Recent content by Robey5

It has been a busy season over here, and along for the ride is a few fun projects. Over the labor Day weekend, I had to rent a boom-lift and do some work on the soffit on the higher peaks of the house. As a result of having to fix a job that was done poorly by the GC back when, I decided to...

WOW! Someone from PA rode the barry route; that is cool!. Ok firstly - you’re riding tandem …. With your WIFE; double shot of kudos on that one sir. I (personally) would not tackle a race on a tandem, mostly because I am a different style of rider than my wife (though I do love her dearly...

In SE Michigan right now, I can say that we have had a “proper” winter. … As a result, we’ve had some real cold snowy days up here in the mitten. Along for the ride, our “heat source” in the garage finally failed. The little man assisted — we pulled apart the heater — which ran on our 220...

Ok — it is time for an update to this thread of “substance” for the 3 people who may be reading. Project W this year included a rebuild of the MTB wheels with BERD spokes. Don’t get too excited, because I sent the wheels TO Berd to get rebuilt with their spokes, and while I have not been shy...

@ericm — I feel for ya on this where there is a bike/shifting problem that does not seem to want to go away regardless of however many adjustments you make. I’ve really spent a lot of time dialing in shifting performance on both bikes, and I’ve found that you can get things better with a...

DOOD! …. (wow, nice work!) —- thank you for dropping by my little thread; I just got a good tour of your gear, work and house: impressive!!

@trytochaseme — I wasn’t a believer on the BERD spokes until I rolled them hard on gravel downstate by me. The biggest difference on the ride is when a gravel road has small washboarded sections at around 15-17mph with the right tire pressure. This bump-frequency is handled much better with...

Nice work on the drywall. I am familiar with the “do-nothing-cycle” that you were referring to where you don’t want to do something “because I have to do ….. first”. I have found that the list of “I have to do ___ first” can become endless, and can become a quick motivation ****. What I’ve...

Another season, another summer and I’ve kind of neglected to update this thread. For those who are interested, I‘ve put a little over 2400 miles on the OTSO, and I’ve upgraded the wheels to some sweet BERD wheels about midway into the season on them. I did a few 200k gravel rips on her, and...

We’re coming up on an update with the Barry Robaix right around the corner. First, my out west vacation/adventure was to a place that was a bit of work to get to, and as a result, we decided that the youngster was not going to go on this one. The place: Idaho, and “it sucked” - which is why I...

This has been one of those winters in SE Michigan that has been a real turd. My wife and I love snowboarding, we’ve seen a little snow, followed by immediate 40-50 degree rain, like 3-4 days after a little blanket of snow is in the area. For some context, I have not yet burned through a whole...

I wasn’t sure if anyone saw that and got a chuckle, but in my initial setup of the SS, I was just using that bigger-outter ring, thinking that I was “boss” enough to roll a 52 tooth chain ring. The 2-by crank-set was the basis for the setup, so - in shortening the length of the chain, I was...

My holiday break time was a time to knock out various projects/tasks that needed to be finished. In addition to the maintenance things (drain hot-water tank, change whole house water filter, change furnace filter and clean/vacuum the area up) - I was able to finish that P-car fuse panel. Not...

Project W is in full effect over here —- I am taking this time to fix broken things, finish projects, and try to clean up after myself along the way. First up: A little over a week ago, I broke a dial from one of my BOA bike shoes. In attempts to buy the parts to fix my bike shoes (that have...

Saturday - I was able to get a shake-down run on the OTSO (named = “goldenrod”) and had a few small adjustments to make. Today was the day. I got after it for a couple hours, and then I did the bar-tape which is not too horrible of a job, but it is a little harder than I remember it being...