Recent content by bigW

A statistic that I found surprising is that institutional investors only own about 3% of the single family rental homes. Approx 15% of single family homes are rentals. I don’t think there is anything meaningful to be ‘fixed’ here. ( some localized Sunbelt metro areas have higher concentration...

Much nicer day today. Hartshorne conditions were perfect, hard to navigate as it has been many years and everything was blanketed in snow. Hoping it will be a first going there and not coming back with poison ivy. Got to ride on the beach which was much much nicer than expected. Hit a couple...

Indoor mode https://www.strava.com/activities/17083124671 Bike shed looks lonely in the snow… W

I guess that is the right approach. I’m trying to extend my trainer rides to 90 minutes as I’m not doing much outdoor riding. Doing so I find 2.2 W/KG too easy but I get beaten up pretty good trying to do 2.4 W/KG on a daily basis, was just curious why it seemed so erratic.

How Dynamic Pacing Works To mimic real-world riding behavior, RoboPacers adjust their effort based on the gradient: Uphill: Power increases by up to 10%. Downhill: Power decreases by up to 20%. Drafting Influence: Large groups can pull a RoboPacer faster than its solo pace due to Zwift’s pack...

Note that Zwift ‘secretly’ reduces the downhill grades by 50% even without trainer difficulty coming in to play. So the sum of the uphill grades is 2x the downhill ( and that does reduce the downhill speed ). On top of that the default 50% trainer difficulty acts like a downhill ‘overdrive’...

Took a rest day yesterday. The weather forecast does not look promising for outdoor rides in the next week. 😢 https://www.strava.com/activities/17071702202 Might use ERG mode on the trainer tomorrow to cap the effort and curb the reckless enthusiasm. W

How to make it thru the winter…. Three days of Fatbiking with Mohawk Trail Cabin as base camp ( Mass. ) Three days of hike/snowshoe/fatbike from Stokes ‘Lean-to’ base Three days of Fatbiking near Deposit NY cabin. 10 days of AZ bike packing from the PatagoniaAZ area at the beginning of March

The look of disapproval…

Solo rides Tuesday, Wednesday. https://www.strava.com/activities/17038928810 ( Wed pix wound up at the end ) 🤷‍♂️ https://www.strava.com/activities/17051371339 W

Strava is having some issues so can’t get URLs from website. App works a bit better. Indoors on Saturday and back outdoors Sunday, Monday. No unpleasant noises heard on College Farm Road today. ( must not be soybean day )

slightly out of left field post : Zwift Trainer Difficulty : I had a lot of trouble wrapping my head around what this is exactly. Obviously it is there to reduce the amount of shifting required ( non-ERG rides ). So I kinda mapped it to functioning like a larger cassette on the trainer/bike...

Thanks for the offer, given the price of tires that’s a really good deal. I’ll pass as I can only fit a 2.4 as the back tire and I’ll wait until I get the wider rim wheelset prior to buying the tires. I have getting a dynamo hub front wheel for my road bike, a complete new wheelset for my...

Now that I’ve just been flipped to tubeless ( at least for this AZ trip 🌵🌵 ) I think I’ll switch to tubeless on the existing 2.2 tires and just suck it up. On the upside I won’t feel any pressure to flip-flop to a faster tire when I return. Perhaps airing down the PSI with tubeless will improve...

I like how you roll 👍 I’ll try that and see how it goes. thanks