Recent content by Catalyzt

I am still riding the original Brooks saddle on my 1973 Raleigh Competition. It was not ridden in the rain much. It is showing some cracks and wear. The bike now lives in NYC and gets ridden about 50 miles a year at most. Now that I think about it, the saddle is the ONLY thing that hasn't...

The only issue I had was making turns. In Ireland, most of the time, for whatever reasons, we made turns so rarely that I was able to just focus and always wind up in the left lane after completing the turn. In Australia, I had more trouble, maybe because we were deep in Kakadu, there were no...

As everyone else noted, they are not native to California, and my better half-- who was born and raised here, though my friends say she talks and acts like a New Yorker-- keeps threatening to rip ours out of the ground. I love it. Not quite true. If I am doing curls with dumbbells in the...

I'm curious, which bike did you try that had the Avinox? What was the weight? The point of lower-powered options with smaller batteries is that some of us still want a good workout, but also want to travel at Class III speeds when riding around town or elsewhere. Most of my week day rides...

Smashed both my post and pre-aneurysm record today, 139 average watts on the 4.1 mile loop. That's also the max for any ride since I started running Flow in early June, six weeks before I wound up in the ICU. I have not been empirically measuring whether or how long I am in Zone 2, but I do...

I collect watches, including Casios. That "X" design on the dial reminds me of the "Sospensione" series, which was a bad purchase for me. I can't read the dial because the "X" looks so much like the hands, and the lug-to-lug is about 52mm, looks terrible on my thin wrists. Finding the best...

At the NAMM trade show, I almost brought the 18mm as well as the stock kit lens / zoom, but I figured-- correctly, as it turned out-- that I really needed the extra wide angle from the kit lens, and image stabilization would be more important than having an extra f stop or so of exposure. I...

Class III. Where I ride mixed use, no one seems to care. I also am not going any faster than the class 1 riders. It would be cool if you could switch it to Class I mode and it had a GPS log, so that if you were pulled over (again, never happens) the ranger could see: Yeah, Class III on the...

No. Climbs will not be fast, and you'll wear through the knobby tires quickly, but my 40nm 47-pound Shimano E500 eMTB rides like a motorcycle on sealed roads. Descending at 43 MPH, it was like it was glued to the road. I've thrown it into a panic stop at over 30 MPH and it tracks wonderfully...

Sorry, another Necro Thread Revival. (Sound like the name of a band. I'm thinking sort of a progressive semi-secular gospel bluegrass outfit.) So, yes, Stefan, it does have two markings, minimum and maximum insertion depth. I would take a picture, but there were many available online anyway...

Yeah, the scratch coatings I've ordered at Zenni and Kaiser absolutely do not work. Maybe there are some that do..

Interesting thread (and I don't find the term 'necro' to be snarky, just descriptive in this situation, where we have a precise use-case scenario.) I do have a visor on my helmet, but unfortunately, it's so scratched that it is annoying. I wonder how polywatch of some similar product would do...

These are great resources and I will look into them! What I'm wondering now is if WALKING in my neighborhood qualifies as Zone 2. For the hills at least, yes, I can speak in complete sentences, but my speech would reflect the fact that I'm exercising. Given the topography of where I live...

Actually, I do not have a cardiologist, though my GP consults with one regarding my case. I meet with my GP in a couple of weeks, and I'll ask her what HR she might recommend or if she has any thoughts on the situation. She may either give me numbers to hit for each zone, or refer me to...