Recent content by Catalyzt

My first serious ride since I experienced clinical death for 10 minutes on 7/14/25. 27 miles and 2,880 feet of vertical on Nightmare, the Canyon Grizl ON: CF 7, 36 pounds, 60nm of torque. Did not go through Griffith Park, rode around it to conserve battery, but I had 36% left by the end of the...

Me, too! It was the greatest, I remember Dad reading the TV guide and announcing, "It's on again!"

A simpler, more hopeful time. A lot of memories wrapped up in that number...

That's what that is! In the summer, I see this crew pretty frequently in Santa Monica if I have a late body boarding session, which isn't often. I'll be getting out of the water, usually right before sunset (allowing some extra time before full dark in case something crazy happens-- rip...

Citizen NY0040, yes? Great watch, I have one in basic black, it was my daily driver for a long time, my snorkeling watch. Tough as nails... after my father's death, we chartered a sailboat somewhere near Baltimore harbor, and I whacked it on a stainless steel braided shroud. Not a scratchy...

Sure, I can do that, but I'm first trying to determine whether the update even impacts the SX motor at all. The app is encouraging me to update, I just don't know what the update does generally. Once I found that out, I could then determine whether Canyon was offering it for their bikes. The...

As usual, Bosch's online information about this is buried in the terrible UI of their website, about six clicks deep, following multiple asterisks and footnotes, and AI is predictably stupid at ferreting out this particular data point. Here's what I think: While the CX and other models get a...

Mercury... who should have been named Icarus. Pedaluma and I flew too close to the sun... we knew the bottom bracket was too wide, but forged ahead anyway. Bad chain line, mount exposed to unreasonable torsional stress (likely, though speculative), motor cracked, bottom bracket had a deep...

I hear you, Charge. I often feel guilty after losing my temper and screaming at chatbots. I'll say, "Go away, Rufus, and never come back! Everyone hates you!" And then comes the shame. I'll think, "Rufus can't help existing, it's not its fault that it is annoying. How would YOU feel if...

This is one of many reasons I prefer lighter bikes. One night, I was riding angry because my buddy was having a psychotic episode and his sister was being unhelpful and there was nothing any of us could do. It was well after sunset, just a little light in the sky, and I took on a dirt trail...

Congratulations and welcome! I know it was a typo -- 'c' and 'v' are right next to each other on the keyboard -- but in the 1970s, I was sometimes an 'acid rider' myself! 🤪 I hear you r.e. altitude. I live in the eastern Hollywood Hills, and even when I was in my 40s, it was really tough to...

For a while I was so paranoid that I didn't even put people in Google Contacts. Now? I'm even more paranoid... so I do enter all new contacts into Google, but I name each one "Potential Spam." That will show them! * * * * * Charge, my hat is off to you for owning your online addictions...

+1 on this, but also, IOU, are you running Flow and did you do the last update? I don't know if this is related, but what convinced me to update was when the SX started throwing codes and shutting off-- though I don't THINK overheating was the cause, I can't remember for sure. The update not...

Funny this came up. I've been saying over and over that there are no relatively flat routes near my house, the mythical low-zone-3 or mid-zone-2 ride (that @stompandgo suggested I try to work into my fitness routine) is impossible where I live, and it's mostly true. But just today, I had to...

I have very bad osteoarthritis in my metacarpal joints, so I was very nervous about riding position when I bought my Grizl CF ON: 7. This was based on my experience riding my old acoustic Raleigh in New York City a few times a year in the early 2020s-- I just can't do more than 20-40 minutes on...