Recent content by Catalyzt

While this is, indeed, a straight-up and full-on bummer of the highest order, I will say this: At least the LBS is being honest with you, or gives every indication of being straight with you, about both the strangeness of the problem AND the issues they are having with new staff. I really like...

Happy birthday, Charge! Stefan, I felt very much the same way you did until my medical emergency last summer when my heart stopped for 10 minutes. Now I have two birthdays-- and we plan to celebrate both every year! I'm in the final lap of 68 years old... but also one year old. I expect...

Well, here in Los Angeles, yesterday I saw what looked like a 12-year-old riding an electric motorcycle (no plates, obviously) sitting at a red light on Gower and Franklin, major avenues. He was wearing a motorcycle helmet, and sitting in the middle of the lane. I just wonder what he was...

You are way deeper into modding than I will ever get, so I only have a few tangential points to add just based on riding experience. My unscientific, back-of-the-envelope assessment is that the road you are riding on is significantly more challenging than the road Stefan photographed, though...

My usual average speed on my 4.1 mile sprint loop is about 11 to 12 MPH, highest average speed is 15 MPH on my run to my weekend AA meeting. That is also the run where I do have a stretch of road where, for about five blocks or so, I run around 28-30 MPH, and I do enjoy that a lot. The...

You sound like you have plenty of experience, so this may be obvious, but do you tilt your bike sideways-- e.g., so the left side is closer to the ground than the right-- when getting on? This is one reason I prefer lighter bikes. I'm 68 and 6" 1' (or 6" 2' on a good day) and 150 pounds with...

Thanks! A few folks have been following my progress. It's a bit of a mystery... the short version: ruptured pancreatico-duodenal pseudoaneurysm, my heart stopped for 10 minutes due to hemorrhagic shock. And I'm 68. Bit of a mystery how I emerged neurologically intact-- I was getting CPR the...

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...