John B. wrote:
On Mon, 7 Sep 2020 17:16:41 -0700 (PDT), jbeattie
wrote:

On Monday, September 7, 2020 at 4:48:45 PM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote:
On Monday, September 7, 2020 at 3:25:09 PM UTC-7, Tom Kunich wrote:
On Monday, September 7, 2020 at 10:28:44 AM UTC-7, Tom Kunich wrote:
We have an Earthquake here yesterday. A 3.4 which means it was a bit
noisy for a second.

I did my 25 miler that has some really difficult climbing yesterday.
I'm still 150 miles short of 3,000 miles, but I did pass 100,000 feet of climbing.

I've been riding the Colnago since I stole the Garmin mount of the
Emonda after the plastic cheapo mount broke on the FIRST ride. You
absolutely have to have an aluminum mount. Plastic simply cannot
stand the strain of the bumps in the roads around here. The
replacement for it should come in tomorrow. I also think that in the
unbearable heat of today I will try to do 99% of the wiring on the
Lemond. I'm still missing one wire but I should have most of them
installed and only need to install the lead from the terminal block
to the battery when it comes in as well.

One interesting feature is that when I went up and bought parts from
Team CCC, the wires which they had for sale were for bar-end
controller. This suggests to me that these bikes fall down and break
those controllers often enough that they are no longer installed on
bar ends but in the side of the downtube. The advertisements for that
controller do mention they can be used that way but I haven't seen
any up close. But CCC had an entire pile of the "in-bar" wiring and
no bar end controllers.

The 6880 setup I had actually required a special external battery
mount. So I had bought three of them trying to discover the correct
one before I got one that worked. So that left me with two of the
latest one's that work fine with my 9000 setup on the Lemond.

Now that I have both the Trek and the Colnago shifting set up like
the Dura Ace came (which is different from the manual that Jay
published) shifting has become far more automatic and without thinking.
Well, it was still far too hot to work down in the garage today so I
will put off the wiring to another day.

Not to start talking about boring bike stuff, but I've been on a bike
cleaning and tune-up jihad and had troublesome, poor shifting Di2 on my
Synapse. It was hanging up in the middle of the cassette. I checked
the derailleur hanger, which was a little bent from that crash I had
around New Years, and straightening that helped a little -- not not a
ton. I adjusted the trim over and over which helped a little. The
chain was worn somewhere between .5% and .75%, so I figured a new chain
was in order (I have a nice stock of 11sp chains), so I threw one in.
It works almost perfectly but still hesitates on a couple of gears in
the middle of the cassette -- which probably means the cassette is a
little worn, or its something I hadn't considered. Electronic shifting
is not immune from the usual wear and adjustment issues.

Next I need to clean the Norco gravel bike, and then my commuter which
is abandoned in a corner.

-- Jay Beattie.

And further to my last, all the fires in California -- and some in
Oregon -- have turned the skies dark around here. I can barely breathe,
and my eyes are stinging. It really look apocalyptic outside. No view
beyond a few hundred yards.

-- Jay Beattie.

And the news here has it that the California fires were caused by
fireworks set off at a "Gender Reveal Party"

Re GRP I read that "The moment you learn the sex of your baby is
magical. Share it with friends and family by hosting an epic reveal
party"

They certainly nailed the “epic” part.