2011 was rainy bad
Randonneurs (randos), use metric for distances; it'll make them feel like a longer ride: rando chat‽
Btw I’m working on it, it ended up longer than I wanted but I’m remembering some things.
Some things for you to look forward to:
Landforms
French being French
Crashes and injuries (no pics)
Mig does networking!
New pastry sacrilege
Tips on how to get ice in France
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Local rando died suddenly of melanoma. Wear sunscreen folks. Tell your people you love them often.
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fuck dude. sorry to hear about that. it’s always so hard to lose someone in a community you belong to. holding the randos in the light.
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@LASER_BEIGE The Meares Loop road has opened:
The long awaited reopening of Cape Meares Loop is here following over a decade of closure. The project took two winters and two summers to complete and now provides a second way out of Oceanside (when Hwy 131 closes) and a second way out of the Community of Cape Meares (when Bayocean Road closes).
The new road has 12% grades and the Road Department will close the road during ice or snow events. We do not intend to close the gates for other reasons. Constructing a road with a flatter grade would likely double the cost and the road would never have been built. This road was built and funded by Federal Highway with the Road Department providing a 10% match.
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Nice
One of our members got a stern talking to this last summer.
Unfortunately this means there will be more cars
This is north of @viggen
looping between Umeå, Sweden and Mo i Rana, Norway
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I wonder what percentage of those 42s are 650b? Probably most.
If the 700c are almost all 25-38 that’s close to 70% that that wheel size makes up. And add a few non 650x42 to get drom 22 to 27%
Yeah 19/22
54 people are tubeless but only 1 person said they carry a plug kit. I’m wondering where the disconnect happened that a bunch of people think the first step for a tubeless puncture that won’t seal is “put a tube in” I’ve seen this a bunch by cyclists getting into tubeless in the past few years.
I stopped a guy a few weeks ago at a race from dumping all his sealant and trying to put in a shitty tube instead of using a dynaplug, which I gave him. He had no idea about plugs ?
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“2.2"” 
Dynaplugs are expensive. I can see cyclists overlooking them for that reason alone. I bought a bunch of those Muc-Off bar end plugs when they were on sale last year. They were cheap and you can carry them in a way that makes it more likely to get the plug in before you lose all your air and/or sealant.
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That tire width pie chart is a fucking abomination.
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We joke at the shop that anyone over 50 that wants tubeless has to get a note from their doctor.
The number of riders on evaporated orange seal and a prayer is pretty amazing.
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That’s true Dynaplug is $$$ and even regular name brand bacon strip kit is $20+.
I got all my tubeless repair kits when Wiggle was clearing out their Lifeline stuff and a Dynaplug recently just for events so I suppose I’m just out of touch here.
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Haha. For sure. This is painting with a broad brush but there are only 5 useful sizes for curly bars atmo.
28-30 for racing
32 for riding
40/45 for gravel
650x50 for underbiking.
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- The no plug kit with tubeless is crazy. Was this left off by the survey maker, or did no-one write it in?
- The idea of carrying a whole spare tire is even crazier.
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genuine innovations tubeless tackle kit is like $15, has 5 strips 2 valve cores, core wrench and the requisite installation tool. that’s like 1.5 tubes nowadays innit? and to plug inflate and be back on the road in no time? what a treat!
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Seriously. Why isn’t this a histogram?
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