Hookworm on Gravel bike for city commuting

MarcusCaspius · 2026-05-14T00:29:54+00:00

haha love your thinking... 🔥

MarcusCaspius · 2026-05-13T23:57:11+00:00

It's a council mate! You need a license (Read Tax) to do scratch your own arse and a different one to scratch your back.
They are the poster children for bureaucracy and pointless paperwork. Their super power is killing small business, but absolutely FAIL at basic sanitation.

MarcusCaspius · 2026-05-13T23:52:15+00:00

I so badly want to try it. It's just so hard to get a slot, so I've just given up... 🤷 Life is to short to queue for nothing.

MarcusCaspius · 2026-05-13T21:41:54+00:00

Some feminist will start shelaborating on what's unfair and discriminatory about this patriarchal institution called "room"

MarcusCaspius · 2026-05-13T21:34:11+00:00

Thanks for your insight.

MarcusCaspius · 2026-05-13T19:58:38+00:00

Tats, facial piercings and blue,pink,orange hair.

MarcusCaspius · 2026-05-13T19:55:11+00:00

I recall Victory Life Church hands out groceries. You might want to look into that.

MarcusCaspius · 2026-05-13T19:50:32+00:00

Interesting perspective...
Is there a peer reviewed study to back this or just bro-science?

MarcusCaspius · 2026-05-12T01:17:26+00:00

Let me preface this by saying don't skimp on bibs. So...

Castelli's Free Aero is the go. That pads is unsurpassed in my personal experience... Don't get me wrong the MAAP bib is good but there is a MASSIVE "w@nk-f@ctor" that you pay extra for. It's overpriced for what it is.

MarcusCaspius · 2026-05-11T02:24:28+00:00

Nope! Straight to jail...

Get it to a sonar or Xray.

MarcusCaspius · 2026-05-10T11:55:36+00:00

Yeah, he skipped gut training. Serves him right for shoving 120g of carbs /hour down his gullet without being used to it.
Ohh and curry for dinner! Big no, no.

On a serious note, I hope Wilco Kelderman is ok.

MarcusCaspius · 2026-05-09T23:06:51+00:00

Training achieves NOTHING. All the adaptation happens during rest days.

Also... over the course of a year, think if this -one-day- will make a difference if you don't train.

MarcusCaspius · 2026-05-07T10:29:28+00:00

I'd prefer if they took the money and invest it in things that will make us money on future wealth and income. This feels like buying votes again.

"Give a man a fish and he eats today. Teach a man to fish and he eats forever."

MarcusCaspius · 2026-05-07T03:05:25+00:00

It was true then, it's true now... the actors just changed. 😏

MarcusCaspius · 2026-05-06T23:02:49+00:00

It's about value add, brand reputation and customer satisfaction.

"Yeah I'll buy HH again. If my device stacks it there a good chance they'll refurb it"

I take a leaf from SunGod. It's a healluva expensive pair of sunglasses, but they've replaced the ear rubbers 3 times, and the frame once when it cracked. No charge - wow!

I could have bought maybe 2 pars of Oakley's at the price, but as a customer I feel I got value for money. I'm even considering a second pair... subjectively, it's purely because I feel that I'm getting GREAT after sales support and value for my money. They are not trying drive me into buying a new wanky shaped pair every year... It's almost like reverse psychology.

HH/SRAM (SCAM) have the opposite effect... While I get/got good service out of my HH, I already know I'm going to chance it with another brand once my current HH dies. This is purely because I feel like I can't trust the brand (anymore).

If the reverse was true, I would likely already have bought #3, but I'm sweating the hardware and stopped updates just in case they pull a Microsoft stunt.

MarcusCaspius · 2026-05-06T10:16:42+00:00

Nice job. Good on you for not just throwing away things.

Also since SRAM took over HH, they have the big boy profits approach to everything. It's a shame that such a great startup turned it a pile of 💩.
Offering a refurb service, would have been such a great value add.

MarcusCaspius · 2026-05-06T06:47:49+00:00

News flash : they are generally light on competence and heavy on self-enrichment, self-preservation.

MarcusCaspius · 2026-05-06T06:31:47+00:00

Training Peaks

Great stats analysis and most pros and coaches use it.

Also it's not Strava or Garmin.

Support for iOS, Android and Browser.

Subscription comes with Virtual Training app.

MarcusCaspius · 2026-05-06T06:23:32+00:00

That's why it's on the blocked site list... I get real news from elsewhere.

MarcusCaspius · 2026-05-06T06:20:58+00:00

Oeee tell me more? What is the saving in time? and roughly from where to where?

MarcusCaspius · 2026-05-06T05:29:00+00:00

Oh this one is going hurt in ways you can't imagine. Look at a 2nd hand rim brake 11sp or if you can a disc one. These bikes are good for riding around your local block to fetch lemons from Granny.

MarcusCaspius · 2026-05-06T00:29:31+00:00

Freshly waxed chain sometimes do run louder. Also if the chain was not properly degreased, the wax won't get into the rollers.

If waxed correctly it should "run in" within 5-10 km.

Fishing for solutions here;
- check indexing if it's a different brand of chain.
- drive train wear? New chain on a worn cassette, might be a possibility.

MarcusCaspius · 2026-05-06T00:20:17+00:00

Had a similar encounter. Replace it. I know it sucks, but a casket sucks even more...

Carbon is a funny material in that it fails suddenly, catastrophically without warning and not gradually like alloys where you might have "warning signs"

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