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likewise.

If there are other decent places to move to I'd move. I'm not sure the camera is going to be a huge deterrent to a douche this big. I do understand the pain of moving though and why you'd want to avoid that.

Nice! I see that your trails are as littered with leaves as mine are now. Last year it was ok, they let people go out and blow off sections of the trail with a leaf blower but they've outlawed that this year. It's pretty wretched, especially if there has been any sort of rainfall. For me, two things of note. One, I did what will definitely be the last commute of the year unless I work a half day or something. It was near full dark for more than half the ride in and fracking cold. It was below freezing when I left the house at 6:10 and while most of me was wrapped up well enough there just doesn't seem to be much that I can do about my feet. The wind on the way home sucked as well. It was blowing a steady 10mph out of the west with gusts in the mid 20s. No thanks. The second thing of note is that I briefed the wife on the arrival of the Calfee. She was a little nonplussed on being brought in after the purchase but I managed that well enough to not be sleeping on the couch. I'm psyched for its arrival on Friday and I'm going to try to make an appointment for it Saturday to have my LBS give it a once over and adjust a few things. I am a little scared that it's going to be too aggressive but the price was too good to pass up and low enough that I can keep the Roubaix for a while and decide which one I want to keep.

Actually, it might be time to mount a gopro discretely inside the car somewhere and see what it captures...

WTF? No words.

I've held off installing iOS 7 on my 2nd Gen iPad, am I being overly cautious?

So you want us to wait until next week to donate?

I'll definitely be in for a few tomorrow, mike.

I was looking to a have good week till I ran into Raffy and the combo of friggen Andy Dalton and Calvin Johnson who combined for a cool 93. Jebus.

Holy shit, Jeff! The kids had me up way too early this morning so I doubt I'll get a ride in today.

This is sage advice and I share the hope that it goes a well as it can.

I'm betting with a little assistance from Kevin you could cook up a batch of thermite which might make for a sufficiently impressive destruction film. Especially if done at night.

Woot!

So, you're selling a HD580 headband and cable, right? Sorry to hear of the troubles, Shelly. You might poke around (pun fully intended) and see if there's anything reasonable out there on the used market. Or see what Justin has to say about HD600s. I really like the 600s. Not enough to own them again but that's because I'm trying to be a one headphone kinda guy.

A very happy birthday, Marc!

^^ This. Hang in there, bud.

Ah, I see. That should work.

That might make for a pretty miserable and incomplete day, Dan. What's the widest tire your nishiki can run? If it's less than a 28 I'd imagine a taco'd rim or two in your future or lots of walking.

I've read some more, sounds like there's enough terrain to justify use of an MTB. Just not sure full squish would be the way to go...

Pencil me in. 100km on the MTB sounds brutal, but fun. [edit] I'm wondering if a gravel bike wouldn't be sufficient for this? I can't find much (yet) in the way of description of the trails other than "singletrack".

I run a headlight and tail light I just don't like riding in the dark all that much. In the morning it's not so bad as by the time I get to roads with more traffic the sun is up. But leaving work in the dark and riding the whole way home that way, eh, just kind of leaves me nonplussed. It's also getting to the point where leaves and stuff on the roads are near hazardous, especially at the shoulder so the next few weeks will be tricky anyway. If work doesn't get in the way I'll get a commute in next week but I may have to travel the first few days which would squash all potential.

Simple solution - ride more. Most of us here are so far off the actual curve of fitness that any level of activity is likely to be pretty productive in burning fat and improving the other areas you're looking at. I tend to simply ride however fast it feels comfortable to do so on any given day. This morning that was ~18mph, other days on this same ride I've very comfortably cruised at 20mph. So bascially, until you get to the point where you feel like your level of fitness has plateaued you probably don't need to worry much about zones IMO.

I had 99% of a great MTB ride last Friday. Crashed relatively hard with about 200yds to go (stupidly) but didn't do major damage. May have bent the rear d hanger but need a trip to the shop to confirm. Definitely tore the cleats on my shoes, put a nice little puncture into my right leg and sracped my right forearm. But such in the nature of the beast riding on dirt/rocks/roots on a good day not to mention after early morning showers in the fall with wet leaves everywhere. It was actually quite the fun and challenging ride what with basically only being able to use my rear brake most the time in order to avoid immediately tucking the front wheel. Some drugs and ice mostly cured the leg and the arm is fine so I rode to work today. It was a chilly morning; 32F when I left the house but has warmed considerably throughout the day and should be a gorgeous ride home as long as the wind doesn't kick up too much. I fear this might be my last commute as I was in near 100% darkness when I left at 6am and will be racing daylight on the way home. Once we roll the clocks back it's going to get really hard to ride in the afternoon... But I felt good even if I was on the slower side. I blame it on the fact that I couldn't see my computer for the first 30 min or so of the ride as it was too dark and my fingers were too cold to punch the backlight button.

Happy Birthday, Peter!

Happy Birthday!