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Have fun guys! Did some bike DIY tonight. My FrankenTrek commuter bike that my brother gave me needed to have the wheels rebuilt (to swap out the hubs). Relaced the front wheel tonight, and have it almost up to tension and relatively true. Will finish truing and de-stressing tomorrow. Thanks to my brothers for the Park tools (TS2 stand, tension meter, etc.). And the Rock'n'Roll nipple cream (why do I feel not quite right saying that). I might even take some pics on the rear wheel. This is actually kinda therapeutic And did ride to work 1 day this week, even though it was hot and humid.

Happy Birthday Posty! But Dan is absolutely correct...

^ Heh. Little girls? Christmas? Very nice Vicki! I like your color choices. And haters? In this thread? And Holland, there is another choice... starts with a "C".

^ I'll have to look at those. The Cannondale whatever that I have is a pain to get my iphone into, with a tube, levers, CO2, patch kit in it. I don't wear jerseys normally so don't have pockets to stash shit in.

Happy Belated Birthday!!

Nice! Unfortunately the XL would be too big for me, and they don't have anything smaller in the clearance ones.

^ Agreed! I think you were worried that you might not be able to ride at all (or much) again. Now see where you are! Re: tonight, I think I would have been over 16 had I not taken a detour and cruised around the restaurant/pub my younger son just got a job at Nate should be scared.... NOT

Boss let us off early this afternoon, so went out and did 28 on the Raleigh, which I hadn't been riding much this year. Avg. 15.1 which I felt was pretty good given the lack of miles this year. Gorgeous day out as well

Belated Happy Birthday Tyll!

Great to have this back on, though bittersweet in the fact that it is ending. Story line would not support more than this (not sure it supported it this far to be fair). Good 1st episode though! Anyone catch the new series following it? Low Winter Sun? Didn't watch the whole thing, but looks promising! My wife is beginning to hate me... everything I like is "very dark"

So sorry for your loss Mike. RIP Denver...

After replacing the jacks with the Mouser # 161-7300-EX I had, I retested the amp, The rail splitter seemed fine, IG -> OG offset was less than 1mV, DC offset on either channel < 1mV, so everything seems good. Jack grounds insulated from one another now. I would guess that the OG being shorted to the IG only disabled the ground opamp/buffer loop, but apparently did not damage them. Can't believe I missed that when I was building the amp, but I guess I was focused on the trickle charger stuff, etc.

That's what baby wipes are for... ask Brad Pitt...

No. This is what a hipster bike looks like:

Cool Ari! That is one long-ass seatpost! How big are the chainrings? John Deere colors?

Got the amp back today. This one has the 20 pin DIP socket for the feedback/gain resistors. One of the 10 ohm resistors had fallen out, so that accounted for his problems with one channel not working. He said he could get both to work by fiddling with the jack, but I suspect he was just getting both the L and R across one contact, i.e. mono. I had not insulated the jacks; the grounds on both jacks were connected together thru the front panel. When I tested the V+/V- split to input ground, they were perfect. I replaced the jacks with the insulated Kobiconns, and now the resistance from IG to OG is around 4M ohms. I haven't tested the power and rail splitting yet since replacing the jacks, but I have some TLEs so will replace that if necessary. Any other tests I should do? It has been probably 5 years since I built this, and it is one of the few active ground amps I have built. Thanks for the help!

Function over form Vicki. A Brooks would not look out of place on the Kirk (hell, they look fine on Merckx', etc.). Cool on the bike, can't wait for pics.

Wow! RIP George...

Happy Birthday!

Just read that Ben Serotta and Bill (CEO) were fired by the investment company...

They don't build steel anymore Seems like (from the thread on the paceline) a holding company controls them, Mad Fiber and Blue (never heard of them), and did not come thru with the promised funding. Also sounds like Ben and RustyLion (forum name of Serotta president who has only been there a year or so but is an accomplished cyclist) are trying to buy the company or something, Maybe they will survive, though probably not in the same form. Aerius, I had gotten the same feeling about SRAM chains not being as good as their older Sachs/Sedis (and earlier Sedis) counterparts. I'll have to try KMC the next time I need a chain. I get more than 2K miles out of a chain BTW, but I'm running friction shifting, etc.

Not much traffic here. I watched the entire season, and enjoyed it. I do hope this is renewed, though from what I read, ratings were around the same as season 2 was. Not sure how satisfied I was with the final episode though. Thoughts?

Use KMC's. They're cheap and good from what I've been told. Need to take my own advice, as I usually buy SRAMs (cuz they used to be Sedis).

Yeah, you are probably right. I'll insulate the output jack, or use the Kobiconns I have. I built this about 5 years ago or so, and don't recall if I insulated the output jack or not Not a fan of the active ground/rali splitter stuff.

Marshall, I've used the Kobiconns that you showed before and still have a few. The panel holes would need to be enlarged for those. I think I am going to use these from Digikey (CUI, on the left): Since this is for a Pimeta with its active ground, these would be going on a metal (anodized) Hammond panel. Will this be a problem? The Switchcrafts also have a metal barrel, tied to jack ground, and have not been a problem from that perspective. Thought I still had some of the CUI jacks (left) but don't seem to be finding them. I know I've used them before but can't remember what in