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Mederlock posted:Yeah it's a blast to take drop bars through single track. Makes a person want to install a suspension fork…
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Lex Neville posted:dumb rear end journal post welp, this turned into an itchy and spotted, apple-sized red patch, but I did just find what could be the stinger of a wasp, I think. subscribe for more updates!
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Lex Neville posted:welp, this turned into an itchy and spotted, apple-sized red patch, but I did just find what could be the stinger of a wasp, I think. subscribe for more updates! Try swallowing one while cycling and getting stung on the tongue, that's fun! Or getting stung dead center in your forehead and looking like a unicorn for a week!
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Oct 6, 2023 16:09
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I got stung multiple times up my nose whilst I was running once, the wasp freaked out and went mental up there
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Oct 6, 2023 16:11
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OBAMNA PHONE posted:many come with a block to keep your front wheel a bit higher, def recommend using one. Appreciate the offer but it's actually the rear that's to low.
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Oct 6, 2023 16:17
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Eejit posted:Try swallowing one while cycling and getting stung on the tongue, that's fun! this is the worst--I've luckily never swallowed something with a stinger but I got stung right in the forehead once too. between that and also a big beetle of some sort getting into one of the vents in my helmet once I always wear a cycling cap under my helmet now
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honda whisperer posted:Appreciate the offer but it's actually the rear that's to low. Does your trainer have a wheel size adjustment to compensate?
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Oct 6, 2023 16:29
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Heliosicle posted:I got stung multiple times up my nose whilst I was running once, the wasp freaked out and went mental up there Sorry this happened, but  I had a wasp slip in my shirt and sting me multiple times over the course of like 10 minutes with each time I had thought I shook the drat thing out only to get another jab in a different area a couple minutes later. At a certain time in summer at the reservoir I do laps around there are swarms of gnats hanging out and by the end of the ride I'll be covered head to toe in little specks
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Mauser posted:
Oh yeah, my sunscreen loves covering me in gnats pretty much any time of year
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Heliosicle posted:I got stung multiple times up my nose whilst I was running once, the wasp freaked out and went mental up there Well that's loving terrifying
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Oct 6, 2023 19:00
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Literally Lewis Hamilton posted:Does your trainer have a wheel size adjustment to compensate? I'll have to look but I don't think so.
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:listen, it's really difficult to make a few curved bits of plastic. they really need that $600 because of how they masterfully blend cutting-edge technology and aesthetically sculpted design, along with Italian styling and attention to detail, to make some of the world’s best eyewear and hi-tech prescription solutions. Their craftsmen use the highest quality materials and manufacturing techniques to create lightweight, comfortable and extremely functional eyewear I do think lots of sports sunglasses are stupid over priced but there is something to making better optics/clarity and that fit well and shield your eyes properly. Like I’ve found Goodr glasses to have mediocre lenses that’d I’d feel would interfere with serious business riding I usually just get something like Smith’s on sale but I don’t deal in prescription sunglasses (just wear contacts)
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Oct 7, 2023 02:14
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I buy aliexpress glasses because they're fine and cheap.
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Oct 7, 2023 03:08
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I'm a fan of either sale priced Smiths or Tifosi for cycling, but good lenses are really noticeable for vision intensive activities like fly fishing/sight fishing where it really pays to upgrade to Costas or higher tier Smiths.
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Oct 7, 2023 03:18
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I I sprung for Glade photochromic glasses and they're awesome for both road and mountain
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The original Tifosi Podiums fit me perfectly and I was sad when I broke the tinted lens in the set of three it comes with. I tried the Podium XC but its fit is a bit smaller. I still have the clear and orange lenses for night riding or rainy weather, at least. I've been using some random MEC pair for day riding and after a while I get pain in the back of my head at 7 and 5 o'clock, a little behind my ears. I don't know if it's because they're too tight or because they're not frameless I have to pull my head back further to get the same visibility, but it immediately goes away when I take them off and stuff them iny pocket.
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Oct 7, 2023 04:27
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I always call Suncloud the poor man's Smiths. I've had a couple of them and still wear them despite having 3 pairs of Smiths that I really like. Nothing for Rx though. Honestly, those big honkin black shades that fit over prescription glasses work pretty great.
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I do a lot of after work/evening rides so this time of year i mainly wear glasses with photochromic lenses so I can leave them on when it gets dark. Although if it's going to be dark most of the time i'll usually wear a full clear lens instead. Probably could have done that tonight but it was fairly sunny out when i started. seem to have made enough noise to ward off the bears and kitties on the way down. Did see some bunnies.
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I handed in my first of two Ultegra crank sets this week and got a call yesterday that it, the FC-6800 that came on my (second-hand) bike, does show signs of delamination and will have to be replaced by Shimano. I asked if it was possible to get a 165 mm FC-08 instead of the 172,5 I handed in and the mechanic said he'd add a note, but that he couldn't promise anything. He also said mine was the first to be taken by Shimano (and I believe I was also the first, maybe even only, person to hand one in). On Tuesday, I will be handing in the FC-R8000 that's currently still on my bike and that I got unused off a pro team's mechanic less than a year ago, with a left-sided 4iiii power meter (of which the two letters on the back aren't on Shimano's recall list, but apparently you can only hand in a full set?). Over the last week, that's been making the same creaking noise as the FC-6800 did a year ago - and that noise in turn is very similar to a snippet of the inspection instructions Shimano issued I found online - so I'm fully expecting that to be replaced as well. I'm going over the chainring bolts another time today to see if that doesn't fix the sound - even though I already did that last week - because I would like to go on a a few more rides this weekend. However, with how quickly the noise has been coming on since the end of my six-hour ride last weekend, and how obnoxious it gets, I don't think it'll be another long one, sadly. All in all, I'm fairly certain 2 out of 2 possibly affected crank sets I own are faulty or at least will be replaced. Has anyone else gone in to have theirs checked yet?
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jamal posted:
How much is stuff like that on your mind whenever you (and other us goons) ride? I've only ever lived in completely tame places so have 0 experience dealing with any kind of dangerous wildlife, aside from cows/bulls I guess and they're still tame in the end. Saying that, wolves have started moving to around my area from Germany so that may not be forever.
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Wolves aren't dangerous to people. Disregard this advice if you look like a sheep.
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Lex Neville posted:I handed in my first of two Ultegra crank sets this week and got a call yesterday that it, the FC-6800 that came on my (second-hand) bike, does show signs of delamination and will have to be replaced by Shimano. I asked if it was possible to get a 165 mm FC-08 instead of the 172,5 I handed in and the mechanic said he'd add a note, but that he couldn't promise anything. He also said mine was the first to be taken by Shimano (and I believe I was also the first, maybe even only, person to hand one in). Its just starting to be rolled out in the UK. I'll take mine in when its officially winter bike season which I also think loads of other people are doing. The people I ride with dont want to be without their cranks while its still good enough to ride outdoors. Could be everywhere will see a swamp of them coming in when Winter hits?
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Yeah, it's only just started here as well, from 1 October on. I just took my first one in because I wasn't using it and will be taking the second set in when I'm going on a weeklong holiday next Wednesday, as my LBS indicated the whole process was likely to take around a week. I figured I'd beat the rush of winter customers precisely for the reason you're describing.
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Heliosicle posted:How much is stuff like that on your mind whenever you (and other us goons) ride? I used to ride with a bear bell and bear spray at all times, and I've had to reroute or wait out because of moose or bear in the trail. My brother has actually collided with a moose while riding.
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Heliosicle posted:wolves have started moving to around my area from Germany so that may not be forever.
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Heliosicle posted:How much is stuff like that on your mind whenever you (and other us goons) ride? I don't have to worry much about "viscous" wild animals in my area. Our apex predator is the mighty bobcat. The only animals I'm concerned about are off-leash dogs, and I've been chased by a few. They're why I often carry pepper spray, although I've had good luck with just shouting at them to make them stop chasing me. (The spray is a last resort.) A lot of our local bike trails are frequented by deer, and while they're not likely to attack a human, they can be unpredictable if they spot you coming down the trial while they're getting a tasty snack. Deer aren't well known for not running into traffic, so when I see them and they don't immediately scamper into the trees, I slow down and let them decide what they want to do. I don't want to get hit by a deer. Little critters are a bigger concern. I've almost hit a number of squirrels because they're chicken-playing assholes. One time, I went from a very bright section of trail to a heavily shaded one, and there was a turtle in the middle of my path. I didn't see it until I was almost on top of it, and I just barely got around it.
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We have black bears here, and mountain lions, but I don’t worry about either because I generally am not concerned about a black bear attacking me if it’s not cornered and I never hear of mountain lion interactions here, let alone attacks. But jamal is around brown bears too and probably more dangerous kitties.
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Two of the four fatal mountain lion attacks in the United States in the past twenty years were on mountain bikers. You’re still way more likely to be killed by a snake or a tree.
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I wonder how many mountain bikers get killed by mountains?
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tarlibone posted:I wonder how many mountain bikers get killed by mountains? https://everythingmountainbikes.com/article/how-deadly-is-mountain-biking/ Short answer, not enough data, long answer, some. About 4.7 per year in Utah, who knows for other states. Is Utah a big mountain bike place? Who knows.
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One of my favorite kit manufacturers just came out with a kit that seems oddly apropos for the current discussion. I don't know if I'd wear this kit in an area with dangerous kitties, especially if there are cheetahs nearby.Jack Handey posted:It's too bad that whole families have to be torn apart by something as simple as wild dogs.
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Platystemon posted:Two of the four fatal mountain lion attacks in the United States in the past twenty years were on mountain bikers. This is why I always car eg an axe
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driving (or riding) to the trailhead is more dangerous than riding your bike on it
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Platystemon posted:Two of the four fatal mountain lion attacks in the United States in the past twenty years were on mountain bikers. The chance of being killed by a snake is comically small (in the US, at least), approaching zero. More people die from lightning strikes than from snake bites.
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*pedalling at full power as the mountain lion closes in on me* THIS IS STATISTICALLY UNLIKELY!!!
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Slavvy posted:*pedalling at full power as the mountain lion closes in on me* THIS IS STATISTICALLY UNLIKELY!!! That’s how you get KOM/QOM.
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Platystemon posted:That’s how you get KOM/QOM. All Out This ride was extremely difficult. It pushed me well beyond my abilities and took a massive amount of energy and focus to complete. You’ll feel like you barely made it to the end of this ride, and that you had to pull out every mental trick in the book to finish.
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I don't worry too much about it, but I do have bear spray with me a lot of the time and generally try to ring a bell or whatever to make noise. Most bears I've encountered have been running away although I have had a few that didn't and one that charged me. That was scary for about 4 seconds then it stopped and I kept riding. I've only seen one mtn lion and it also ran away, I assume plenty of them have seen me though. Being out on the trails when there's a bit of fresh snow is an eye opener because you see all the tracks and near encounters. Like kitty tracks that were coming towards you and then beer off into the bushes
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