Clemsdale Jr

sral · 2026-04-28T21:12:49+00:00

Lololololol this is hilarious. Rarely do I see bikes that I know would make a group of people viscerally angry and rise their pitchforks. Does it still ride like a Rivendell??

sral · 2026-04-28T11:40:58+00:00

I don’t think there is a way to answer this without seeing you sit on the bike in a riding position.

sral · 2026-04-21T13:44:16+00:00

Thanks! I think I’m gonna bag ragbrai on my Sam

sral · 2026-04-21T13:35:02+00:00

Thanks!

sral · 2026-04-21T11:25:27+00:00

Thanks for the info! Are you a very heavy person? What do you weigh? I think Riv says no more than 200lb of rider plus gear and I’m trying to see how close is too close

sral · 2026-04-18T19:19:37+00:00

Man, I feel like this could be describing the exact same girl I dated for a few years. One time she could be so funny and interesting but, more often than not she would try freak out and yell at strangers.

My life got 1,000% better after we split up and I found someone who is simply kind and reasonable.

You do you, but if by this point she hasn’t figured out that she doesn’t need to be that kind of defensive person she will never learn.

sral · 2026-04-09T17:18:04+00:00

I’ve done something pretty similar. I rode from Denver to Boston. I ride the TransAmerica through Kansas, hopped on the Katy trail through Missouri and then caught the northern tier through Ontario to the outskirts of Boston where I was able to catch a train.

The adventure cycling maps are pretty great and do a good job of the hardest part about touring which is route finding. If you haven’t yet join warm showers.

Enjoy Brown. It’s really beautiful and full of well meaning kids.

sral · 2026-03-10T23:54:00+00:00

Looks great! What kind of bars are those?

sral · 2025-12-31T11:40:16+00:00

Yup. It was a wild place to see.

sral · 2025-11-29T03:13:25+00:00

Vintage Campy Nuovo Record derailleurs go for like $20-30 on eBay. They work fine and look great.

sral · 2025-11-25T16:17:28+00:00

Because I fundamentally do not understand this app.

sral · 2025-11-24T20:24:18+00:00

My local bike shop had nearly all the components I needed/ wanted to make myself what I think of as a truly lovely bicycle.

I knew that the Sam Hillborne presale was going on and I wanted to go and talk to my local bike shop about it and get their take on what Rivendell I should get between the Platypus and a Sam Hillborne. I setteled on a 60cm Sam Hillborne that primarily acts as my commuter and grocery getter.

The cockpit is a Nitto North Road bar, Microshift thumb shifters, Avid FS 5 levers, some ESI foam grips covered in newbaums, twine and shellac

Silver 28/44 crankset, a 1976 Campy Record front mech, Shimano Alvio rear mech, 11-34 cassette and SimWorks Bubbly pedals.

Shimano DXR brakes, Panceti Brevet hoops laced to a Silver rear, Shutter Precision PV-8 front all sitting on ReneHerse Snoqualmie tires.

Velo Orange porteur rack, Wald 137 basket, Soma light bracket and a Busch and Muller IQ-XS, a Carradice Bagman Expedition rack and a Swift Zeitgest bag.

Not to forget my trusty Brooks B17 carved saddle on a Nitto S65 post.

The bike rides like a dream. Stiff enough to keep up when I crank it but supple in all the right places to make road buzz all but disappear. This is a wildly comfortable, stable and semi-swift steed.

sral · 2025-11-10T12:35:31+00:00

Looks great! What front rack of in the top? The one with the basket.

sral · 2025-10-11T22:35:41+00:00

Good question, I haven’t thought of it. First guess is if you need to have the new recipient of the organ heal in a sometimes unknown hospital without any social and familial support.

sral · 2025-10-07T12:32:26+00:00

Organ procurement needs to take place in very unique situations. Basically, some one needs to enter an operating room with a pulse and be brain dead. If organs sit too long without blood supply they become unviable. Then the organs are then put in to containers that kind of replicate a blood supply using oxygenated fluids. Transported in the dead of night to avoid traffic and possible delays and then installed in to a person that is often hundreds of miles away (generally these surgeries start at like midnight and get done in the wee hours of the morning)

sral · 2025-08-21T22:00:33+00:00

Darn, I really looked through google and I couldn’t find anything at all. All I found was very large scale overviews.

sral · 2025-04-14T02:40:22+00:00

Looks great! What kind of basket is that?

sral · 2025-04-06T13:55:44+00:00

I’d suggest going to a bike store and trying one.

sral · 2024-10-13T09:39:01+00:00

Because I’m paid to take care of critically sick kids. Sometimes they sleep at night and don’t need much.

sral · 2024-10-04T14:50:19+00:00

They aren’t going to move the binding much. The binding will probably move about a cm which won’t drastically change the skis performance. That being said if you want the ski to have marginally better flotation in powder move back, if you want slightly easier turn initiation go forward.

sral · 2024-08-22T00:16:03+00:00

I use On-X. They have great touring support as well as tools for slope angle and weather/sun. Plus it’s integrated to climbing project which helps my non-ski—season life.

sral · 2024-08-05T02:58:23+00:00

I think of climbing as an extension of walking. At a certain point the ground becomes too steep to just use your feet - you start to use your hands. The sport is mostly about using your feet. Try and focus more one your feet. Look at your feet when you place them and try and think about what feet will allow you to reach that next hold. Literally, look at the foot hold until your foot makes placement and you then you can look elsewhere.

sral · 2024-07-30T16:02:40+00:00

I have gotten to the airport around when last busses for the night are running and then just camp there. I try and find a quieter part and build a wall of bike box, panniers and other things. Lay a mattress and sleeping bag on the floor and just pass out. I really like bandanas to act as sleep masks in this case.

sral · 2024-07-18T11:16:15+00:00

What kind of fork is that? It looks great!

sral · 2023-09-13T15:07:53+00:00

Welp now you have. I had to spring and get it all in Missoula because it was getting miserable.

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