YellowJersey

Linus: So I assigned it to Alex!

Me: Well, that was your first mistake! Alex is the king of jank! Lovable amazing jank, but jank nonetheless.

106km today in 4 hours 49 minutes. It was a nice day. I saw a cat.

Total this year: 745km

1 hour ago, RollyShed said:

Then put it on the rack / carrier.

 

One a bit like this -

I made my own from stainless steel tubing but you would have to buy one as you won't have the tools or skill to make one.

 

Dude... I should send you my seat to fix!

49 minutes ago, adarw said:

I've recently started biking, but my knees are just really bad, they hurt after short rides it's not even funny. any advice? 

The first thing that comes to mind is your seat height. Your seat should be high enough so that when you're riding, your legs make just shy of a full extension. A good way to check your seat height is to place your heel on the pedal; at proper seat height, your leg should make a full extension (just shy of a full extension while riding)

40 minutes ago, seanondemand said:

That’s the viewpoint on Merlin View trail at West Bragg Creek! So yeah, that’s Saturday morning’s smoke. 

I haven't done much in the Bragg Creek area. Calgary's cycling infrastructure is so good that I usually only go outside the city if I'm doing a multi-day trip and, again, I'm using a road bike. Mountain biking terrifies me! I'll take trucks zooming by at 120kmph instead.

@RockSolid1106 I've actually become better at handling the heat as I get older. Last summer, I was riding in 30C and up temperatures and didn't have a problem so long as I kept hydrated. I used to have a lot harder time dealing with the heat.

@seanondemand Can't say I recognise that spot, but I'm usually on the road or paved bike paths, not mountain biking. Whereabouts was that? The haze certainly seems similar to the smoke we've had recently!

@RollyShed Always appreciate the help. Too bad our current government is, without wishing to get political, handling the situation in a manner that can only be described as, "atrocious." (We're in the middle of an election, so they're taking the opportunity to rubbish the other parties) I'm hoping it's not a super smokey summer this year. Waspinator has plans!

 No riding today as I've got to work (just on break atm), but I'm hoping either tomorrow or Friday for my next ride.

Getting the thread back on track: 102km today in 4 hours 40 minutes. Hit 63kmph going down a big hill.


Total this year: 639km

110km today in 5 hours and 11 minutes. Out for a holiday in BC so I rode from Invermere to Canal Flats and back. 710 meters of vertical. I'm glad the smoke cleared up enough to ride. Though, I had a headwind both ways as the wind changed direction after I turned around. The last 30km were pretty brutal. I also tried out my "cat ears" and I think they do a decent job of cutting down on the wind noise. Can recommend, given that they're pretty cheap.

Total this year: 537km

I'd take a practical approach: instead of explaining depth of field, take a picture at 1.4, for example, show her how the background is super blurry and then take one at 16 and show her how the background is in focus; that kind of thing.

Was it building that SFF PC with Adam that was a the last straw?

3 hours ago, manikyath said:

is it swelling up at al?

 

past that, plug the laptop in and leave it on the charger for longer than two hours after it has charged to 100%. (just leave it on and charging overnight..), that's the way HP's battery logic calibrates.

 

if the battery is swelling, or if the above doesnt help, just order a replacement battery. replacement parts for elitebooks should be fairly easy to find, both official and aftermarket.

I popped it open and there's no swelling. I'll do as you suggested and leave the charger in while it's on overnight and report back. Fingers crossed that fixes the issue.

My wife has an HP Elitebook 845 G9 (running Windows 10) and she's having a battery/power problem. The battery indicator will say she has plenty of battery life left and then the laptop just dies and will only turn on again if you plug the power in. Any ideas what could be going wrong here?

2 hours ago, RollyShed said:

Possibly the angle the picture was taken. However, sitting on the seat, one pedal fully down, is your leg, to that pedal, straight?

This is the usual method of setting up seat height.

I generally go for a seat height that means on the down stroke I go just shy of a full leg extension.

No riding for me this week due to heavy smoke from nearby wild fires. :(

Update: Opted to clone using Macrium Reflect free edition. Works fine! I cloned the drives, moved the 2TB into the main nvme PCIE 4 slot, and works like a charm.

12 hours ago, manikyath said:

if you buy a samsung drive, samsung has their own cloning tool that's basicly plug&play.

 

for any other brand, follow the guide as stated, and that's that.

I'm a little reluctant to go Samsung due to their problems as of late.

I currently have a 1TB ssd in my system and want to upgrade to a 2TB ssd. Which is the best way to move my install and all my files, settings, apps, etc? I do not want to reinstall all my apps and stuff as that would take hours, if not days.

Should I use Windows reinstall but keep everything like option #3 here? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/reinstall-windows-d8369486-3e33-7d9c-dccc-859e2b022fc7#WindowsVersion=Windows_10

Or should I just clone the drive as Jayz2cents did here? I was thinking of mounting the 2TB ssd in the spare m.2 slot (limited to PCIE 3), clone the 1TB over, and then mount the 2TB into the main m.2 slot (PCIE 4)?

 
Or is there a better way than either of these options?

102km today in 4 hours 41 minutes. Came home and had three burgers and a large fries for dinner.

 I also ordered a pair of "cat ears" for my helmet. They claim to reduce wind noise and my current helmet straps make the wind noise nearly unbearable. I'll report my findings when they arrive. Anyone else have any ideas for reducing wind noise while on the bike? https://www.cat-ears.com/

Total this year so far: 325km

Edit: Tested out a DIY idea I had to reduce wind noise. I took some foam "noodles" (for lack of a better term) that were about the diameter of my finger and zip tied them to my helmet straps. It actually worked alright. It was a bit of torture test due to some pretty strong winds (I hit 69kmph (nice) going down a big hill on another 102km ride today).

Total this year so far: 427km

51 minutes ago, RollyShed said:

Something I've not had a problem with in my 70 years of biking. A puncture, OK a few of those, but this one caused by the plastic over the spokes going hard over time where it goes past the valve. At that part, the plastic cover was double thickness and the corner of the short length of added thickness, sticking out, had hardened and finally poked through the tube within 5 mm of the valve.

 

A sharp knife and some sandpaper have smoothed things down and a new tube has been fitted.

 

Hopefully the rain will stop and I'll be on my bike tomorrow.

Can you post a pic? I'm not sure to what you are referring.

 I've had a few spoke-related issues in my 25 years of cycling. First one was the rear wheel on my first proper road bike (1998-2012, rip). I was going up a really steep climb in the wrong gear and the spoke literally pulled out of the rum. Guys at the bike shop said they'd never seen anything like it. My second one was a busted spoke on my cross-Canada cycling trip; had to ride 12km with a wonky wheel back to the nearest town to get it fixed. And lastly, I had to get the rear wheel on my current bike )2011-present) replaced last year as the rims were cracked after a decade of use.

 I've been fairly puncture-free since I switched to Continental Gatorskin tyres in 2008, even more so since I switched to 28s (thinking of going even thicker). I've had a few flats here and there. One involved a two-cm diameter hole being sliced out of the tyre by god-knows-what while cycling from Banff to Lake Louise (and then on to Jasper). Thankfully, I had enough tube patches to close the hole in the tyre but sticking all my patches on the inside. Another one was a mystery flat in 2008 where I woke up to find both my tyres completely flat, but had no issues after I pumped them up again.


Also: 90km yesterday in 4 hours and 17 minutes. Not bad for my third ride of the year. The wind was crazy and I had a lovely 15km section of tail wind... before I had to turn around and had 15km of brutal headwind. It was a good ride, though. It's been raining a bit and, according to the forecast, I probably won't be back out on the bike again until late next week sometime.

Total this year so far: 223km

Ten years? Probably not. Too much shit happened between then and now and I wouldn't have enough money to capitalise on my knowledge of what investments to make. To be honest, the older I get, the more okay I get with the fact that I'm going to die someday.

70km today! It was a really nice day and I felt a lot stronger in the later half of the ride compared to my last ride.

Total this year so far: 133km

It's that time of year again! After a bit of a chilly week last week, I went out yesterday for my first outdoor ride of the year. No leaves on the trees yet and the reservoir was still partially frozen over, but it was a nice, sunny, albeit windy, day. Looking at doing a loop around the rockies sometime in July using the following route.

63km in 3 hours and 1 minute.

On 4/28/2023 at 6:13 PM, SteveGrabowski0 said:

One of these days I want to make it back and stay a night in Mueller Hut, but avalanche conditions were too dangerous when I was on the South Island years ago. Still can't believe I could hike through a rain forest to get on a glacier though (namely, Fox Glacier).

I did Mueller Hut the first time I was in NZ. It's beautiful.

Been to NZ three times. Absolutely love it there.

That time Linus went ape shit over that imac not having a removable power cord. That was hilarious.

Pretty sure Zero Punctuation did the "long answer "noooo"" gag 15 years ago

Quite frankly, I don't really get buying products because of the brand in the first place. First, you can generally find the same or comparable unbranded product for way less. Second, why be a free advertisement for someone else? I've actually been going out of my way to buy, for example, clothes that don't have logos on them at all (or at least discrete branding). But, keep in mind that I am a weirdo, largely shunned by the day walkers.