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Happy New Year 2026. I had no idea this thread would last for five years! I really though it might be for about five geeks & for maybe three weeks back in 2021. I have my prop-tools. Whenever I give a Free five-minute initial consultation I have a digital caliper, a voltmeter, a notebook, and...

Generally I do not like crowds, but I would do that. Whichever the way the crowd is going is usually the wrong way. It is more communal than a mob. They also have talent and are making something, not wrecking. So, yes, it looks like fun. There must be some veting, such as online audition...

I would guess that I average about 10 miles per day of mostly stuff around town. I seldom do purely recreational rides, maybe five times per year, because I have stuff to do every day. Taking four 2.5 mile rides is more fun and productive in a day than not riding for three days and then doing a...

I just wanted the leverage. I mostly deal with cassettes and not freewheels and I don't care if I slightly mar the seldom used socket, That sucker is longer than the edge of the rim. Another way is if you have a good vice (most vices are bad, like that '80's show) put the freewheel socket in it...

Freewheel Extraction.

Then there is the antidemocratic access movement. It takes land and big bucks to maintain a horse in the Bay Area. But anyone can have a bike. There are a whole lot more cyclists than equestrians and it is public land for everyone to enjoy. Sell your horse to France where they will eat it and...

The water district only allows class 1 at under 15 mph and not on single track, and 5 mph when passing others. It is effectively a ban. An analog bike is better. If you are a disabled vet you are banished.

I am on the left. With saffron robes like that other lama guy. 18 hours ago New Highly recommend anyone in need of ebike repair work to reach out to PedalUma. I can’t recommend his work enough. I look forward to cruising out on the golf course again. He even let me have a PedalUma...

I have no reason to post photos of myself publically. When people post images of their anatomy on datings sites they use one of these quarters for size comparison.

I am ambidextrous, so left and right don't mean as much a east and west. I just turn a bike upside to work on the drive side.

I have a Craftsman adjustable box spanner that is locking to avoid slop. It is nice in my mobile bag because it replaces a bunch of individual wrenches.

EBR, is entertainment.

When a chain is in that state it is all burnt toast on fire. It is not going to the dog's breakfast. At some point I will set the date stamp. Maybe.

I will read more, but I am so inept and lazy that I never set the date stamp on that camera. I guess I could set it to 9:00 2029. I don't need a date samp anyway, film cameras didn't have them. Ansel Adams with a date stamp?

Something that gives me the warm fuzzies happened today. A friend that approached me for the first time from EBR back in maybe June followed my tips for teaching her granddaughter to ride a bike at Halloween. Today was her first real ride and I was sent the video. The advice I gave was to remove...

It's fun to restore old tools. My bike stand is from 1964. I could have used buffing compound on it to restore it but decided to retain the patina. A couple of times I have found an old rusted ax head and fully restored it to a perfect working ax, painted and polished with a new handle.

I thought something was off. It is well over 1%. When it is this bad it means a new chain, new gear cluster, and a new chainring. What is sort of cool is that because I am always shifting, all three wore evenly together and it only started minor skipping today. Oh, that outer chainring is only...

An anthropologist might say we are defined by three things; our tools, or art, and our garbage.

I have a friend in a nursing home who is out of shape and uses a walker. I visit him and his roommates a couple of times a week and bring small gifts and show them new bike builds. I also get him on a pedal assist throttle bike a couple of times each week just to get him moving. You still need...