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  1. Night riding can be a blast. The same trail you've ridden thousands of times will seem completely unfamiliar. It's slower, eerie, thrilling, and maybe even a little scary, but still fun.
    Recommended setup is a bright-ass floodlight attached to the bike and a more focused beam attached to your helmet (one to see where the bike is going and one to see where you are looking/will be turning).
    Modern LEDs are a gamechanger. So small, yet relatively bright, light and efficient.
    For example, this bad boy can pump out 1300 lumens for two hours on its highest setting:
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    Used to need a lantern/motorcycle battery for similar performance 15 years ago.

    Yeah it can be a blast. Narrows your vision to the trail ahead by diminishing peripheral vision.

    I used to have one of those TurboCat lights with the lead acid battery you strap to the frame. Battery weighed more than my frame.


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  2. Will there be face painting and balloon animals?

    Rode my bike over there when it started. Not sure but there may have been outside agitators from Prosper and Little Elm.

    Got thirsty for a beer and couldn’t find the bricks so rode back home before the march.


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  3. American cities burned last night. Trump's first tweet of the day is to tweet something Brian Kilmeade said on Fox this morning.  Of course, he can't even spell "supremacist."
     
     

    Well, maybe there was at least some indication.....
    Department of Safety Commissioner John Harrington said they are contact-tracing the arrested and added that an investigation is underway about white nationalist groups posting online to encourage their members to use the protests as a cover to create chaos.

    He said some of the 40 arrests made in the Twin Cities Friday night were of people linked to white supremacist groups and organized crime.

    https://www.courthousenews.com/minnesota-officials-link-arrested-looters-to-white-supremacist-groups/


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  4. Well, according to dingleberry over there, about $1100.
    I was gonna see if I could get 800 or so for it, so that may be more than you want to spend for a neighborhood cruising bike. Don't know what it's actually worth really, so if you're interested PM me and maybe we can work something out.

    I think it is a large frame (need to verify - could be a medium).
    It's Kona's Scandium frame and has a RockShox Reba RLT Ti up front. XT brakes, Stan's ZTR Arch 29 wheels.


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    I ride the crap outta my old Kona.


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  5. Watched this one last night. Visually stunning. Some of the most incredible time-lapse sequences ever.

    I hate cold weather with a passion, but it would almost be worth it to see that night sky in winter.


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  6. Not sure if Hollywood is good, or if I’m just a sucker for material about how Hollywood works- especially golden age Hollywood. 
     
    still can’t tell how much of it is supposed to be true or rumored to be true. 

    Watched the first episode and to me the acting seemed amateurish and the dialogue was so bad at times I wasn’t sure if it was intentional or not.


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  7. Tyrone Thurman from Tech...dude was like 5'6" or something and I want to say was an All-American KR/PR in the mid-80s. He was awesome. 
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    Sat next to him at the bar in my local Pub in Frisco a few months ago. He had some Tech gear on so I started talking football. Said he played for them and his name sounded familiar but he was so small I figured it was probably BS.

    Googled him when he went to pee and remembered him playing after seeing his Wiki page. He was listed as 5’4” 130.


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  8. Interdasting story.  His patent.  https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/95/81/a7/7186ad2dfc4bfa/US5095770.pdf
    Didn't realize Cane Creek spun off Dia Compe.  Had wondered what happened to Dia Compe.

    He used to give us some of the prototypes to test before he met with them.

    I also have a prototype roller clutch freehub he designed like shown in the article. Still rolling along on my wife’s Breezer.
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  9. What was it?
    It is certainly true that discrete innovations come from somewhat unlikely sources at times.  But I think things like full suspension frames and their kinematics benefit from systematic engineering analysis over time.  You can do the geometric aspect of kinematic design pretty easily on paper, but when you start incorporating mass-spring-damper effects from suspensions, computer modeling really opens up the analysis.
    One example I'm thinking of is that lockouts on shocks are largely a thing of the past and by most accounts unnecessary now because the kinematics are so good.

    https://cyclingtips.com/2017/08/origins-how-the-aheadset-threadless-headset-changed-bikes-forever/


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  10. Not a fan of Spesh, or Trek, really.  I agree that the smaller makers seem to offer more compelling bikes.  I just cited to Specialized because you'd think they'd have been first or early to actually engineer frames and suspensions, just because of their size (and that they haven't changed hands a bunch of different times).  And, in recent cases, they've pretty severely over-engineered some things.
    Also, not to be a techno-dickhead.  I know that people can become skilled technicians in various things without formal education.  But I think bikes have benefited a lot recently from finite element modeling and kinematic simulations that engineers brought to the table fairly recently.  Of course, you can also piss on Shimano and SRAM, who employ a bunch of engineers, for not seizing on things like disc brakes much earlier, for example.

    One of the biggest innovations in the Cycling industry in ages was invented in the late 80s by a Dallas guy who was a windsurfer and in his Father’s real estate business.

    The original R&D was done in his Dad’s machine shop in his garage in the University Park area.


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  11. Repped for the antique.
    Is that a Pro Floater, [mention=3681]Ths71[/mention]? Care to tell us its story?

    Bought the frame in ‘95 at Interbike. One of the first of the new Pro Floaters after Cunningham sold the company. Pretty much period correct mid 90s goodness. 24 to 24.5 lbs depending in the tires.
    Still fun to ride, just don’t get lazy.

    SRAM esp 900 carbon/composite shifters and 9.0 derailleurs
    Judy FSX carbon forks
    Sweet Wings steel cranks and Time ATAC carbon pedals
    Mavic Crossmax first generation wheels
    XT V Brakes/ SRAM composite levers
    TNT Ti seatpost/WTB Ti saddle
    Kore stem/ Ritchey ProLite bars


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