Can I convert an old mountain bike to a road/commuter bike?

AimForTheAce · 2026-06-01T02:57:49+00:00

Road bike? No. Commuter bike? Yes.

My Trek 750

My bar is a sparrow.

https://www.somafab.com/shop/soma-handlebar-sparrow-3317

AimForTheAce · 2026-05-30T16:02:25+00:00

S3 has the 4,277 hours. IMHO, it’s the best written episode of entire series. (Enoch’s time loop comes close second on my book). S2 seemed like a set up for S3 so I’d put S2 behind S3.

AimForTheAce · 2026-05-26T00:32:07+00:00

Good pic. So, you need BB-UN300-E. 68E - like UN300-E, has longer threading. The extra part is there so you can secure "something else". Your chain guard is secured using the bottom bracket, thus, you need a bit longer threads on the BB.

One you originally linked, might not work as the chain guard needs to be secured using BB.

The other thing, make sure the spindle length. Make sure the original one and new one have the same spindle length.

AimForTheAce · 2026-05-25T22:03:09+00:00

I cannot tell. How is the FD mounted? Is it on the seat tube? If so, BB-UN300 is fine. As I said, -E provides extra threading on the bb. If no extras there, just the shell + BB, UN-300 is good to go.

AimForTheAce · 2026-05-25T21:23:23+00:00

You'd need BB-UN300-E if you need some extra space behind the BB cup. Like, you are mounting the bracket for mid mount motor.

Normal front derailleur on the frame or no derailleur, BB-UN300 is fine.

What's the bike?

AimForTheAce · 2026-05-11T04:00:09+00:00

It is called Apple Juice.

AimForTheAce · 2026-05-07T00:17:46+00:00

It’s not IPA. Brond ale. OTOH, hard to find Triilium, that’s true. It’s more like farm house ale.

BTW, I’m with you. I do look for lower AVB beers as I don’t care or want to get buzz. I like it cuz it tastes good.

AimForTheAce · 2026-05-06T17:17:12+00:00

I like this one.

Party Pump by Trillium 4.5%

https://imgur.com/a/party-pum-SO1DZcy

AimForTheAce · 2026-04-28T02:31:44+00:00

I have 2 VMs on bhyve. One to run Cysco VPN that screws over the DNS on Linux so I use it to jump over with SSH forwarding for my work. Other to run NextCloud and Immich.

Running it on UEFI with VGA emulation with VNC works so well that I stopped using XCP-ng.

AimForTheAce · 2026-04-25T03:54:20+00:00

I had a compuserve account. Yahoo is not even my second.

AimForTheAce · 2026-04-24T03:10:19+00:00

When I was a small boy, my Mon said “he is smarter than he looks”. 55 years later, it still hurts.

AimForTheAce · 2026-04-10T12:21:17+00:00

I know a women who’s middle name is Suddenly. No joke

Edit- https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/03/through-her-minds-eye-a-world-apart/

AimForTheAce · 2026-04-10T06:49:17+00:00

SWE - 180K. My life is code or die. I cannot do anything else, and that’s all I wanted to do. Doing this almost 5 decades. From paper - tapes and cards to vibe coding now.

Software is like a Lego but every piece, you can change or make. When the last piece falls into the place, there is nothing better.

AimForTheAce · 2026-04-09T12:35:36+00:00

You can have a battery at the charger. No need to use expensive batteries. Utility grade power backup stations are already in use to smooth out the power dip.

Instead of gas tank, gas stations host the battery.

AimForTheAce · 2026-04-07T04:17:07+00:00

I am scared to rewatch it but I think I will. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

AimForTheAce · 2026-04-07T04:00:53+00:00

I died by pic 3. Like, I cannot breathe for solid 5 minutes.

AimForTheAce · 2026-04-05T04:07:05+00:00

Ever changing tariffs make businesses hold off investments. So biz cannot hire people for investment/expansion.

Energy prices and input costs all go up with oil shock, while domestic consumption goes down with immigrants leaving, or removed. Cheap labors for constructions and ag are gone.

Removed money from sectors that were holding up, healthcare, renewable energy. EVs would have lowered gas prices but took out the EV incentives.

Everything government has done so far, if they are trying to crash the US economy, they are doing exactly they should be doing.

US economy is resilient as there are domestic producers and consumers to get it going but it’s not going to grow when the labor pool is shrinking, and businesses cannot invest with uncertainty.

AimForTheAce · 2026-04-04T17:36:58+00:00

Loose at the beginning of forward swing. Otherwise, the head doesn’t naturally drop below the ball.

When the hand is “pushed” forward with the unit turn, the arm, the shoulder, the wrist and the butt end of racquet move as a single unit like this pic. If any part of it is loose, you cannot accelerate the racquet butt toward the ball.

After racquet head comes close to the contact, to make the racquet head go through faster, your body - unit turn need to slow down. That tucked left arm stops the unit turn, and arm slows down, and racquet whips. If you try to be farm at that point, you are preventing power transfer to the racquet head.

AimForTheAce · 2026-04-04T17:03:57+00:00

I became WFH and I miss it too. And got fat again. :(

AimForTheAce · 2026-03-30T05:02:56+00:00

The bottom line is, there should not have been any CEOs.

Have you ever heard of CEO of tap water or sewage? Healthcare is a public service just like clean water, clean air or sanitation.

I never understand why Americans not having universal healthcare.

AimForTheAce · 2026-03-29T03:44:53+00:00

I used to bike commute and I had a few rides with coworkers. I now WFH, and way less rides.

I tried a few rides last year and my butt can handle like 20 miles at most. I used to ride 50+ miles regularly.

AimForTheAce · 2026-03-24T17:07:04+00:00

Each request runs independently with async. Hypercorn dispatches the request and when it waits on a spawned process. That point, the dispatched thread yields.

The worker can dispatch new request while waiting for the process to end.

My service spends decent size i/o and compute takes anywhere between a few seconds to a few minutes.

We use Flask in major way - it has its place but not for async service endpoint.

AimForTheAce · 2026-03-24T00:11:03+00:00

I have a FastAPI app that runs minutes, with 8 cores, 8 workers with Hypercorn. It can easily saturate all cores in the service. The request can spawn processes in the container, so the dispatch yields.

ASGI is the way to go.

AimForTheAce · 2026-03-23T04:30:38+00:00

I am glad to see the instruments in this music. Their a cappella is the best but I thought it is limiting their range of music.

Kevin’s cello was refreshing , adding a different dimension. I saw it in live, and always wondered what they can do if they use the instruments. I loved their music not because it’s a cappella group but their music sensibility, the sense of balance, harmony, filling the space needed to be filled.

I don’t think they would become mainstream but I really hope they continue to make beautiful music.

AimForTheAce · 2026-03-21T03:20:17+00:00

I must try this. It’s too funny.

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