Ok. Take my bike and the rack. But you're NOT getting my u-lock!
(Sheldon Brown would be very disappointed.)
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Ok. Take my bike and the rack. But you're NOT getting my u-lock!
(Sheldon Brown would be very disappointed.)
Fine. Take the bike. But you're NOT getting my bike rack!
This would only encourage would-be thieves to steal your buddy's bike too.
And here we have the removable rack secured to the removable rear wheel, with the cable simply looped over the saddle/seatpost. No one is just going to roll it away, but still...
Don't be this guy.
The cable is only threaded through the removable bolt-on bike rack.
Found these visual instructions for a u-lock mount. The geometry represented in pics 1 and 3 is novel. And regardless of where you install your u-lock bracket, the saddle almost never goes in the head tube.
Pre-Storm Austin HEB Toilet Paper Aisle
Some of y'all planning to shit 600 times in the next 3 days?
Mission Accomplished. Some minor issues with used eBay parts, but got it sorted. Being used to the Cutthroat, this thing feels very twitchy.
Gemini analyzed some homeopathic allergy medicine my wife picked up. Do I tell her, or let her enjoy the placebo effect?
Before today, I knew nothing about headsets.
I learned this is a FSA cartridge bearing... and it isn't supposed to be in pieces or look like that.
I found a set of Force 1 shift levers on eBay that came with a derailleur and flat-mount calipers. I'm a little nervous about these post-to-flat mount adapters I found.
But as my daughter told me once: "Brakes? Who needs brakes? Stopping is overrated."
I'm rebuilding my old Motobecane CX bike. Should be good for building skills underbiking on twisty single-track and a less-likely-to-be-stolen commuter than my Cutthroat.
Gen Z doesn’t know how Social Security works. Half of Gen Z thinks their Social Security taxes are saved for them in a personal account or “invested” in the Social Security Trust Fund, reveals a Cato and YouGov poll.
Learn more ➡️ https://ow.ly/gmtg50XQsI8
Penny shortage.
#NOLA
Car traffic is a DDoS attack on cities.
Mine was a solo bikepacking trip through Big Bend National Park. I'd dreamed of it for years and finally just did it. It was hot, dry, and much harder than I expected. In other words, amazing.
I thought this had more than a few good bits.
On this day, a child was born who left an indelible mark on human history, transforming our understanding of the world. Famous for his long hair, he unraveled the mysteries of the heavens and brought light to the world.
Happy Birthday, Sir Isaac Newton.
(Born Dec 25, 1642, Julian Calendar)
Daughter chose 'The Exorcist' as our family Christmas Eve movie. She's never seen it and I decided, at 14, it might be a bit too much. We settled on Stranger Things, letting everyone get caught up in preparation for tomorrow.
I know I'm late to #Festivus but... special-use tools suck.
My SRAM self-extracting crank arm cap came loose. It fell out a few times while riding on the trainer. I didn't lose it. But if I had, the part itself is only $8.90.
The tool to install it costs $10.99 plus a $10 tube of threadlocker.
I Believe in Santa
#Christmas #HolidayLights #xLights
To share with your friends and family during the holidays when they start saying stupid things.
Biomedical Scientist Answers More Pseudoscience Questions
My dreams of seeing, in my lifetime, a Cannonball Run with only self-driving vehicles in Mad Max Mode, are likely to remain just dreams.
Age is catching up to me.
I just looked at the clock to see that it's 8:13pm, and decided it's too late to start a movie.
I hope at a 4-way stop it will flash its lights to indicate 'you go first' instead of sitting behind its tinted windows assuming the cyclist can see it waving its non-existent hand.
I hate it when I wake up, have my coffee, get mentally prepared for a good workout, get kitted up, put the bike on the trainer, squeeze in a short warm-up b/c I know I only have an hour before I need to get ready for work, and then... #MyWhoosh forces an update that's going to take 30+ minutes.
Coming up on 100 years!
I fixed the accuracy problem with #Google #Gemini.
I simply instructed it to answer every question with, "I do not have reliable, verifiable information on that topic."
Much better now. Saves a lot of time.
After enlisting Google Gemini to help troubleshoot a recording issue with my Frigate instance (total waste of time), I realized something...
For my daughter's 14th b-day, I gave her a Magic 8-Ball (because all kids need a Magic 8-Ball at some point, right?).
LLMs are just expensive Magic 8-Balls.
