2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

Lovely day for a ride today here. Finally a break from a heat wave. Yay! The link below the picture is to a video of a cool section of the rail trail. Unfortunately, EBR doesn’t seem to support streamable as a media source. Weird. Anyway, hope you guys can follow it.

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https://streamable.com/hck1g8?src=player-page-share
 
I spent five years fitting heating boilers, carrying them upstairs and then heaving them on to wall mounts builds up the right muscles.
A gym my best friend trained at in the 70s…a ’proper’ facility, not like these carpeted, chrome palaces of today with spa-like attitudes…my friend, a National champ as a light-heavy tells a story of one of the lesser members, a pipe fitter, who installed a king-sized hot water heater entirely by himself…no tools. And as my friend said everyone checked for leaks…not a one. My friend recently mentioned this feat alongside another anecdote about a world record a member did(Bednarski). That’s where the effort fit. My friend himself had a reputation for his pinch grip which the magazine S&H wrote was from his own special routine. “Yeah“ said my buddy to me…”Carrying block from the age of 12 for my father’s masonry company.”
 
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