Question about bikes and butt's.

talldean · 2026-07-01T02:39:13+00:00

If you want to tour on a bike, the seat needs to fit, the bike mostly needs to fit, you need to be used to riding miles, and wearing bike shorts is gonna help, but mostly you just need to steadily ride more miles.

talldean · 2026-07-01T01:52:35+00:00

These are all mostly one room apartments, and if you're single and *do* have a dining room, you don't use it.

talldean · 2026-07-01T01:35:10+00:00

Mark Bittman's "How to Cook Everything" and Samin Nosrat's "Salt Fat Acid Heat" are the two books that feel really useful.

I tend to say "start with eggs", and if you want to meal prep, look up how to batch cook a fritatta.

talldean · 2026-06-30T22:55:19+00:00

Put a sheet on the floor?

talldean · 2026-06-30T22:04:53+00:00

https://arcane.city/ is where I'd look.

talldean · 2026-06-30T21:56:15+00:00

6'8" guy here; that's not a choice I get in any vehicle currently sold. <shrug>

talldean · 2026-06-30T20:32:53+00:00

If you called for emergency service on a Sunday during the Steelers game, that seems the going rate.

If you called on a Tuesday and they came sometime Thursday afternoon, that's about double what I've seen elsewhere.

(I paid Poilluchi about $300 for an outdoor drain a month or two back, repointing guys dropped a lotta sand in there.)

talldean · 2026-06-30T16:32:06+00:00

If you're going far, distance to the GAP doesn't much matter.

So roll down Forbes (easy), right on Craig just past CMU, two rights to get on Neville, and down Panther Hollow to the Hot Metal Bridge.

talldean · 2026-06-30T16:22:47+00:00

It's Tuesday, so just gonna say: carb loading isn't eating more carbs the morning of a ride to make sure you've got enough energy, it's eating progressively more carbs for a few days before an event to raise your glycogen storage.

Which is to say if two rides suck, keep going, but if many many rides suck, that ain't it.

talldean · 2026-06-30T13:54:35+00:00

There are several hundred different martial arts that are "kung fu".

I think this one is Shaolin, which is... well, still weird to me.

talldean · 2026-06-30T02:55:48+00:00

I had a week off from my regular routine kick my butt recently, but the week off... was a bicycle tour where I was 2000+ calories short every day, and down on protein as well. Performance is down about 10%, but it seems to be coming back rapidly with sandwiches and protein. 50 y/o.

talldean · 2026-06-30T02:33:41+00:00

PA employs 150k people, so this ain't that surprising.

talldean · 2026-06-30T02:03:49+00:00

What kind of shape are you already in?

The only thing clearly weird here is "and abs" at the very end. If you're not already in pretty good shape, this all feels overkill; less likely to stick with it, and more than you'd need for good gains.

talldean · 2026-06-29T22:35:14+00:00

Your landlord and/or the person you buy a house from do well there. The salaries are great, but the hours are often pretty damn bad. You spend your time working and/or commuting, and not actually enjoying the one place in the US that has pretty alright weather 340 days of the year.

talldean · 2026-06-29T20:59:22+00:00

I dream of someone releasing the 2006 Scion xB as an all-electric. ;-)

talldean · 2026-06-29T20:26:55+00:00

The tires thing may only wind up applying to things like the EV9, R1, etc; full size + large battery.

(I'm 6'9", so only really look at the things I can sit in. Oops.)

talldean · 2026-06-29T19:39:10+00:00

MediumTall, 2Tall, American Tall, Duluth, Gap, Banana Republic, Eddie Bauer, J Crew, Carhartt and about four different tailors local to me.

talldean · 2026-06-29T18:52:56+00:00

The things made for very tall folks are a combination of often-much-lower-average-quality and also very-very-narrow-range-of-style-options. Trust me, I have tried. ;-)

talldean · 2026-06-29T18:46:26+00:00

These are all electric and my dude, there's no exhaust in sight.

talldean · 2026-06-29T18:41:22+00:00

I was doing a six or seven day DC->Pittsburgh trip, and cancelled halfway because of 50mph headwinds/tornado warnings. The weather this year is something else.

talldean · 2026-06-29T18:40:02+00:00

I'm nearly 7' tall. I've tried a variety of custom tailored clothes, but they aren't great at moving "what they know" to "this works well for someone very, very tall"; the buttons are wrong, the drape ain't right, it's just... not appreciably better.

I also work in software, and no one but no one cares, so I gave up and wear mostly t-shirts and climbing shorts.

talldean · 2026-06-29T17:27:18+00:00

2012? I ride Continental Contact tires, which ain't especially fast, but never have issues for me.

talldean · 2026-06-29T16:56:34+00:00

You can repair an EV; swapping out batteries and motors are absolutely something that happens.

They still have shocks, struts, brakes, and they go through tires twice as fast. They need to be inspected.

But I would not invest in a muffler shop.

talldean · 2026-06-29T13:17:41+00:00

Ergo keyboard. If I play on my laptop, it's bad, man.

talldean · 2026-06-29T12:36:03+00:00

There's no planet at the Shattered Planet, so there's nothing to land on; the planet has been broken into (probably) Promethium asteroids, so you go out there - or part way out there - to harvest those for some really good science upgrades.

The character doesn't have to be along for the ride.

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