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  • in reply to: Pointless Prize: Ross Hill Loop 2024! #1135100
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    What’s this?  What’s this?

    in reply to: Looking for Panniers with extra depth #1127479
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    Ortlieb Back-Roller XL.

    in reply to: POINTLESS Prize: SOCKS! #1127319
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    Sorry, got distracted by the Look 795.

    in reply to: Pizzaneuring #1127183
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    @randomduck 226590 wrote:

    So to ask the unasked question: are the pointless prizes with no true geographic limitations geofenced? Kinda asking tongue-in-cheek, kinda asking seriously.

    Not seeing why they should be?

    I mean I reckon if someone local goes to MSA and rides at -30C it’s perfectly valid for the lowest temp competition; if someone goes to Connecticut and gets hot oil pizza that should be fine too?

    in reply to: Wet Weather Whitehurst Wheelers #1127147
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    @peremaya 226542 wrote:

    I feel it is an ingenious solution to the problem of getting wet in freezing temperatures. The ride is still outside and freezing! just not as wet ;)

    So are garages. Garages also have more climbing … for the vertical pointless prizes… but far less night life. Anyone else ride past the custom car meets under the Freeway?

    in reply to: Best lighting #1127145
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    @SusanG1693 226548 wrote:

    I really like my outbound helmet mounted light. .

    I really like their light pattern too

    in reply to: Wet Weather Whitehurst Wheelers #1127129
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    @Sunyata 226520 wrote:

    Super easy (and relatively inexpensive) solution to less than stellar GPS/Glonass signal is a wheel sensor paired to your GPS unit. Works like a charm for mountain biking.

    *grin* This is exactly how I know what the overall error is on that specific terrain ;)

    in reply to: Best lighting #1127128
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    Agreed, with the specific note that we’re talking about retro-reflective “corner reflector” or “cat eye” type reflective. Reflective safety tape is cheap and can be put on very many surfaces.

    In order for a driver to see you in *just* bright colors, the driver needs to blind you. For bright colors, the light the driver gets back is only 1/4 of what you see.
    Hi-Viz is actually hi-viz (as opposed to just bright) only when UV light is present.

    Retroreflectors get around the 2x distance means 1/4 light problem by shining the beam back along almost the same angle as it came in.

    in reply to: Wet Weather Whitehurst Wheelers #1127116
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    How good is your GPS under there? Mine is about as good as it is under trees…the overall distance is _mostly_ accurate (to within 5%) but the displayed speed is up down or sideways.

    in reply to: Best lighting #1127115
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    @arlcxrider 226501 wrote:

    Yeah, I use dual headlights as well. One handlebar mount, and one on the helmet.

    The combo seems to be more attention-getting than a single headlight. Plus the helmet light is aimable through tight corners on trails and whatnot.

    Redundancy is a good thing, too. Keeping everything charged requires organization.

    Yep! Also notice that dual, non-blinking headlights get the attention of camera-based traffic signals faster.
    (Fairfax County, I’m looking at you)

    in reply to: Best lighting #1127107
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    @cvcalhoun 226487 wrote:

    Are you turning them down to that, or does the light diminish that fast on its own? [/quote]

    Very much on their own – note that only my Thor is rated to anywhere near 1800 so my lights/batteries are considerably smaller than yours, and physical size absolutely matters when running in the cold.

    90 minutes without *noticeable* fade is about what I absolutely count on. There is also subtle fade one doesn’t notice until after one charges it back up again.

    in reply to: Best lighting #1127080
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    Mix of Outbound, Cygolite, NiteRider and Lezyne, depending on the bike. Two 100-150 lumen visibility lights (white front, red rear) low on the bike (fork and seatstay) so they light up the wheel. Usually set to steady so the wheel rotation is apparent.

    600+ lumen “see the trail” lights. By 90 minutes-2 hours after dark those ‘600’ lumens are less than 250 so no, that is not overkill. Battery life and switch reliability are the big factors. Cheap no-name brand lights need not apply.

    I have a huge Spaninga Thor but I only use that on the MTB because I am nice to other road users. Also, my handlebar lights pivot, for the same reason.

    in reply to: Pointless Prize: Singlespeed #1127047
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    More than one #singlespeed per day or no? Last year was no.

    in reply to: FS why I ride #1127005
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    @Godzilla 226354 wrote:

    I started biking about 2 years ago in a vain attempt to not die young for things I can control (my weight, for example)…
    Last year, right after Xmas, my mother died from things related to lung/brain/bone cancer. Within days, I was out on my bike in 20 degree weather, trying to find that space to think, remember, and grieve.
    ….

    Also, if there’s beer at the end, that never hurts.

    Condolences.

    I still _don’t_ even begin to like cycling, but I figured this was a good place to meet people with similar stories to mine.

    in reply to: ELF pedal electric car on W&OD #1127010
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    @cvcalhoun 226331 wrote:

    There are apparently still PEBLs. And they are not explicitly banned from Freezing Saddles. But I suspect that if we had someone obnoxiously driving right down the middle of the trail on one–and vociferously defending his right to do so–they would be.

    One more illustration that you can tell a lot about the history of an organization by what gets banned. Or as someone once put it, “If an organization has a rule that you may not leave a meeting in the middle and return with goat hairs around your fly, you have a fair idea of what meetings have been like in the past.”

    By extension, what sort of organisation was the person using that example part of :rolleyes::eek:

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