JT!

I remember the try-all 26" frame, had an insane BB height that seems standard for competitions bikes now. What was that frame called?

Done this like 8 times Although I think I may have got it now. Pads are pulling in evenly and seems much more solid. Will take a ride tomorrow morning and see how it is.

Picked up a used Inspired Fourplay last year. The rear brake had been replaced under warranty but was sent to the owner without the line been cut to length. So he had it wrapped around the headtube about 5 times instead of cutting it down. So a few days ago I cut it down and bled the brake. I realized I may have done it wrong the first time because where I wanted the bite point the reach screw was all the way in. I forgot to unscrew this out before I bled. So I re did it and it seemed better. But when I took it out for a spin today, there's no real hold on the brake compared to the front one which is shockingly powerful. Another thing I noticed is that the bit point seems to be changing as I ride. It'll get further towards the bars, but if I bring the bike up on to the back wheel and pump the brake it'll move further out. Is this a sign of air in the system still? Also even though the brake caliper is absolutely center over the rotor, only one pad had a noticeable gap from the rotor, the other one seems to skim up against the disc. Would this be something that would happen if there's air in the system? Thanks!

Is there such a thing as government grants that would pay a salary to professional athletes for representing their country?

This is the 2nd summer I've commuted home from work. Decided to timelapse it a few weeks back. I'm lucky enough to have 3 different trails / gravel roads to choose from that'll take me in the direction of home if I'm feeling more adventurous than just taking the main road. This ride starts by leaving work and doing a small stint on the Waabizheshikana trail which winds along the edge of a small section St. Louis River before it connects to Lake Superior. This passes the start of the Munger Trail which I ride up to the main road that takes me back down to home. The Munger Trail actually runs about a 5th of the entire length of Minnesota from Duluth to Hinkley. It's about 67 miles and hope to be able to ride it all one day. All 67 miles are completely paved. It used to be an old railway line and is named after Willard Munger, a local politician who was the longest-serving member of the House at over 42 years.

34 your old checking in. Here's my mind dump. I was never off my bike and a kid and transitioned into actually riding rather than playing in my mid teens. My fondest memories of my teens was out doing long weekly rides with my mates and coming home with aching legs from riding miles and aching stomach and face muscles from laughing at all the f**kery we'd get up to. Everything changed when I got my first trials bike though. Looking back it felt like I was riding trials every day for years. It's amazing how I never really progressed very far with trails considering how much time I spent doing it, but I do have a massive lack of confidence when it comes to doing anything on a bike so I never try anything even slightly out of my comfort zone. Late teens I was doing terribly in school and a lot of the people who I used to ride with grew out of riding bikes, I tried to keep going solo but it's just not the same. I actually bought a couple of bikes over this time, an XC bike and a road bike, but they were rarely used. Socially everyone who I used to ride with were out drinking instead of biking so a followed along with that. Looking back now that was around the same time I started to slip into depression which kind of makes sense. When I moved out to the USA and basically restarted my life, I brought my trials bike with me but could probably count on two hands how many times I rode it. A big nail in the coffin for me was riding in a casual competition after barely riding my bike for a year and realizing that any fitness and skill I had had completely gone out of the window. I was unable to work due to immigration issues for a couple of years so all I was doing was drinking, eating like an American and not exercising. I did this for 8 years. Just before covid I found myself weighing in at 207lbs @ 5'11". Eating whatever the hell I wanted, using marijuana most evenings, getting drunk 3 nights a week. Dealing with mental health issues, panic and anxiety, mild depression and OCD. I did a couple of therapy sessions which weren't great, but certainly put a lot of things into perspective and made me realize what I needed to do to help myself. Covid, getting a new job and the plans for a pretty decent skatepark down the street from me at the start of 2020 really changed everything. My old job was during the evening and was physically demanding. My new job is working overnights with no physical work so I had much more energy when I was done. I started cycling home in the mornings which became exercise 4 days a week on a bike I'd bought a few years back but hardly ever used. This got me looking into the trail system of my city and I realized that I'm surrounded by dozens of trails of every type you can imagine. I had to buy a trail bike, and I did. I also pulled my mod out of the shed, fixed it up and sold it to buy an Inspired Fourplay for when the skatepark is ready. I also bought a fatbike for the winter too. 2020 I saw my fitness skyrocket and so did my mood. I was on a bike pretty much every other day for months. I felt my mood crash a little during the winter of 2020. Could no longer commute home on the bike and not having studded tires on the fatbike made it so that I could only ride in very specific conditions. And usually those very specific conditions would line up with dangerously cold temperatures. As soon as I could this year I flung myself right back into cycling as much as I could and I'm already feeling better. So much so that I'm now 7 weeks clean and sober, and I'm focusing on trying to change my diet going forwards. Weight is a huge issue for my riding. I'm at least 45lbs heavier than back in the late 2000s / early 2010s. Here's me worrying about the weight of the bike I'm riding when I'm carrying an entire mountain bike of extra weight on myself. So my goal going forwards is just to stay active, get some weight off and just start enjoying everything that bikes have to offer. I've been very fortunate venturing into my 30s. The only signs of me aging are a few grays and a bout of shingles I had to deal with. Other than being a fatty I've avoided any of the joint or back issues that tend to show up around this time.

"More likely than not" looks to be 34. If you wanted to be very likely, you're looking at around 65. X axis is number of packages, Y axis is probability.

I failed a-level maths, so I'm in the same boat, I asked a friend and that's what they came back with. Look into Coupon Collector's Problem if you want to get deeper into the math.

This is called the Coupon Collector's Problem: Answer = 5.14%

Garlic coin up 27,000% since a year ago. Siacoin is up 2,200%.

I'm pretty pissed about Siacoin and Garlic coin. Both of which I've been very well aware of for a long time now, both of which have have just massively spiked in the last few days. Hindsight is 20 20 but I'm down about it. Thought about buying a load of siacoin back in the day because I thought it had potential, but ended up just mining it instead. But my coinbase account that started at $250 is now at $1100 so that's nice.

I'm great. It was a little bit worse than any cold I've ever had in my life, just without the runny nose and sore throat. I'd say I'd JUST be on that point of having to call into work, luckily I got my 2nd shot on Friday so I didn't work till Monday. Acetaminophen took care of the headache and slept really well that night. Woke up the next day with nothing but a swore arm. It seems that people who've already had covid have a reaction like that to the first short, and nothing on the 2nd.

No, it's covid-19. I'm not sure what everyone's obsession is with trying to compare it to a cold or flu. We know what covid is now, we know how it can or can't affect people, we don't need to keep pretending it's just a "strong cold" or flu to try and downplay what it actually is. Nope, simply disproven by all the healthy people that've died from it. It is still an issue because the highest success rate the best vaccine is 95%. It's high for a vaccine, but it's still a 1 in 20 shot. If you show up to nans and you're both vaccinated, that's a 1 in 400 shot you could have it, and pass it on to her. 1 in 20 if only one of you is vaccinated. For me it's a numbers game. I think about how likely it is that I'm going to have long term health issues because of the vaccine, and compare that to all the negatives that come with not getting vaccinated, things like actually getting covid and feeling like death for 10 days, or getting it and being asymptomatic but potentially passing that onto someone. Or maybe even 2nd worst case scenario is getting covid and having long term health issues because of that. All these negatives are KNOWN issues that can happen. Where as the vaccine having long term health effects are either very very rare, if anything at all, anything else is just what, if, and maybe. It's a no brainer for me personally. Although I absolutely think no one should be forced to have it, I say go get it, it's the lesser of two evils.

I don't care what anyone says I'm paying and taking the night off work for him fighting KSI.

What's he done now? Last I heard he took a big break after trying to get American children to eat healthier and then his restaurants went bankrupt.

Got a 75% off deal on a pair of wheels for the fatbike, came with rotors tubes, cassette and tires. So now my fatbike is going to serve as my commuter for the season, and any road / light offroad adventures.

Heard a massive pop, wtf was that? Innertube burst on one of my bikes and blew half of the tire off the rim. Dunno how I managed to f**k up that installation but I suppose I did.

Wow that sound terrifying. Glad he's come out of the other side. I went in for my vaccine on Friday and will be getting the 2nd in a couple of weeks. Had very mild symptoms, and a swore arm which is pretty much expected. Edit rather than bumping up this thread, I wouldn't plan on doing anything after the 2nd shot, mild fever and chills, much worse headache than last time. Started about 18 hours and I can feel it come to an end now at about 32 hours.

Last Sci-fi I watched and loved was Interstellar. The Martian was a solid movie too.

Exactly what happened to me. Spent a couple of days trying to figure it out but never did.

I never got it to reliably work when I tried that configuration. Maybe I just got unlucky. Ended up picking up a used Ubiquiti AP from ebay.

Why have a second router? Why not just use a wireless access point?