As an American: Good!

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I’m running the maximum size you can with mudguards on this frame, they’re 650bx48. And I am in love with the ride of larger tires. I’d thought the 38s I run on my Volpé were nice, but these are in another league for long distance comfort.

Yeah this setup’s not going to win any races unless they’re downhill, but it really tickles my semi-retro-grouch fancy with its lugged frame, support for downtube shifters, and old style geometry married to disk brakes and support for larger tires. It’s super comfortable for those long touring days in the saddle of 70-90 miles.

Joking aside, it all depends one where I am. Right now only one has water; it’s just easiest to store the empties on the bike where I won’t lose track of them.

But three liters hasn’t actually been enough when touring through the emptiness of the Dakotas, crossing the Ozarks in a heatwave, or traveling through the Deep South in July.

Thank you, I’m glad too.

The crankset’s a Dia Compe ENE Ciclo I picked up for that lovely three arm spider. How easy it will be to replace the chainrings when the time comes, I’m unsure. Like the crankset, I’ll probably have to source them through a Japanese merchant. At least it’s Dia Compe, so unlikely to be impossible.

I see the enshittification of Plex continues apace. Makes me more pleased than ever I made the effort to set up my Jellyfin server when they started down this path.

That man has dementia and needs to be removed.

It’s not that my taxes are too high. It’s that the hyper-rich don’t pay enough.

I don’t mind taxes! As I’ve said repeatedly, civilization is expensive and can only be paid for on the installment plan. I’m happy to contribute my bit to keep things running. But when the rich won’t pay their fair share…well that just fuckin’ pisses me off.

“Good” to see European companies getting on the enshittification gravy train. I’d wondered what happened to Evernote. Now I know who caused me to bail so fast when it went to shit.

Titan, Wizard, and Demon by John Varley. The first book starts off with a bog-standard “first human exploration of Saturn’s system” bit, but starts going off the rails immediately. By the end, you’ll meet a 50 foot clone of Marilyn Monroe and think, “eh, I’ll accept that.”

It’s one of sci-fi’s more delightfully unhinged stories.

Oh please oh please oh pleeeeeaaaaaaase.

Now I’m as partisan a Mac user as you’ll find, but considering I see one of my Macs crash once every couple of years or so, I can’t really call “3 times as often,” a horrifyingly egregious number.

lol. Float it all you want, little Donny Two-Scoops. Mother Nature clearly has other plans for you. That dementia ain’t gonna get any better.

Thanks to Bari Weiss I made sure to track down and watch a 60 Minutes segment for the first time since the 20th century.

There isn’t really anything I can add to what’s already been said about these malicious idiots, only that I’m so very grateful to live in Washington state where sanity still prevails.

The first time I played Super Mario on the N64 I can still recall how it made me slightly dizzy, which delighted me. That effect only lasted a short while, but it was a lot of fun to feel that disoriented by a video game, if but briefly.

Because that’s what this bike is designed for as a low-trail bike. It’s biased to handle weight on the front. Even fully loaded with two panniers it handles completely neutral. It’s almost unnerving how normal it feels. More stability climbing passes too is also nice bonus.

I’ve toured with both this and a more standard four pannier setup and this one is far better, IMO.

Haha no. Just a rider with very particular tastes.