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Happy birthday, Vincent!

Seems very much of the times.

Happy birthday, gents!

The wind is just giving you bonus training. 😁 Seriously though, don't worry, it's not a race. I get the frustration though as 9/10 rides home from work are into the wind of some sort. Today for me was a quick rip around town as I didn't have time for a long ride and my back still hasn't totally recovered from last weekend so I'm trying to mostly take it easy on it. Garmin's guess at the wind was way off. I'd say the seat of the pants feel was more like 10mph steady with some swirling/gusting going on. Still a beautiful day for a ride.

^^^ This. I generally ride in the low 70s, spinning faster doesn't feel good for me or my legs. I've tried to train up to a faster cadence via Zwift and it just feels wrong. So I don't fight it. I'm fast enough to where I want to be fitness-wise w/ no aches and pains - from cycling anyway.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Peter! 🟪

Happy belated birthdays, gents. Sorry for missing the party, as usual G-man comes through with the AI goodness.

@EdipisReks1 - it will be curious to hear your thoughts on ink consumption and cost to print. Looks like ~$100 to replace all 8 cartridges which honestly is not horrible. 13" maximum dimension (in one direction) coupled with 39" length could be fun to tinker with.

They selected "Well Done" - fuck that noise.

Freakin' sweet work!

Man it's been a good 10 years since I had a kidney stone. I'm glad to only have had one and you're quite lucky to not have felt the passage from kidney to bladder (unless it really was just a bladder stone). Just about all patients (Steve and I included) experience the worst pain as the stone makes its way from Kidney down, simply because that's the smallest pipe. But all that said, completely agree, passing a solid is not fun. Side note - look for areas in your life where you are letting yourself get overly dehydrated or taking in too many salts/minerals. My brother in law had stones 4 or 5 times until he realized that taking his kids leftover multi-vitamins on top of his own daily vitamin was overloading his kidneys. Talk about a painful lesson.

No point in ever turning up the pedal tensioners until you've pulled out of them because you're cranking so hard. I doubt you ever get there, I never have even when pulling 1000W in a sprint. More than anything I'm glad you're enjoying the bike. As your fitness increases and your body adapts to the positioning more and more it'll become even more fun. And she's sexy, that much is for sure.

Happy belated, Wayne!

Happy Birthday!