Razors Edge

...that the bike used by Mathieu van der Poel to win the Paris-Roubaix race this year LIKELY would have been DISQUALIFIED from his cyclocross races due to too "fat" of tires. Cyclocross tires are limited to 33mm width (and measured at the start of a race), and according to the Roubaix report: The generous tyre clearances available on contemporary aero road bikes make them a viable choice for Paris-Roubaix, with an extra few millimetres of rubber almost a prerequisite for the race. A wider tyre can be run at a lower pressure, to help absorb the brutal hits served up by 55km of harsh, irregular cobbles. Van der Poel’s bike is typically set up with 28c Vittoria Corsa Pros tubeless tyres, as we saw at the 2023 Tour de France. For this year’s Paris-Roubaix, van der Poel opted for the same tyre but in a wider 32c width, wrapped around 50mm-deep Shimano Dura-Ace wheels. Those 28c tyres at the Tour measured up at 29.3mm on the C50's 21mm internal rim width, so you can expect van der Poel's Roubaix rubber to inflate wider than the nominal 32c size.

He's full of so many regrets as it is, can he handle any more?

...to make this thing with his fancy printer!

Honestly, you're done for the day. Take it easy.

Start slow. Make sure you're not too aggressive. Build speed steadily but gently. BOOM! Done!

Definitely a foothold! They know what they are doing with those samples!

Long ago we learned the "risk" of accepting their free bread samples - always left with a loaf of bread and ate it very quickly over the next day or so. RISKY! BE WARE!

By "tea", you mean "coffee", and yes, that would be a great way to start a cold morning! Coffee is great in all seasons, though.

Sort of in the "hot for teacher" sense? Flipped, they're all "hot for invigilator"???

Bring your laptop and help them with the tricky questions!

Happy BIRTHDAY!!!! to a Cafe ROCK STAR! Hope your week of FOOD MADNESS is wonderful.

Your house, your kids, your call. But I would absolutely "feel" out the kids and talk to an estate attorney before making that move. In SOME states, giving the home in the will as inheritance carries much different future tax liability than passing as an asset as a whole. Not in inheritance tax on the $$$, but in our recent dealings, in CA, if my wife's father had delineated my wife (or a different interested sibling) as the heir to the home, and her siblings to the other assets, she would have be "grandfathered in" at the original home value (prorated in some way) for tax purposes going forward. IOW, real estate taxes - perpetually - on the value of the home in 1990 vs 2020. Maybe not a consideration in Jersey, but certainly in other states where they're trying to balance current owners vs new owners interests (ie current owners are the current voters ).

A hike. A bike ride. A museum. A baseball game. A nap. A ... - JEEBUS MAN - IT'S A VACATION DAY!!!!

Does this mean you now need time off from time off? NO GOOD HAPPENS using "vacation" time to "work". Heal up quick, but learn from your mistake.

To me, it sounds like a good plan. A double benefit of being near family and going where the summers are quite pleasant. I will say, though, it is screwing with the housing distribution when Boomers own not one, but TWO homes!!!!

ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY!!!! And you could have posted this an hour earlier as well! Think of us. Think of the children.

When we were in the office, we had the color plotter and would print these elaborate things and hang them on the wall. I was always just happy to print to 11"x17" for my stuff and skip the song and dance trying to figure out why the plotter didn't print the job or some other SNAFU. Oddly four years after WFH, haven't heard anyone speak of the plotter or demand we print some big ass job on it and hang it up. Sort of seems that was a bunch of "we gotta do it" nonsense to me

WTF??? Nice enough to have a fancy schmancy 3D printer, but too cheapo for a Printer CAM Livestream???

I'm assuming RG goes through those like Pez from a candy dispenser! No way he could stockpile them. WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN, Jim?!?!?!

I always called it and the surrounding neighborhood Ft Myers. but assume the base realignments and consolidations changed the name at some point. I was with a lot of Army dogs and no fights broke out.

You don't LIKE your children, do you? If it is FAIR it SHOULD go in the estate plan and will, etc.. At the VERY LEAST, an estate attorney should guide that decision as there are very real tax benefits and liabilities from doing it right vs wrong. The will doesn't have to state "the house goes to Bob", but it really ought to outline the process for the home being "taken over" by one child. What is a fair way to make that happen?

You got the "hit by lightning while winning the Powerball during an earthquake" stats on that? There's bad stuff out there FOR SURE but as a time and place to be alive, TODAY is best, and TOMORROW is better.

This story sounds like it worked WELL for him. What's the downside?

That's a discussion for NOW so you can get that built into your will and planned out ahead of time.

Too many times for a "first thing in the AM" meeting, I wiggle my mouse and see my laptop rebooted. DAMN!!! Now it takes way more than the 60seconds I planned to get up and going and joining the meeting. Our folks also let us "delay" an update a few times, but no more than 8 hours, so if the 8 hours hits while you're in the middle of something....too bad!