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I was a fat fuck with a shitty bike in a flat city.

2006 - Lubbock, TX - Probably my 3rd or 4th ride ever.

I'm guessing you mean ugly, not color-coordinated. I'm going to have to stop getting dressed in the dark whenever I know the bike fashion police will be on patrol.

Yep, and I bought two purr. Ain't no shame in my game.

And there is the problem with any brick and mortar bike shop. Their going-out-of-business-super-blowout-prices are roughly the same as you can find online any day. I feel for the local bike shops, but I'm more guilty than anyone of not supporting them. I found Pearl Izumi Canyon shorts MSPR $90 on Amazon for $14 the other day. How can you compete with that? Performance does suck though.

Your floor looks a little bendy too.

Nothing like a day out on the lake in your pedal boat in 30 degree temps.

Perhaps my eyeballs are a bit bland. Are you sure this will make me cool?

I have the Montaro MIPS. I like it, but it doesn't fit quite as well as my previous non-MIPS Feature or Hex before that. I do like it better than any other brand of helmet I've tried. I don't know if maybe the MIPS layer changed the fit or maybe a different retention system. I used to ride with a Halo headband under the helmet. For some reason, it gave me a headache the first ride with the Montaro. I took it off halfway through the first ride and haven't put it back on since. The helmet itself does a decent enough job of keeping the sweat out of my eyes.

That's a great idea. I'd love to see it.

Being able to go faster and farther with the same effort and very similar riding experience sounds awful. Wait, no, that actually sounds like a lot of fun.

Is this true? Are you talking about true go fast road bikes or do commuters count? I'd think there would be a huge commuter market.

It's "kinda" difficult to maintain an erection after you find out the wizard is just a dude.

I never realized that Lake Austin is the city's only source of drinking water. Confession: I've peed in your drinking water.

I'm just angling for some good new video content.

That's nuts.

Will it hold up to the infamous "Evil Hammer Test"?

It's probably the best backdrop they have for taking pictures of bikes. I would probably go with a more wooded setting if I sold that many high-end bikes on CL.

The basic dropper service is just taking it apart, cleaning, and using lots of Slick Honey. I had a KS with the exact problem you're describing, and this fixed it in 30 minutes. There are lots of things I don't like messing with on the bike, but routine dropper service is easier than bleeding brakes.

Yeah, now that you mention that, I did have some weird corrosion issue with a raw Yeti I once had

I call BS. That is obviously oak. Do you spray paint your stanchions gold and put a Kashima sticker on there too?

I've always loved the raw aluminum look.

Interesting.

I end up watching a lot of pro football because it fits in my schedule. Sundays, I'm usually tinkering around the house and will put the games on in the background. Sunday/Monday/Thursday nights I record the game and start watching after the kids go to bed - about an hour into the real-time game which gives plenty of time for skipping commercials. Either that or in the garage while bike wrenching. I'm kind of a fantasy football nerd, so I can watch any game, but I don't really care about the outcome. I just like to keep an eye on who scores and when. College football I only watch my Texas Tech Red Raiders and their continuous cycle of pulling off shocking upsets then promptly losing to Kansas or some other team they should beat on their way to a 6-6 record. To bring this back to the original question, y'all are right about the money. Franchises put so much of their salary cap into a handful of players (usually the QB), that the rules of the game are changing to protect those investments. Who wants to watch Brett Hundley vs. Ryan Mallet when you could watch Aaron Rogers vs. Tom Brady? It's a star driven league. They've got to protect their greatest assets. The problem lately is that some of these rules interfere with some pretty fundamental stuff, like finishing a tackle.

Football is a chess match played with elite athletes.