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Ordered a Kogel BB and D/A crankset for the new Merckx build.
This will make three.

In my bed...

A shiver just ran down my spine...

Have you been kidnapped? Blink once for YES.

# 1 son is coming home for the Alabama/South Carolina football game.
# 1 goes to Alabama
# 2 goes to SC
The shit talk has started and neither is home yet.

Both girlfriends are coming to the house too.

I may sleep in Service Course.

Yeah...sitting here waiting for CTE to kick in from hitting my head on the ground.

I had a GTZ...all black. It was actually a really great car.

Handsome.

82km. 2:26 door to door. The steel Merckx is like riding in a big body Benz.

My duckhead old neighbor is on his entirely too big lawn tractor at 8am.
The music is gonna be loud AF out by the pool later.

Word on the street is that a trail is being cut around the top of it.
It will be removed sooner than later. The local power company uses the road to service transmission lines.

I turned around...

Beautiful day here today. 85, sunny & low humidity.
Nice 75km on the red Merckx, a petite nosh, then the rest of the afternoon in the pool.
Solid fucking day.

Two weeks off for reasons...
75km on the CX bikes this morning.
I'm ready for bed.

I've started looking for parts to hang on the new Merckx frameset...

I really don't need adult money.

It's brutal. It's different.
Columbia sits in a hole. The heat and humidity just marinate.

I actually got OUT of the pool last Sunday. It was just too hot.
The water is 91...and the pool isn't small.

That being said, it's damn nice when it's 70 in February.

QC Manager

My wife took mine.

Wout MFing Van Aert!
#tourdefrance

Tejay is what happens when kids get homeschooled. #tourdefrance

Been smelling hot, burned oil thru the AC in my 2025 Honda Pilot.
Got the oil changed about 2 weeks ago...
Went out to install the K&N filter, and noticed the oil fill was wide open, and the cap was on the fan shroud.
Yeah...I've been driving for 2 weeks without the damn cap in place.
Super...

Didn't ride tonight...mowed the grass in 90+ heat.
Shakier after this than a crit...
F it's hot...

Can they bring Kleenex on as a sponsor? Jesus...fucking whiney crybaby.

This morning, out on the remote-ish dirt road I always ride, I passed two people walking their dogs.
An older AA man and his red nose pittie boy, and an older white lady walking a giant poodle.

Guess which duo was friendly....

It's gonna be Ultegra 11 speed for the boy to ride.
Thomson bar/stem
Deda bars
Vision 35 wheelset
Vittoria Corsa Control tires

Should be a decent set-up

One of my ride partners has a complete SRAM Force 12 wireless setup. I don't need the cranks...$700

Hard choices are about to be made...

Okay...both framesets inbound.

The Merckx is supposedly Shimano only.
How would the new wireless SRAM not fit? Am I just being daft?

Fuck...just give me cables...

You can't give me adult money...
Just bought both of these...

I hope that the majority of us get put in the same camp.

Yeah...I love listing surgeries on Doctor/Hospital intake forms.
I start in 1987, and go year by year to remember everything.

There will definitely be some sort of "slip & fall" injury visited upon their person.

#2 and his GF put her dog in my car today.
Needless to say, they are out in the 90 degree heat, cleaning my car.