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@hozn 179901 wrote:

My, someone’s grumpy.

Nope. Just pointing out that miles traveled is a pretty weak predictor of brake life for “road” use.

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@hozn 179867 wrote:

I’d think you should be getting at least 3,000 miles out of your pads and I’d hope you’d be getting over 15k miles of the calipers before things start falling apart (ideally much more than that).

I suppose you have an idea what streetsmarts’ commute is like? A lot of y’all have lovely commutes that are > 80% car-free MUP, but some of us have commutes that are 100% surface streets with traffic controls every 250 feet, and we go through brake parts (and tires) more quickly.

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@honestmachinery 179853 wrote:

What’s their margin on 68 bucks? Not enough to risk alienating a customer. Trust your mechanic.

Greed, incompetence, does it matter?

Plenty of disc calipers only have pistons on one side, that’s not a reason to ditch gear.

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@dasgeh 179218 wrote:

Technically, the law says you have to cross in the crosswalk.

Citation, please? What I recall is this “wherever possible” language:

Ҥ 46.2-923. How and where pedestrians to cross highways.

“When crossing highways, pedestrians shall not carelessly or maliciously interfere with the orderly passage of vehicles. They shall cross, wherever possible, only at intersections or marked crosswalks. …”

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@jrenaut 178659 wrote:

. It looks like one of the pads is hitting the rim at an angle, but I haven’t been able to get it to not do that.

Don’t make it not do that.

You want canti pads toed in.

https://www.parktool.com/blog/repair-help/cantilever-threaded-post-brake-service

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@josh 178503 wrote:

These maps look busy enough as-is, I’m imagining a topo map overlaid (underlaid?) and it seems it would be nearly unintelligible.

The older versions laid simple V shapes pointing uphill. Here’s how an older version indicated the steep drops on Braddock to Valley & Timber Branch:
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@mstone 178385 wrote:

In general that data just doesn’t work that well for determining how steep a short segment is.

Surely that depends on the resolution of the topo data. If you had, say, one foot contour lines or one square foot LIDAR/elevation data, how could you not be able to derive a really good understanding of road slope? I don’t know what the resolution of City data is, but I’m pretty sure it’s a *lot* better than, say, a Forest Service printed hiking map.

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The City’s GIS division has data on both topography (e.g., https://www.alexandriava.gov/uploadedFiles/gis/Topography2014.pdf) and roadways – shouldn’t this be a straightforward matter of deciding what grade percentage qualifies as steep and then relying on the data rather than volunteer feedback? It seems crazy to me as I review old versions that, for instance, Kennedy/Landover aren’t marked as steep.

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@mstone 178302 wrote:

there is one

I don’t see it on the “Mobile” skin.

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@mstone 178298 wrote:

I greatly prefer the new one where if you hit “what’s new” and then have to deal with real life, it hasn’t forgotten what’s new when you come back.

Ideal situation would be adding a Mark All Read button to the new behavior.

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@LhasaCM 178286 wrote:

Looks like they upgraded the forum software…and things changed/broke in the process.

I concur. The “What’s New” behavior has changed, too, and I liked the old behavior better.

On a positive note, it looks like https almost works – you can access the forum with https URLs but the pages look busted, as if the supporting n media references use http:

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I was clearing out the garage yesterday and pulled out this wheel. It’s been just sitting in the garage for the past three years, waiting for me to salvage the hub. Check out how much worse those cracks are!

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@rcannon100 177924 wrote:

Two words: Ortlieb.

Bob, that’s just one word. I have to ask… are you OK?

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@Sunyata 177916 wrote:

My Ortlieb is just over four years old and shows almost zero signs of wear, just some scuffs on the front surface that could easily be removed with a magic eraser. It is used five days a week for commuting in all weather. I fully expect this bag to last another 10-15 years before it needs replacing (or even re-waterproofing).

Thanks. I felt much the same after 4 years of my Timbuk2. I ordered an Ortlieb bag that I’ve started using this week; I hope it will hold up better!

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@dplasters 177494 wrote:

What does it mean to not disregard traffic?

I take that to mean that a pedestrian should not start speed walking across a crosswalk if the pedestrian can discern that a motorist going 30 MPH is twenty feet away, but that it’s perfectly OK to begin crossing if the motorist could reasonably be expected to be capable of stopping or yielding (because the motorist is going slow enough or is far enough away).

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