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https://www.facebook.com/events/352355088762058/ https://www.bikereg.com/banduro guaranteed to be a GREAT time! please share to all of your friends! come out, race or spectate! this is one of the few mountain biking venues that is surprisingly spectator friendly with the clear visibility across large areas of the property! This is the first race put on by myself and my race event company Victory Racing! hope to see and meet many of you there!

Wrong. I'll end up with a trainer that we both hate AND a Peloton.

You need to figure out why she likes the Peloton. Is it the color? The interface? The competition? If you deviate from the Peloton, you will hear about it if she doesn’t like it and you’ll end up with a trainer you both hate. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I appreciate you wanting to help and trying to come up with a way to do that. But since I am a cranky old man just like AB, let me encourage you to *NOT* do this. If you do this and make it publicly available - you would probably get trails closed and open yourself and others up to being sued. Once this is publicly available, it is only a matter of time before the land owner finds it. But since ALL trails are opened and ridden only with land owner permission - that is no big deal - right? RIGHT?!?! So why would the land owner care? Because what was a slow trickle of riders that kept the trail small and quiet turns into a flood of riders that turns the trail into a super highway with all kinds of people on it. Now there are so many people on it that the neighbors start complaining about the traffic, noise, litter and even parking. Some of the new riders decide to "help" improve the trail and take out a branch here and a rock there. Then somebody decides that a tree gate is too tight and it is slowing them down so that tree has to go. Pretty soon what was nice tight single track starts to look like a down hill snow ski run. Then speeds get higher and higher as people go for the KOM on that trail. But wait - the podcast has invited new people to the trail who have never been there. So they are riding slowly and listening to the podcast. And a KOM rider meets the new rider in a huge impact. And one of them gets taken out by Life Flight. Now the land owner is put on notice that the land owner MAY have to pay for the injuries / medical bills because the injured riders insurance company is looking to sue them to recover damages. Shortly there after the environmentalist find out about it and decide they need to make that area a preserve so they can fence it off and keep those nasty mountain bikers out. And the land owner thinks that might be a better option than being sued over people using their land. Think this is some far fetched, made up story???? It happened. Right. Here. In. Austin. (Actually I have combined two actual stories. The insurance company suing to recover damages was from a different incident than the trail I started describing.) I would encourage you to take people out and show them the trails. This also gives you a chance to decide which trails they should or should not ride. You can point them to appropriate trails. It also gives you the chance to impress upon them the "rules" for using the trails. And that if they bring other people to the trail they pass on the "rules" to the new riders too. If you want to do more than that - point them to MTBProject or TrailForks. Both of those are trying to show only appropriate trails. But this is just my opinion as a cranky old man. One that has been dealing with this kind of thing for a few years now. And is about to hand that job off to the next person who will take it.

Zeus.

For many people, they don't care who is choosing the compromise. And so, a custom build may not be all that important and will probably save them money if sticking to brand new retail priced parts. I like the freedom to choose, and I really like to tinker with stuff. So, that choice has more value to me. If carbon hoops are a no compromise issue for someone, then they can keep the Fox Factory fork and the Deore brakes. Funny thing is the Cane Creek is actually cheaper than the Fox Factory fork.

Hey Seth - This is BAD ASS!! So good to see you getting into the game and having a race event company is another level. Excited for you man and I'll do my best to attend and support any way possible. If you need some volunteers, let us know. You've certainly given enough of your time to the trails people ride around here.

Around noon today I was at a school in southeast Austin. Not really in the city. Not really in the country. Kind of on the edge. While I was waiting for my escort in the office, a male peacock and three turkeys walked up and stared in the windows. That was not a sight I expected to see.

TACX and Elite also make some of the best trainers out there. For reviews and information DC Rainmaker is a really good source. If you are comparing to a Peloton then you should be looking at direct drive trainers. Direct drive means you take the bike's rear wheel off and put your chain straight on the trainer. The others have rollers that your tire turns. Those are lame 😛 I got a 2nd cassette that matches the one on my rear wheel and can switch from trainer mode to real bike mode as fast as it takes to swap a wheel. I've tried a lot of training programs. It kind of depends on your goals and training style to say which one is the best. I like unstructured "natural" type rides so I mostly do Zwift. Other software might be better for structured training. I've never been on a Peloton but I like to put my road bike on the trainer and knock out a ride when it's dark or raining or 107 degrees. It's not wobbly, almost the opposite, you don't get the side to side movement out of the saddle that riding on the road gives. It's not going to fall over or anything. All the resistance is controlled by the software. Change gears and virtual speed or adjust the software for your constant effort training.

1. Wahoo Kickr or Cyclops Hammer are the best. I use the Kickr and like the feel. Subscription services I use are: Zwift, Sufferfest, TrainerRoad. I generally don't have them all active at the same time. Most of my riding is done on Zwift. Sufferfest and Trainer road are more winter things when I'm doing specific workouts for race season. Even if I had all of these going at once, it'd still be cheaper than the 40/month for Peloton. 2. Not really that I've seen. I ride on my road bike on the trainer, so I haven't really looked at it. 3. Haven't used a Peloton before. Several of my coworkers who also ride have one though and like theirs. 4. My trainer feels pretty solid. I have no issues standing up and sprinting hard on the bike. 5. The Kickr has several both options. You can either free ride, using gears and such, or have it do specific workouts that do not require shifting. For example, I have my FTP set, and it bases the workout around that. It'll set my target to say 180 watts, and automatically adjust resistance to that number and I just pedal. After a bit, it goes down to 120w and adjusts for that. Since she's not a cyclist, that may influence your decision. I have a road bike that fits me well, and I use that on the trainer. I dislike most non-standard (spin) bikes that I've ridden. I also hate spin classes in general, so I'd never use the spin class function that I think Peloton has. When I was looking at options, the cost was a factor. I already had a road bike. The Kickr was 900ish (due to discount), and most apps that I use are 10ish a month. The peloton was 2k + tax and had a 40/month subscription service, and I couldn't use Zwift or other apps (not sure if this is still the case).

I was just arguing because I was bored yesterday. You never said it was "cheaper" to do a custom build, only that you can get in the neighborhood. You should probably buy that Ripmo. Congrats!

But they only go to 3.6🤮 First good series on HBO in a long time. Sorry for hijack

Dedicated graphics memory means it is separate from the RAM (on cheaper laptops, video RAM is shared with the regular RAM). For what you want it for, go a step or two down from the latest iCore to save a lot of money. DDR3 or DDR4 is fine but I think DDR4 is the sweet spot for pricing now. Yes, $500 is probably a good starting point for all you need. I forgot to recommend Lenovo. Seems to be fairly well liked at work. This one checks all the boxes. https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-130-Computer-802-11ac-Bluetooth/dp/B07RGJXVNB/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=laptop&qid=1563341315&refinements=p_72%3A2661618011%2Cp_n_feature_five_browse-bin%3A13580790011|13580791011%2Cp_n_graphics_type_browse-bin%3A14292273011%2Cp_n_size_browse-bin%3A2423841011%2Cp_36%3A-60000&rnid=386442011&s=pc&sr=1-5

Seth thanks very much , that did the trick in no time. I got her all cleaned and lubed and running like butter. Appreciate it Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk

From Amazon for $619.99 ASUS VivoBook Thin and Lightweight FHD WideView Laptop, 8th Gen Intel Core i5-8250U, 8GB DDR4 RAM, 128GB SSD+1TB HDD, USB Type-C, NanoEdge, Fingerprint Reader, Windows 10 - F510UA-AH55 Let's break this down: ASUS - Brand. Not Great. Not Terrible. The 3.6 Roentgen of computer brands. VivoBook - The line of laptops this one falls in. Thin and Lightweight FHD WideView Laptop - It's a laptop. It's thin and lightweight. If you don't give shits about thin and lightweight too damn bad because they all are. 8th Gen Intel Core i5-8250U - It has a processor or the brain. It's 8th gen. 8 is better than 7. i5 means you aren't getting charged more for the i7. This used to mean something but not really anymore. Just stay away from i3. 8GB DDR4 RAM - This is the memory that is used when you run a program. Not having enough of this makes your computer slow. 90% of laptops can be upgraded by a nerd with a screwdriver and $40 to double the RAM to 16GB. 128GB SSD+1TB HDD - This is the memory that keeps your programs and files saved on your computer after you turn it off. Run out of this and no more cat meme GIFs. SSD is fast but expensive. HDD is slow but cheap. This computer has a little of each. Nerds can also upgrade this. USB Type-C - It connects to things. As does every laptop. NanoEdge - ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ NFI. Fingerprint Reader - It sends your fingerprints to the Chinese. Windows 10 - It sends your fingerprints to Microsoft.

^ this Usually run XTR/X0 shifters with lesser derailleurs. IMHO, the rocks here are too grabby for $200+ derailleurs

After multiple arm and shoulder surgeries I learned to become wipebidextrous

Darn when the doc said he was giving me Norco I was already planning to hit their website to browse the latest models.

Nice shot Kyle! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Home resting comfortably with loving wife, which is a reminder of what's truly important in life. Surgeon told her that the procedure went according to plan. Really got to think about the details with these things. The one question I had was how the hell am I going to be able to sit on a toilet? Surgeon said good call out and had the nurse arrange for my wife to pick up an apparatus that attaches to the toilet, raising the seat 4.5 inches with upright handles on the side. Haha can't wait to try it. Thanks all for the well wishes and good humor. A real must for getting through these things.

Yeah, humid mornings are awful. Afternoons are HOT, but at least the humidity is much lower.

Yeah, I really suffer in the 80s-90s when it's humid, especially on MTB rides. I'm better off in the 90s-100s when it's just hot.

Gone fishing

Most of the cooling in humans is not convective though, it's evaporative. (Dogs only have convective cooling, except for through their mouths, so keep your dogs home in this heat--especially the brachycephalic (pugs, bulldogs, boxers, etc.).) One of the things I remember the most about HS Chemistry was the experiment to measure calories for evaporation vs convection. Basically, it was measuring how much heat you could extract by adding ice, vs evaporating. It wasn't even close! Layers that promote evaporation make a difference as well. The key is to make sure you're sweating. Once you stop sweating they act like warmers. If it's extremely humid where water doesn't evaporate, then that's a problem as well. For me, I can ride in the dry heat better than in cooler more humid temps, as long as I have plenty of fluids. I'll ride in the afternoon rather than in the morning for this reason.