Running With the Foghorn Leghorn
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This has been a bumper year for zucs. I am actually waiting for my plants to die because I am so tried of them haha
jackx
Well-Known Member
Tomatos & power. I am guessing that there is a chapter in Feedzone Portables on cherry tomatoes.
Dominos
Well-Known Member
We will take both!
I can eat like 3 cucumbers a day.
Magic
Formerly 1sh0t1b33r
@Dominique Make pickles and pickled zucchini so it lasts through the winter.
Also, the U.S.A. obviously had everything first. Sushi and hamburgers are as American as it gets and tomatoes were engineered in lab during the American Revolution.
Also, the U.S.A. obviously had everything first. Sushi and hamburgers are as American as it gets and tomatoes were engineered in lab during the American Revolution.
There is nothing authentic about eating sushi at a Korean owned place in America.
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Wednesday, August 5, 2015
I swear one of these days I will catch up with the comments. Not the 50 you guys ejaculated about the origins of tomatoes & avocados. But the other ones I will.
Wednesday was a fairly heavy workday because I need to make sure everything I said I would do is almost done for the week. I need to test it properly then set up a demo of sorts tomorrow. That's the core stuff. Once I get the core stuff done then I can do the small enhancements that don't take much time but make the customer really happy. I had to spend a bunch of time debugging the mess but in the end I got it and everything works as expected. That was work, work was good at the end of the day.
You care about this.
So on the bike. I decided to ride to the Pharma ride then do that 35 mile loop with D. Going there I hit Crim road hard and ended up 3rd overall on the segment. It was a decent effort but I just didn't have the juice to get it. This is day 3 in a row. Power was 377w for 3 minutes, so not my peak. I would later look at Strava fly-by and it turns out @Clapper crossed the top of Crim about a minute before I got there.
Hooked up with D and 3 other people then we were off for the ride. 2 minutes later we saw @Clapper for real, then a minute after that it was down to 1 person. Then we got rained on. Then we rode around for a while until we got the Burnt Mills road where 2 things happened. First, we saw @mandi out there with a big smile. Then my bike stopped working completely when it would no longer pedal forward.
We rolled to a stop and from the looks of it, the freewheel body was exploding or something like that. We were close so I told D to just go get the car and get me. After they left I took the wheel apart and found that the cassette had just unwound and the cogs started to come off. So I put it back together and rode the rest of the ride by myself. As an aside I should go tighten that up right now before today's ride. At least nothing broke for real on this one.
Drove home, ate chicken & squash, watched TV. Went to bed.
Comments
@stb222 - Julia is sitting here telling me it's the Stampy one. If they watched and built stuff from it, that would be ok. But both of them just watch and watch more. They don't build anything because of it. Kinda lame. She & Zac would watch it literally all day, like 8 hours straight, if we let them.
@pooriggy - no I don't take rest weeks. I take rest periods as needed. I don't think we fit into boxes and as such I rest when I'm tired. July made a mess of that so I need to get back into a better ride/rest balance.
@stb222 - Ohio is worse than Delaware.
@davidcarson48 - yeah I get paid by the hour but Dale does not. He could give 2 shits what I bill for. He's retiring EOY.
@jmanic - yes and I'll see you tomorrow.
God these comment replies suck. Sorry.
I swear one of these days I will catch up with the comments. Not the 50 you guys ejaculated about the origins of tomatoes & avocados. But the other ones I will.
Wednesday was a fairly heavy workday because I need to make sure everything I said I would do is almost done for the week. I need to test it properly then set up a demo of sorts tomorrow. That's the core stuff. Once I get the core stuff done then I can do the small enhancements that don't take much time but make the customer really happy. I had to spend a bunch of time debugging the mess but in the end I got it and everything works as expected. That was work, work was good at the end of the day.
You care about this.
So on the bike. I decided to ride to the Pharma ride then do that 35 mile loop with D. Going there I hit Crim road hard and ended up 3rd overall on the segment. It was a decent effort but I just didn't have the juice to get it. This is day 3 in a row. Power was 377w for 3 minutes, so not my peak. I would later look at Strava fly-by and it turns out @Clapper crossed the top of Crim about a minute before I got there.
Hooked up with D and 3 other people then we were off for the ride. 2 minutes later we saw @Clapper for real, then a minute after that it was down to 1 person. Then we got rained on. Then we rode around for a while until we got the Burnt Mills road where 2 things happened. First, we saw @mandi out there with a big smile. Then my bike stopped working completely when it would no longer pedal forward.
We rolled to a stop and from the looks of it, the freewheel body was exploding or something like that. We were close so I told D to just go get the car and get me. After they left I took the wheel apart and found that the cassette had just unwound and the cogs started to come off. So I put it back together and rode the rest of the ride by myself. As an aside I should go tighten that up right now before today's ride. At least nothing broke for real on this one.
Drove home, ate chicken & squash, watched TV. Went to bed.
Comments
@stb222 - Julia is sitting here telling me it's the Stampy one. If they watched and built stuff from it, that would be ok. But both of them just watch and watch more. They don't build anything because of it. Kinda lame. She & Zac would watch it literally all day, like 8 hours straight, if we let them.
@pooriggy - no I don't take rest weeks. I take rest periods as needed. I don't think we fit into boxes and as such I rest when I'm tired. July made a mess of that so I need to get back into a better ride/rest balance.
@stb222 - Ohio is worse than Delaware.
@davidcarson48 - yeah I get paid by the hour but Dale does not. He could give 2 shits what I bill for. He's retiring EOY.
@jmanic - yes and I'll see you tomorrow.
God these comment replies suck. Sorry.
mandi
Well-Known Member
So interesting about this Pharma thing. I parked in the Burnt Mills lot, like I normally do when I have homework. Well, 10 minutes into my ride and it's full on downpour. I turn around and rush back to the lot for shelter. This is where I'm annoyed that TWC is showing no rain cells, yet one appears out of no where. I hide under the little shelter and there's a man and woman already there (they were in the park before... not riding). This guy says he rides with the Pharma Flyers, and for a second I wonder how he doesn't recognize the MTBNJ kit at all. He asked me what club I ride with, which I reply, I don't ride with a club. But of course I tell him yadda yadda MTBNJ, as I point to my jersey. He looks at me like he's never seen it or heard of it before. Aren't you both pretty active on that ride?
When I passed you both, heading back to my car (you did see me Cat 6 those people, right?), I see you both in full O&B with the Pharma Flyers ride. It made this whole experience even weirder.
Remind me to finish this story...
When I passed you both, heading back to my car (you did see me Cat 6 those people, right?), I see you both in full O&B with the Pharma Flyers ride. It made this whole experience even weirder.
Remind me to finish this story...
soulchild
Well-Known Member
Weird indeed. I used to ride with the Pharma Flyers on Wednesdays pre-MTBNJ era. Although I know the core people in this group and they now know the MTBNJ kit, there is a turnover of people like in every club, so there's many people that I don't know. Plus, it's not really a club, it's just a women who organizes rides through the summer.
Thursday, August 6, 2015
Today is more work, getting stuff done for my 2:00 call which is followed by a 3:00 call. I get it done, but I also need to finish up the cross bike because today is a rest day and I want to put this back together then take it to the park and ride it to make sure it can do the basics. Go forward. Stop. And change direction. I get things tied up, put the chain on, and get things in working order. The shifting is a bit of a bugger to get right but in the end it seems like it's ok. The work calls come & go, and that is that.
So I think this is where @UtahJoe is right in that cross has become not fun in some respects. And this is my own fault. I glued the tires last year and it was all well & good and mighty that I was not able to roll the ones I glued. And there is some small satisfaction to this but the fact of the matter is that this is a pain in the ass. I also glued the PDXs on these carbon rims but never used them last year. I deemed myself too shitty to break them out. And maybe I did not have carbon brake pads to put on the bike but now I do. So I break out the carbon rims to put on this bike.
But the carbon rims and the PDXs did not play great together, and it was a holy hell of a time getting them on. I did eventually but it ended up looking like an elephant stuck its trunk in a vat of the glue and squirted it all over the sidewalls. So I ended up having to scrub the shit out of the brake track to get it clean. In the end I got most of it. But the sidewall still looks like crap.
This is where it gets to be a drag to me. And to Utah. I want to approach this sport like a Viking. Like you just show up to battle, get on the boat, grab a club, then smash shit. I mean I want to show up to the race and get on my bike and race the shit out of the course, then maybe grab a beer & burger and be done with it. But somehow it's not that simple. It's like in this sport the Viking needs to compare & contract the club sizes and relative lengths versus weight. Then he needs to polish the club. Then he needs to glue his own horns on his helmet and if he doesn't use freaking Belgian tape, they might fall off mid battle. And for Christ sake, he's invading Belgium. This makes no sense.
So this whole club & horns religion that has grown up around the sport is what makes it not fun. So to that end, this will be the last time I ever glue my own tubulars. I will pay whoever to tape & glue my horns on my helmet and when it's time to get on the boat and smash shit, I will just show up and smash shit. And if the horns fall off well then so what. I will pick up my horns and bring them to the horn gluer and let them sort it out.
After this I went to the Asian market to get rice & tofu, plus some other things. Then I went to the park near Pingry and rolled around slowly on the bike with the tubulars like I'm not supposed to do. I still have a minor creak in the headset but it's not too too bad. And the PM battery is dead. No surprise there. But all in all the bike is ready to go and shifted remarkably well despite my argument with the RD earlier. I could race it tomorrow if need be. I managed an amazing 6.7 mph. And Strava tells me my suffer score was a 6. That's solid.
Today is more work, getting stuff done for my 2:00 call which is followed by a 3:00 call. I get it done, but I also need to finish up the cross bike because today is a rest day and I want to put this back together then take it to the park and ride it to make sure it can do the basics. Go forward. Stop. And change direction. I get things tied up, put the chain on, and get things in working order. The shifting is a bit of a bugger to get right but in the end it seems like it's ok. The work calls come & go, and that is that.
So I think this is where @UtahJoe is right in that cross has become not fun in some respects. And this is my own fault. I glued the tires last year and it was all well & good and mighty that I was not able to roll the ones I glued. And there is some small satisfaction to this but the fact of the matter is that this is a pain in the ass. I also glued the PDXs on these carbon rims but never used them last year. I deemed myself too shitty to break them out. And maybe I did not have carbon brake pads to put on the bike but now I do. So I break out the carbon rims to put on this bike.
But the carbon rims and the PDXs did not play great together, and it was a holy hell of a time getting them on. I did eventually but it ended up looking like an elephant stuck its trunk in a vat of the glue and squirted it all over the sidewalls. So I ended up having to scrub the shit out of the brake track to get it clean. In the end I got most of it. But the sidewall still looks like crap.
This is where it gets to be a drag to me. And to Utah. I want to approach this sport like a Viking. Like you just show up to battle, get on the boat, grab a club, then smash shit. I mean I want to show up to the race and get on my bike and race the shit out of the course, then maybe grab a beer & burger and be done with it. But somehow it's not that simple. It's like in this sport the Viking needs to compare & contract the club sizes and relative lengths versus weight. Then he needs to polish the club. Then he needs to glue his own horns on his helmet and if he doesn't use freaking Belgian tape, they might fall off mid battle. And for Christ sake, he's invading Belgium. This makes no sense.
So this whole club & horns religion that has grown up around the sport is what makes it not fun. So to that end, this will be the last time I ever glue my own tubulars. I will pay whoever to tape & glue my horns on my helmet and when it's time to get on the boat and smash shit, I will just show up and smash shit. And if the horns fall off well then so what. I will pick up my horns and bring them to the horn gluer and let them sort it out.
After this I went to the Asian market to get rice & tofu, plus some other things. Then I went to the park near Pingry and rolled around slowly on the bike with the tubulars like I'm not supposed to do. I still have a minor creak in the headset but it's not too too bad. And the PM battery is dead. No surprise there. But all in all the bike is ready to go and shifted remarkably well despite my argument with the RD earlier. I could race it tomorrow if need be. I managed an amazing 6.7 mph. And Strava tells me my suffer score was a 6. That's solid.
Red Mosquito
Formerly RLB the Scrapple Boy
What's the big deal about tubulars? They seem like a major PITA, is it worth the hassle? Disclosure, I've never been on a cross bike or a tubular wheel, nor have I ever traversed more than 15ft of dirt at a time on a skinny tire. Maybe I need these experiences to understand.
Red Mosquito
Formerly RLB the Scrapple Boy
Would be interesting if they made tires molded around a hoop that screwed to a rim, essentially removing the glue step. The hoop could be split so you could stretch it over the rim, then screw it down and inflate. Let me get on that.
The Heckler
You bring new meaning to the term SUCK
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