Recent content by jembourbe

Mount an upright roof rack attachment to the bed? Like this: https://www.etrailer.com/Roof-Bike-Racks/RockyMounts/RKY97MR.html

Heart surgery? I think you win. And win again b/c you're riding 30+mi SS, meaning whatever they did worked afib?

So today I am one week post-op for that shoulder. There's a muscle on the back of your shoulder blade that goes underneath the end of your collarbone, more or less, and then across the top of the ball at the top of your upper arm bone, where it then spreads out into a tendon that attaches to the...

Sounds a little baroque, but if a system works, it works! The best bike tool I purchased in the last few years was a cheap AliExpress quicklink remover tool. I have the Park tool link remover also, but the cheapy makes more sense from a size factor, it rides with me so it's there when I'm most...

Thanks for the sympathies fellas. This is the first injury I've had where the system will not heal itself. It's new terrain for me Doc is going to give me the assessment today. I'm sure I will be off the bike for a while if he goes in, but if I ride like the old roadie me, there's not a whole...

I kinda figured I'd get this. Fahhk

The shoulder is still pfucked, but I've been riding a little anyway. Boring bike path stuff mostly with an occasional flat, smooth-dirt sendero taken without leaning in the curves. You know, like turning a bike with training wheels. By the way, young parents: no training wheels, ever! God...

Excellent! Not a hijack, and bonus points for being entertaining @Beachcomber Bernie. Saving those NLAs!

It's super easy to adjust/calibrate any click type torque wrench -- even the cheapest HF ones. All it takes is a known weight and a ruler.

It's beautiful even in an urban hellscape . . .

Ouch! Fuel isn't that bad where I'm at (i.e., "not California"), but it's still bad because my daily drinks diesel. So I've been doing utility things on the bike, too. For instance on Monday I combined some careful trail shredding with picking up my kid's car from the mechanic 15 miles away...

Doc: let's watch that shoulder for another few weeks and see if it keeps improving. Take it easy on it. No bike Me: Oh, I've already been riding. Doc: No, no bike. Me: But the cycling position is really the only posture where my shoulder doesn't hurt! Doc: Well, ok. But no wrecking! So I...

Oh hell yeah!

That's so awesome. Enjoy every second of it. Always encourage. Balance bikes are the best bike innovation in the last 20 years. Everyone rode from as early as possible in our house, but mountain biking was great for the daughter in the pic when she was a teenager. Fitness, self confidence...

My daughter and I rode klunkers to the beach when I visited her over the weekend. Sunset wasn't bad here, either. (Cycling content: Check out the Campagnolo T-shirt 15 years older than she is)