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I usually compromise my children’s nutrition, health, happiness, education, and recreation opportunities for my bike purchases.

Thanks for the replies. What she really likes about the Peloton is that you can filter by workout type / trainer / musical genre / etc. and just go. I think this is a situation where I should get her want she actually wants or she won't be happy with it. I've done the Peloton once, and I have to admit that I enjoyed it. Some of the female trainers on there are very....motivational.

Only the petrol-heads will get that one... -CJB

They now need a "youdontevenneedtobringatrailer.com" alternative to https://bringatrailer.com

Was checkin' out the forecast for Ruidoso and Santa Fe for the coming week and they have arranged for a cool front to greet me bringing highs in the 70's and 0.1-0.2 inches of rain every day to knock the dust down and provide a bit of humidic comfort for Central Texas visitors. Simply enchanting how they aim to please Texan tourists venturing to the Land of Enchantment.

I have held off telling people about this new trail - until now. It is starting to come together and we will need volunteers soon. So here it is. In 2017, Travis County hired a landscape architect to survey and design some new trails at Reimer's Ranch. Our very own MTB trail builder, rider and instructor Jake Carston helped with the design work. The attached PDF file shows the overview of that trail design. The design sat on the shelf for a while. ARR got a grant from REI to start building those trails. That process has now started. We will be building two of the 5 trails shown - marked I1 (Intermediate 1) and Return. These are intended to be Flow Trails. There is not enough elevation to call them Downhill Trails but there is enough to get a good flow without a lot of peddling. We have surveyed the planned trails and picked the I1 trail as the one we want to build first. It has great topology for fun and interesting trail. We have met with Travis County (land manager), REI (funding source) and KOM Trails. We want this trail open for Cranksgiving so we want to get KOM to do the biggest part of the flow trail. ARR will be building the return trail (how you get back up hill). This looks like it will come together and be ready in November. To have it ready in time, ARR will need volunteers to build the return trail. Work days will start in September to avoid the summer heat. Racers can plan on getting their PayDirt hours early this year. Keep an eye out for work day calls and come help build our new MTB trail! And make sure you thank Travis County, REI, KOM, and ARR for making it happen. 2017-03-31_Reimers Flow Trails.pdf

Who am I kidding? i built my current bike ground up in 2013. What I spent on that = family of 4 ski trip or 6 months of club volleyball. I hunt, fish, chicken ranch, goat herd, and garden to provide food for them. Please don’t report me to CPS. My wife has friends that work there, so word might get back to her. thanks in advance.

Damn you! I hate that song...that and every Maroon5 song there is. ...kids...

I usually just go front to back, but full circle could save some TP.

What does the Fox say? Moved this one off my property and over to PB. I did have a mountain lion encounter on my property when I was a teenager. There is no mistaking it when you hear them/see them. There have also been Bigfoot sightings between my house and Pace Bend. Coincidence? D832604D-47AC-4AF2-9290-EC7727ED79BE.MOV

Are you saying there are other situations?

My favorite quote!

The Mac touchpad is the best. Using a mouse now is like trying to wipe with the opposite hand. Awkward and shitty.

Never trust someone selling a trailer on another trailer.

Lol, it's my daily life. I run a huge Cisco UCS/Netapp/VMWare set of clusters across multiple datacenters and online. Flexpod is the term they like to use. UCS completely changed how I do things.

I am barely used to Mac OS. I am bilingual in that regard, but Windows is more natural to me at this point. In my last job as a newspaper proofer, we all used Mac desktops with a AWS Windows virtual desktop inside, with 4 to 6 different Windows virtual desktops within that one all running at the same time. Logging out at the end of the day was like being kicked out of a scene in Inception. Confusing, apparently inefficient, but that decision was ten levels above my pay grade.

I’ve done both. I own a Hammer H2/Apple TV/ Zwift setup. I enjoyed my peloton class I did and I do spin classes when I’m traveling for work. The competition ranking in peloton class was fun. It could easily get me in trouble to actually reach my goals. I ended up going way over the recommended effort for the Tabata intervals we did. It could also allow someone to not go hard enough when left to their leisure. Turning the knobs for resistance is something you get used to doing accurately. I would buy the smart trainer/ Apple TV setup. Especially if you have a spare bike. It helps if you and your wife aren’t too different in height. A dropper helps, or swappable seatposts with your ideal saddles if you are both going to ride. GUESS WHAT, You can run peloton digital app, but it doesn’t really get you what you want. No connectivity with Strava, and no data other than HR, so it’s not the same. My whole family loves Zwift (more than I do!) my in-laws now have the same setup. One lost 30 pounds through the winter because of Zwift. Zwift has a big community, competition, individual structures workouts, group rides, group structures workouts (like peloton) where everyone is kept together in a group no matter their power. It’s also got races. There are women’s only events all the time as well. For pure structured training, I prefer trainer road and streaming YouTube, but I stick to Zwift to simplify the household. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There are several real video options for smart trainers on top of the other apps like Zwift. https://ergvideo.com Trainerroad is not just a way to do rides on your trainer, it includes training programs. I think of Trainerroad like coaching+app. BSS Parmer and Research (and I know Lamar does too) has Kickr demo units with Zwift she can try.

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.

You can get more bang for the buck buying off-lease. I just bought a 2015 27" iMac 5k Retina from gainsaver.com for home and it's awesome. I'd recommend a mid 2015 Macbook Pro but not the 2017 or 2018 (I hate my 2018 MBP, miss my mid 2015 MBP). I wouldn't get anything less than 16GB memory. For video and photo editing, I think you probably want dedicated graphics memory. For Windows brands, I can recommend Acer and do not recommend HP based on my experience.

I'm OK with alternate lines and purposefully designed mellow trails, but when people modify the trail in such a way that it alternates some of the challenges, I don't think that's right. I don't claim to ride everything technical out there really, but I try some of them at least some of the time and when it's now gone, now I can't try it. I just get off my bike and practice my Cx dismounts and mounts if I don't feel like riding an obstacle. This is Austin and I've been riding here since 1991. I can't think of any trail (original in any case) that doesn't have a section that a beginner or mellow rider would not want to dismount the first few times. What's the big deal with getting off your bike?

Never give up.

I've held off on making an announcement on this because we are essentially still in a beta format. However, this thread and topic seems on point, therefore I figured it might prove useful to some of you who are contemplating custom builds and want to play around a bit. I've been working for this company for the past few years and we recently brought on @Teamsloan to help us move things fwd. You can create a profile and then save build lists, set pricing searches for specific parts, and share your builds with others. Later on I may give it its own thread, but for now feel free to jump in and you can give feedback in our forums. https://cyclingbuilder.com/ Thanks, CJB

For those folks who don't like Shimano drive-trains, is this based on the older 9 speed stuff? Did you ever use the shadow rear deraillers, or specifically the 11 speed clutch deraillers? IMO it isn't as cut and dry as the breaks, and preference between Shimano and SRAM drive-trains are largely personal preferences now, unlike a couple of generations ago when SRAM was clearly better.

I predict it will start trending and we'll see a 140 mm trail bike with that name within the year.