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Salt Fish posted:I'm fine with this as long as the person on the e-bike feels ashamed. I live in fear of the inevitable day when someone on an ebike comes up behind me on a steep climb and dings their little "get out of the way" bell at me.
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Weembles posted:I live in fear of the inevitable day when someone on an ebike comes up behind me on a steep climb and dings their little "get out of the way" bell at me. Your ebike riders are nicer then mine, mine just rip by on the left without so much as a fart
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I've only ever gotten passed on my ebike, but that be because in full dress with both kids on it the bike is north of 160lbs.
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Weembles posted:I live in fear of the inevitable day when someone on an ebike comes up behind me on a steep climb and dings their little "get out of the way" bell at me. Well if you weren't in the way...
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Salt Fish posted:I'm fine with this as long as the person on the e-bike feels ashamed. But E- bikes make it so much easier to do 50km/hour in the bike lane while checking Instagram.
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Salt Fish posted:I'm fine with this as long as the person on the e-bike feels ashamed. Twerk from Home posted:I've only ever gotten passed on my ebike, but that be because in full dress with both kids on it the bike is north of 160lbs. heck yes. with the kids on mine its probably around ~75kg and so really, gently caress pedaling that up anything. evil_bunnY fucked around with this message at 13:54 on Dec 22, 2020 |
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Dec 22, 2020 13:52
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Any decent gravel or road biking (ha) around Tampa? 
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https://twitter.com/Doctor_Hutch/status/1325155298726670338?s=20
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gamera009 posted:Any decent gravel or road biking (ha) around Tampa? Around or in? I haven't lived there in 10 years, but living in South Tampa for a few years the only place I felt safe riding a bike was on paths or Davis Island. Like most places in Florida the drivers will kill you without a second thought. St. Pete always felt safer to ride on the roads than anywhere on the Tampa side of the bay.
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VacaGrande posted:Around or in? I haven't lived there in 10 years, but living in South Tampa for a few years the only place I felt safe riding a bike was on paths or Davis Island. Like most places in Florida the drivers will kill you without a second thought. St. Pete always felt safer to ride on the roads than anywhere on the Tampa side of the bay. I started going down to the Tampa area a few years back for baseball spring training and the little perfunctory bike lanes they paint at the side of a four lane highway seem like death traps.
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Dec 22, 2020 15:48
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roadies definitely don’t have a big enough rear end in a top hat reputation, better add to it a bit
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Perfect example of STDH.txt
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Smdh that anyone could mistake my sleek road bike for a hideous betumored ebike.
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this is why i like my flat-bar town bike which inexplicably has a high gear of 53/14, which is a great choice if you love wind resistance also ebikes should, as a courtesy, provide drafts for suffering roadies on climbs imo
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Dec 22, 2020 17:24
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If you can draft it’s not a climb imo
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e.pilot posted:If you can draft it’s not a climb imo Pretty sure I can draft you from the other side of a climb
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e.pilot posted:If you can draft it’s not a climb imo
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Literally Lewis Hamilton posted:Pretty sure I can draft you from the other side of a climb  evil_bunnY posted:Bruh you're not powering up everything at 400w what kinda roadie are you even? not sure if  or you’ve not seen my rides 
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VacaGrande posted:Around or in? I haven't lived there in 10 years, but living in South Tampa for a few years the only place I felt safe riding a bike was on paths or Davis Island. Like most places in Florida the drivers will kill you without a second thought. St. Pete always felt safer to ride on the roads than anywhere on the Tampa side of the bay. Around most likely. I’d be looking at living south of Tampa proper (but closer to the Cigar City brewery) or in St. Pete.
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got a replacement elemnt bolt from wahoo and they (accidentally?) upgraded from the basic unit to one with the speed, cadence and tickr sensors. hope this one doesnt fail in two months like the first one did!
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gamera009 posted:Around most likely. I’d be looking at living south of Tampa proper (but closer to the Cigar City brewery) or in St. Pete. Unrelated to bikes, relying on the bridges across the bay to get to work every day (if you'd have to) is a gamble. Traffic on the bridges can get really bad. Despite my feelings about Florida in general, I liked living in South Tampa (near Howard Ave south of Kennedy Blvd) for the 6 years I was there. I could walk to lots of stuff like restaurants, the grocery store, and the bay, and it felt like a neighborhood. The houses are older and more my taste, although more of them are getting knocked down for McMansions. There are other neighborhoods around town that have that sort of feel but I haven't lived there in a while so I couldn't say for sure today. Bike-wise, it really wasn't a good place to ride and probably still isn't. I'd be looking at group rides for safety in numbers (post-covid, obvs) if I was going to do much riding outside of the paths, the roads are not friendly. There is some fun MTBing at Alafia State Park in the south part of Hillsborough County and some really good trails at Santos about 60 minutes north near Ocala.
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That $8k specialized road ebike that weighs 25lbs tho
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e.pilot posted:not sure if I've seen enough 
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VacaGrande posted:Unrelated to bikes, relying on the bridges across the bay to get to work every day (if you'd have to) is a gamble. Traffic on the bridges can get really bad. Despite my feelings about Florida in general, I liked living in South Tampa (near Howard Ave south of Kennedy Blvd) for the 6 years I was there. I could walk to lots of stuff like restaurants, the grocery store, and the bay, and it felt like a neighborhood. The houses are older and more my taste, although more of them are getting knocked down for McMansions. There are other neighborhoods around town that have that sort of feel but I haven't lived there in a while so I couldn't say for sure today. Thanks for the info. I was really disappointed in the lack of biking infrastructure. They said there was mountain biking outside of town, so hopefully it’s something I can take the gravel bike on. It’s a shame the opportunity is one that really can’t say “no” to haha.  Not that I’m complaining. I’m happy enough to have the chance to be interviewed, let alone actually be employed.
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gamera009 posted:Thanks for the info. I was really disappointed in the lack of biking infrastructure. They said there was mountain biking outside of town, so hopefully it’s something I can take the gravel bike on. Glad it's a good opportunity, those are hard to come by right now! Happy to give you any info I can if you want to ping me, PM or ask that other guy for my email.
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VacaGrande posted:Glad it's a good opportunity, those are hard to come by right now! Happy to give you any info I can if you want to ping me, PM or ask that other guy for my email. Well, if I get the job, you can also just pop by the brewery to visit when you visit FL again. I’ll see if I get the job first, then I’ll probably bug you for more details.
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Pimp my bike. Some pretty lairy bikes in here, suggestions for cages, bar tape, saddle bag, what else?
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I wouldn't change anything except going to a smaller black saddle bag.
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kimbo305 posted:I wouldn't change anything except going to a smaller black saddle bag.
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Well this is new one for me. I'll probably hold off until it's time for new sealant since I'm not gonna be outside until March probably.
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Do you not have a valve tool? That’s like a 10second fix, it’ll take longer to pump the tire back up than to swap the core out.
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e.pilot posted:Do you not have a valve tool? That’s like a 10second fix, it’ll take longer to pump the tire back up than to swap the core out. I don't have a spare core. I guess what I was primarily getting at is I'm just gonna wait until i yank it out anyway for when I pop the tire off for tubeless cleaning. I could grab one from a tube I guess.
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To be honest I'm just a lazy bum and I didn't think of popping the core for one from a tube and I didn't want to admit it to look cooler on the internet.
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Still trying to decide if I'm gonna gently caress around with doing the F500 this year or not. I'm off work til Jan 4th, so I've got plenty of time (plus I added a gravel bike to the collection since last year's) and the forecast looks pretty good, so I don't have a lot of reason NOT to. But I also kinda just wanna be a lazy piece of poo poo during the break. Decisions, decisions.
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You finished it last year in the most insane way possible and they aren't even sending out badges this year so of all people you should get a guilt free pass. But you should do it anyway if only so you can eat whatever you want during the holidays.
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Haha, thanks! By the time I got my badge last year, I'd completely forgotten about it. I did it for the I'll probably use the same approach as last year, where I put off deciding until tomorrow then spend the first 3-4 days trying to rack enough miles that I'd be mad at myself for not finishing the drat thing. Hopefully it this year will involve less snow and/or park laps
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If you resort to park laps livestream it on periscope.
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Anything for an attaboy!
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i would every time except im always listening to techno tunes so i can never hear the praise/damnation fellow trail users usher upon me
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Due to the lack of anything from Rapha this year I made stickers I’ll send to the first few goons that finish fwiw. There’s also this aliexpress kit if anyone wants to buy a china kit https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000564255913.html
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