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Raccoons Borrowed My Bike Volume 10
We are coming into the final stretch! Ten more critters to paint, and then it's time to make the book, and the stickers, and all the other stuff that I've been putting off.
I had a good weekend for critters. I was fiddling with the barrel adjuster on my shifter when I thought a fox stumbled across the trail. It turned out to be a baby deer, fresh out of the womb, and cute as all heck. I gave it a wide berth, but later I found a family of salamanders in a rotten log. So I'll call it a win all around!
This is my absolute favorite dad joke.
Does this week's drivetrain launch mean you need a new freehub body?
I might case everything, but at least my partner and I are on the same page about the status of our relationship!
I hate getting stuck behind Otter on a climb. It hurts my ear bones.
I used to ride with a guy who would get bored at camp and just start "optimizing" everyone's suspension without consent. It wasn't great.
I hope you get out into the woods this week, and maybe run into some of these critters on a ride.
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taprider
1 month, 1 week ago
I laughed at gorilla's joke too
I have an electric digital gauge, that is supposedly accurate to +/- 0.1 psi, but put it on an off the valve repeatedly and the gauge can read up to plus or minus 10 psi each time, with "high" results even at the end of the test
I also have a big brass analogue gauge, and put in on the valve repeatedly and the readings don't change within +/- 0.2 psi (or ability of my eyes to see tiny deflections of the needle). The brass gauge is also easy to calibrate.
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FlipSide
1 month, 1 week ago
Raccoon is just looking for trouble.
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Mark
1 month ago
Re the "digital" tire gauge, if you check it often enough, on the same type of tire, and compare to a gauge, it becomes a learned skill just like any other fine motor skill humans can do. It's not different than an experienced tradie who can just look at something and know whether it's level/plumb or how a musician can have almost perfect pitch or say even the avg joe can tie their shoes blindfolded. If we practice a skill enough, we get good at it. I think in the age of technology we've become far too reliant on gadgets and that's slowly dulling our senses.
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Allen Lloyd
1 month, 1 week ago
Those first 2 hit just a little too close to home. Someone asked me about tire pressures and I told them I run slightly too much. They really wanted a number but I told them to give the tire a squeeze, they didn't like that either. I am converting all the bikes in my house to DT Swiss so I just have interchangable drivers.
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Pete Roggeman
1 month, 1 week ago
I like to play a game with friends who claim their fingers 'know'. I'll ask them to tell me when they think they have the pressure they want using their finger gauge, then use the digi to see if they're right. They all end up buying gauges.
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Jotegir
1 month, 1 week ago
But Pete, they don't "know" the number, they "know" if it's OK or not. Big difference.
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Cooper Quinn
1 month, 1 week ago
I'd be shocked if anyone could consistently get their tire pressure within 10% with finger gauges... And getting within a couple psi just isn't good enough, really.
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Cy Whitling
1 month ago
This is, legitimately, one of my biggest conflicts with my partner. I'm a "pressure gauge before every ride" guy, and she is a "thumb it occasionally and roll with the vibes" girl.
What drives me nuts is that every time I try to catch her out by checking her pressures with the digital gauge, she's always within 2 PSI of her target pressures, even though she's been winging it. Whereas, if I try to just go by feel, I'm regularly 8-10 PSI off. I guess she just has better calibrated thumbs.
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Velocipedestrian
1 month ago
Leave the guage at home and get her to check your tyres.
Zero-cool
1 month ago
This, I couldn’t tell you if the gauge on my track pump is accurately calibrated or not, but I know that with tubeless at ups I like 30psi and if I have tubes in the rear one is 345psi on my gauge. And I can roughly tell what this is by feel. Do I really care if I actually run 25 or 40? Not really, I just know what I like.
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Cy Whitling
1 month, 1 week ago
I dream of a world where every hub in my house can share drivers with every other hub. It's an impossible dream, but a man must have his fantasies.
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taprider
1 month, 1 week ago
HG for Life
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NickCANNONDALEearnhardt
1 month, 1 week ago
Cy, are you planning on selling the original prints? I'd like too get my greedy mitts on the Bonk Squirrel as that is me to a T.
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Cy Whitling
1 month ago
I'll have all the original paintings framed and available for sale at some sort of party in July. I'll also have a book of all the animals available at the same time!
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