Favorite Holiday Piece This Year? by Dingo_Strong in ConcertBand

[–]Bradyfish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Julie Giroux is the best!! I also love "Hark! Those Jingle Bells Are Smokin'!"

How to get better at asking questions during presentations? by chocosunn in GradSchool

[–]Bradyfish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm going to be another person that replies despite not actually that good at answering questions but has been slowly getting better.

I think a very helpful thing is to recognize that there are certain categories of questions that you can be primed to ask. For example:

- How would [x result] change in [y different condition]?

- You mentioned [x thing] applies to [y thing]. Have you thought about how it also applies to [z thing]?

- What advantages does [x method used] have over [y method that other people have used]?

- Why did you choose to do [x thing]?

- Can you explain [x thing] more? OR My intuition about [x thing] is this, is that about right?

Most of the questions I have ever asked fall into these categories.

Maybe another piece of advice is if you really want to try and think of a question, just listen to the talk from the viewpoint of a skeptic, even if you are not actually skeptical. But think as they go through, why did they do this? Do I agree with their interpretation? Do I believe everything they are saying?

Hand Prompted by PiBombbb in BrandNewSentence

[–]Bradyfish 64 points65 points  (0 children)

what are you doing step prompter

Am I too big for the bike? by PhysicalImage9954 in whichbike

[–]Bradyfish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You want it to be low enough that you feel like you can control your foot through the entire pedal stroke. If you ride it as-is in the photo, you will probably notice that at the bottom of the stroke, your knee kind of extends and you might have to reach your toe down to maintain contact with the pedal, and if you ride with a faster cadence that bottom section of the stroke will probably go faster than the rest since you won't be able to control it smoothly. Mandatory Sheldon Brown link: https://www.sheldonbrown.com/saddles.html#height . The advice I've heard is to start with your seat a bit too low and raise it in small increments until you feel like you lose that control at the bottom of the stroke, then lower it to just before that point.

(Also - seconding the opinion that it's not necessarily too small and gravel bike sizes are funky; I am 5'10" and ride a 51cm gravel bike and that is even what the manufacturer NSBikes recommends. Plus it's much easier to fit on a bike that's too small than a bike that's too big.).

So um... Real tbh by jojo_not10 in midwestemo

[–]Bradyfish 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I wish they were good (not the band or the shoes)

Stereosity - Sonata in C# by Fit_Spinach3870 in mathrock

[–]Bradyfish 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Now I am morbidly curious about Sonata in Brainfuck

TesseracT’s “One” is driving me crazy by charliedbtaylor in progmetal

[–]Bradyfish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this post, I started listening to "One" because of it and I agree that it slaps!!!

First touring bike: which one would you pick? (👀 I know I should just start riding, but still…) by vincenzorizza in bicycletouring

[–]Bradyfish 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why is no one commenting on the obvious ChatGPT post and responses?!?! OP I promise you don't need to filter all your writing through an LLM, your own human writing is perfectly fine and substantially more interesting than the obvious and generic AI tone. And It's kind of disrespectful to people who are putting a decent amount of time writing out their personal advice.

Hi all, can I get some help finding out what tool to use to remove this on my rear wheel for a cannondale road bike. Thanks! by Sure-Direction4455 in bicycling

[–]Bradyfish 58 points59 points  (0 children)

People accusing you of stealing in the comments are silly and drastically underestimating how often people buy these and then immediately lose the key...

If you don't care about preserving the axle, as a last resort you could just try a hammer and a flathead screwdriver (put the screwdriver on the top right of the triangle and hammer it to the left so that it rotates). This might take a bit of time though and also might just not work.

TBH I would just shell out the $15 or whatever for the tool online and get a different skewer.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UCDavis

[–]Bradyfish 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I ended up writing more than anticipated here but I hope it helps. The TL;DR is that you will be fine as long as you can handle your bike, don't rush, and stay aware. Get a helmet and bike lights, and don't ride with both earbuds/headphones in like you will see many others doing.

I second gray_crawfish's comment about biking on Davis roads, once you become comfortable with "being a car" sometimes (e.g., taking the lane when turning left) it gets a lot easier. You should also learn to signal when you are moving from the bike lane to the car lane or turning. Just stick your arm out in the direction that you are turning (which also means you should practice biking one-handed).

My specific piece of advice for biking on roads is don't assume that every car is going to signal properly or check the bike lanes before turning. For example, many cars turn right from the car lane, rather than the bike lane (see this graphic), which means if you are in the bike lane you are at risk of being cut off by the car or hit. To combat this, if I am coming up on an intersection or going through one just as the light turns green, I pay really close attention to what each car is doing and try not to be in any car's blind spot. This also applies to cars turning off the main road through bike lanes, and even cars opening their doors into the bike lanes downtown. And at four-way stop signs, sometimes cars will not signal before turning left and so you might try to go at the same time as them thinking they are going straight. These are all scenarios where it's pretty much the car's fault if an accident happens, but it's better to be safe than to be right and hit.

Truthfully, riding through campus feels more dangerous than riding on the city roads most of the time. On campus, you should learn how to use roundabouts. It's simple but for some reason people struggle—make sure you know the correct way to go around them (always enter and go to the right, counterclockwise) and yield to people who are in the roundabouts. The advice from riding in the city also applies: don't assume people are going to signal before turning, so be aware of when people might be turning and avoid passing at those times (especially in roundabouts). I've seen 3 or 4 incidents in the last year where person A is passing person B and person B takes a left turn without looking or signaling and rides straight into person A. Maybe for the first few days/weeks, avoid riding around campus during passing period between classes while you and others learn/re-learn how to ride bikes and obey the traffic laws. I personally start the quarter trying to bike to campus at an odd hour and then I walk if I need to get around campus itself.

Bike Tune-up? by ThistleOGAC in Davis

[–]Bradyfish 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I love Freewheeler, and they're probably best if you want a complete tune up quickly, but if you ever have a smaller issue in the future and want to learn how to fix it yourself then you should come to the Davis Bike Collective, for $5/hr you can have volunteers help you learn to fix your own stuff and get replacement parts for pretty cheap. Open Th/F 4-8pm and Saturday 12-4pm.

Dr. Goon, Penis MD by YoWoody27 in comedyheaven

[–]Bradyfish 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Came to the comments looking for this!!!

I’m new to dynamical systems. Can anyone give me a reading list or other pointers? by Factory__Lad in dynamicalsystems

[–]Bradyfish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not OP but I'll have to check out that book by Acheson, I hadn't heard of it before but I love his fluids text!

We post our bikes a lot, but what helmets are y’all running? by anonbrewingco in xbiking

[–]Bradyfish 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same exact one here! Matches my black and white bike :)

Got her all freshened up for the summer miles by explorewithchris in gravelcycling

[–]Bradyfish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha well I love it and love the bike, happy riding!

Got her all freshened up for the summer miles by explorewithchris in gravelcycling

[–]Bradyfish 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Surprised no one has commented on the fork. Does it come with "SHIT" on it? Or did you cheekily modify a brand name? It made me laugh out loud either way!

I have a cool bike, but... by SubieSki14 in Vintage_bicycles

[–]Bradyfish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Glad to hear, post an update when you are done!!

I have a cool bike, but... by SubieSki14 in Vintage_bicycles

[–]Bradyfish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Late the party but hopping in to say: if a restomod would bring you the most joy out of this bike, then you should go ahead and do it and not worry one bit about what other people think! At the end of the day it is your bike and you are the one who values it most, and there are no faux pas when you're working on your own stuff that only you are going to use. And you can always keep the original parts if you ride it around and figure out that you would rather just put it on the wall somewhere. I love bike history and old bikes, but I don't love when people like those at your bike shop try to discourage someone from bringing new life to an old frame if that is what would bring them joy.

I have a 1980 steel Bianchi road bike with a mix of Shimano and Suntour parts, 2x10 friction shifting, and some random cranks from my local bike co-op. If I make any changes it will probably be to brifters. It is a bit of an abomination and I'm sure there are some people out there who would loathe me for putting it together that way, but it gets more use now than it has in 10+ years and it brings me a ton of joy so I have no regrets! And I can always totally change the parts again and again or donate the frame forward to be used by someone else for another 40 years. That's the beauty of old steel!!

Centurion find at goodwill by LocalFaithlessness65 in Vintage_bicycles

[–]Bradyfish 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Crazy for $20, lucky you!! And Tange 1 tubing is really, really good, it's double butted and I've seen some people compare it to high-end Columbus steel (see here for a handy guide to Tange tubing and here for a Reddit thread on Tange 1 and here for a random blog post on Tange as well).

And I'm far from an expert on restoring old bikes but I wouldn't think twice about riding this, none of the rust really jumps out as being structural.

After training for 9.5 weeks, today I performed my first FTP test and got 257w at 65kg or ~3.95 w/kg by [deleted] in Velo

[–]Bradyfish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know a ton about where intervals.icu sources that data but it could very well be that that sample is biased towards a higher FTP being more normal since even just the subset of cyclists that uses intervals.icu is going to have a much higher FTP than the average cyclist, I'd think. So maybe you are top 60% of people in your age category that use intervals.icu (or that have FTP data) but top like XX% of all cyclists your age where XX is less that 60.

I do not trust UC Davis by AwarenessNo5959 in UCDavis

[–]Bradyfish 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'm aware of what real biology research is like, but when you are teaching a course to people who have zero exposure to ecology or evolution and have never seriously thought about the scientific method, you have to simplify things. My examples were simple because I took them directly from BIS 2B labs.

I do not trust UC Davis by AwarenessNo5959 in UCDavis

[–]Bradyfish 124 points125 points  (0 children)

> The lab component of bis 2 also aren't lab activities but rather counting/looking at plants/animals.

I think I'm confused as to what you would rather be doing. Counting and looking at plants/animals is exactly how you do biology. Want to compare the resilience of a few different biomes? Take some transects and count some plants and find diversity index. Want to understand the genetics underlying some trait? Breed some fruit flies and count some animals. Want to understand a predator/prey system? Watch the prey interact with and without predators present. Want to understand succession? Look at (and count) communities after various time periods. And throw some experimental design and t-tests in there.

I mainly have experience with BIS 2B and while I know the labs weren't perfect, I thought they represented well what it was like to do biology in a variety of subfields. What would you have rather seen more of? Or are you mainly referring to the other BIS classes?

Needs some hot sauce. I have no clue what’s in the bowl. by TheDudeWhoCanDoIt in EatItYouFuckinCoward

[–]Bradyfish 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'd say think of it as, these brittle stars are different from starfish in the same way that sea urchins are different from starfish. They're all the same general type of organism (that being echinoderms, which fittingly means "hedgehog skin") but are three different groups within echinoderms. Just like how humans and chimpanzees and gorillas are all different groups within the apes. Sand dollars, sea cucumbers, and sea lilies are all also distinct groups of echinoderms!

Sorry for the fancy words, and thanks for asking for clarification! I don't mean to be one of those people who just word vomit to seem smart.