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    Kids bike building

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    Does anyone have a decent set of 26” QR, 6 bolt disc hub wheels lying around collecting dust? I’ve found a pair of WTB  I23’s on Velomine for $169 and will likely buy them, but figured I’d check here first to see if could get a better deal on nicer wheels. My ten yr old is starting to outgrow her 24” and we’re going paint a 26” frame and build the bulk of the bike from the parts on her 24”. Pictures to come in the near future!

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    Tech/Maintenance

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    I second the @WLemke setup. I have digital gauge version of the link he posted. I’m pretty sure I got the idea from him or AB 4-5 years ago. After about two years I replaced the hose with a double head hose. Also works great to keep my vehicle tires inflated to recommended pressures.

    The vaccine

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    Conflation? I trust the scientists, I trust vaccines, but I don’t trust this vaccine because my political opponent cut down the red tape for the scientists I trust to get it to me faster. Not a political move at all. Almost like saying Pfizer is an evil corporation that is only after profits at any cost and in the next breath saying if you question the efficacy/safety of the Pfizer’s vaccine your anti-science.

    The vaccine

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    9 hours ago, mack_turtle said:

    It's going to suck and I'm more worried about "long covid"

    I feel like this is a popular argument currently. I feel like there isn’t a definitive definition of this expression. When I hear that phrase I think of cases with permanent lung damage or heart arrhythmias after 6 months. My wife thinks it means continuing to feel tired after having it.  

    The vaccine

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    10 hours ago, AustinBike said:

    There is not a clear indication that it is milder for the unvaccinated. The hospitals have fewer people in them and that is making people say it is less severe, but that basically just means that the vaccinated are not showing up in the hospital, just riding it out at home.

    Remember when the vaccine first came out, it was all about reducing the risk of hospitalization and death. The fact that it also reduced infections was a side benefit but not part of the original promise. Too many people took that benefit as fact. That assumption is problematic because some of the vaccinated believed they were bulletproof and some of the unvaccinated used it to try to prove their point that "vaccines don't work." 

    As a boosted Pfizer boy I still being ultra safe, we'll get through this quickly.

    I think your remembering wrong. I think your getting it confused with the original 15 days to slow the spread, original masking request and lockdowns. I’m pretty sure when the vaccines first came out our now current president and Vice President both for political reasons said they wouldn’t trust a vaccine rolled out that quickly. Since the end of January this year the goal post on the vaccines have changed many times.

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    The vaccine

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    5 hours ago, throet said:

    Curious how many folks who've been vaccinated / boosted succumbed to this latest wave of COVID? Our entire household is fully vaccinated but only my mother-in-law who is here visiting had been boosted. Anyway, our 25-yr old attended some sort of event, ended up getting COVID and passing it along to the rest of us. We all only experienced mild symptoms, including my mother-in-law who is high-risk. I'm scheduled to get my booster next week, but now I'm wondering if I should wait a while since I probably got an immunity boost from the COVID infection.   

    I glad to hear everyone in the family with only mild cases. Seems like people at my work are dropping like flies and I haven’t heard of anything but mild cases with any of them so far. Since it seems the prevailing though is that this new variant is 70x more contagious i hope the cases keep staying mild. 

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    For you guys with back problems

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    For what it’s worth I seem to get a pretty painful low back flare up every couple years going on about 10 years now and the successful ticket for me for the last 3 episodes has been a steroid dose pack to get rid of the inflammation (after the second day of this 90% of the pain gone), then routine of core work out prescribed by a PT, followed by losing 20-30lbs.  I then feel great, keep up the routine regularly for about six months and get lazy again. My flare ups seem to always happen around the holidays when my allergies start and I’ve had to go on multiple long road trips. I can’t help but think if I just kept the weight off and kept up with the core work I’d save myself a lot of misery! Hang in there brother, I’m currently feeling your pain and need to suck it up and go to the doctor to get the process started!

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    Tech/Maintenance

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    1 hour ago, Barry said:

    Super genius or dumb as fuck?

    I like to ride ChamoisHagar on lots of the singletrack we have in the area, and I also like to protect my EIE ChiCarbon rims from various rock impacts. So I use inserts. I got about 4000 miles out of HuckNorris before I started having issues with them--front and rear. Unlike many inserts, HuckNorris isn't a contiguous circle of material, rather it's a single ribbon that you shove into the tire. They give you a cheesy little Velcro bit that you're supposed to use to tire them together. But that doesn't work at all, as one of the foam bits inevitably breaks reverting it back into a ribbon instead of a circle. So you just let it go and hope for the best. And that worked for a while, but then this ribbon starts bunching up on itself, and folding over in the tire. Well that's no good, since you have a very unbalanced rotational force that you can feel, and worse, you have sections of the rim wholly unprotected from the insert. 

    So I'm on the look for another brand that works for this bike. But with 25.5mm IW rims, and 50mm tires, there are not many inserts that work for it. It falls between traditional gravel/CX and the typical small MTB versions. I keep looking. In the mean time, how to make HuckNorris work? I may have flossed out an idea!

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    Sew, yeah. I just roughly stitched the two ends together with floss. Only time will tell if it holds out, but it passes an aggressive tug test. And I suppose it's worth noting that I've never had this folding/doubling up issue with my 27.5x2.6 tires using the plus versions of HuckNorris. 

     

    Are they too porous to super glue together?

    Coal rolling teen who hit cyclists charged with felony

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    I’m from there and It’s a very conservative county and doubt many not so conservative people are moving in as most people in the area are employed in oil or live stock. Likely most of those riders were conservative.  Unfortunately ass hats seem to get off the hook in both the conservative counties and the liberal counties all over the country. This one seems particularly malicious and I hope he goes down!

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