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I thought for sure we would have two C'Dale Black Inc. bikes there tomorrow. I am contemplating taking the Calfee but I will probably stick with the Cervelo.

It turns out I do have Universal Sports after all. They have Bikenado going on this month and tons of racing and bike shows. I have been watching Take a Seat: Sharing a Bike Ride Across America. Really good show about a guy on a tandem riding across the country with different special needs people. Seems like a pretty awesome concept as the guest riders seem to love the experience.

I don't want it to fit too well tomorrow as I do not want to lose my Strava positions on those climbs. My legs are currently dead after a leg workout so I am wondering if I can even make it up that one hill. I might even have to use the little ring.

I would not advise that since the crappy aluminum will just snap.

I probably will. The mounts are cheap because they will be broken so often due to poor design so the aluminum is very brittle. Trying to find the crowfoot adapter somewhere as that is the only way to change them out between bikes. If I can't find that I will probably give up.

Got my $1700 Garmin Vectors today. Piece of shit broke during install. Terrible engineering with the pods and even worse build quality. The shop was torquing it to spec and the pod mount snapped in half and the pod dropped to the floor. Now I am back on the waiting list for pedals that look to be very poorly made. Even the pedals themselves look like chinese knock offs of Looks with sharp edges and poor engraving. Also the crowfoot adapter you have to use to change out these pedals is back ordered months at all of the online places I can find. It is evidently one of very few thin enough to fit into the poorly engineered space you have to access to torque the pedals so they measure correctly.

I like the control panel and the fact that I can access it without putting in our security code. I need to dig a bit deeper to see if I can change what shows up on the control panel but I like the flashlight and calculator plus all the most commonly used settings stuff being so easily accessible.

Everyone is searching for the Brents of the league that trade away their top 2 picks for midlevel picks. \ That is the hardest thing about trading as the person proposing the trade has to be seeking an increase in production so they have to make trades that benefit themselves.

Yeah my entire team on the 10 Team league is on the block.

I think we need to work on being more active in trades in our leagues. Just had a large one in League Two but they are fairly rare. Maybe if people would fill out their Trading Blocks it might encourage more trading?

Happy Birthday.

You could definitely pull that bike off around C'Ville Justin.

Yeah, I am not fond of the pod setup myself. Batteries that don't last for a ride would be a real problem. Seems like Garmin went from a $800 unit that was supposed to be released a long time ago to a $1700 flaky system that still is not ready for release.

Evidently it will not show both legs on the Garmin 800 and there were some syncing issues. The same shop told me not to bother with the 810 so I do not think it is an upsell.

Supposedly might have my Vectors this week. I am told by the shop that the 800 and 500 do not play well with the Vectors, even after software update so I am hoping I am not going to need to buy a new 810 on top of these freakin pedals.

Looks like I will start out 1-1 in both leagues. League 1 I ended up with 78 on the bench so I got smoked by Salty. League 2 I was high score for the week and had 70 on the bench but that is nothing compared to Tracy's 154 with 109 on the bench. I am going to need to do some work to stay in contention in both leagues. Oh yeah, if any of those Managers bemoaning that autodraft got them Lynch please let me know if you would like to get rid of him. You definitely don't want him and I need RBs.

Figured as much.

When did you get a bike Brent?

Happy Birthday Deepak.

They are also fugly.

Nate, surely you have some business reason to be in DC the end of the week? Brent, I am sure we could find a Huffy on CL for you to ride.

So we need to plan a ride for next weekend. Who's In?

I am pretty sure I know which one, unless you ended up going to a different shop.

You bought some wheels for your future bike?

Would have liked to watch it but it is not available on Fios. Never made it out for a ride at all today. I guess I need to head to the gym.