Barry

"Yay! I just bought two new whisky glasses! I think I'll have margaritas to celebrate!"

I always loved how the "G" on the Glencairn box was stylized. It's still my favorite glass (okay...second favorite behind my Riedel Cognac glasses), but I do have a lot of glassware that I use for various purposes. 

28 minutes ago, AustinBike said:

If you bend a rotor take it off. You can ride back with only one brake rotor, way better than walking.

While I like how clean looking and easy to install the lock-ring rotors are, this is the only drawback...I definitely don't have a lock-ring tool in my pack. Still, I think I'd remove the caliper and zip-tie it up out of the way in this scenario. Surely I could bend the rotor back enough to not hit the frame. 

9 minutes ago, notyal said:

I couldn't even tell you what lactose taste like (or maybe it's just for mouth feel?), but for some reason that's where they lost me. Until I read that, my interest was peaked. 

For one, lactose gives us milk stouts! It sounds gross but they're usually very good. Celis has a great one, for example. Lactose adds a nice layer of subtle background sweetness with also adding a thick and creamy mouth feel.  

@Jessica has stocked our garage refrigerator with a verity of sours. But she isn’t really drinking them. And I’m certainly not drinking them. I’ll taste them and almost always hate them or at best say they’re “not bad.” Although that ^^ one does look interesting!

3 hours ago, AustinBike said:

So, @Barry and @ATXZJ, how do the 510's do in terms of wear in the cleat connection zone?

I don't find any significant damage in that area after about 7500 miles:

In fact the shoe looks spectacular for having 7500 miles that are 80+% trail: 

But that's the left shoe. The right shoe has two issues, but both are caused by operator error. First, I do a lot of different post ride hang-outs, and I don't always have a chair with me. I found that I was in the habit of sitting on the heel of my right shoe, with my foot on the tip-toe position. Over time, this caused the sole of the shoe to crack under my toes. It wasn't really a functional problem, and I would have continued using the shoes for who knows how long if issue #2 didn't occur. I had a nothing of a slide out-crash at WC last week, and at the time I thought I had just broken my Boa. Well it turns out I actually cracked the Boa cradle, which is bonded to the shoe. So I guess since that shoe has 2 issues that I caused, it's done for. Well enough, I only paid 0.026 cents per mile for them. My next pair arrives today, and I have a spare left shoe. 

They're pricy, but the 510 Kestel Boa are the widest, most comfortable and most durable shoe I've ever owned. Also the best looking. They certainly walk WAY better than any other technical shoe. One of my favorite things about the shoe is that if I pop out of the pedal in a techy situation, the bottom of the shoe gets really good purchase on the SPD pedal until I can get to a place where I can clip back in. And check out this Blister review of them.

Interestingly they also have a 12.5 size, so I guess that's a 45.5 in Euro sizing. 

@Jessica and I both have a 4-day weekend. We're not sure what our plans are yet, but we may be out of town for this. If I'm in town and we don't have other plans, I'm in.

Nice. I like a long shadow bike shot! 

12 hours ago, Chief said:

I know I'm out of the norm for what people think is good beer, I don't like IPA's at all and IPA's were not brewed for any other reason than to preserve the beer for the journey from England to India when Great Britain was settling India.

True story. I'd be just as happy (with my stouts, porters, browns, Scotch ales, Belgiums, and occasional yellow [or even light!] beer) if they'd abandon the IPA concept altogether. Typically I'm a live and let live sort...but when OB runs out of Ten Fiddy and Old Chub, but has 9 fucking IPAs available, it's time to get militant. 

This certainly isn't the first, but it's the oldest I can locate for now. We used to build a ton of old school TTF in Ithaca, NY. Otherwise we wouldn't have any tech whatsoever.  I was hitting this one on a buddy's decrepit bicycle--I can't recall what the bike was, but it was a hardtail that weighed about 40 pounds.  I think this was 2005 or 2006. 

22 minutes ago, mack_turtle said:

is this a double-entendre?

Actually triple. Clear water pun. A clear pee pun. And a note to my liver that I wasn't making any other admissions. 

I stopped using a Camelbak full time after the 2018 Dragonslayer. I was drinking the full 100oz on each lap, and I ended up having to stop to pee 3 times each on the last two laps. I was drinking way too much water (...to be clear). Since then I've largely only used bottles, although recently I've started dabbling in a fanny hip pack for some occasions and locations--or if I just don't want to wear a jersey.  

Those rocks make things much slower at night. You certainly need both a good bar and helmet light. 

Well, like I said in the other thread...

On 8/15/2021 at 5:51 PM, Barry said:

Glad to motivate, however it happens. 

I've found some pretty secluded swim spots there... 😉

18 minutes ago, Albert said:

True, I think I've only done that once the entire time I've lived here.  😄  And at least you can get water at a few places, such as Tejas Camp, so that helps.

Right. And literally every park along the way has a spigot...except Overlook. 

10 minutes ago, Albert said:

Lake Georgetown - Just, no.  I'd get a lap in if I started right at sunrise, but would suck with the humidity in the morning.

Except you're always next to the lake and an easy way to cool off. 

Yep. I've gotten it as well on multiple browsers. 

Maybe the spammers are next?!

22 minutes ago, Barry said:

A monkey without a tail is akin to a trials rider without sight. 

8 minutes ago, AntonioGG said:

Holy shit. @ 1:10 loudest gasp I've ever let out!

Yep, I had the same reaction at that spot.

In an effort to discontinue my derailleument of the drankin' thread, I've moved this here. This guy is a dozen different kinds of awesome.  A multi-talented rider (mtb,dh,trials) stricken with diabeetus retinopathy that has basically degraded to mild light sensitivity in one eye and no sight whatsoever in the other, decided to get back on the bike, and interestingly trials riding was the one kind of riding he found he could get back in to. I discovered this guy listening to the excellent Bikes and Big Ideas podcast on Blister. This particular podcast is by their bike editor, David Golay, who is an old bicycle buddy of mine from my days in NY. Lots of time on the trail with that dude.

You can do a deep dive with a long interview on the Blister podcast, and check out a few of this rider's more presentation worthy (not busting his ass) videos on his YT channel. This is probably his best:

A monkey without a tail is akin to a trials rider without sight. 

12 minutes ago, AntonioGG said:

You’re assuming the monkey is in space.  He could be on the light side of the moon and he would bleed out from his tail.

Not really. I was actually thinking he'd be in a test chamber. I personally manage a chamber large enough that we could comfortably test a half dozen or more monkies at a time.

Back on the moon--and for our purposes here the temperature and pressure on the moon v/s deep space isn't enough to matter. And since there is no air temperature on the moon--or in space, you'd just need to train the monkey to turn his tail away from the sun. But then there is probably some scattered light (therefore some radiant heat) getting to his tail from the surface, but based on how defined shadows appear on the moon, I'd wager it's not enough heat to matter if his tail is in his shadow. 

Edit to add...the only thing better than a Soul Fashioned at Home Slice with a couple of slices and hot wings, is a second Soul Fashioned. 

Not totally useless. If they shaved the base of the  monkey's tail, and put a pretty good gasket around the base, then the monkey inside would be fine indefinitely. Eventually his tail would freeze,  but even if it broke off, the blood would freeze and stop further issues from arising. And there is no risk of infection until he or she comes back to a non-sterile environment. So long as the suit is otherwise sound (and that tail gasket is fine), you'd have a monkey in decent shape. Although if he is out more than a few minutes, then his tail would probably need to be removed after the fact. 

Edit to add...I don't normally go for cocktails, but that Soul Fashioned at Home Slice really hits the spot with a couple of slices and some hot wings.

SpongeBob isn't bad at all EtW--certainly not as bad as the Mulligan exit. And I'm 90% on it WtE (not counting ChamoisHagar attempts, on which I'm about 0/5)! No problem going down it on the gravel bike though. 

I've only been riding Deception for 4 years, so it's only been hard and then harder, but I've one dabbed it both directions a few times. WtE my biggest issue is both the Grotto, Dare, and a couple of the 180 degree switchbacks. EtW obviously Jammer and EBD are the real challenges. I've been clearing EBD like a champ for a while now, and I used to always clear Jammer, but lately it has been the one to get me. Only once have I managed both of them in the same ride, only then to put a foot down later on something stupid. 

42 minutes ago, RedRider3141 said:

You made my Google feed!

Ha. Thanks. I found it and threw some upvotes his way.