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A few months waxing chain
On 12/7/2018 1:17 PM, jbeattie wrote:
On Friday, December 7, 2018 at 7:37:19 AM UTC-8, wrote: On Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 10:48:39 AM UTC-8, jbeattie wrote: On Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 9:40:04 AM UTC-8, wrote: On Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 7:40:50 PM UTC-8, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 12/5/2018 6:17 PM, John B. slocomb wrote: On Wed, 05 Dec 2018 13:55:44 -0600, AMuzi wrote: On 12/5/2018 11:49 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 12/5/2018 12:16 PM, wrote: On Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 7:26:52 PM UTC-8, Frank Krygowski wrote: On Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 5:37:55 PM UTC-5, wrote: Frank - how often do you clean your chain and re-wax? How much off-road riding do you do? I think I re-wax maybe every 500 miles or so. With my method, there is no separate "clean your chain" step. I just add wax/oil mix using a propane torch while the chain is on the bike. The only cleaning is backpedaling the chain through paper towels once the entire chain has gotten it's fresh wax. These days I do only a little off-road riding. Until recently I was on the board of trustees of our local forest preserve. I would ride through the trails once in a while to see if there were problems, and I would cut through on my way to certain destinations. There are a few other gravel roads I would use on occasion, but most of my riding is paved. BTW, I had two hospital stays this year, and associated recovery. It's been a terrible year for cycling. I don't think I've done the chains since February. - Frank Krygowski Well, from my experience I cannot understand how you don't get wax build-up on the cogs and rings. This isn't some build-up, inside of 500 miles I have to take the cassette and rings off because you cannot clean them without scraping and then a final wash with acetone. I don't buy acetone to keep something highly volatile around the house but because it's necessary. It may be that final step, backpedaling the chain through a handful of paper towels to polish off the excess. But even the little bit that eventually appears on the chainrings is easy for me to wipe off. Maybe it's softer because of the small amount of oil I've mixed into the wax. For several weeks I have been completely unable to ride because of bronchitis. This is the worst I've ever had with coughing all night. sigh I've been fighting that for several years, and dreading winter because of it. Fortunately, it skipped me last winter. My fingers are crossed this year. But I think it triggered other problems - that is, antibiotics affecting my gut microbiome. C. Diff is no fun. Email if you want details. Sounds awful but at least you lived. Best wishes on a speedy recovery. The Great American Inscrutable Billing Machine ( a.k.a. 'health care') kills about 35,000* people every year with hospital-acquired infection. Not infection, mind you, but rather specifically hospital-acquired infection. Visit at your peril; financial, biological, existential. *I've seen estimates double that and higher but 35K is commonly cited. Simply quoting a number doesn't give an accurate view of the problem, however, in terms of deaths due to health care per 100,000 of population the U.S. leads the pack with 826/100,000 in 2013 while in comparison Japan had 598/100,000. See https://tinyurl.com/ybaq8vx5 From the same site the number of USians who have "have experienced medical, medication, or lab errors or delays in past two years" is 22% while an average of comparative countries is 16% with the U.K. having only 8%. In addition total health expenditures per capita, U.S. dollars, PPP adjusted, 2016, is the highest in the world. An average of comparable countries is approximately half of what costs are in the U.S. See: https://tinyurl.com/yaavfq6p There are other problems as well, of course. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMqcLUqYqrs -- - Frank Krygowski He did a good job of describing the problems and didn't identify their sources. The destruction of this country is at the hands of the millennial generation to who the word, "no", has never been uttered. They actually believe that they are entitled to do anything they want to do and if anyone stands in their way it is because they are evil and not because the millennial is wrong. Look at people like Slocum who judges value as the price of an object or Jay who lives in a town where people will **** in the doorway of a business while people walk by ignoring it. The entire downtown of Portland smells like **** and people there treat it as normal. Wow, medication time. Have you even been to Portland? And why are you so angry? With your massive earnings in the stock market and the Trump tax break, I would think you'd be living like a king, totally unconcerned about the incontinent heathens in Portland. With the new big China deal, you'll be buying those cheap Chinese wheels for $5-10. Korea . . . managed! Be happy. Don't worry! -- Jay Beattie. Yes, I've been to Portland and will not return. Watching businesses power washing human feces out of their doorways and the smell of the city couldn't be plainer. Or perhaps you forget I have family in Seattle? Just driving through Portland has a disgusting smell. The Portland city flag should have a picture of a man bending down with his pants down crapping on the F-ing main street. Wow again. Have you quit your meds altogether? Not a good thing. For those watching at home, I've never seen any business pressure washing feces out of its doorway, and I'm downtown every work day and most weekends. Certainly not happening at my office. https://drammapermusica.files.wordpr...andskyline.jpg I'm in the tall white building. Stunning view of Mt. Hood from our library. It's almost as pretty as Oakland. -- Jay Beattie. I don't know from Portland but it's a meme for San Francisco: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=poop+on+si...ages&ia=images Maybe Tom forgot where he was when he experienced it. -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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A few months waxing chain
On Friday, December 7, 2018 at 12:47:44 PM UTC-8, AMuzi wrote:
On 12/7/2018 1:17 PM, jbeattie wrote: On Friday, December 7, 2018 at 7:37:19 AM UTC-8, wrote: On Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 10:48:39 AM UTC-8, jbeattie wrote: On Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 9:40:04 AM UTC-8, wrote: On Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 7:40:50 PM UTC-8, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 12/5/2018 6:17 PM, John B. slocomb wrote: On Wed, 05 Dec 2018 13:55:44 -0600, AMuzi wrote: On 12/5/2018 11:49 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 12/5/2018 12:16 PM, wrote: On Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 7:26:52 PM UTC-8, Frank Krygowski wrote: On Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 5:37:55 PM UTC-5, wrote: Frank - how often do you clean your chain and re-wax? How much off-road riding do you do? I think I re-wax maybe every 500 miles or so. With my method, there is no separate "clean your chain" step. I just add wax/oil mix using a propane torch while the chain is on the bike. The only cleaning is backpedaling the chain through paper towels once the entire chain has gotten it's fresh wax. These days I do only a little off-road riding. Until recently I was on the board of trustees of our local forest preserve. I would ride through the trails once in a while to see if there were problems, and I would cut through on my way to certain destinations. There are a few other gravel roads I would use on occasion, but most of my riding is paved. BTW, I had two hospital stays this year, and associated recovery. It's been a terrible year for cycling. I don't think I've done the chains since February. - Frank Krygowski Well, from my experience I cannot understand how you don't get wax build-up on the cogs and rings. This isn't some build-up, inside of 500 miles I have to take the cassette and rings off because you cannot clean them without scraping and then a final wash with acetone. I don't buy acetone to keep something highly volatile around the house but because it's necessary. It may be that final step, backpedaling the chain through a handful of paper towels to polish off the excess. But even the little bit that eventually appears on the chainrings is easy for me to wipe off. Maybe it's softer because of the small amount of oil I've mixed into the wax. For several weeks I have been completely unable to ride because of bronchitis. This is the worst I've ever had with coughing all night. sigh I've been fighting that for several years, and dreading winter because of it. Fortunately, it skipped me last winter. My fingers are crossed this year. But I think it triggered other problems - that is, antibiotics affecting my gut microbiome. C. Diff is no fun. Email if you want details. Sounds awful but at least you lived. Best wishes on a speedy recovery. The Great American Inscrutable Billing Machine ( a.k.a. 'health care') kills about 35,000* people every year with hospital-acquired infection. Not infection, mind you, but rather specifically hospital-acquired infection. Visit at your peril; financial, biological, existential. *I've seen estimates double that and higher but 35K is commonly cited. Simply quoting a number doesn't give an accurate view of the problem, however, in terms of deaths due to health care per 100,000 of population the U.S. leads the pack with 826/100,000 in 2013 while in comparison Japan had 598/100,000. See https://tinyurl.com/ybaq8vx5 From the same site the number of USians who have "have experienced medical, medication, or lab errors or delays in past two years" is 22% while an average of comparative countries is 16% with the U.K. having only 8%. In addition total health expenditures per capita, U.S. dollars, PPP adjusted, 2016, is the highest in the world. An average of comparable countries is approximately half of what costs are in the U.S. See: https://tinyurl.com/yaavfq6p There are other problems as well, of course. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMqcLUqYqrs -- - Frank Krygowski He did a good job of describing the problems and didn't identify their sources. The destruction of this country is at the hands of the millennial generation to who the word, "no", has never been uttered. They actually believe that they are entitled to do anything they want to do and if anyone stands in their way it is because they are evil and not because the millennial is wrong. Look at people like Slocum who judges value as the price of an object or Jay who lives in a town where people will **** in the doorway of a business while people walk by ignoring it. The entire downtown of Portland smells like **** and people there treat it as normal. Wow, medication time. Have you even been to Portland? And why are you so angry? With your massive earnings in the stock market and the Trump tax break, I would think you'd be living like a king, totally unconcerned about the incontinent heathens in Portland. With the new big China deal, you'll be buying those cheap Chinese wheels for $5-10. Korea . . . managed! Be happy. Don't worry! -- Jay Beattie. Yes, I've been to Portland and will not return. Watching businesses power washing human feces out of their doorways and the smell of the city couldn't be plainer. Or perhaps you forget I have family in Seattle? Just driving through Portland has a disgusting smell. The Portland city flag should have a picture of a man bending down with his pants down crapping on the F-ing main street. Wow again. Have you quit your meds altogether? Not a good thing. For those watching at home, I've never seen any business pressure washing feces out of its doorway, and I'm downtown every work day and most weekends. Certainly not happening at my office. https://drammapermusica.files.wordpr...andskyline.jpg I'm in the tall white building. Stunning view of Mt. Hood from our library. It's almost as pretty as Oakland. -- Jay Beattie. I don't know from Portland but it's a meme for San Francisco: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=poop+on+si...ages&ia=images Maybe Tom forgot where he was when he experienced it. Homeless and feces go together like . . . well, homeless and feces, so I'm sure there is some **** downtown somewhere. However, I walked across downtown this afternoon searching for **** and found none, unless you count my crappy lunch. BUT, there are many other offensive things downtown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO_h7F6BBsE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWcjlt-RPVY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H2IqAlqhms -- Jay Beattie. |
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A few months waxing chain
On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 14:13:47 -0800 (PST), jbeattie
wrote: On Friday, December 7, 2018 at 12:47:44 PM UTC-8, AMuzi wrote: On 12/7/2018 1:17 PM, jbeattie wrote: On Friday, December 7, 2018 at 7:37:19 AM UTC-8, wrote: On Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 10:48:39 AM UTC-8, jbeattie wrote: On Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 9:40:04 AM UTC-8, wrote: On Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 7:40:50 PM UTC-8, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 12/5/2018 6:17 PM, John B. slocomb wrote: On Wed, 05 Dec 2018 13:55:44 -0600, AMuzi wrote: On 12/5/2018 11:49 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 12/5/2018 12:16 PM, wrote: On Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 7:26:52 PM UTC-8, Frank Krygowski wrote: On Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 5:37:55 PM UTC-5, wrote: Frank - how often do you clean your chain and re-wax? How much off-road riding do you do? I think I re-wax maybe every 500 miles or so. With my method, there is no separate "clean your chain" step. I just add wax/oil mix using a propane torch while the chain is on the bike. The only cleaning is backpedaling the chain through paper towels once the entire chain has gotten it's fresh wax. These days I do only a little off-road riding. Until recently I was on the board of trustees of our local forest preserve. I would ride through the trails once in a while to see if there were problems, and I would cut through on my way to certain destinations. There are a few other gravel roads I would use on occasion, but most of my riding is paved. BTW, I had two hospital stays this year, and associated recovery. It's been a terrible year for cycling. I don't think I've done the chains since February. - Frank Krygowski Well, from my experience I cannot understand how you don't get wax build-up on the cogs and rings. This isn't some build-up, inside of 500 miles I have to take the cassette and rings off because you cannot clean them without scraping and then a final wash with acetone. I don't buy acetone to keep something highly volatile around the house but because it's necessary. It may be that final step, backpedaling the chain through a handful of paper towels to polish off the excess. But even the little bit that eventually appears on the chainrings is easy for me to wipe off. Maybe it's softer because of the small amount of oil I've mixed into the wax. For several weeks I have been completely unable to ride because of bronchitis. This is the worst I've ever had with coughing all night. sigh I've been fighting that for several years, and dreading winter because of it. Fortunately, it skipped me last winter. My fingers are crossed this year. But I think it triggered other problems - that is, antibiotics affecting my gut microbiome. C. Diff is no fun. Email if you want details. Sounds awful but at least you lived. Best wishes on a speedy recovery. The Great American Inscrutable Billing Machine ( a.k.a. 'health care') kills about 35,000* people every year with hospital-acquired infection. Not infection, mind you, but rather specifically hospital-acquired infection. Visit at your peril; financial, biological, existential. *I've seen estimates double that and higher but 35K is commonly cited. Simply quoting a number doesn't give an accurate view of the problem, however, in terms of deaths due to health care per 100,000 of population the U.S. leads the pack with 826/100,000 in 2013 while in comparison Japan had 598/100,000. See https://tinyurl.com/ybaq8vx5 From the same site the number of USians who have "have experienced medical, medication, or lab errors or delays in past two years" is 22% while an average of comparative countries is 16% with the U.K. having only 8%. In addition total health expenditures per capita, U.S. dollars, PPP adjusted, 2016, is the highest in the world. An average of comparable countries is approximately half of what costs are in the U.S. See: https://tinyurl.com/yaavfq6p There are other problems as well, of course. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMqcLUqYqrs -- - Frank Krygowski He did a good job of describing the problems and didn't identify their sources. The destruction of this country is at the hands of the millennial generation to who the word, "no", has never been uttered. They actually believe that they are entitled to do anything they want to do and if anyone stands in their way it is because they are evil and not because the millennial is wrong. Look at people like Slocum who judges value as the price of an object or Jay who lives in a town where people will **** in the doorway of a business while people walk by ignoring it. The entire downtown of Portland smells like **** and people there treat it as normal. Wow, medication time. Have you even been to Portland? And why are you so angry? With your massive earnings in the stock market and the Trump tax break, I would think you'd be living like a king, totally unconcerned about the incontinent heathens in Portland. With the new big China deal, you'll be buying those cheap Chinese wheels for $5-10. Korea . . . managed! Be happy. Don't worry! -- Jay Beattie. Yes, I've been to Portland and will not return. Watching businesses power washing human feces out of their doorways and the smell of the city couldn't be plainer. Or perhaps you forget I have family in Seattle? Just driving through Portland has a disgusting smell. The Portland city flag should have a picture of a man bending down with his pants down crapping on the F-ing main street. Wow again. Have you quit your meds altogether? Not a good thing. For those watching at home, I've never seen any business pressure washing feces out of its doorway, and I'm downtown every work day and most weekends. Certainly not happening at my office. https://drammapermusica.files.wordpr...andskyline.jpg I'm in the tall white building. Stunning view of Mt. Hood from our library. It's almost as pretty as Oakland. -- Jay Beattie. I don't know from Portland but it's a meme for San Francisco: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=poop+on+si...ages&ia=images Maybe Tom forgot where he was when he experienced it. Homeless and feces go together like . . . well, homeless and feces, so I'm sure there is some **** downtown somewhere. However, I walked across downtown this afternoon searching for **** and found none, unless you count my crappy lunch. BUT, there are many other offensive things downtown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO_h7F6BBsE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWcjlt-RPVY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H2IqAlqhms -- Jay Beattie. You certainly have a dearth of musicians in your town :-) cheers, John B. |
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A few months waxing chain
On Fri, 07 Dec 2018 11:17:35 -0800, jbeattie wrote:
On Friday, December 7, 2018 at 7:37:19 AM UTC-8, wrote: On Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 10:48:39 AM UTC-8, jbeattie wrote: And why are you so angry? With your massive earnings in the stock market and the Trump tax break, I would think you'd be living like a king, totally unconcerned about the incontinent heathens in Portland. With the new big China deal, you'll be buying those cheap Chinese wheels for $5-10. Korea . . . managed! Be happy. Don't worry! -- Jay Beattie. Yes, I've been to Portland and will not return. Watching businesses power washing human feces out of their doorways and the smell of the city couldn't be plainer. Or perhaps you forget I have family in Seattle? Just driving through Portland has a disgusting smell. The Portland city flag should have a picture of a man bending down with his pants down crapping on the F-ing main street. Wow again. Have you quit your meds altogether? Not a good thing. For those watching at home, I've never seen any business pressure washing feces out of its doorway, and I'm downtown every work day and most weekends. Certainly not happening at my office. https://drammapermusica.files.wordpr...andskyline.jpg I'm in the tall white building. Stunning view of Mt. Hood from our library. It's almost as pretty as Oakland. Any pig farms or feed lots in the valley? We hade a pig **** pond go off kilter 20 miles out of town one decade and the pong was gasping at times. Local government eventually forced the pig farmer out as the pig farmer couldn't fix the problem. |
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A few months waxing chain
On Friday, December 7, 2018 at 2:13:49 PM UTC-8, jbeattie wrote:
On Friday, December 7, 2018 at 12:47:44 PM UTC-8, AMuzi wrote: On 12/7/2018 1:17 PM, jbeattie wrote: On Friday, December 7, 2018 at 7:37:19 AM UTC-8, wrote: On Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 10:48:39 AM UTC-8, jbeattie wrote: On Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 9:40:04 AM UTC-8, wrote: On Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 7:40:50 PM UTC-8, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 12/5/2018 6:17 PM, John B. slocomb wrote: On Wed, 05 Dec 2018 13:55:44 -0600, AMuzi wrote: On 12/5/2018 11:49 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 12/5/2018 12:16 PM, wrote: On Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 7:26:52 PM UTC-8, Frank Krygowski wrote: On Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 5:37:55 PM UTC-5, wrote: Frank - how often do you clean your chain and re-wax? How much off-road riding do you do? I think I re-wax maybe every 500 miles or so. With my method, there is no separate "clean your chain" step. I just add wax/oil mix using a propane torch while the chain is on the bike. The only cleaning is backpedaling the chain through paper towels once the entire chain has gotten it's fresh wax. These days I do only a little off-road riding. Until recently I was on the board of trustees of our local forest preserve. I would ride through the trails once in a while to see if there were problems, and I would cut through on my way to certain destinations. There are a few other gravel roads I would use on occasion, but most of my riding is paved. BTW, I had two hospital stays this year, and associated recovery. It's been a terrible year for cycling. I don't think I've done the chains since February. - Frank Krygowski Well, from my experience I cannot understand how you don't get wax build-up on the cogs and rings. This isn't some build-up, inside of 500 miles I have to take the cassette and rings off because you cannot clean them without scraping and then a final wash with acetone. I don't buy acetone to keep something highly volatile around the house but because it's necessary. It may be that final step, backpedaling the chain through a handful of paper towels to polish off the excess. But even the little bit that eventually appears on the chainrings is easy for me to wipe off. Maybe it's softer because of the small amount of oil I've mixed into the wax. For several weeks I have been completely unable to ride because of bronchitis. This is the worst I've ever had with coughing all night. sigh I've been fighting that for several years, and dreading winter because of it. Fortunately, it skipped me last winter. My fingers are crossed this year. But I think it triggered other problems - that is, antibiotics affecting my gut microbiome. C. Diff is no fun. Email if you want details. Sounds awful but at least you lived. Best wishes on a speedy recovery. The Great American Inscrutable Billing Machine ( a.k.a. 'health care') kills about 35,000* people every year with hospital-acquired infection. Not infection, mind you, but rather specifically hospital-acquired infection. Visit at your peril; financial, biological, existential. *I've seen estimates double that and higher but 35K is commonly cited. Simply quoting a number doesn't give an accurate view of the problem, however, in terms of deaths due to health care per 100,000 of population the U.S. leads the pack with 826/100,000 in 2013 while in comparison Japan had 598/100,000. See https://tinyurl.com/ybaq8vx5 From the same site the number of USians who have "have experienced medical, medication, or lab errors or delays in past two years" is 22% while an average of comparative countries is 16% with the U.K. having only 8%. In addition total health expenditures per capita, U.S. dollars, PPP adjusted, 2016, is the highest in the world. An average of comparable countries is approximately half of what costs are in the U.S. See: https://tinyurl.com/yaavfq6p There are other problems as well, of course. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMqcLUqYqrs -- - Frank Krygowski He did a good job of describing the problems and didn't identify their sources. The destruction of this country is at the hands of the millennial generation to who the word, "no", has never been uttered. They actually believe that they are entitled to do anything they want to do and if anyone stands in their way it is because they are evil and not because the millennial is wrong. Look at people like Slocum who judges value as the price of an object or Jay who lives in a town where people will **** in the doorway of a business while people walk by ignoring it. The entire downtown of Portland smells like **** and people there treat it as normal. Wow, medication time. Have you even been to Portland? And why are you so angry? With your massive earnings in the stock market and the Trump tax break, I would think you'd be living like a king, totally unconcerned about the incontinent heathens in Portland. With the new big China deal, you'll be buying those cheap Chinese wheels for $5-10. Korea . . . managed! Be happy. Don't worry! -- Jay Beattie. Yes, I've been to Portland and will not return. Watching businesses power washing human feces out of their doorways and the smell of the city couldn't be plainer. Or perhaps you forget I have family in Seattle? Just driving through Portland has a disgusting smell. The Portland city flag should have a picture of a man bending down with his pants down crapping on the F-ing main street. Wow again. Have you quit your meds altogether? Not a good thing. For those watching at home, I've never seen any business pressure washing feces out of its doorway, and I'm downtown every work day and most weekends. Certainly not happening at my office. https://drammapermusica.files.wordpr...andskyline.jpg I'm in the tall white building. Stunning view of Mt. Hood from our library. It's almost as pretty as Oakland. -- Jay Beattie. I don't know from Portland but it's a meme for San Francisco: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=poop+on+si...ages&ia=images Maybe Tom forgot where he was when he experienced it. Homeless and feces go together like . . . well, homeless and feces, so I'm sure there is some **** downtown somewhere. However, I walked across downtown this afternoon searching for **** and found none, unless you count my crappy lunch. BUT, there are many other offensive things downtown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO_h7F6BBsE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWcjlt-RPVY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H2IqAlqhms -- Jay Beattie. Jay forgets that it is common citizens and not homeless doing this in Portland. |
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On Sunday, December 9, 2018 at 1:19:42 PM UTC-8, jbeattie wrote:
On Sunday, December 9, 2018 at 10:06:11 AM UTC-8, wrote: On Friday, December 7, 2018 at 11:17:37 AM UTC-8, jbeattie wrote: On Friday, December 7, 2018 at 7:37:19 AM UTC-8, wrote: On Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 10:48:39 AM UTC-8, jbeattie wrote: On Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 9:40:04 AM UTC-8, wrote: On Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 7:40:50 PM UTC-8, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 12/5/2018 6:17 PM, John B. slocomb wrote: On Wed, 05 Dec 2018 13:55:44 -0600, AMuzi wrote: On 12/5/2018 11:49 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 12/5/2018 12:16 PM, wrote: On Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 7:26:52 PM UTC-8, Frank Krygowski wrote: On Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 5:37:55 PM UTC-5, wrote: Frank - how often do you clean your chain and re-wax? How much off-road riding do you do? I think I re-wax maybe every 500 miles or so. With my method, there is no separate "clean your chain" step. I just add wax/oil mix using a propane torch while the chain is on the bike. The only cleaning is backpedaling the chain through paper towels once the entire chain has gotten it's fresh wax. These days I do only a little off-road riding. Until recently I was on the board of trustees of our local forest preserve. I would ride through the trails once in a while to see if there were problems, and I would cut through on my way to certain destinations. There are a few other gravel roads I would use on occasion, but most of my riding is paved. BTW, I had two hospital stays this year, and associated recovery. It's been a terrible year for cycling. I don't think I've done the chains since February. - Frank Krygowski Well, from my experience I cannot understand how you don't get wax build-up on the cogs and rings. This isn't some build-up, inside of 500 miles I have to take the cassette and rings off because you cannot clean them without scraping and then a final wash with acetone. I don't buy acetone to keep something highly volatile around the house but because it's necessary. It may be that final step, backpedaling the chain through a handful of paper towels to polish off the excess. But even the little bit that eventually appears on the chainrings is easy for me to wipe off. Maybe it's softer because of the small amount of oil I've mixed into the wax. For several weeks I have been completely unable to ride because of bronchitis. This is the worst I've ever had with coughing all night. sigh I've been fighting that for several years, and dreading winter because of it. Fortunately, it skipped me last winter. My fingers are crossed this year. But I think it triggered other problems - that is, antibiotics affecting my gut microbiome. C. Diff is no fun. |
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On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:28:51 -0500, Frank Krygowski wrote:
John, That's it, I'm a failure though my net worth is over a million dollars. Wait - you've complained about not being able to find a job, you've complained loud and long about how terrible your neighborhood is, but with a million dollars socked away you can't find something better?? Sheesh! Exactly and shows what a useless wang measure it is. Easy and very unwise to have that $USmillion locked up in your own home. we have a more economical and lesser home and an equivalent amount in an "investment' property now returning an income. Alternatively, you could have some of it in shares if you wanted the risk.or govenment bonds(YMMV) for lowest risk. |
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A few months waxing chain
On 12/11/2018 8:51 PM, jbeattie wrote:
Time for a story! After they installed the metal detectors over at the old federal court house, I was going in for a hearing and the Marshals out front decided to play a joke on me. I'm sliding my brief case through the x-ray machine and walking through the metal detector when they stop me and said, "we've got a problem." They tell me to look at the x-ray screen and there . . . in my brief case . . . is a Glock 19. I totally freaked out and started spewing denials. They laughed. It turns out they have some sort of template that they can project to evaluate gun silhouettes. The metal detectors in the new federal courthouse in downtown Portland are the only ones anywhere that pick up the metal in my legs and hand. I always get wanded. This is Federal courthouse in Portland -- your tax dollars at work: https://bora.co/project/mark-o-hatfield-us-courthouse/ It is impressively ****-free. Last summer, my wife and I and a friend decided to visit the county courthouse just to tour the building. The three classic bronze statues that sit atop it (Law, Justice & Strength IIRC) had been restored and were sitting out front for close up views before being lifted up to the roof. As I remembered, the inside was glorious. Wide staircases, granite columns, gorgeous murals, ornamental windows... truly beautiful. Then, since we had to pass by it to get to our car, we decided to visit the new (maybe 15 years old?) federal courthouse nearby. It had the same architectural charm as the inside of a refrigerator. Everything was bleak, sterile and devoid of any and all character. It did have a heck of a metal detector, though! The county's never squealed about my wife's replacement hip. But the fed's lit up like a fire truck. I thought they were going to make her take it off. -- - Frank Krygowski |
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A few months waxing chain
On Tuesday, December 11, 2018 at 8:37:47 PM UTC-8, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 12/11/2018 8:51 PM, jbeattie wrote: Time for a story! After they installed the metal detectors over at the old federal court house, I was going in for a hearing and the Marshals out front decided to play a joke on me. I'm sliding my brief case through the x-ray machine and walking through the metal detector when they stop me and said, "we've got a problem." They tell me to look at the x-ray screen and there . . . in my brief case . . . is a Glock 19. I totally freaked out and started spewing denials. They laughed. It turns out they have some sort of template that they can project to evaluate gun silhouettes. The metal detectors in the new federal courthouse in downtown Portland are the only ones anywhere that pick up the metal in my legs and hand. I always get wanded. This is Federal courthouse in Portland -- your tax dollars at work: https://bora.co/project/mark-o-hatfield-us-courthouse/ It is impressively ****-free. Last summer, my wife and I and a friend decided to visit the county courthouse just to tour the building. The three classic bronze statues that sit atop it (Law, Justice & Strength IIRC) had been restored and were sitting out front for close up views before being lifted up to the roof. As I remembered, the inside was glorious. Wide staircases, granite columns, gorgeous murals, ornamental windows... truly beautiful. Then, since we had to pass by it to get to our car, we decided to visit the new (maybe 15 years old?) federal courthouse nearby. It had the same architectural charm as the inside of a refrigerator. Everything was bleak, sterile and devoid of any and all character. It did have a heck of a metal detector, though! The county's never squealed about my wife's replacement hip. But the fed's lit up like a fire truck. I thought they were going to make her take it off. The Multnomah County Court House (Portland) was once grand but is now a **** hole. I'm embarrassed taking clients there. We're getting a new one. You can watch the construction on a live feed. http://dwpwebcams.com/mcc/stream.htm You can see the tip-top of my building next to the construction crane. -- Jay Beattie. |
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