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Grumbletron 4000 posted:I hate to bring it back to bicycles again, but how are you people busting spokes? I used to commute on my Haro mountain bike and the only things I ever broke were either crash or stupidity related. I put thousands of miles on that thing too. Touring will do it pretty easily. Lots of weight, lots of miles, and rough roads. My hub? The spokes held up fine (they are DT alpine III so the last think that will fail), the hub flange probably had a defect.
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veedubfreak posted:Roadbikes are built to be -just- tough enough to not blow up constantly. They use much fewer spokes to keep weight down. A mountain bike, even a cheap one, is going to be able to put up with much more abuse than your standard road bike. As someone who rides a department store mountain bike, it seems to me like a lot of people buy bikes better suited for racing to do general road riding. The car analogy would be a person who enthusiastically drives canyons but doesn't ever go to the track buying a stripped out Lotus on R-compounds as their daily. It seems like sacrificing a couple pounds for a lot more strength and versatility might be worth it for a bike that'll be primarily used on the road. My housemate has a carbon fiber Trek that's worth more than one of my cars. I'm pretty sure it's lighter than my laptop, but for non-competitive riding is it really that much better than a similarly shaped metal frame on tires that aren't pizza cutters?
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Apr 6, 2016 20:36
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Marginally, but if you have the money to burn then gently caress it.
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While there are a lot of dminishing returns above about 2 grand, yes an expensive bike will be better in every way than a cheap one. A carbon frame isn't just lighter, it can bes designed to be both stiffer and more comfortable. Bikes are fun because you can use it to essentially its full potential on most public roads. Riding faster, more comfortably, while expending less energy is great. These expensive bikes will benefit those who ride a lot. I ride 100mi per week, which is something like 7 hours (this is considered not a lot of biking), which is may more time than I spend in a car, so I'm going to spend some bucks to be comfortable and have more fun. I do overbuild the poo poo out of my wheels though because I break poo poo.
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moxieman posted:Yup, I work at the shipyard. From what I hear the kid in the car was special needs, so I'd guess driver distraction if he was having an episode or something + the roads were a bit slick that afternoon + lovely guardrail that was scheduled to be replaced anyway. Pretty incredible that everyone made it out ok. Funny/weird when you see things you know about in here. I also used to work at the shipyahd! BMDA represent! (Pretty sure BMDA went away when GD bought BIW though). Continue discussion as before please. Edit dammit I confuse chat and horrible failure threads. some_admin fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Apr 6, 2016 |
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What is a good seat that won't turn my rear end into a horrible mechanical failure. Every time I try to get back in to riding, I can't sit down for the next couple days.
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Apr 6, 2016 21:28
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wolrah posted:As someone who rides a department store mountain bike, it seems to me like a lot of people buy bikes better suited for racing to do general road riding. The car analogy would be a person who enthusiastically drives canyons but doesn't ever go to the track buying a stripped out Lotus on R-compounds as their daily. It seems like sacrificing a couple pounds for a lot more strength and versatility might be worth it for a bike that'll be primarily used on the road. For sure. On my light road bike with good tires (continental GP4000S2), it takes very little effort to cruise along at 20mph. So for example if I go out for a 50-60 mile ride it takes 3 hours or less instead of 4-5. Plus a well fitting road bike is going to be more comfortable to ride longer distances anyway. jamal fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Apr 6, 2016 |
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veedubfreak posted:What is a good seat that won't turn my rear end into a horrible mechanical failure. Every time I try to get back in to riding, I can't sit down for the next couple days. Go to a dedicated bike shop and make sure you get a seat that is wide enough that your weight comes down on bones instead of the flesh between them. Beyond that, don't use a squishy gel seat, and make sure your shorts have a chamois. Your rear end will be sore if you don't ride frequently, the only thing you can do is to ride more.
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Well that's the problem. I have one of those taintsaver seats and my butt bones do sit on the seat properly. But when dem bones get bruised after say a 25 mile ride, it's kinda hard to get back on the bike for another week.
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wolrah posted:As someone who rides a department store mountain bike, it seems to me like a lot of people buy bikes better suited for racing to do general road riding. The car analogy would be a person who enthusiastically drives canyons but doesn't ever go to the track buying a stripped out Lotus on R-compounds as their daily. It seems like sacrificing a couple pounds for a lot more strength and versatility might be worth it for a bike that'll be primarily used on the road. A more expensive bike is better, but you get hugely diminishing returns (especially for commuters) above about $1000. A $500 hybrid bike from a real manufacturer like Trek is like ten times nicer than a $150 Wal-Mart Huffy. A $1000 fast road commuter bike is about twice as good as a $500 hybrid. A $2000 carbon road bike is like 20% better for a road racer than the fast commuter, and mostly indistinguishable for a commuter. If you can tell the difference on the road between a $2000 carbon road bike and a $10,000 super hyper extreme road bike, your sponsors will buy it for you. Incidentally, I think that people buying wheels with fewer spokes to "save weight", unless they're competitive racers, are idiots. Take a dump before you ride and you'll save twenty times as much weight as you do by weakening your wheels to the point of failure.
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veedubfreak posted:Well that's the problem. I have one of those taintsaver seats and my butt bones do sit on the seat properly. But when dem bones get bruised after say a 25 mile ride, it's kinda hard to get back on the bike for another week. Has your bike been professionally fitted? If so you may just need to HTFU.
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Armacham posted:HTFU. Ya, well, I don't wanna. But yes the bike was fitted, I'm just old and lazy. In my college years I used to put tons of miles running mountainbike trails. Getting bikebutt back is hard.
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some_admin posted:Edit dammit I confuse chat and horrible failure threads. No problem, so did everyone else apparently. v  v
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veedubfreak posted:Ya, well, I don't wanna. But yes the bike was fitted, I'm just old and lazy. In my college years I used to put tons of miles running mountainbike trails. Getting bikebutt back is hard. Bad news is that its gonna happen that way. May recommendation is start small. Very small. First ride like 30 minutes. Increase by a few minutes every ride. I assumr that as you're getting back into it 25 mi is like 2hrs or more. That is a long loving time until you get used to it. Also, good quality bike shorts and some taint cream (I like DZ's, though it is pricey).
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Splizwarf posted:No problem, so did everyone else apparently. v I mean... bikes are mechanical, and if people are complaining that riding a bike is horrible, then something has failed... 
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This was more of a driver failure, but ...
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Krakkles posted:This was more of a driver failure, but ... My cat does this all the time - it's sunning itself. If it's a problem, you can just put down some bittering agent and it won't lie there again.
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nm posted:Bad news is that its gonna happen that way. Yeah, this is the only way. I usually only have time for 15 mile rides, but I got a few hours lined up where I could go exploring the local bike trails and rode for 24 miles. I only meant to ride 20. My rear end was already sore, and my legs dead, for the last four miles because I didn't ease into it.
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I was intending to take a short maybe 10 mile ride. Well 12 miles in I realize it's not a loop and I have to turn around and ride back home. poo poo happens.
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Do impending mechanical failures count? I got to work on this lovely unit the other day.  gently caress Salt.
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veedubfreak posted:I was intending to take a short maybe 10 mile ride. Well 12 miles in I realize it's not a loop and I have to turn around and ride back home. poo poo happens. This is my favorite part of biking. Sure, I'll just head out for a quick 10 mi ride. Four hours later I've gone 25mi and I'm exploring a new area of the city I've never seen before. I firmly believe that commuting on a race bike is a bit of a waste, but then again both my xc and dh MTBs cost more than my cars.
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ExplodingSims posted:Do impending mechanical failures count? I feel your pain. I tried to pump down a condenser last week at a beach condo. Compressor ran for about 5 seconds and breached the coil. Good thing we where already there to replace it.
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ExplodingSims posted:Do impending mechanical failures count? Our A/C units at the beach in North Carolina look like that for half of their lives - which is about seven years depending on how cheap the family goes when they inevitably poo poo the bed on a major holiday weekend.
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I know it sucks. Just about every account we have on the coast has turbofucked condenser coils like that. It's really fun explaining to a supermarket manager that their rack's condenser is so hosed that the system can't really work right anymore at like 10pm on a Sunday night. It's even more fun when you have to pipe in a sprinkler system and give them a $30,000 water bill. Bet that was a fun call for our GM.
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ExplodingSims posted:I know it sucks. Just about every account we have on the coast has turbofucked condenser coils like that.  Serious question, what the hell do you do when a system is that hosed and needs major components replaced? I've worked in grocery stores before, so I know shutting down half the store's refrigeration (or the entire store) just isn't an option. It was really fun when we dropped a phase for several hours (1000A breaker vaporized itself when the power went off/on/off/on several times in ~15 seconds during a storm).. IIRC that was a 6 figure insurance claim just in lost product, and it only affected the refrig in half the store. It happened to be the side with the seafood and meat depts
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I'm hoping if it's absolutely not going to be fixed before the food goes out of temp, they'd be calling every charity that takes food donations to send a truck and take everything they can haul. I'm guessing in the real world you have to just let it all rot so insurance will pay for it. 
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I'd bet there would be a law against doing that. I know it's illegal in a lot of places to donate "expired" food, even if sell by dates are generally bullshit and the food itself is a-okay. There's a bunch of rules that make giving food away really difficult.
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You leave the sprinkler system on it until the new condenser arrives. Then you pump the condenser down and swap it out with a crane. All while the product is on the shelves. You have approximately 4 hours to complete this entire task on a medium temp system (think fresh meat). 5-6 hours on a low temp system. And no, they don't move a loving thing off those shelves when this process is happening. They just hope the health department doesn't walk in the door at that time. Sup fellow supermarket refrigeration buddies. If this is a general mechanical failure thread now hoooo boy can I provide some content!
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You do what you need to keep the system on. Unless something major is completely hosed, like the main power coming in, you keep it running. In our case, we left our sprinkler system running, but we had to tweak it. Ran a new pipe up to the roof, added a solenoid, and wrote a program for the controller to only run the sprinklers when the refrigerant gets over a certain temp, The company we service only gets a their budgeting for this done like once a year, so we've been running this setup for about a year now. Their supposed to be getting new condensers this year. Certain other components it's easier to deal with, Like if a compressor goes down, you have 2-3 others that can run that particular rack, so you can valve the one that's down off until we can get a new one in. Pretty much the only time you ever shut something down is if a case's lineset is so hosed up it's pissing out refrigerant. Even then that's usually an emergency call that requires an overnight job to run new lines out there to get it up and running. One of the blessings/curses of working commercial is that you can force a supply house to open in he middle of the night if you need a part ASAP. PromethiumX posted:Sup fellow supermarket refrigeration buddies. If this is a general mechanical failure thread now hoooo boy can I provide some content! Post away here if you want, be we also do have an HVAC./R thread over in DIY as well. I've posted a few pics of the stuff I work on over there. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3761260
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Uthor posted:I'd bet there would be a law against doing that. I know it's illegal in a lot of places to donate "expired" food, even if sell by dates are generally bullshit and the food itself is a-okay. There's a bunch of rules that make giving food away really difficult. Apparently there isn't. I saw a documentary which looked into it and they couldn't find any evidence of such laws anywhere. It's usually corporate policy, made under the false assertion that such laws exist.
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ReelBigLizard posted:Apparently there isn't. I saw a documentary which looked into it and they couldn't find any evidence of such laws anywhere. It's usually corporate policy, made under the false assertion that such laws exist. Could a store write off the value of the donated foods on their taxes? It wouldn't make up for profit loss but I can't imagine they'd pass up a tax write-off. Previa_fun fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Apr 10, 2016 |
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ReelBigLizard posted:Apparently there isn't. I saw a documentary which looked into it and they couldn't find any evidence of such laws anywhere. It's usually corporate policy, made under the false assertion that such laws exist. Yeah, there's a higher-end fast food place that I eat at occasionally called Pret a Manger that donates their unused food every day to charities that distribute it to the needy. A really nice move on their part in my opinion.
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ReelBigLizard posted:Apparently there isn't. I saw a documentary which looked into it and they couldn't find any evidence of such laws anywhere. It's usually corporate policy, made under the false assertion that such laws exist. In France it's illegal not to donate food which isn't likely to sell: http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/france-passes-bill-forcing-shops-to-give-unsold-food-to-charities/article/451910
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Yeah, there's a higher-end fast food place that I eat at occasionally called Pret a Manger that donates their unused food every day to charities that distribute it to the needy. A really nice move on their part in my opinion. Darden restaurants (Olive Garden, Longhorn, Red Lobster, Bahama Breeze, some others,) have food donation programs as well.
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Yeah, when I used to work at Olive Garden like once or twice a week they'd have people come by and pick up our unused food. The only par that sucked (As an employee) was that we'd have to cook the food before we could freeze it and donate. Guess how many employees want to do that at the end of a shift. And guess how much of that cooked food ended up in the freezer (A: Less than 100%) But they did get some kind of tax credit for it, so we kept on doing it. On a side note, I found a picture I took of one of our sprinkler setups. In case anyone was wondering how we racked up a $30,000 water bill, that middle condenser is about 50' long, and we used to have water running on it 24/7. The setup pictured is after making some modifications to get it to run only when needed. 
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Not what you want to find in an engine you installed in a car a month ago Have seen a lot of lifter failures, but none like this. At least with the lifter plates on top it is not physically possible for the lifter to rotate in the bore, so the cam was fine ...
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FuzzKill posted:Not what you want to find in an engine you installed in a car a month ago That's just the single-use variable valve lift feature. 
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That's not normally what I picture when someone says their engine threw a rod. 
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