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I endorse that idea. Try it for a while, ride in a few different configurations, sell effortlessly if the state of done is reached

Been bangin out the revolutions aboard the fleet minding my own early morning business lately.  Critical for wellbeing given the fangs of work sunk into my jugular, co-habitation with adult offspring, wrangling 3 working dogs on a day-to-day never mind life's sh%%show of late.  Made a long overdue visit to my Gambler Creek** watering hole the other day aboard the robo-couch and I'll be damned, I felt like a new man from the abundance of oxygen and the scarcity of humanity in that zone.  Riding more, feeling much better thanks...

**feeling lucky punk?  take a sip from the creek and see if you can evade the giardia.   I won the gamble once, not sure if I'll be forced to try again.

LOL, good humor, thanks!

My sorta disdain comes from running across a 'crowd' of people in the low hanging fruit regions east of the city whom are out 'training'.  I get it, one needs to prepare if one competes but it's a fashion show in an odd place where one never existed. I guess you could liken it to the invasion of the shore decades ago when the grumpy old men had to learn to share the goods.

Anyhoo, always looking forward to the next ride!

Haha, that's funny. Do tell?

PS, doubt you'd approve of my attire on my 'proper' roadie.  Been there done that with the razor and squad uniform.  It's a neat feeling til you snap out of it and realize who you really are, or maybe not? ;-)

Posted by: TonyJ

Funny, I thought "ride more, bitch less" was sort of a recomdation, like people should stop bitching so much and go for more rides.

After reading a bunch of comments from the last week, it came to me that "ride more, bitch less" is sort or a cure or corrective action. If you ride more, you will feel better, then you will bitch less.

I know the riding I do, does wonders for my mental health, keeps me in a better mood and allows me to forget insignificant daily issues.

Thanks for all the comments/stories about your rides/lazing in the sun from the last week, it reaffirms my commitment to getting out on the bike as much as possible.

Correct and correct. The impetus came from Mulletron nearly 2 decades ago during a toxic, whiney time where he threw the words down in response to something I cannot for the life of me remember (or care to for that matter). That a thread can live on for this amount of time seems unusual for how ephemeral the web is but I guess it goes to show that persistence is just that.

In context, it's the first President's Day I've ever had off of work... ever. New employer sees things a little differently than the previous ever did. So, schlepped out a 60km dual sport loop on the road+ baggy shorts bike in and around the hills, trails, passageways and some pavement of northeast SeaTown. Not one of those laps that's easy to explain, you either have earned the local knowledge or you haven't. Reminds me of earlier times prior to the masses engulfing the local ride resources on the shore, in fact. City boy stretchy pants crowd need not apply, too many lefts and rights you gotta know ;-)

pre-full moon local trail rip before work in the tacky trails... leads to less desire to eat people during the work day.  do what it takes to make your life right, it'll probably benefit others around you and they don't even know it

/applause

got a good dose of sun and prime conditions both yesterday on the trail bike and today on the spaghetti classic.  

been feeling pretty salty of late,,, not so much now, thankfully.

Been feeling like a baggash!twithlegs this week and it dawned upon me that I did not ride much.  duhhhh.

But, a short spin on the classic spaghetti bike this morning took a dent out of it and I surmise I'll have to plan a good brain cleanser loop over the weekend to evict all that which is bogging the mind down.

Interesting times we're living in :-P

I like that ^^.     I have the kick brake predecessor to it hanging up in my little garage graveyard/museum. 

I've been keeping eyes and ears peeled for an A'ha stars and bars painted klunker.  They wash up on CL now and again in these parts but always in smaller sizes.

In other news, got a USD750-1000 quote to fix my Honzo Ti 'properly' (ie: replace seat tube gusset plate with a chunk of tubing) and will have to wait for 10mo. before the work will even begin...  Eh, gonna bang on Dekerf's door to see where he's at.

Posted by: RAHrider

Posted by: Ned

Oi thanks Nologo, good to have more data points.  Unfortunately, I'd perceive this as a design flaw in the bigger frame sizes.

At this point I may just go wild with hockey tape to hold it the gusset plate together as a little science experiment.  In reality, the bike is never going to be ridden in demanding conditions again.

For me it was the endless cracked titanium creak that would drive me nuts. Maybe some sort of epoxy to keep it from creaking with each pedal stroke?

yes, had considered some sort of goop like jb weld or something.  real hanson brothers (slapshot reference) tape on the shattered glasses style of fix.  need to dig up my roll of canuck flag hockey tape :-). 

your insights este mucho appreciated