maddmaxx ★ Posted May 4, 2018 Share #1 Posted May 4, 2018 Today is a day off to do laundry and house work. I'll post a couple of pics of yesterday's ride however. The first obligatory pic of the bike and another of the Jeremy River with a good spring water flow. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted May 4, 2018 Share #2 Posted May 4, 2018 It's still raining here. I should go try to clean out the garage and make more room for the new kayak. I have two kayaks stacked on top of each other and the new one is turned on it's side beside the other two. It's hard to get past them to get to my toolbox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted May 4, 2018 Author Share #3 Posted May 4, 2018 6 minutes ago, Longjohn said: It's still raining here. I should go try to clean out the garage and make more room for the new kayak. I have two kayaks stacked on top of each other and the new one is turned on it's side beside the other two. It's hard to get past them to get to my toolbox. Has your wife discovered the new one yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted May 4, 2018 Share #4 Posted May 4, 2018 Just now, maddmaxx said: Has your wife discovered the new one yet? Not yet, 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smudge ★ Posted May 4, 2018 Share #5 Posted May 4, 2018 @maddmaxx is that the bike you bought to customize to you? Looks like a great day for a ride! @Longjohn do you n+1 kayaks like some of us n+1 bikes? I don't kayak, so I don't know how that works. And May the Fourth be with you.... (My Mr. Potato Head collection; Darth Tater, Spud Trooper, and R2Potato2) 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted May 4, 2018 Author Share #6 Posted May 4, 2018 36 minutes ago, smudge said: @maddmaxx is that the bike you bought to customize to you? Looks like a great day for a ride! @Longjohn do you n+1 kayaks like some of us n+1 bikes? I don't kayak, so I don't know how that works. And May the Fourth be with you.... (My Mr. Potato Head collection; Darth Tater, Spud Trooper, and R2Potato2) Yes. That's a WSB from Nashbar that I grabbed up for the frame for less than $300 after all the closeouts and discounts. The frame is a very good fit for how I ride in my 70's. I took everything off except the stem and bars and mounted Shimano wheels w 32 mm tires, a complete Shimano Sora 8sp drive train (including flat bar road brifters) from my old flat bar road bike with Avid mechanical road brakes. 50/34 compact front and now 12/34 rears. The 8sp is in my experience bullet proof. The new Sora 9sp deraileur is advertised to take up to a 32 cassette and handles the 34 without complaint. I normally ride with the rear rack and bag to carry cameras, tools, stuff as necessary. I've sold all the other bikes and this is my general all purpose rider for road and gravel. Why that frame.............well I'm 6' tall with a 30 inch inseam and I've always had to find frames that are smallish for my height but with longer top tubes. This one lets me ride a bit more upright at my age and still has room for stem adjustments to even add to that when necessary. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rattlecan ★ Posted May 4, 2018 Share #7 Posted May 4, 2018 Rain this morning and high winds forecast for this afternoon. All the good weather we had in the last couple of days was spent doing yard work while the bicycles languished. The yard projects are not finished, so my bike riding will be curtailed next week too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted May 4, 2018 Share #8 Posted May 4, 2018 I need to ride ... bad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted May 4, 2018 Share #9 Posted May 4, 2018 3 minutes ago, donkpow said: I need to ride ... bad! Don't ride bad, it hurts and takes forever to heal up. Trust me I know. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffJim Posted May 4, 2018 Share #10 Posted May 4, 2018 Not into Star Trek, but happy Friday. We're in the enhanced risk for severe storms this afternoon. Woohoo. Mostly high winds. The tornadoes are expected to be in the batch of storms that has already passed us by (A warning for TKS and possibly FSOG), but when the cold front comes we may get an intensely windy storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted May 4, 2018 Share #11 Posted May 4, 2018 and also with you 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted May 4, 2018 Share #12 Posted May 4, 2018 1 hour ago, bikeman564™ said: and alstho with you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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