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CBJ

CBJ

year old fart
Mar 19, 2002
13,160
5,001
Copenhagen, Denmark
Hoping to ride my mtb third day in a row but need to make sure I am safe after last nights snow storm.

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Yesterday was nice as I did not end up with a pound of mud on the bike. I still have some fit issues on the bike and one adjustment will affect the others. Maybe seat further back. Maybe higher bar. Maybe longer stem. Not something I am an expert in so it will take some time to get it right.
 
iRider

iRider

Turbo Monkey
Apr 5, 2008
5,703
3,168
CBJ said:
Ahhh ok you are a bike porn kind of guy. Sorry no Onlyfane acount yet but here is a free one!
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Nah, too big and too black for my liking. ;)

Seriously, nice ride! Lots of seatpost showing, did you get a too small frame?
 
CBJ

CBJ

year old fart
Mar 19, 2002
13,160
5,001
Copenhagen, Denmark
iRider said:
Nah, too big and too black for my liking. ;)

Seriously, nice ride! Lots of seatpost showing, did you get a too small frame?
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That is before first ride and seatpost had been lowered by. It's not much higher than top of bar right now. Just lowered it more as I moved the seat further back as I have a long femur. I might get a 35mm rise bar vs the 27mm that came stock. No option to move the stem higher up unfortunately. Will to dial in the seatpost height and seat position first before bar changes. Strange bike companies do not deliver bike with uncut steer for us with less than perfect build.
 
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I Are Baboon

I Are Baboon

Vagina man
Aug 6, 2001
32,743
10,687
MTB New England
Hey bruv! I've thrown two English muffins and some coffee down the food hole and headed out for a run in a bit... somewhere between 10 and 20 miles depending on how I feel.
 
eric strt6

eric strt6

Resident Curmudgeon
Sep 8, 2001
24,378
15,144
directly above the center of the earth
it was raining so heavy last night that at 3am it overwhelmed the capacity of my rain gutters, insane. It had got to be slamming kidwoo and Tahoe with shitloads of new snow. Major avalanche danger anywhere in the Sierras right now

Espresso time
 
Adventurous

Adventurous

Starshine Bro
Mar 19, 2014
10,850
9,888
Crawlorado
:wave:

Had to call an electrician last night. Main panel was crackling, likely arcing, due to corrosion. He got it all cleaned up and it's good, for now, but I do believe the timeline for replacement just got accelerated. He said the risk of it catching fire was imminent, so that's cool.
 
maxyedor

maxyedor

<b>TOOL PRO</b>
Oct 20, 2005
5,496
3,141
In the bathroom, fighting a battle
Rain, again. New policy, if it’s gunna rain I want comical amounts, none of this too wet to play outside but not enough to justify collecting two of every animal malarkey

Pork butt goes on the smoker in a couple hours, should probably plan for extra time due to prevailing weather conditions.
 
jonKranked

jonKranked

Detective Dookie
Nov 10, 2005
88,805
27,015
media blackout
Good birthday party for the kiddo yesterday. Maybe had a beer too many afterwards as I passed out on the couch. Introduced him to breakfast burritos this morning (he loved it) and fresh OJ.
 
StiHacka

StiHacka

Compensating for something
Jan 4, 2013
21,560
12,508
In hell. Welcome!
Rode, snow was not very good but better than not riding at all, so I have that going for me, which is nice. Might have been the last snow ride of the season.
 
stoney

stoney

Part of the unwashed, middle-American horde
Jul 26, 2006
22,002
7,886
Colorado
Bills. Signing up for gymnastics all year long in advance because classes with 6 spots only having 2 left sucks. At least that expense is dealt with.

Haley's race calendar is in place - one pre-season race next month, six CO tour races, then one post-season race. She'll be missing one because we have a family trip to CA that weekend.

Wifey has decided that she is over having the Pilot and wants her Q7. She's reversed position on an electric SUV going forward, since there is no electric Q7 at this point and she wants a new car soon. Fucking thing isn't even paid off yet. IF we do it, it will be an off-lease or higher mileage (50-60k) since the depreciation is massive by that point and eating $4-5k for the higher mileage service that I will need to do within 1yr anyways is still cheaper. At least this option allows us to get a loan through MIL1, so any interest will be going to her and creating cashflow vs. me having to deal with T-Bills monthly. Still a massive pain in my ass, but amusingly the monthly will be cheaper because luxury cars have massive depreciation vs. things like Pilots. But the extra service costs will add up... So if I get this promotion it will be just exhausting it on the new car cost.

Edit: I have been corrected. 2019 is "an old car". So much for that option... apparently Wifey thinks we're fucking wealthy and can afford an $80k car. She missed the memo that her friends that have those type of cars either buy 50k mile cars or work in such a way that they can lease them and effectively negate the cost of the car. That latter group being levered to the tits, so when things go sideways it's game over for their lifestyle.

Edit 2: Success! She wants one with the recent updates, which are as of 2021. Those aren't off lease yet, so I just bought another year.
 
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I Are Baboon

I Are Baboon

Vagina man
Aug 6, 2001
32,743
10,687
MTB New England
Also, Wife gave me "permission" to buy the new Garmin I've been eyeballing. Permission, because the thing costs $1000 and married folks usually talk about expenditures that big. It's totally an unnecessary toy that I can certainly live without, but I never buy anything and it is just something I want. It is the Garmin Fenix 7X Sapphire Solar. ohhhhhhhh, ahhhhhhhh
 
sunringlerider

sunringlerider

Wood fluffer
Oct 30, 2006
4,300
7,912
Corn Fields of Indiana
:wave:

Went grocery shopping with the kiddo while the rest of the town was at church. It was nice.
Nice day today. Hopefully be outside the rest of the afternoon.

got that mounted up last night. Hopefully wire it in today.
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chuffer

chuffer

Turbo Monkey
Sep 2, 2004
1,794
1,142
McMinnville, OR
sunringlerider said:
:wave:

Went grocery shopping with the kiddo while the rest of the town was at church. It was nice.
Nice day today. Hopefully be outside the rest of the afternoon.

got that mounted up last night. Hopefully wire it in today.
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I have so much truck envy right now. Seriously, that is about my dream set up. I really need to find a pre-87 crewcab…and a bunch of time.

snowmonkey: foggy and flurries
 
Toshi

Toshi

butthole powerwashing evangelist
Oct 23, 2001
39,751
8,750
stoney said:
At least this option allows us to get a loan through MIL1, so any interest will be going to her and creating cashflow vs. me having to deal with T-Bills monthly.
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wat

loan through MIL vs T-bills for paying for a car? please explain it to me like I'm 5 k thx
 
6thElement

6thElement

Schrodinger's Immigrant
Jul 29, 2008
17,228
14,702
I Are Baboon said:
Also, Wife gave me "permission" to buy the new Garmin I've been eyeballing. Permission, because the thing costs $1000 and married folks usually talk about expenditures that big. It's totally an unnecessary toy that I can certainly live without, but I never buy anything and it is just something I want. It is the Garmin Fenix 7X Sapphire Solar. ohhhhhhhh, ahhhhhhhh
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If they release an 840 edge solar I'll need to hunt for quarters down the sofa.
 
stoney

stoney

Part of the unwashed, middle-American horde
Jul 26, 2006
22,002
7,886
Colorado
6thElement said:
@stoney what he means is, can he get a low interest loan for his new merc from your MIL?
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@Toshi This is correct. MIL1 has a bunch of money sitting in T-Bills for short-term cash. She's been refusing to hold anything less than 1 full year in cash. I would basically be taking a few months of the short-term cash I've been trying to get invested and instead putting it into a medium-term high-grade bond at a better yield than I can get elsewhere. Because it's "in-house" as well, it also stays w/in her trust, so if she dies before it's paid off, the loan cancels. Not that it's the plan, but it's just part of broader estate planning.
 
stoney

stoney

Part of the unwashed, middle-American horde
Jul 26, 2006
22,002
7,886
Colorado
maxyedor said:
I too would like a low interest loan from Stoneys MIL to buy a glorified VW https://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/vehicledetails.xhtml?listingId=674328687&makeCodeList=POR&modelCodeList=911&trimCodeList=911|GT3 RS&zip=90001&state=CA&city=Los Angeles&searchRadius=25&listingTypes=USED&isNewSearch=false&referrer=/cars-for-sale/porsche/911?trimCodeList=911%7CGT3%20RS&clickType=listing
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I still give her market rate. Honestly, higher than I should, since I can only get her a medium-term bond around 3% vs. a 5yr from me at 4.5%.

And I'm not sure I could get away with that one.
 
mandown

mandown

Poopdeck Repost
Jun 1, 2004
21,808
9,119
Transylvania 90210
stoney said:
I still give her market rate. Honestly, higher than I should, since I can only get her a medium-term bond around 3% vs. a 5yr from me at 4.5%.

And I'm not sure I could get away with that one.
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What’s the going rate on a bass guitar loan? I’m not saying I need one but if the price is right…
 
stevew

stevew

resident influencer
Sep 21, 2001
41,161
10,100
I Are Baboon said:
Also, Wife gave me "permission" to buy the new Garmin I've been eyeballing. Permission, because the thing costs $1000 and married folks usually talk about expenditures that big. It's totally an unnecessary toy that I can certainly live without, but I never buy anything and it is just something I want. It is the Garmin Fenix 7X Sapphire Solar. ohhhhhhhh, ahhhhhhhh
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i like those garmin things.....but are there not apps that make those things obsolete....

says the guy buying a medium format film camera....
 
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