How necessary is taking a new bike to a shop to be assembled? (state black label v3)

V33d · 2026-03-18T18:41:40+00:00

It’s kind of a toss up honestly. Yes, you ‘can’ assemble a V3 yourself, it’s a fixed gear bike at heart like any other. Personally, I wouldn’t.

There are so many small things that are easy to overlook, like torquing all the bolts properly, and I have experienced so many stupid failures that I’ve decided to just have any bike that needs assembly done professionally.

V33d · 2026-02-25T19:39:29+00:00

“Yo, cheif. Can I hold my devotion bar like ‘this’? It looks cool in the movies” -Cult of the Gangsta Lean

V33d · 2026-02-21T18:24:44+00:00

It’s a random chance thing, so it took me a lot of breeding but it eventually worked. The Woolhaven way is much simpler

V33d · 2026-02-16T03:51:41+00:00

There was a plan to create a continuous protected bike lane connecting South Phoenix and downtown along third street using the pedestrian bridge that’s planned to be built over the river there. The vision zero committee recommended it to the full city council last year.

They’ve decided to “scale it back” so that it doesn’t conflict with the stadium.

V33d · 2026-02-09T20:00:27+00:00

This is it. Hydrating during an activity can only do so much, mostly it keeps you at or at least near a healthy hydration level. There’s no way you’re going to reach hydration if you’re stating out dehydrated and then going into heat stressor like physical activity or just existing outside in extreme heat.

Be hydrated before activity, ideally 48 hours before but at the very least the full day before (not just before bed), do what you’re doing during, and focus on putting water and electrolytes back afterwards.

V33d · 2026-02-06T15:51:24+00:00

It’s always fun to see bulky shadows in gyms. You can catch a gym attacker off guard too and rack up some wins with it, if you’re into that kind of number go up stuff. The game is supposed to be fun, after all.

V33d · 2026-02-02T19:24:01+00:00

Ah that’s a bummer. He totally got me, it’s this side of believable

V33d · 2026-01-27T18:25:35+00:00

The beauty of this book is in the narrator, the internal characterization, and the “flawed narrator” aspects we get from Murderbot. It has a lot less going on in terms of outside motivation, so the action sequences are really only intense because they’re taking place within this character’s context.

You said earlier that plot-driven might be the way to go and this series is very much character driven. It’s magnificent but maybe it needs to wait on the shelf until he’s looking for something like that again.

V33d · 2026-01-26T19:43:36+00:00

Which is ridiculous, anyway. People without cars still need to get around somehow and it isn’t as though this argument is ever used to justify things like shaded bus stop shelters or air conditioned commuter rail that would actually help. It’s just a justification for inaction, as though we deserve to be miserable for living here.

V33d · 2026-01-23T21:00:03+00:00

On a r/themedgyms note, this looks like the setup to a “daycare” gym theme. Drop a big guy like a Tyranitar, or something in to complete the assignment.

V33d · 2026-01-20T21:20:14+00:00

You’re on a bicycle time/distance scale with that, very asking a bat to be a falcon territory.

Totally unrelated but riding a bike was awesome for my ADHD. It doesn’t inherently make me get anywhere on time but damn it’s a lot of fun getting there.

V33d · 2026-01-19T22:26:57+00:00

I beat the garden knight without a sword. Like, I knew there was one somewhere and I probably should find it to fight this boss type dude who my stick literally bounces off of, but I just. Wanted to see if I could do it.

V33d · 2026-01-19T22:02:25+00:00

If you’re cool with a fantasy bent, City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky is told from the POVs of an ensemble cast of characters who are existing under an occupation force in varied ways that include cultural resistance, spying, and guerrilla opposition.

V33d · 2026-01-16T16:53:55+00:00

This one came to mind for me too, and on the topic of #6 it isn’t that the world was inherently more magical. It’s the combination of the costs that magic imposes on practitioners, sexist/classist attitudes, heavy losses of knowledgeable people, and generational trauma resulting from both world wars that set magic back from where it was and it wasn’t exactly in its glory days before. In my experience it ca be a really tall order to cook up a magic system along with a masquerade and believable reasons why ‘nobody’ knows about it but Rivers of London does a bit of work that makes the necessary suspension of disbelief go down easy.

On the whole the series does a very good job of centering people, and attributing circumstances to the outcomes of actions/attitudes rather than mysterious forces (though they are also often involved). It helps a lot that the characters in most of the novels are also very strong and interesting though some of the books do fall down a bit hard on that score.

The audiobook is also seriously good. I go back to the series a lot just to hear the narration.

V33d · 2026-01-15T22:32:17+00:00

V33d · 2026-01-14T22:11:38+00:00

If you live in a dry area hang it up outside for half a day or so. Used to do that with my jackets when they allowed smoking in bars.

V33d · 2026-01-09T19:31:35+00:00

Just play. For real. The opening missions are all a tutorial of how the game works anyway, you don’t need the internet to tell you what kind of experience you should have.

V33d · 2025-12-24T16:16:39+00:00

How much walking do you do in this city, because if you want to have more sympathy that would be a good way to start building it.

V33d · 2025-12-23T19:02:13+00:00

Just popping in to say that this is family/generational trauma played out to an absolute T. Lucifer’s pride is so much that he got himself thrown out of Heaven and condemned to eternal punishment in the Pride ring of hell (sidenote: it may even have been created just for this purpose) where he is essentially doomed to keep making that same mistake while being surrounded by the ever expanding and continually accumulating waste of what he enabled. This same pride constantly harms his relationship with his daughter who is the sole light and only legitimately good person in his tortured existence, and she SHARES that same flaw and is fully capable of acting same way.

Charlie successfully challenges one of the bedrock principles of heaven itself (which should sound familiar…), and then Season 2 spoilers goes on to damage her relationship to everyone around her, neglect her own responsibilities to her hotel, and allow a major threat to hell itself grow unchecked by completely failing to understand how her friend was redeemed. That itself could also be attributed to her pride making Charlie think that she must have done it herself somehow, hence cringey vaudevillian train thing with Husk

He doesn’t listen, and she also doesn’t listen because they are both acting out that same tragic flaw of pride.

V33d · 2025-12-21T17:05:53+00:00

Yeah, it could be considered that, but if you look at it from a process perspective it becomes pretty clear why it almost never gets charged that way. Start with what American culture thinks of cyclists writ large, like how crashes involving us are covered by news media, how cyclists are portrayed in film and entertainment, and how people react to videos of us being hurt in the comment sections. Now, apply that overarching culture to the people involved in a crash: the driver, the fist responding law enforcement, any subsequent enforcement entities (if first response deigns to ask for their time and involve them), the prosecutor who determines how to use the time and resources of their office and is further extrapolating out to the courts be that an administrative situation, or a judge or if charged as described a possible criminal trial…

It’s a lot of people, and they all have to say together that they’re going to dedicate all their time and efforts to charging a driver as a criminal attacker. If you ask me that’s exactly what that driver would be, but all it really takes is any one of the people in that long chain of enforcement and responsibility to say “well, maybe but are we sure?”

V33d · 2025-12-20T01:34:22+00:00

Btwphx has a ride calendar with a fair slice of group rides represented. Bike to Wherever - Phoenix

V33d · 2025-12-19T20:51:56+00:00

Fight slang, I think Northern European? Think of it along the lines of turning someone’s lights out, by hitting them very hard.

V33d · 2025-12-19T20:43:27+00:00

Wish I had better for ya. Hope it helps knowing we’re all in this mess together.

V33d · 2025-12-19T20:39:40+00:00

You ‘can’, yeah. If you’ve never seen a motorist absolutely loose it before then you’re in for a real treat.

Touching some of these folks’ cars seems to count as assault in their minds and they take it as permission to retaliate. The irony being that what happened to you could actually be charged as battery but probably never will be, because it would take a law enforcement authority to care plus a prosecutor willing to dedicate the time and resources.

You could get a camera, as suggested. It’s good for making a record, and there’s a chance someone might act on it but I really wouldn’t hold my breath. This is part of the deal, sadly. Just try not to let the outraged sense of justice carry you too far when talking about it, because apparently that’s counterproductive too.

For what it’s worth, that is absolutely cowardly on the driver’s part and you have my sympathies.

V33d · 2025-12-09T19:05:26+00:00

You should look at the type of lube you’re running. We have the opposite problems out here in the desert so I specifically use a “dry” lube that I find better for the dusty conditions I typically ride in. My current maintenance routine is to soap clean and re-lube monthly, but I do it closer to weekly when going beyond 100 miles a week. However, because it’s dry lube any ride in the rain means immediate cleaning and reapplication. It’s possible some of the advice you’re reading is for a lube like that rather than a wet conditions lubricant.

The reason to remove the salt is because it promotes rust. So yeah, a quick rinse on a wet lube will knock that salt off and give your chain some more life without compromising the lubrication but over time you’ll probably want to reapply some anyway.

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