tomjasz
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A DN, design published in the Detroit News?
Winter Sucks
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fooferdoggie
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Crap my chrome winter pants zipper broke. it's the only winter pants I have besides my work pants. I only wear pants around the house and when I run errands or work. otherwise I am in cycling gear. went to REI outlet and REI nothing my size or just he lightweight stuff. I can have the zipper replaced the pants are on warranty but they dont carry that one anymore so I would get lesser pants. Plus the time it takes to ship both ways with Christmas here.
Lousy quality zippers or ones that wear/fail permaturely are the bain of my existence. It affects all of my fall/winter/spring activities and makes still very serviceabe coats/fleece tops of all sorts unusable. I haven't had the zipper in a pair of pants fail, yet ... but don't talk to me about worn drawstrings and the plastic buckles on built in belts. 
Well other than that curmugeon rant ... I hope everyone has a good holiday season.
Well other than that curmugeon rant ... I hope everyone has a good holiday season.
Gionnirocket
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fooferdoggie
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ya this zipper gets stuck often for 140.00 pants it sucks. but I will just ave it replaced.Lousy quality zippers or ones that wear/fail permaturely are the bain of my existence. It affects all of my fall/winter/spring activities and makes still very serviceabe coats/fleece tops of all sorts unusable. I haven't had the zipper in a pair of pants fail, yet ... but don't talk to me about worn drawstrings and the plastic buckles on built in belts.
Well other than that curmugeon rant ... I hope everyone has a good holiday season.
Bubba zanetti
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A view to the north from our little airport In the Columbia River valley between the Selkirk and Monashee mountai ranges. No snow! I’m just waiting for it to warm up a touch before heading out for a ride on my Rocky Mountain. It’s very unusual to have no snow at Christmas. Almost disorienting.
PedalUma
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I did buy them. If I only use them once as a base layer it is worth it. Queen sized XL and lined with fleece. They were $2.99 at a discount grocery store called Grocery Outlet, Groc-Out for short. I once sent the manager a post card from Alaska with that on the address and he got it. I also picked up a nine inch across wheel of brie there that we will melt later and dip hunks of toasted sweet Italian bread into. It was six bucks. A method Brut California sparkling wine, a 2018 Bordeaux, and a 2007 Port added another $30.
At 3 bucks you get to completely ignore the snickering about them being "womans". Besides they're a base layer so all comments are pointless. As for the rest, I'm envious.
The combination of time (inflation), USD to CAD exchange rate (~30%), and just generally a bigger market with more competition is a killer. 15 years ago in Colorado at a local liquor mart my fav Scotch was $33 USD, today here in Canada it's well over $100 CAD. That makes the special occasions even more special (rarer ... lol).
A nice Christmas Eve, just sitting around spiking the tea for the family members
The combination of time (inflation), USD to CAD exchange rate (~30%), and just generally a bigger market with more competition is a killer. 15 years ago in Colorado at a local liquor mart my fav Scotch was $33 USD, today here in Canada it's well over $100 CAD. That makes the special occasions even more special (rarer ... lol).
A nice Christmas Eve, just sitting around spiking the tea for the family members
Gionnirocket
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That and they really accentuate the chestnuts
PedalUma
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If I were to go down the street three blocks and get those same or equivalent bottles, instead it would have been $75-80 at Whole Foods, not $29 something. And a giant 816g wheel of French brie like that would be $25 and not $6. Goc-Out does not always have the exact same stuff each week, but always something similar. And, yes at $3 bucks I could care less about the gender of a fleece base layer. Who knows maybe I get inspired to take up ballet after all? It just means I would need to get a cod piece that fits.
tomjasz
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Trike is rolling. From eBike to eMobility. The frame seller has bombed and I'm now well aware of the weaknesses. That said the project moves ahead and improves. Successive approximations. Practice the form until you gain the essence.
Darn designer, now questioning whose design, blows smoke and I've found a number of dubious claims. None the less it WILL be all I wanted. Thankfully I've years of parts, motors, controllers, and displays for a great number of options. The simplest fixes may mean it becomes even less of an eBike.
I did clown pedal the 4 miles to therapy and back in 32F and it was a pleasant ride. Funny most folks here call it "gloomy" and "it's so brown" and we call it a nice day without the need for sunglasses. 50 of 50 years married in the sun. Minnesota keeps the riff raff on the left coast. (tongue in cheek for the californicaters taking umbrage.) almost true
2 mile ride @ 30F was quite pleasant and all the news lighting, more to come makes me a standout in traffic. Typically the DUI reports are in the late evening, well after my curfew.
Jeebus I just realized I'm prolly way off topic. Not posted much lately I guess I got the gabs!
fooferdoggie
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man our Christmas ride was 40 degrees and rain. my wife got a new set of earbuds and wanted to test them seeing Christmas lights. but rain and cold are no fun at night
PedalUma
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You are all Okay, Tom. You have got it right. On January first I am planning to show the daffodils first bloom here. I know that I live in a weird place and am an idiosyncratic oddball with my bikes, but I can't help it. I can not be rehabilitated. I would rather be void. Ridding is my drug of choice.
PedalUma
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@Jeremy McCreary, You are right. The change in length of days does stall out at the solstices. But it is happening if imperceptibly. The cross overs are at the equinoxes.
Catalyzt
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Yeah, I guess some folks got injured-- and a TRUCK was damaged or swept away-- in a parking lot in Ventura.
As I may have mentioned in some other thread, my homebreak is now almost completely unrideable. Last year, I think I got seven or eight days. This year, only three, and each day, I was the only person out there-- actually at the break, there were some people riding whitewater closer in-- and I felt like I was taking my life in my hands. It's always been a rough, tricky beach break with a few waves that were hard to read, but now they ALL are impossible to read.
All the old timers and the really good surfers are saying they haven't seen anything like this in a quarter century. It seems to be three separate things: Severe beach erosion-- drop-offs and dips in the sand are much steeper and deeper-- and changes in the two predominant wind patterns.
Bubba zanetti
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My Rocky and I along the Columbia. A very unseasonable 4c here. But a fine ride over the river rock. The big wheels and amazing suspension are well suited to running over even larger boulders.
Prairie Dog
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Sweet ride! I spotted this RM Blizzard PP A50 in a LBS while in Calgary. If I didn’t already have my Norco BF this one would be near the top of my list for sure.
Prairie Dog
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So far epic conditions continue to dominate the winter ride scene here despite the mild temperatures though snow on the tree tops would certainly create a more dramatic effect.
The local tributary hasn’t completely frozen over yet.
If it wasn’t for the lack of snow cover in certain spots along the trail, I likely wouldn’t have spotted these shelf fungi.
The local tributary hasn’t completely frozen over yet.
If it wasn’t for the lack of snow cover in certain spots along the trail, I likely wouldn’t have spotted these shelf fungi.
