Recent content by Catalyzt

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...

So they say. But I don't hit sketchy websites or open sketchy emails, and so far have not had any problem. Some of my friends who update their browsers regularly have had their identities stolen many times. It's hard for me to wrap my head around. What is it that people are doing online that...

I have no plans to update my operating system (on my laptops) as long as I live. I just bought a 2017 Macbook, and before that, a 1999 laptop. I have a 2020 Macbook Air that is fine for recording music or editing short videos. Same as with cars, goals is to not purchase another as long as I...

No, not that I am aware of. But agree generally that public surveillance is getting desperately out of hand-- license plate readers, authorities using long-range audio monitoring, court orders for disclosure of digital identification. If you could time travel, Charge, I would definitely try...

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...