut 198963 wrote:

I’m trying to compensate for the bike being just a little too big for me. The stem is about as short as it can go. I almost never ride in the drops so that’s not a concern…
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Do you know what size is this bike? How much bigger is it compared with your other bike that you are comfortable riding?

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@jrenaut 198970 wrote:

Why doesn’t it look safe?

With the hand position being so high, the steering input may be amplified. Also, going over any bad road irregularities would be difficult to maintain good steering control, IMO.

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Oh my…
First of all, the brake cable/casing is too short. More importantly, this configuration does not look safe.

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