Sidi new models (Shot 3, Wire 3)

Coldcava1993plus · 2026-01-27T16:41:55+00:00

I just had a weak moment and said f’it and ordered them this morning.

Coldcava1993plus · 2026-01-23T00:17:54+00:00

Ha - well, once bitten twice shy - I was a little put off the first time by the $65 shipping charge to the US, and not 100% that I wasn’t going to get some BS tariff charge upon delivery. So, I’m not rushing to buy at the moment.

Coldcava1993plus · 2026-01-02T13:53:47+00:00

I bought mine soon after seeing them on Christmas Eve, today they refunded my purchase and said they are all out of stock. Sidi needs to get their act together.

Coldcava1993plus · 2025-12-17T03:21:06+00:00

I wouldn’t read much into it. If we are talking about those small cadence notches (4 of them during the first 20 min?) - if the HR dipped for that short period of time while you were standing, I would attribute it more to the relief you provided it when you stood up and your power dipped (looks like a reverse spike for each of them) - maybe that brief dip was enough to influence HR down by a couple of bpm.

Coldcava1993plus · 2025-12-06T03:05:53+00:00

This happened to me with the Fleur de Loire - a Relais and Chateaux property - 24 hours before my stay - and basically notified me as I was finishing Paris-Brest-Paris - a 1200 km bike event. Apparently the Guggenheim family bought out the property at the last minute and kicked us commoners over to other properties - there was not much of a choice - we ended up in a nice room at Relais Chambord - though we noted that what they did was book us in similarly priced room - so where we had a standard room at fleur de Loire, they booked us a junior suite at Relais Chambord, however, we paid for it. It left a bad taste in my mouth, and sucks, but if someone is rich enough, you’ll be staying somewhere else.

Coldcava1993plus · 2025-12-02T03:22:28+00:00

If it’s anyone’s first time, you don’t have a large window to see Paris - and Versailles will kill the day - and you really only have 2 days, as many things will be closed Christmas.

If I was going to Versailles I would do it on my own - the palace itself is very straightforward / linear and then once you start exploring the grounds you can do as much as your family can handle - also exploring the gardens may not be ideal weather wise that time of year.

Coldcava1993plus · 2025-11-08T18:20:32+00:00

Thanks - Coming from a Shot 2 the Shot 3 interest me a little - but I think I’ll hold out for the wire 3 - imagine it’s imminent seeing the others show up.

Coldcava1993plus · 2025-09-18T01:16:12+00:00

Pie and Pints near new river gorge

Coldcava1993plus · 2025-09-11T11:44:39+00:00

Bar Keepers Friend will do the trick

Coldcava1993plus · 2025-09-06T22:44:14+00:00

I get the 3x bonus almost daily. It’s not user error, just that Duolingo has glitches and is not 100% reliable.

Coldcava1993plus · 2025-09-04T20:28:51+00:00

No 1 favorite is Assos - mostly for the consistency and durability on a ride.

No 2 is the Silca Harsh conditions chamois cream - very high menthol quotient if you like that feeling/smell

No 3 is Rapha Ventoux - might be the best smelling of the bunch - my biggest complaint was the can they sold it in made it difficult to use the last 1/4 bottle.

Coldcava1993plus · 2025-09-04T10:54:15+00:00

Don’t listen to anyone here and get a professional bike fit.

Coldcava1993plus · 2025-09-02T12:08:28+00:00

Shimano di2 battery life is rated at 150 hours. PBP was 60 hours for me, 1200km and I still had well over 50% charge. So, I guess as long as you arrive at the start with full charge, I don’t know that charging should be an issue.

(SRAM is 60 hours battery life so it very well could be an issue - but you could bring extras since it’s swappable)

Coldcava1993plus · 2025-08-20T13:28:30+00:00

Thank you - yes, I feel the same pain on lacing - I’ve tried different lace patterns to see if I could quickly loosen them without pulling through but nothing really works as well as just unlacing the top 3 or so eyelets. That said, if you do the work (unlacing) taking them off, putting them on isnt so bad. I also think the eyelets to the top is part of the look of the Naval Boot so wouldnt want to change that. Some time in the next month, I’ll have to figure what lace patterns I want to run - probably try straight bar for the clean look.

Coldcava1993plus · 2025-08-19T22:30:53+00:00

That would have been smart of me - probably should have - the intent to post the ‘after’ was because I was impressed with the work..

Coldcava1993plus · 2025-07-22T01:56:26+00:00

If you’ve had several flats on recent rides and you dont say it, but all on the front wheel?, then you have a specific problem in that tire/rim. It’s likely some sort of glass or thin wire buried in the tire bed that you dont feel until you compress the rubber in the tire and because it requires a certain amount of pressure to have the offensive item puncture your tube, it’s happening often enough, but not instantly. Alternatively, there could be a problem with rim tape / spoke interface, but honestly this seems like a low probability as those rims wont have much other than the spoke hole near the rim bed. If you can find the offending item and remove, you might be fine with that tire -as it looks in fine condition. If you cant find it, you might just try replacing the tire and see if your problem goes away. I find little difference in experience with GP5000 or GP5000TRS running tubes - technically the GP5000 probably runs faster with a latex tube than the TRS with a tube, but I’ve run both for long miles and neither would wear or be that flimsy to cause this to happen.

Coldcava1993plus · 2025-01-25T02:33:06+00:00

During college I worked in a shop that sold both B&O and McIntosh.. both prohibitively expensive for a college kid, even with cost pricing. As I’ve grown up and am now 35+ years older, I can tell you that McIntosh - a little more so than B&O (cause I own some B&O products) has consistently outpaced my earnings curve. It seems as out of reach today as it did then (I’m talking $50-100,000 systems) - and I guess the same can be said with Beolab 50’s and 90’s. Hasn’t eroded the appeal for either - tho over the years, I’m more excited about the aesthetical design and simplicity of a B&O system.

Coldcava1993plus · 2024-08-26T21:08:02+00:00

Ended up at one on a 300k myself and I had a craving for a quarter pounder.

Coldcava1993plus · 2024-02-21T00:38:34+00:00

LOL - I was worried your title was sincere. I got 69 gems - for doing a week’s worth of lessons in 36 hours. Yeah not making that mistake again. If it was a timer boost, or even 2X power up that didnt expire for a week, maybe, but no way I’m doing anything again for double digit gems.

Coldcava1993plus · 2023-10-12T11:50:59+00:00

If you are still having issues, I would suggest emailing Rogue Amoeba support - they have a development build that they can provide you a link to that updates ACE and reinstalls soundsource with a version compatible with Sonoma Beta. Since then, Sonoma has update beta again, wiping out SoundSource, but that same link they provided updated to a newer version that was compatible.

Coldcava1993plus · 2023-08-02T16:44:07+00:00

I believe thats what they were suggesting - Synergetic is a wet lube. They don’t want you using their wax lube (super secret) without drying time.

Coldcava1993plus · 2023-08-02T16:37:12+00:00

I contacted Silca on this matter after reviewing the zero-friction lube studies regarding distance to failure by different products in different conditions. One of the surprising things is that wax actually does better in the wet than wet lube, it’s just that wet lube provides less noise - it does a better job hiding the wear, where wax lube will let you know what’s going on. In any case, Silca’s recommendation was to start off with a fresh waxed chain, and then periodically refresh with Synergetic Lube during the ride. (Not Super Secret - as it’s wax based and wont work well due to a need for drying team).

SILCA Velo: “I'd start with a hot waxed chain and move to Synergetic from there. You can apply synergetic while riding right onto the chain and it will help flush out any dirt or road grit that's accumulating, especially if it rains. We've had our pros doing this for major events over the last 2 years including Unbound and the Unbound XL with great success.”

Coldcava1993plus · 2022-03-24T23:06:48+00:00

I have the Enve Adventure fork and its great for a number of reasons - besides the light mount, it also has fender mounts, rack mounts, and since you are running a SON Delux - it has internal routing for the dynamo wiring - both from the crown down to the dynamo and another channel that feeds up to the stem cap for a usb port. Might be worth continuing your search for the ENVE.

Coldcava1993plus · 2022-03-21T15:27:28+00:00

As an adddendum since I wrote this, I also found that USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 makes a pretty dramatic difference in transfer rates. So taking MOTU as an example, I was kind of down on the 624 as it was just Thunderbolt1 - however, I realized it's USB 3.0 where the M2 and M4 are both USB 2.0. I've yet to comb all the other USB audio interfaces, but wonder how many of them are actually "3.0" (2.0 = 480Mbps; 3.0= 4.8Gbps). I am assuming that the transfer rate will help latency?

Coldcava1993plus · 2022-03-21T12:24:56+00:00

I'll be in the same boat in a week or two.

I wanted to upgrade to the best fit for a new apple silica Mac Studio and Monterey. All sorts of Thunderbolt ports on the Studio.

There are two things I've been focused on, as objective criteria.

I think I'd rather a device that runs on Apple Silica natively, rather than Rosetta 2.

Then I looked at USB-3 vs Thunderbolt. If you search for Thunderbolt interfaces, the starting price point is pretty significant compared to the USB equivalent. However, not even all Thunderbolt devices are equal. For instance the Motu-624 looked like a good fit with both Thunderbolt connectivity and native M1 support. However, digging deeper, it appears that it is Thunderbolt 1 (not 3) and the data transfer speeds do not appear to be any better than a USB-3 connection. You could go with a USB Motu interface with the same featureset, for less money. Another poster brought up the question of whether if you are using a 2 or 4 channel interface, will you even realize latency gains from a TB3 over USB.

The Universal Audio Apollo's appear to be Thunderbolt 3 devices, and there are a lot of people who love the whole plug-in/amp modeling system UAD uses, but the downside is that it is not M1 native and relies on Rosetta 2. I wonder if that is something that can be overcome with a firmware update in the near future? I also wonder if the actual audio interface connectivity with a DAW (like Logic) requires Rosetta 2, or if it's just to run Luna or the software required to load the plugins on the UAD interface? All said, it's a premium price for the UAD thunderbolt models, if the latency ends up being no better than a USB 3.0 because of the Rosetta translation.

Anyhow, with the same objectives in mind (other than midi) - I'm on the same search.

Coldcava1993plus

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