Bicycle riders

[Go Bama]

is your drivetrain a sram or shimano? everything i have now is using a master link which makes it easier than it used to be to fix chain issues.

Sram. It has a master link. It's a piece of cake to change.

I did break a cheap chain tool so I've started buying Park Tools which are heavy duty. They are more expensive, but I prefer having quality tools.

 

[92tide]

Sram. It has a master link. It's a piece of cake to change.

I did break a cheap chain tool so I've started buying Park Tools which are heavy duty. They are more expensive, but I prefer having quality tools.

yeah, i only use park tools for bike stuff. i've still got a park tools crank remover that is 25+ years old.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

i have a few friends who have gone atlanta to anniston, stayed the night and rode back the next day.

I was training myself to do that long ride when I was hit by a car. I then tried training for it again when I had the last accident. I have decided I don't want to do it now.

 

[92tide]

slowly getting this bike up and running. the single speed is a challenge on rough terrain but it is fun as hell to ride

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Silver Comet was closed today near my place. They were spray pesticides or something, which was what I was told I started that way. I decided to turn around and bike the roads. It was nerve racking and took forever because I was going so slow.

 

[crimsonaudio]

Part of the problem is people not paying attention to the road and looking at their damn phones or talking on their phones.

I ruck 10+ miles a day and it's really interesting how the drivers seems to map out. There are patterns. I won't get into them here but you could tell me the age / sex / race of the driver and I could predict how carefully they distance from pedestrians with a very high degree of accuracy.

 

[Bazza]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1292341110099107840

 

[DzynKingRTR]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1292341110099107840

That is what happens when you cheat and ride an electric bike.

 

[Bazza]

Paul Stanley: "Biking with 8 miles to go! Taking a break to enjoy the scenery. Go out! Live! Be safe."

 

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[DzynKingRTR]

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I did that once to one that had a camera. I did a Jesus pose. I figured I would give anyone going thru them a laugh.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

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Once, I rode from Gatlinburg over to Cherokee and, to show worse judgment, I did it on the 4th of July. After topping out at the Gap, I was rolling pretty well when a compact car passed me, ironically bearing a 47 Alabama tag, and a teenager popped up out of the sunroof. I thought he was about to throw something at me and the thought went through my head that the idiot must not realize that, if he threw something at me at that speed, I was dead. Then I realized that he was flashing all his fingers and thumbs on both hands, signifying I was doing 55, and grinning from ear to ear. (I had on a local HSV tee.) I hadn't even looked at my speedometer...

 

[dvldog]

Once, I rode from Gatlinburg over to Cherokee and, to show worse judgment, I did it on the 4th of July. After topping out at the Gap, I was rolling pretty well when a compact car passed me, ironically bearing a 47 Alabama tag, and a teenager popped up out of the sunroof. I thought he was about to throw something at me and the thought went through my head that the idiot must not realize that, if he threw something at me at that speed, I was dead. Then I realized that he was flashing all his fingers and thumbs on both hands, signifying I was doing 55, and grinning from ear to ear. (I had on a local HSV tee.) I hadn't even looked at my speedometer...

But you are the bionic man!

 

[Bazza]

 

[DzynKingRTR]

apparently it is going to rain a whole lot for the next week. I might need to get an Ark that I can peddle on.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

apparently it is going to rain a whole lot for the next week. I might need to get an Ark that I can peddle on.

Paddleboat. They're good exercise...

 

[TIDE-HSV]

For a lighter note - my wife was returning home after picking up donuts from a food truck in our neighborhood. We live at a dead end, the asphalt ends and our gravel drive starts. As my wife approached our drive, there was a rider heading towards our drive slowly, slowing to talk to our nextdoor neighbor. He apparently couldn't comprehend that he was blocking our drive. She stopped. His toe clips stuck and he fell over. He started berating her for causing his "accident." She pointed out that she was just trying to enter our drive and he was blocking the street. As a final humiliation, he had to call to our neighbor to come release his toe clips, as he lay there. This individual is known to me and I wasn't terribly surprised. I can't say anything. I once got my weight going the wrong way and fell over right behind a packed school bus, to the kids' delight...