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VO danglebongs
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3d printed hatchets and pine tar soap
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Yes, plastic. a great use for burning things, washing, and survival in flannel.
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This is 90% of them.
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How about an ispec adapter series for drop bars
Update on Cinq Forq @Ʀfop (and maybe @Eddbread )
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Cinqās website isnāt up-to-date, but r2 is showing a new version of the forq that addresses the 15mm deadender axle
Looks like stack height is now taller too (395 to 405mm)?
https://r2-bike.com/CINQ-Rigid-Fork-Touring-Fork-II-Carbon-1-1-8-Zoll-12x100-mm-15x100-mm-Thru-Axle
dead-ender wheelset adapter required
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probably not new, but tapered, adjustable rake, dyno routed, with mount points at a reasonable weight
http://www.speedercycling.com/Carbon-Adventure-Bikepacking-Disc-Fork-SC-ADV09-_p375.html
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New and interesting bike route recording app:
https://wandrer.earth/
ran across it on some guyās blog, it seems like it might be a neat way to push oneself to ride different routes.
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Ooh that looks neat
thatās awesome. i signed up. does it ONLY store your last 50 rides, or is that just the import function for free users? in other words, if i do 10 rides, do my first ten fall off my list?
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good question, iāll have to find out as i use it! it sounds like this thing grew out of another project, so they might be more amenable to suggestions than someone who built an app like this on purpose, from scratch
This started as a way to track and compete riding all the roads inside the I-285 Perimeter of Atlanta and grew from there. It really blew up once international tracking was added and there was an article on Cyclingtips. I did a lot of rides with the guy who created it back in 2018/2019 and heās a great person.
Ride All of ITP is a bi-weekly group ride with the goal of ultimately riding every road inside of 285. Come see your city! Donāt forget your stamp book.
Letās ride every road inside of 285!Why do this?
You should do these rides because you can find adventure in your own backyard. Have you ever been to Cascade Springs Nature Preserve? Visited the tiny cemetery at the airport? Or seen the skyline from Climax St? Or been to the bar at Peachtree-DeKalb airport? Letās go check them out! Itās so easy to live here for a long time and rarely explore outside your bubble.
How is this going to work?
My current estimate for the total distance of all roads in Atlanta is 3171 miles. This count includes some roads (like dead-ends) that weāll have to ride twice, so I guess that total ride distance will approach 4000 miles. But thatās only 100 40-mile group rides.
Iām currently whipping up some software to come up with routes for us. It has some interesting challenges since we want to find a route that goes everywhere as efficiently as possible rather than just to one place.
So my current plan is a weekly Sunday-morning group ride. Weāll do a different quadrant of the city every week so if you know a part of the city particularly well then feel free to skip that ride. Unless you want to do all of them, which you should.
Bonuses
One thing that will make these rides extra special is if you have something particular youāre looking for. Personally, Iām looking for fruit trees. But maybe you really like big front porches. Or small and unknown BBQ joints. Or even just big hills to climb on your bike. The more that weāre all looking for, the more weāll all see.
https://cyclingtips.com/2019/08/strava-wandrer-unique-miles/
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Nice! This looks so fun
I saw this quite a while ago and I really love the idea but never did it because I feel like it encourages riding death-trap roads for completeness. You know someone is going to be out riding a narrow 2-lane 55 mph road and get hit using this
Iām just not going to do that
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I have some avid wandrer users in my strava feed. Their rides donāt look dangerous, only maybe boring. Like the route for a day covers a section of the city grid in a weirdly mechanical way.
I like the strava personal heatmap and do use that to spot potential new routes. I do think the general idea of seeing new places is fun.
I love that the āwanderingā app promotes basically the opposite of wandering.
Iāve been getting ads lately promoting the āimmersiveā experience of wireless headphones, which is funny in the same way
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There is something innately satisfying about spending an hour riding through all the roads in an interesting neighborhood during the late afternoon. People come home from work or go out for errands, kids play in the yards, thereās food smells in the air.
On the other hand, at times there is a sense of existential dread, always a house or two that must be ridden by several times and each additional time it feels like the ride is a never ending loop that cannot be escaped.
On the third hand, most of the neighborhoods in this state are boring and completionist rides made me actively hate riding. Some of the guys I follow exclusively ride like this, so the app seems to have unlocked a new way for them to interact with their bike and the road network. So good for them but I would never ride if I had to do this every day.
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