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As promised, I unleashed my Fredness on the local bike club yesterday morning. This is a club I have ridden with before for many years, so there were a good number of folks that knew me from before. I fairly well hammered to the gathering spot thinking I was running late, forgetting that 8:00...

Well folks, I guess I must be feeling froggy. For whatever reason, I decided to go ahead and take my fredness and bust it loose on the local bike club today. I'll probably stick with the low and slow group and keep it local, for now. I hope that's not too frustrating, but it's time for some...

I was over on the thread about Larry's new bike and started to say something about this, then realized I was fredjacking that thread. Several years ago, a new rider joined our riding group. She had a brand new bike that was pretty high zoot at the time; carbon everything, light wheels and...

Sorry for the Fredjack.

I'm sort of weird about color coordinating. Stop to think about it, I'm just plain weird. Oh well! Mark

I guess you guys are at a waaaay different place than I am. Before I start worrying about the weight of my bike, I have plenty of weight to remove from my butt. Mark

Silly me... I thought it was a parts donor bike for another build.;) Mark

No, this is the Fred thread and you definitely qualify. Congratulations!! Mark

This kind of flew right over my head... Wasn't paying that much attention and was not hip to what 1x was. I guess I've been out of the loop too long. I just did some investigating and.... COOL! Mostly, I ride my 42 with an occasional shift to the 52 on downhills and occasionally, a shift...

That makes sense. I know a lot of people that eat several small meals during the day and require packing stuff along. Good luck on your comeback trail. Glad I'm not alone in this bid! Mark

I did a flat 40 a while back and was just OK. Legs were spent by the time I got home and I had to have a quicky protein shake. More recently, I've been keeping my rides down to 15-25 miles with a fair amount of shallow climbing and pushing the envelope effort-wise. Actually, I've been doing a...

Thanks a lot! Some do, most don't. I purposely ride when most of the people I know aren't out there. I want to sneak up on them! Mark

Good luck at stop lights! Mark

Further updating the Fred chronicles... I got out for another nice ride this weekend. It was a glorious day here in Southern California, in between the rain showers. It was so nice, I was once again able to wear my Fred sandals! I might be a Fred, but I am trying to build up to being a...

You know... It's funny.... When I took my bike down after hanging for a longer time than I care to admit, it was still carrying 100#. Not too bad, considering it was stale air! Mark

I played with this some more today and after reading an old post of mine where I cited 115# pressure riding at a weight comparable to where I'm at now, I decided to give that a try. I was on to something the first time. 115# was just right. Compliant ride and no bottoming out, only minimal...

I took yesterday off and was blessed with a beautiful afternoon for a ride. I embraced my Fredness even more by donning my Shimano sandals. It felt good to have my toes out there in the breeze. In a moment of weakness last week, I did have thoughts of trying to evade some of my extreme...

As a follow up to this, I purged the system of all air and witnessed as the shock collapsed. I pumped it up to 150# as was suggested and I found that the ride was what I remembered... Way stiff and I got more wheel hop/spin than I like. Next ride, I'll try back at 125#. Maybe I forgot about...

No problems, for me. I get on and do what I want from home and from work.. Mark

I'm sure it can be done. I just didn't want to do it. Once I went over to the Cruzbike, it was all over, for me.