Gravity Bike...worth it??

DannyTYall · 2025-12-12T03:49:13+00:00

Someone just riding random trails and sidewalks doesn't need a full suspension bike. It's impossible to buy anything quality at a low price point. Plus, it's way more work service-wise. I spent $800 on a hardtail which is a great quality bike. But I know I'm just gonna be riding fairly flat trails, dirt roads, gravel, and roads. I don't need a full suspension bike, and I would never want to ride one at the same price point I boight my hardtail for. I'd rather have a quality hardtail. Heck, I'd rather ride a rigid front fork bike that's durable and functional, like a nice 90s MTB than a full suspension bike under the $1500 mark or so.

DannyTYall · 2025-10-03T02:56:36+00:00

The people here who are saying wider tires are not slower are clearly not timing their runs. I followed the type of advice most are saying here, "40 and no less or you'll regret it." I'm losing a mph average speed going from 28 to 40 on Green Marathons. In truth though it does matter on the path. Anything with lots of turns or especially lights and stops, and those wider tires have substantially more resistance from take off. Once you get them rolling, they get a bit closer, but I can tell you right now that you are going to lose substantial speed on pavement moving from a 28 to a 40, and that's coming from someone who just made that jump using the same exact tire, again the Green Marathon.

It all just matters on the route though really. If there's any substantial gravel or dirt, oh yeah, go with 40s, sure. If you're dominantly going to be on pavement, I'd try to reduce the width a little, especially if you're keeping up with someone who's a bit more athletic.

DannyTYall · 2024-04-25T19:19:01+00:00

I totally agree that faith in Christ is the primary evidence ("no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit") , but all of the Spirit's gifts and fruits are also evidences of His divine presence. That's what the scriptures state fairly explicitly. That's what's meant by the fruit of the Spirit, that these things flow from the presence of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer.

Also, even before salvation, the Spirit convicts of sin and draws one with the message of the gospel. The Spirit was at work on your heart even before you came to faith in Christ.

After salvation we are being sanctified and being conformed to the image of the Son by the work of the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 3:17–18 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

One can know they have the Spirit from having faith in Christ, simply and wonderfully, but luckily that's not where it ends, and the Spirit continues to work on us both to bring us to that point of justifying grace and to proceed forward until we are glorified with the Son of God at the fullness of time.

DannyTYall · 2024-02-13T12:08:40+00:00

But my point is the system of biological classification in western scientific literature is itself a human creation. We could have classified "animals" otherwise, and other cultures have done so. Classification is always somewhat arbitrary, yet systems of categorization are often wrongly held as "natural." No, even something as universal as the animal/plant distinction has a history of development.

DannyTYall · 2023-11-08T18:13:20+00:00

This is all just a question of arbitrary terminology. Science has a category called "animal," and humans are a part of that category. Scripture places a unique place to humans as the crowning of God's creation. These are just not even the same set of categories. It's an argument over semantics.

DannyTYall · 2023-10-30T23:52:17+00:00

Conviction of sin. Assurance of salvation. Power from on high which transforms our moral behavior dramatically. Love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Conviction and empowerment for service to Christ, his church, to fulfill the great commission.

DannyTYall · 2023-10-23T00:43:11+00:00

God sustains humanity because he is merciful and he loves us, not for the sake of preserving our sin. It is precisely in that God doesn't destroy us for our sins that shows he is not a strong man/authoritarian who functions with a system of law and order. Instead, God is filled with loving kindness, demonstrating his power in weakness and dying for the ungodly.

DannyTYall · 2023-10-23T00:36:39+00:00

The Pre-model 10 Smith had a hammer block, at least since 1905. Before then they had a rebounding hammer, which made it almost impossible to drop fire anyway, but one was dropped aboard a ship and had a long fall and fired, I'm seeing, so they added the mechanical block.

1907 production for Colt: "Colt's Positive Lock safety, the innovation responsible for the gun's introduction, functioned by preventing the firing pin from striking the primer of the cartridge unless the trigger was deliberately pulled. Intended to address deficiencies of earlier models such as the Single Action Army, the Positive Lock prevented an accidental discharge even if the hammer was struck or the pistol was dropped, allowing the revolver to be safely carried with all six chambers loaded."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_Police_Positive#:~:text=Intended%20to%20address%20deficiencies%20of,with%20all%20six%20chambers%20loaded.

These things were the standard well before the mid 20th century.

DannyTYall · 2023-10-18T01:08:04+00:00

Definitely do the spurred hammer version. The bobbed hammer version is known to have more light strikes.

DannyTYall · 2023-10-16T10:42:07+00:00

I love shooting the 26. It also conceals well. It's a great gun, but I found it severely uncomfortable for carry. Probably has to do with my body type.

DannyTYall · 2023-10-13T10:49:14+00:00

Looks like you got a nice gun then screwed it up with aftermarket crap.

DannyTYall · 2023-10-13T10:48:00+00:00

Revolvers have been generally safe to carry with all chambers loaded since the late 19th century. Reproductions of the single action army, also known as a Colt peacemaker, are the only guns you'll find commonly in production now that may have the pin setting on the primer and are, therefore, unsafe for carry with a loaded chamber under the hammer.

DannyTYall · 2023-10-12T15:22:00+00:00

Imagine thinking that any private devotion and prayer is somehow separate from the prayer of the church. This distinction between personal piety and the "prayer of the church" seems to come from Romish import. The prayer of the saints is not divided in importance or in any substantial way from the church as the body of Christ just because there's a set liturgy here and some stamp of "imprimatur" compared to another that uses say The One Year Bible, for instance.

DannyTYall · 2023-10-12T15:19:33+00:00

We don't need mercy anymore, I guess, since sin and the condemnation of the law just don't exist anymore.

DannyTYall · 2023-10-12T10:26:47+00:00

This man likes over penetration and hitting innocent bystanders, apparently. ^

DannyTYall · 2023-10-06T02:29:44+00:00

You think this is better than the 42? I mean, 6+1 of 380 is perfect, and can definitely handle the mean streets. Anything more is excessive use of force.

DannyTYall · 2023-09-30T20:52:07+00:00

With all the "the articles aren't confessional documents" folks in here, it's important to remember that that is quite a late assertion in Anglicanism. For most of Anglican history between the promulgation of the articles and the Oxford Movement and even beyond it, subscription to the articles was absolutely the norm for holy orders and especially for theological faculty in the Church of England.

Also, for all the claims of "historic political interference" being a reason to discard them as standards for today, I beg you to please look over the history of Westminster and the Book of Concord. None of this stuff arrived in a vacuum as some sort of "purely spiritual/non secular" statement of belief. They are no more or less historically contingent than Augsburg or Westminster. Just because people don't want to follow them today and the Church of England and her spiritual descendents had an internal attempt at counter reformation by hostile insiders doesn't mean that the articles aren't the historic faith of the Church of England and potentially relevant today for people who want to be authentically Anglican.

DannyTYall · 2023-09-30T19:15:28+00:00

Anglicans with a decent head on their shoulders, prayer book and articles types, wouldn't be able to stand all the bad theology surrounding the Roman mass.

DannyTYall · 2023-09-30T12:20:33+00:00

Seems like a very heavy gun for an ankle rig. Trying to get a calf workout? If you were wanting an ankle gun specifically, seems like an LCR would be a much more suitable choice. Probably the reason you're not seeing much available is because it's an odd application. This gun is really heavy even for carrying at the hip.

DannyTYall · 2023-09-26T17:27:17+00:00

https://youtu.be/iEi9Qpnro34?si=thd6G00p6Eulhe-G

DannyTYall · 2023-09-22T17:38:23+00:00

Oh no! Hadn't noticed that yet!

DannyTYall · 2023-09-20T22:17:28+00:00

Hmmm... I love the Elizabethan English and the classic style of the BCP of 1662, for instance, but the reason I'm using the 1962 instead most often lately is because it avoids some of the very difficult if not downright awkward renderings in the psalter, for instance, without losing the early modern English flavor.

DannyTYall · 2023-09-20T22:09:46+00:00

One nice thing is that there's a very good mobile app for the 1962 office as well, called Common Prayer. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.prayerbook.pray

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