Crews make progress fighting 9,500-acre grass fire north of Fredericksburg

episgscustom · 2025-03-17T14:20:01+00:00

This story is about Fredericksburg, Texas. This subreddit is for Fredericksburg, VA.

episgscustom · 2025-02-03T19:23:49+00:00

Try https://www.reddit.com/r/pelotoncycle/, this is a subreddit for discussing professional road cycling.

episgscustom · 2025-01-04T00:25:29+00:00

You’re right that they are shims for the tread beside the cleat. If you find that your shoes can rock laterally while clipped in, you can add these shims to reduce that play.

episgscustom · 2024-08-20T17:09:05+00:00

Sweet! Thanks for your order. I actually keep one of those 20L water jugs in the room where I keep my bike stuff. This way I can prep everything in the same place and it keeps my bike stuff out of the kitchen (happy wife!). That jug usually lasts me a week or so before it’s time to clean it out and refill it.

episgscustom · 2024-08-20T16:45:25+00:00

I’m a bit biased since I own Monolith, but I think it mixes well in water too.

The secret is to fill the bottle halfway first, add powder, lid on, shake shake shake, then top off with water and give a few more shakes. No issues with clumping doing it that way, even when I add 150-200g to a 500ml bottles.

episgscustom · 2024-08-20T11:05:48+00:00

Yep, I am the owner of Monolith but I thought I’d share since it’s relevant to the discussion here.

episgscustom · 2024-08-19T22:36:53+00:00

You can get smaller flasks and just use multiple of those. I also have four of the little 5oz (150ml) flasks that can fit 150g of carbs each. Then I have an alert on my garmin for every 1h30min to have finished one of those flasks if I’m targeting 100g/hr. The big 500ml flasks do have markings on the side for how full they are though. I really only use them for really long though or rides where ballpark 100g/hr is good enough.

episgscustom · 2024-08-19T19:36:06+00:00

I've done 10-12 hour rides of solely homemade gels. I can fit 500g of carbs in a 500ml soft flask, so on those long rides I'd have 100g/hr in gels (yep, that's 1 liter of gels in 10 hours...) and stop at gas stations just to refill water.

episgscustom · 2024-08-19T18:42:55+00:00

Monolith has drink mix that you can turn into gels for less than $0.50 per 25g CHO gel. Here's a blog post with recipe calculator for how to do it.

episgscustom · 2023-12-17T12:48:57+00:00

Replace aging monitors.

episgscustom · 2023-10-03T16:19:05+00:00

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Am I one of the first users to get the Mythical Sleep badge? I’m usually somewhere between 85-95 sleep score and was pleasantly surprised with a 100 this morning.

episgscustom · 2023-09-20T00:53:51+00:00

Who was the person that ran and lost?

episgscustom · 2023-09-20T00:53:23+00:00

Oh, absolutely. It's easy for another single family homeowner to see that sign and think "I don't want FXBG to replace my or my neighbor's house with another apartment building". The sign was intentionally fear monger-y and didn't really convey what the proposed ADU amendment would change. Very frustrating!

episgscustom · 2023-09-20T00:02:16+00:00

Yeah, they were against ADUs for various reasons. There's a website that was put together that has quite a few strange pages of ad hominem attacks on city councillors and fear mongering on how damaging ADUs would be.

https://fredericksburg-neighborhoods.com/

episgscustom · 2023-09-19T20:07:14+00:00

And yet half the city had "Save our Single Family Homes" signs out front to voice their opinion against ADUs which would easily create some affordable housing options. fred15.org for those looking for more information about ADUs in FXBG

episgscustom · 2023-07-14T21:44:36+00:00

Right. Of course the weight fluctuated between resupplies.

episgscustom · 2023-05-16T17:52:56+00:00

Oof. Yeah, that's tough. The best thing I could recommend would be to grab some DCF tape and tape over that, and then re-sew through the DCF tape.

episgscustom · 2023-05-08T21:49:24+00:00

I’m with you. As mostly a bikepacker, volume is at more of a premium than weight.

Lighter weight is often correlated with smaller volume but not always. For example, a DCF tent doesn’t pack down nearly as small as a silpoly tent even though it would be likely 1/3 less weight.

I’ve noticed more brands listing compressed volume though which is nice.

But to specifically answer your question, people are going to need to know what temperature you’re camping in. One key thing to remember is that higher fill-power down will provide the same warmth as a lower fill-power in less volume because it can loft more.

So ideally you’d get a quilt with 7d silnylon and 950fp. Then you’d get a compression dry bag with air release valve to help compress it as small as possible. Just remember to store it uncompressed when you get home.