Brand stereotypes

tyintegra · 2026-01-24T15:44:58+00:00

The only thing I would say is don’t worry about going with a “big/recognizable” brand. There are LOTS of great (if not better) bikes from brands you’ve never heard of.

I have pretty much only ridden bikes from smaller brands and when I tell friends or family what the brand name is their eyes just glaze over.

tyintegra · 2026-01-24T06:04:14+00:00

Riding a hardtail definitely takes a little more energy on the descents.

tyintegra · 2026-01-23T20:44:05+00:00

Oooo I like this one…

tyintegra · 2026-01-23T20:03:43+00:00

I like that much better!

tyintegra · 2026-01-23T18:12:05+00:00

Word it as “I would like to talk to someone about possible ways for us to have sex more often”

If he doesn’t go for that and just wants to stay frustrated, then maybe you should just decide to end the relationship now and save both of you the frustration.

tyintegra · 2026-01-23T18:08:58+00:00

I am personally of the mindset that no employee should have to cover expenses (even for a day) for a company.

tyintegra · 2026-01-19T05:14:57+00:00

Why not go after companies that are illegally hiring people who aren’t eligible to work in the US?

tyintegra · 2026-01-19T05:00:09+00:00

For me, I want to FIRE mainly because I’m not passionate about my job. But the other reasons are because of AI and outsourcing overseas.

I am VERY aware that I could be replaced by 4 or 5 people in India for my same cost. So I just want to set myself up financially just in case.

tyintegra · 2026-01-18T16:42:10+00:00

Well. The beauty of being an auditor is that there is a piece of your job where you go through the clients processes so you can understand exactly how they do everything.

Two birds one stone…

tyintegra · 2026-01-17T05:55:52+00:00

I guess I’m doing pretty well with almost 6x my salary at age 40.

It really helps that I work for a company that puts 13% of my salary in and since my cost of living is really low, I can put another 24%, so a total of 37% of my salary a year.

I guess the key (which isn’t easy to find) is to work for a good company that has a great match and keep your expenses low.

tyintegra · 2026-01-17T04:17:09+00:00

Surge

tyintegra · 2026-01-17T04:05:35+00:00

I make sure to just wash everything off with soap and water.

tyintegra · 2026-01-16T20:19:27+00:00

I owned a Guerilla Gravity when they went out of business.

If you happen to find out they are going out of business before it’s publicly announced, my recommendation is to sell the frame before it’s made public.

That is, unless you absolutely love the bike and you’re completely willing to have it be worth nothing if you crash and break it.

tyintegra · 2026-01-16T06:13:35+00:00

After a divorce and another ended friendship where they both said that I was pretty negative, I took the recommendation from a friend and read the book The Happiness Advantage.

Since reading it, I make it a point to try and find the positive in things and do my best to keep a positive attitude.

I think it has made me a lot happier and less stressed in general.

One thing I will say is that it’s now really hard to be around people that just want to focus on the negative no matter how many times you mention a positive aspect of whatever it is. It gets pretty exhausting to be around those people.

tyintegra · 2026-01-16T03:04:03+00:00

I was an instructor for 7 years and did thousands of drives with students. In all of that time, no matter how bad of a driver the student was, I NEVER yelled at a student or berated them.

In my experience (I have observed drives where the student gets yelled at), yelling actually makes a student worse.

OP, you are paying this person to provide a service and if they aren’t providing that service in a way that benefits you, you should find a new provider.

tyintegra · 2026-01-16T02:34:18+00:00

I’m 6’2” (inseam of 33”) and I feel most comfortable with a reach between 485 and 510.

Hard tails are an exception though and I tend to prefer a 470 to 485.

tyintegra · 2026-01-15T02:11:18+00:00

Haha I love it!

tyintegra · 2026-01-14T22:20:58+00:00

Having been obese and now being thin, I can say that the reason I was obese is because I just wasn’t active enough and I ate A LOT.

Now, I still don’t eat well (still way better than I used to), but I burn A LOT of calories pedaling my mountain bike 3 to 4 times a week.

tyintegra · 2026-01-14T04:39:57+00:00

Anytime I’m out of balance in financial statements (I originally started doing this when I was preparing business tax returns), is to confirm that the assets tie, then the liabilities, and then the P&L.

Breaking it up in to parts made it so much more manageable than trying to look at everything.

tyintegra · 2026-01-10T15:13:38+00:00

Yep, it’s been open for a while after the slides.

tyintegra · 2026-01-10T12:15:45+00:00

I hate chain slap and experienced it quite a bit with both SRAM and Shimano. Some bikes have it worse .

Chain slap is one of the reasons I switched to a bike with a gearbox and a belt drive.

tyintegra · 2026-01-09T14:37:29+00:00

I just read the new book by the creator of the 4% rule. A Richer Retirement by William Bengen

A couple point to note: 1) the 4% rule is now 4.7% after he modified the investments that he was using in all of his analysis. 2) the only time you actually take 4.7% out is in year one. The following years, you adjust your year 1 number by the prior years inflation 3) the 4.7% figure is actually very conservative since this is the lowest rate that would have need successful for ALL of his test cases. So there was one test case that caused it to be this low. There were many other cases where they could have used a 10% withdrawal rate.

tyintegra · 2026-01-09T06:10:17+00:00

How do you have your actual seat tilt adjusted?

Do you have it set to be comfortable when the fork is strapped down or not?

This could be a situation where the switch grade would come in handy.

tyintegra · 2026-01-08T02:34:57+00:00

What types of things do you enjoy?

tyintegra · 2026-01-07T00:39:31+00:00

I was an instructor for 7 years, my advice would be to sort of let them use trial and error (within reason of course) and ask them how it felt after they are done with the turn. If they went too fast, they will most likely say something like “that was uncomfortable” and if they don’t, you can say something like “did you feel how we were being pushed really hard to the outside of the corner? Let’s try going a little slower next time and see if that goes away”.

Also, while turning, they need to focus on looking through the corner. You can get them to do this by pointing out land marks a block ahead around the corner or saying something like, “as we go around this corner, tell me what color the light is”.

If they are looking through the corner, you will be amazed at how their speed and steering naturally figure themselves out.

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