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@jlamb 222077 wrote:

I’ve never seen a full squish singlespeed. Does it bounce too much when you have to mash up a hill?

It seems like everyone is jumping on the dual squishy single speed bandwagon these days.

This Gen 1.1 Salsa Spearfish has flexy chain stays so it is almost effectively a unified rear triangle. Only 80 mm of travel and known to have no pedal induced bob.

I get no perception of rear bob. I only tried this when my old Indy Fab single speed had to be retired when the squishy fork died. I decided to try the Spearfish as a single speed expecting to hate it, but I have not and have been riding it for three years now like this. I like it enough I just upgraded the fork from the pictured 2014 Fox 32 to a 2017 Fox 34.

I keep thinking of buying a Salsa Timberjack or Kona Unit but never find the motivation to replace this single speed.

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Dual squishy single speeds are fun as well.

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My suggestion, have a Friends of BAFS that is only open to people who would qualify for a typical team but either were late registering, did not want to commit to a team, or are alumni that after moving out of the area do not want to take up spots on teams. I am that last group. Was on teams and captain while in DC and twice while out of the area but prefer to not get so into it these days.

The current friends is not so attractive when it is full of the join all teams types that are all over Strava. Great they ride 400 km a day in the Southern Hemisphere but really not what I am looking to see.

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@cvcalhoun 195374 wrote:

You know you can authorize Freezing Saddles to read your private as well as public rides? If you go to http://freezingsaddles.org/authorize, that is one of your choices. At that point, people could see by the number of points that you were riding, but it wouldn’t be obvious where or at what time.

This is not to discourage you from trying to get your boss to ride again. But making your rides public is not a requirement for Freezing Saddles.

In the end, my boss send something about my lunch rides and a ride I had that started at 5. I have to start marking them private again. This has also hardened my resolve to abandon Strava as of the end of BAFS.

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My first #DirtyBikerFS20 ride. A short, half in the dark, single speed ride in Pocahontas State Park. https://www.strava.com/activities/2999748666

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One more thing it will change for me, no longer marking my lunch rides as private.

When I started this job, my CIO and a lot of others did an one hour lunch ride routinely. Unfortunately, the group has stopped for a number of reasons. I go by myself sometimes and was marking the rides as private concerned someone might get judgey.

I am just not done hiding the rides, but will be sending my beacon to my boss for full transparency. (And to further influence him to join me)

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I just checked and it is working for me. Maybe two months ago I generated new maps for my Oregon 600.

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A predictive rock in the GW Forest this weekend. Taking bet son this BTW, you must give 20 to 1 payout, will cover any bet up to $500. I so could use the $10,000.

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Amazing how often I come back to this thread. My rear 32 Sector 32 is on its last miles. Going to try a S-Works Turbo 28 for the front this time.

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@anomad 172902 wrote:

Join the party… I’m not doing blazing saddles so my existential, er, essential status doesn’t really matter in that regard.

During the Clinton shutdown I was a seasonal and missed the party. I took advantage of the 2013 shutdown though. All of October through to after Veteran’s Day with the help of some annual leave. It was a beautiful autumn too. I don’t think this one will drag on? Wouldn’t mind having the office to myself for a few weeks if it does though.

I was to start at the Census the day of the shut down. I loved it. Was on the bike the whole time. Loved how Ft Dupont had all the gates closed and with no cars the turkeys and deer were so more bold.

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@consularrider 172866 wrote:

Actually, my miles dropped since I no longer had a mandatory 25 mile roundtrip commute that I had to go out for. It’s easier me to just blow off the ride when I’m not working.

I’ll give a conditional like on that, as long as you are not on team 3.

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@SarahBee 172862 wrote:

My open design & construction contracts will continue through the shut down, so thankfully I’ll be very busy still. Great plug for Team 3!

Well that just means with you being in the private sector and my being a county employee, any feds on team 3 have to an extra two doubles each week.

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@hozn 172450 wrote:

(1) Waterproof / rugged. As you note there are some smartphones that claim this, but they’re not the cheap ones.
(2) Much better GPS. Antennas designed to track location make a difference. GLONASS support, etc.
(3) ANT+ support. The list of mfrs with ANT+ phones is limited to Samsung and Sony and a few select models from others, as far as I can tell. Perhaps if buying a phone dedicated to just being a bike computer, I’d consider one of those options.
(4) Size. I have a Garmin 1000, which I think is too big. I can’t imagine having a full-size phone cramping my style.
(5) Battery life. This probably varies, but even though I complain about my Garmin 1000, I like being able to navigate for ~8-10 hours without needing external battery. That’s 99% of the riding I do and I’m gonna get that external battery for that other 1%.

#2 is very true, smart phones are very sloppy in calculating location via GPS. Of course, there are some small blue tooth GPS antennas out there that are wonderfully accurate. You could even mount it to your helmet for better sight lines. But adding more things at more cost seems like a bad idea.

#1, #3 and #5 I really think the Samsung S5 Active is the way to go. It is waterproof and rugged and very ANT friendly. With it on airplane mode and location turned back on, the battery life can be very long. And since the S6 has such a bad rep compared to the S5 and S7, they can be pretty cheap. It may not have a memory card slot, hmmm, that is lame.

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@Birru 172298 wrote:

Probably just time to upgrade to the 1030 and get the integrated battery pack. It’s only a $730 outlay.

https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/571552

I have an older type Garmin, an Oregon series, that uses AA batteries. So nice to be able to save the tract, swap batteries and have another 8 hours of run time.

When my Oregon dies, no way will I buy a bike specific GPS ever again. It makes no sense. Much better is to buy an older smart phone, ruggedized or not, and use it as a dedicated bike GPS without ever getting it a SIM card. Or even better, pull that older Galaxy S5, iPhone 5, etc… out of a desk drawer and use it.

That is my plan. Will primarily use Ride with GPS as I love the various base maps you can choose and cache on your phone while at home or in a coffee shop on wireless. I will use something like JB Weld to improve the mount because I will not care if the phone ends up looking a little ugly.

Modern smart phones are fully ANT and can connect to just about any sensor via ANT or Bluetooth without all the restrictions Garmin, Magellan and others love to engineer in to drive up the prices. Plus when you stop for coffee, you can connect to their wireless and upload your ride, and download stuff, Skype someone, use a data based text app, modify your Tinder profile …..

And then you can buy the external battery packs for $ 15 to keep your phone running effectively for ever. Unlike Garmins that like to switch off if you try that.

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Shendaoh Mountain Touring near Harrisburg runs the VA Rough Robuix each spring. Long route around 90. http://www.mtntouring.com/mountain/htm/home/hbody.htm

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