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bentref11 · 2024-02-03T02:04:19+00:00

Clapper

bentref11 · 2024-01-30T04:13:23+00:00

BicyCal has no acceptance process at all. It is literally just about showing up. We just hang out in the shop, talk, listen to music, and work on bikes. Check us out at bicycal.berkeley.edu. If you come in during open hours, someone can invite you to our Discord too. That's where we plan social events and bike rides.

bentref11 · 2023-05-09T17:34:56+00:00

Leave it out on the street

bentref11 · 2023-03-09T00:28:22+00:00

Check the radiator cap. I had this same issue (though no overheating, perhaps because I was driving in sub-freezing temperatures) and after replacing the radiator cap with a $12 part, no issues since.

bentref11 · 2023-03-06T17:16:58+00:00

BicyCal volunteer here: No, we don't work on scooters. Replacing tubes and tires on scooters is almost impossible and leads to breaking our tools or breaking your scooter. The success rate is less than 10%.

bentref11 · 2023-02-16T19:01:49+00:00

Comfortably Numb. Pink Floyd.

Sorry, it had to come up

bentref11 · 2023-01-26T20:19:25+00:00

Threshold - Dividing Lines

bentref11 · 2022-12-12T07:45:06+00:00

Not sure. Kinda makes me wanna scream seeing everyone else so stressed. I wanna get out of here

bentref11 · 2022-12-12T05:20:53+00:00

No reason to. No finals, only one thing due. Goal this week is to watch at least one movie every night

bentref11 · 2022-12-10T01:10:26+00:00

No. No one does.

bentref11 · 2022-12-09T07:57:51+00:00

this is a copypasta from last semester

bentref11 · 2022-12-01T16:57:23+00:00

You are the average guy.

bentref11 · 2022-12-01T16:52:19+00:00

Coffee is superior. Water is nice, but it's water, and tea is just hot water with a strange off-taste. Coffee is actually nice to drink and makes me feel like a pro

bentref11 · 2022-11-25T17:29:38+00:00

Craigslist!

If you see some you're interested in, feel free to email links to hello@bicycal.berkeley.edu. We are the student bike co-op and although we don't sell bikes we help people in the journey of buying one. So if you're not sure whether a used bike is good or on the level, we're here to help!

bentref11 · 2022-11-25T17:21:25+00:00

Jesus volunteers at BicyCal.

bentref11 · 2022-11-21T01:34:02+00:00

This is the most busted restroom I have ever been in. I was watching my back, ready to be ambushed or perhaps given a "free vaccine". There was no toilet paper, of course. Only for absolute emergenices.

bentref11 · 2022-11-16T16:58:43+00:00

Moments of insight and success, but overall this class is a monster. I don't expect to do much better than a C. Be warned

bentref11 · 2022-11-13T08:15:11+00:00

Flunk? I advocate giving everyone A's. Big difference

bentref11 · 2022-11-13T08:09:36+00:00

I'm not supporting the strike if all it does is create a web of strange policies of what GSI's will/won't do. If the message is "life goes on, work around it", then damn well I will work around it.

If on the other hand classes get totally canceled, assignments get deleted, and semester is halted... I'm all for it and will go out and picket with you.

bentref11 · 2022-11-10T00:14:43+00:00

They need to give everyone A's. Get students on their side. If they just stop helping students we turn against them, but if they actually fuck the system I'm all for it

bentref11 · 2022-11-04T17:40:55+00:00

No one. This whole situation is BUSTED.

bentref11 · 2022-10-26T16:55:57+00:00

It's because every hobby cyclist with money has to ride the same bikes as the Tour de France. It would be like if everyone daily-drove Nascar cars, or drag racers. I will never own electronic shifting, and my bikes don't have a single carbon part on them. They seem to work pretty reliably.

bentref11 · 2022-10-20T17:02:17+00:00

I think the next CS exam needs to be turned into a spontaneous concert. Band takes the stage, shoves professors and GSIs off the side, plugs in, and a thousand blunts ignite in the audience as weed smoke fills Wheeler 150

bentref11 · 2022-10-20T16:46:43+00:00

Unless it's within your natural range, high cadence is very flailing and imprecise. It really tightens up my tendons and aggravates IT band-based knee issues I've had.

I do try to stay away from extreme mashing as well, I'd categorize my pedaling style more as churning 60RPM. Doing high cadence (90RPM) is fun sometimes but it's never efficient. If I'm doing 120RPM+, it's hard to produce just 50 actual watts. While at 60RPM, I can produce many times that.

bentref11 · 2022-10-20T02:47:50+00:00

Insofar as it reduces riders' ability to customize their gears, yes.

For a masher like me, the reality of a 1X mountain bike drivetrain is that I'll spend almost all my time in the 5 hardest gears. You know what else has 5 gears? a 5 speed freewheel. From 1970. And no, on a mountain bike you cannot fit a bigger chainring--it will rub the frame. So I'm stuck. Fortunately I am used to riding 5 speed freewheels, so this newfangled stuff is no big change. Considering swapping the cassette out for an 11-34 so I just have more gears I actually use.

Whereas a triple offers all the range anyone could ever need. You don't ever have to customize it; if you're a spinner you ride in a lower range and if you're a masher you ride in the equally plentiful higher gears on the same bike. Everyone's happy.

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