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I could have sworn I posted this a couple of weeks ago, but maybe I spaced out and didn't.... Ah well.

Love the Serottas!

Latest, plus a picture. I pushed a bit much week before last - five sessions, three of one hour 15 minutes, one of 30 minutes and one of 45 minutes (the last two on Saturday), in mostly 39x14. I felt really bad after that, backed it down to 45 minutes on the Monday and Tuesday of the next week...

I get this. Preying upon the unwary/unaware is not good at all.

No surprise. There are two very vintage (early 90s) Cannondales for sale on Tulsa Craigslist that have been there for months, with unreasonable prices. Ain't nobody gonna pay $1,000 for an early R900 or $1,500 for a Super V (no matter that it's allegedly only been ridden 20 miles since the...

Update: Finally worked up to one hour, ten minutes on the trainer. Felt okay on Monday, but Tuesday was torture. I felt an ache in my right hamstring just above the knee, but it never got worse. Rest day yesterday, tried to make sure I was hydrating. I felt okay, but didn't sleep well last...

Do remember to take care of yourself, as well as your patients and your loved one at home. Mojo's advice above is sound. If the Sugino BB is too far gone, the BB-UN300 is pretty common and relatively inexpensive. It also can use several different axle widths, so you can find a length that's...

Wasn't "spatter fade" a thing with Cannondale for a while? I recall seeing an early frame (I think it was in one of the "Craigslist find" posts I made) that had a Raceberry "fizz fade" to Rocket Silver that looked like carbonated-soda bubbles.... The red is nice - red is fast, remember ;-) but...

I have the blood oxygen and heartrate covered with the Apple Watch. I'll probably get a chest strap monitor sometime. Been dealing with some other RL stuff lately. I hate plumbing... I wish. I don't know if it's my legs not catching up with my heart and lungs or if I'm just not pushing hard...

No joy on the Kickr Snap. Exchanged texts with the seller. He seemed amenable, but then Tuesday night the post on Craigslist disappeared, so I assume he sold it locally. I'm not upset; it just makes more sense that way. *Then* (I should never look at Craigslist ever again) I saw someone over in...

Email computer situation resolved. I did buy a base model Mac Mini with the M4 Apple Silicon system-on-a-chip. Works well enough for what I use it for. I found a cheap ($75) Wahoo Kickr Snap wheel-on trainer on Craigslist; I've had contact with the seller. Only problem is, it is in Allen, TX...

I am a bit wary of Simple Green. It can be too aggressive and attack the anodizing on aluminum parts.

EH? That would be something like August of 1993, if I'm interpreting it correctly. 19" frame, too. There was one Super V model in 1993, but three in 1994 (3000/2000/1000). If the 1994 catalog is correct, the 3000 and 2000 both were XT/XTR, but the difference was the brakes - the 2000 has...

Back to cycling-related stuff. 62 minutes on the indoor trainer tonight. I decided it was going to be a cadence session, so dropped down into the 39x17 gear and tried to maintain a hugher-than-usual cadence. Pushed the heartrate up to a max of 116, and averaged 107 for the whole hour. As soon...

Axalta calls it "Chromalusion", but there are several companies that sell similar paint that changes color based on viewing angle. The first version, created by Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc. in 1979, was called ChromaFlair. There's a pretty good Wikipedia article about it...

Oh, they're all tools. Like any tool, each does things better than other tools. Been a programmer for more than half my life now. Started out with FORTRAN on minicomputers, then on PCs, then C and C++, then SAP, then Business Basic and Python, with a bit of shell scripting and SQL tossed in. No...

Well, truth be told, I could probably get away with a Raspberry Pi 5 as an email and websurfing computer, though there are a few things I prefer doing on my Mac. The PC I have is mostly for casual gaming, running the BOINC client for the Einstein@Home distributed-computing project, and stuff...

Well, as Roseanne Rosannadana from SNL often said, "It's always something!" The trainer idea is going on the back burner for more urgent needs. My email & websurfing Mac Mini has up and decided that it does not want to connect to the internet. I'm using an old PC at the moment, but I don't like...

They are pretty rare and valuable - here's a listing for a set with Avid Speed Dial levers and new pads on eBay (sorry for the long link)...

At least the bike's not for sale. If it were, you'd have to add the obligatory "cat NOT included" warning. ;-)