MattPie

November 14th, I presume?

Nice @Doohicksie! I did my first metric a few weeks ago. It was... an experience, lol. I'd do it again, although probably on a bit less gravel, and not having done a climby ride the night before.

Come on, you have "Squabbling Sabres" sitting right there!

The guy is making a career out of 1-2 year deals. Definitely good for him, I'm glad to see him moderately successful.

Not really, bicycles, ebikes, and motorcycles are normal road users and can use the entire lane if they need to.

The guy that won was apparently a pro for awhile, but I'm not sure what level.

Cyclocross is freaking hard. Not my video, but somewhere in it you'll see me get lapped. EDIT: ~26:05, I'm in orange and navy kit.

If only they could have put the stadium somewhere that was more convenient to people coming over the border. Heck, find the right place and you could have run a ferry so people didn't have to drive. If only that place existed. Sigh.

I kinda agree. At a cap-hit of like $4.5M, that's something that I bet a lot of teams are carrying around with a bad contract or two. You could even trade him and retain some and I bet there'd be takers.

I can't believe the state of this franchise; they can't even get PTO players to sign here! (Did I do that right?)

Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time series is a really good read; sci-fi distant future stuff A Half-built Garden by Ruthanna Emyrs is a good near-future sci-fi book where people work together rather than have corporations dictate tastes NK Jemisin The City We Became and The World We Make is a fun comic-book-ish horror series centered around NYC Currently reading The Ray Nayler The Mountain in the Sea, more near-future but dystopian sci-fi that I'm really digging

Most people recommend to carry a tube just in case you get something that you can't plug. We had this happen on a recent gravel ride; oddly enough, it was a guy on MTB. Unfortunately, he ended up walking for awhile until one of us got back and picked him up with the car. If you get a really bad hole, you can also use a wrapper or dollar inside the tire to cover the hole and it'll hold until you get home. FWIW, my gravel bike didn't like getting set up tubeless, so I'm still running tubes there. Speaking of bikes, I might be in Ft Worth in October; my tradition for work trips is to bring my bike and ride a couple days after the trip is done. Are there some good places to ride out there?

I mean, easy in hindsight but there *were* some big question marks at the time.

Oh jeez, we were staying right where you worked. AC Hotel on Nash and Maple a block or two south of LAX. I didn't ride Ballona Creek path (although that was on my radar), I was going to ride along Playa Del Beach, but instead went to Venice beach and then rode from there up to the end of the path past Santa Monica pier and back. I rode a bit of that section of Imperial Highway and I found it uninspiring, other than airplane-fan me looking over at LAX.