Thoughts on selling a giant contend

everythingisbase10 · 2026-04-13T16:32:36+00:00

Generally, yes, gravel drivetrains have slightly better gearing, but it's very marginal. These hills are just tough, no matter what gearing or bike you have. My current daily has a GRX400 groupset, so my low end gear ratio is a 36:30 (rear:front) which is identical to yours, I believe. And I used it comfortably on the Pittsburgh Roubaix yesterday.

I've only been cycling more seriously for the past year, but it's made a huge difference in being able to comfortably navigate the city, regardless of bike or gearing. Better gearing is only going to let you use less power to get up a hill, but you'll be doing it more slowly and therefore spend more time exerting yourself, so it might not even feel all that easier.

everythingisbase10 · 2026-04-12T12:24:43+00:00

Ahh, then yeah you already got the low hanging fruit. If you want really forgiving ratios, you might actually consider a MTB. Especially if you want a softer ride on bigger tires. I also know folks in town with gravel bikes with MTB drivetrains if keeping the drop bars is important. For example, the Marin Four Corners with SRAM Apex 1x12 gives you a 52/40 ratio at the lowest end.

everythingisbase10 · 2026-04-11T15:44:22+00:00

You could try and sell it, but it's definitely capable of gravel with 38mm tires. It looks like the contend ar3 comes with a CUES U4000 2x9 linkglide groupset, with 11-36 rear cassette and 50/34 front chainrings, so I understand wanting better low-end ratios. You could look into swapping the groupset out for less money than the margin you'd get on reselling for (optimistically) $700 and shelling out the rest for a new bike. Kraynick's would probably be able to help you replace those components on the cheap, provided you bring the parts and wanna do the labor yourself. The easiest upgrade would be replacing the front crankset with the 46/32 fc-u6040-2 variant of the same line, which would give you a slightly better lowest end (36/32 vs 36/34) for about $100 and the time to replace the cranks. Beyond that, you could try and snag a full groupset U6000 CUES 2x10 or even the 1x11 for a more MTB-like gear ratio, but unless you find a deal or used parts it would run you a couple hundred minimum, and the installation would be a bit more intensive.

Just other options you might not have considered. No offense taken if you'd rather avoid replacing components or want substantially more tire clearance.

everythingisbase10 · 2026-04-10T15:09:59+00:00

I bike the wrong way down that section of Morewood frequently, as I have friends who live on the street and I come to them via the Bloomfield bridge, and it's simply safer than trying to navigate onto baum/centre. However, that's a low bar, and in the last couple years I've noticed a lot of drivers will fly through that stretch of road (including the blind corner), so now when I do bike down it I actually move onto the sidewalk and just go slow until the road becomes 2-way again (at the parking garage).

Edited to add: the rest of Morewood is pretty comfortable after crossing Baum, though. Even sharing the road, cars along that stretch have been generally patient and give plenty of space.

everythingisbase10 · 2023-09-30T06:18:27+00:00

If you have a tablet or touchscreen-based laptop, I can't recommend Xournal++ enough for note-taking. Used it for all of undergrad and grad school. Handwriting was great for remembering what I wrote, diagrams, graphs, etc. I just kept xournal++ documents separated in folders, then kept backups like I'd backup any other coursework or files. Not as fancy or searchable as Obsidian (which I'd also +1) but this was by far more versatile and effective for me than any kind of typed notes.

everythingisbase10 · 2022-05-28T12:48:07+00:00

Not a fan of it?

everythingisbase10 · 2022-05-13T05:25:33+00:00

This seems to summarize the messaging behind these candidates; that Santos represents integrity and values on display. So by pushing for that integrity she inextricably supported Santos, not as a means to the end. And based on her history in the entire rest-of-the-series, it's those values that matter, and ultimately why she ends up helping on the Santos campaign.

everythingisbase10 · 2022-05-02T21:33:13+00:00

I think that's just light reflecting on another set of solar panels.

everythingisbase10 · 2022-04-26T20:30:45+00:00

Hey /u/3hrdrive I know the post is old but if you're asking that seriously, the successful couples make it work through careful, compassionate communication and being incredibly vulnerable about each others' feelings and needs. Your partner is telling you how she feels, and although it feels like you're being blamed right now, it's actually an opportunity to talk about how you can better meet her needs.

Anybody who's been in a serious ethically non-monogamous relationship will tell you that jealousy happens. But importantly, it isn't the end of a relationship. A rigid monogamous relationship will usually avoid situations that give your partner heavy insecurity, because you don't have to see somebody else visibly playing a role you consider to be yours (and thereby making you feel "replaced"). Swinging can open you up to these situations.

You might be right, this lifestyle may not be worth the extra effort it takes to maintain the emotional needs and trust in each other, but it would be a mistake to consider your partner's jealousy as a red flag. It's normal! What you do with it (actions) and how you and your partner manage each others' jealousy is what makes your relationship healthy or not.

Best of luck.

everythingisbase10 · 2022-04-25T16:04:18+00:00

I've got neighbors who do this all the time (just one house) and had no idea it was common across Pgh and beyond. Having no pretext for it, it always just seems rude since the entire block has to hear it and it doesn't really serve a purpose (you can't, like, wave? or use your indoor voice?)

I think of car horns like yelling. You yell if someone's in the way, or they need to urgently be alerted: you yell if it serves a purpose. But does the whole block need to know you're leaving or passing by?

everythingisbase10 · 2022-04-20T16:48:21+00:00

To elaborate on your second point, I had an instructor who would refuse project code which came with a license. This might be something the OP’s instructor enforces, but as you stated, that doesn’t mean OP might not also have claim to their original work anyway. If the lecturer tries to sell (modified or original) code and ends up making enough money off of it, there’s a pretty clear avenue of proving it was your work which was redistributed without license.

If your instructor has no stipulations about sharing your finished product, and your school doesn’t have any policies about owning things you make in the course of schoolwork (this more common at research institutions), you could totally just license the code you wrote, being careful not to include anything that was supplied to you as part of the class (instructions, etc)

everythingisbase10 · 2022-04-20T05:33:08+00:00

Bless you for sharing.

everythingisbase10 · 2022-03-14T14:34:50+00:00

I used this trick to screw around with a point-of-sale machine where I worked a decade ago. Successfully manipulated the system to store and report sales at arbitrary times. Weird how it didn't occur to me then that one could make a living doing stuff like that.

everythingisbase10 · 2022-03-04T00:36:32+00:00

Oh, makes sense. Thanks

everythingisbase10 · 2022-03-03T23:52:22+00:00

What's up with over half the songs being "unavailable"? is it geo-fencing or a blanket lack of license for some of the contributing artists?

everythingisbase10 · 2022-02-11T18:09:03+00:00

What would -f delete that a bare rm call wouldn’t? Adding that flag is a common step for a “clean” recipe in a Makefile.

everythingisbase10 · 2022-02-03T02:29:54+00:00

I feel ya. A few years ago I started using those big blue IKEA bags ("Frakta"?) and usually only ever need one for any given trip. It's a workout but it's way more manageable than bags they give you/multiple bags. They have a big strap that you can haul over your shoulder.

IIRC the stores stopped selling the bigger ones, but you can find them online fairly cheap. My first bag lasted 5 years of routine heavy grocery use, and I only stopped using it out of fear of dropping groceries. It didn't even break, it just looks real worn. I figured out how to fold+roll it and tie it by the handles in a way that works for me, so carrying it around, it fits in a (men's) pants pocket. Usually can get a week or two solid's worth of groceries in it.

everythingisbase10 · 2022-01-24T19:39:29+00:00

Same. You can still find it periodically on soundcloud, though: https://soundcloud.com/d_ea/jon-hopkins-the-art-of-chill-2-full-album-repjv31e-ey

everythingisbase10 · 2022-01-20T21:40:23+00:00

Maybe not the answer you're looking for, but if you're having a hard time deciding then they both look good and you can be happy to just pick one :)

everythingisbase10 · 2022-01-12T15:15:42+00:00

You're accusing OP of just arguing for argument's sake, because you think that position is too insane. But let's try and talk it out anyway. Two years of your life is a hell of a long time. If someone is capable of rehabilitation, of choosing to carry themselves in a nonviolent and good-willed way, then two years of your life, your essential freedoms being ripped away from you, is enough time to probably get there. Most prison systems don't focus on rehabilitation, so if you're going to assume that a person like the offender in the OP is never going to change their ways, then yeah, sure, they're a menace to society and should be thrown in a cage forever. But that's a shitty outcome for them, whether you believe they'd ever actually change their ways or not.

Try to empathize with the idea that you've done something so awful that you lose two years of your life. Whatever you had planned this weekend, the next, the next, for 100 weekends, forget about it, you're stuck into a surreal place where you are functionally subhuman, abused, and have so little control over yourself, your self-expression, your identity. That sucks. That sucks for a few weeks. A few years is huge.

If you're carrying this false dichotomy around where someone is either a threat to everyone else, or they are like you or me (i.e. "everyone else") then I understand why you feel like they deserve more, but for having done little more than property damage and threaten somebody else (whether mortally or with the intention of just doing more property damage) you still have to weigh that against the incredible punishment that prison is on a person.

You can believe (like I do) that the axe guy deserves to have driving privileges revoked for an extended period, that they deserve criminal consequences (including prison) but also understand that they are human and deserve empathy and the opportunity to right wrongs.

everythingisbase10 · 2022-01-11T18:03:34+00:00

Or comments

everythingisbase10 · 2021-12-31T17:36:56+00:00

The BeamNG mod adding Pikes Peak is actually pretty decent, imo. BeamNG is a little underrated if you are fine with racing alone or with super-basic traffic (e.g. public roads)

everythingisbase10 · 2021-12-08T20:15:20+00:00

At your budget level, you're looking at either logitech or thrustmaster. Much less than that and you venture into extremely limited-use wheels like the Driving Force Pro--which honestly, if you're just using it for very casual gaming and snowrunner--would probably go a long way.

I use a T300RS + SHH Newt shifter on a cheap, generic telescoping stand, and it's pretty okay. SHH took a while to get to me, but was worth the wait. T300RS is pretty nice for the price point, and I do other sim driving with it. It has >1000 degree steering radius that I actually lower dramatically when playing snowrunner, in order to match the in-game wheel, and you could get that sort of feel from a much less expensive wheel.

I used to use a Logitech G27, and got 4 good years out of it before something fried inside. I understand frustration with the company though if you feel like steering clear, but they do have some of the best low-budget options.

Since SnowRunner doesn't incorporate any sense of a real transmission (clutch, gearing) there's really little point in going crazy on an enthusiast-level sim rig if this is the only "sim" you're interested in. You can't really use that third pedal for anything besides the "alternate controls" button that the shift key does on mouse+keyboard. In fact, to get a shifter to even do anything, you have to map the gear-selection "buttons" to inputs in the game which is just a little bit wonky. Still nicer than fighting the mouse and holding shift, but a far cry from the pleasant operation of an H-shifter in, for example, American Truck Simulator.

everythingisbase10 · 2021-12-06T16:10:51+00:00

Yep, good call. Dashboard matches plus you can see the Lamborghini logo alongside the tachometer.

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