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  1. 6 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

    It took me about an hour and a half to get the damn thing clean and I swore I'd never do that again

    I've swore I'd never do it again about 457 times at this point I believe!

  2. 14 hours ago, Txzen said:

    There was a time when I would agree. I think there was one spring in the Bay Area that broke me. It was an El Nino year, and so riding in the wet was just the way it was going to be. But crossing the GGB on the way home, it started to hail. That combined with wind whipping in froze me. Sat in a warm bath for an hour trying to get my core temp back up. Never the same, and now I'm too old and soft to repeat.

    Yeah it's actually kind of bizarre for me, the older I get, the less I can deal with heat. I actually prefer cold and damp. It's almost the opposite from everyone else.

     

    That said, the coldest you can ever be is cold on a sailboat. It's wet and you don't dry out for days if you are offshore.

    Just now, Whitewater Horn said:

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    “Steinhauser beating off the competition!”

    Yeah old Hatch has a way with words there, lol

  3. Just now, Whitewater Horn said:

    Especially while descending paved roads with painted stripes down high mountain passes. 

    If it's good enough for Andy Hampsten, it's good enough for me.

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  4. 4 hours ago, Whitewater Horn said:

    Yep, understandable. I’ll keep it on in the background mainly for the comfort of hearing the sounds of bike racing and commentary while I’m working. Even though the outcome is settled, barring something shitty for Pogi, there’s still some good scenery to come. 

    100%. That's how I roped my wife in to watching cycling as well. "Honey look at all the beautiful landscapes and castles!!!"

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  5. On 5/17/2024 at 2:54 PM, williemackgarza said:

    Id figure $500 a shirt or maybe a bit more for a great button up.
    I dont want some cheap ass off the rack button up that makes me look like a soup sandwich emoji23.png
    Issue always is the sleeve length and shirt length looking like a moo moo.
    Like how jerry jones sleeves normally look.

    If you want to spend that much then I would 100% go bespoke. You could catch one of the UK shirt makers on a trunk show, Budd or Turnbull are both fantastic. Turnbull actually comes to Austin.

     

    US shirt makers can be ok if you find one, but it's going to take some digging.

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  6. 27 minutes ago, Whitewater Horn said:

    He’s been making some big efforts, so he’ll need to moderate that regardless of who ends up being a GC contender at the Tour. I can’t see how Jonas can achieve the fitness and race form to win in July. Even Plugge said they won’t take him to the Tour if he’s not going to compete for the win. They may give Wout the leader role, but I don’t see him beating Pog even if Pog is less than himself because of going for the double. Whatever happens with all of the moving parts regarding the principal players at the Tour, it should be an interesting watch. 

    Yeah, honestly from an entertainment perspective (definitely not a sporting one), having a tired Pog, and half trained Jonas, Remco and Roglic at the Tour would be epic.

  7. 20 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

    Terrifies me.  I do a lot of solo sailing, and I am never on deck without a pfd and never out of the cockpit without being tethered to something.  But if I went over and the boat was cruising under autopilot, I'm not sure I'd have the strength to haul myself back aboard.

    Yeah that is the eternal debate on tethering. It is so circumstance dependent there really is no one answer.

    I can tell you if you are in a spot where your tether is long enough to let you go all the way into the water while the boat is moving, there is no way even a young fit person would be able to get back onboard unassisted. Any kind of speed at all and you better have a knife to cut the tether loose or you will get drowned and beaten to death on the hull.

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  8. 11 minutes ago, Hornius Emeritus said:


    Man, Julian Alaphilippe just hammered Mirco Maestri with about 12 kilometers left, didn't he? As soon as I saw Julian go and Maestri toss that water bottle I said "it's over."   Maestri is just too big to stay with Alaphilippe on steep hill like that one.

    Maestri was definitely in the "I'm just happy to be here" camp after that one. Awesome to see him go for it

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