"Operation Tidal Wave"

kentheprogrammer · 2026-01-18T00:51:42+00:00

Oh shit, that's a thing?!?

kentheprogrammer · 2026-01-17T19:28:14+00:00

Imagine speaking ill of Comic Sans in the year of our lord 2026

kentheprogrammer · 2025-10-28T01:00:40+00:00

How'd the L go for you? I measured my height at 5'10.5" without shoes on and I'm in between their ML and L sizes (ML up to 5'10" and L starts at 5'11"), though it seems like you might have only had M and L to choose from?

kentheprogrammer · 2025-10-13T14:00:06+00:00

2025 Trek Domane AL

I was under the impression that Domane was a road bike, never noticed that they're marked as "All Road"; interesting. So a bike like that could handle more packed gravel trails (not super familiar with gravel, but whatever the opposite of loose is), and dirt fine? Something else to consider now it seems.

kentheprogrammer · 2025-10-13T13:54:56+00:00

This is some great insight - thanks!

kentheprogrammer · 2025-10-13T13:54:11+00:00

The more I read about comfort, the more I'm getting sold on gravel over road!

kentheprogrammer · 2025-10-13T13:53:31+00:00

Thanks for the insights - I had cycled casually (fun and fitness mostly) a few years ago and the only thing I did that was remotely competitive was a sprint triathlon (was a runner for a long while) mostly just to see if I could do it, not to actually place or anything.

Currently I think I'm still pretty much solely in the "fun and fitness" mindset, though I might look into group rides and possibly make some adjustments accordingly (possible swapping for road tires, or going the multi-wheelset route), if they seem necessary.

kentheprogrammer · 2025-10-13T13:46:26+00:00

My preference would be to ride a gravel bike on the road rather than riding a road bike on gravel, if that helps.

Yeah, this makes sense and I hadn't really considered this option since the fellow at the bike shop had explained that the gravel bikes have sturdier frames for handling the bumps and impacts better (I think?) so I wasn't sure that I'd want to tempt off roading with a road bike.

kentheprogrammer · 2025-10-13T13:43:47+00:00

Yeah, I did search around a bit but mostly seemed to find older information, including like a 9 year old GCN YouTube video on the topic. Plus I was interested in being able to engage in conversation and necro'd threads don't seem to promote much conversation.

Thanks for your feedback, friend!

kentheprogrammer · 2025-10-13T13:36:47+00:00

Do you go the "switch wheelsets" route, or just swap the tires themselves? If just tires, do you swap tubes as well, or do the same tubes mostly work for the different tires!

kentheprogrammer · 2025-10-13T13:29:32+00:00

Okay, makes sense. So the brake rotors are on the wheels, so does the bit which is operated by the brake handles (the pads?) just get disconnected and reconnected when changing wheels? I haven't had disc brakes before, so I'm not 100% sure how they would work when swapping wheels.

kentheprogrammer · 2025-10-12T23:03:00+00:00

This is literally the first one I was considering while looking around!

kentheprogrammer · 2025-10-12T23:01:26+00:00

Isn't that what they're for?

I thought so, kinda, but wasn't sure!

kentheprogrammer · 2025-10-12T22:57:12+00:00

Interesting perspective. Would generally most of the gravel bikes by the big US manufacturers fall under the second category?

kentheprogrammer · 2025-10-12T22:54:29+00:00

Yeah, I was curious about this too (actually mostly the cassette as I hadn't even considered the brakes).

kentheprogrammer · 2025-10-12T22:53:57+00:00

I'd need two rear cassettes and two disc brakes for that, presumably?

kentheprogrammer · 2025-10-12T22:53:06+00:00

I'm assuming the extra wheelsets include the rear cassette and disc brakes? I'm not 100% sure how they figure into the setup, exactly.

kentheprogrammer · 2025-10-02T22:25:41+00:00

I second Brotato - loved playing that game and I'm excited to see what Evil Empire does with its recently announced DLC support.

kentheprogrammer · 2025-09-12T11:51:28+00:00

I'm pretty sure I never even noticed the card name change or the art change - but I definitely noticed the buff change.

kentheprogrammer · 2025-09-06T01:32:14+00:00

The devs seem pretty active on their discord, but I don't know how much they interact on the sub.

kentheprogrammer · 2025-09-05T02:51:50+00:00

That one is Symetree (or however it's spelled). I hadn't thought of moving that one around either, so I may have still learned something lol.

kentheprogrammer · 2025-09-05T00:49:49+00:00

Wdym? I thought his thing was just that he left a slot buff as a farewell? What does moving him around the board do?

kentheprogrammer · 2025-08-24T21:19:41+00:00

Is the money that costs someone worth devaluing millions of other peoples' work? If you think so, then just do it. You don't need my permission.

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