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my father always said you can be a genius but as far as common sense is concerned you don't have a brain in your head
I was in a bike lane that was too narrow for cars. You wouldn't expect any motorized traffic to use that lane but a motorcyclist decided to hop into the bike lane to skip through traffic and hit me head on. I had no time to react and got a concussion bad enough that I could not remember the collision. If I had not had a helmet on I may have had severe head trauma. I will never ride even two blocks without a helmet.
That's a principled decision. I would consider a bike lane as riding in traffic, you have to. My own riding without a helmet is when I ride dedicated (and they really are such where I live) bike paths and not on weekends or outside of endurance riding (sprints, high tempo).
Just had my first puncture with a RideNow TPU tube. Switched it out and back home I patched it with a Parktool GP-2 patch. No need to use sandpaper (only use that on butyl tubes). Seems to be holding up very well so far. According to Parktool, the GP2 patch can be used on Schwalbe Aerothan TPU tubes, so I don't see why it wouldn't work on any other TPU tubes.
\Let us know if that patch holds up!
My RideNow TPU's are going on 5000km without a puncture on my gravel bike, so that's 10000km if we're counting both wheels… What's especially awesome is the fact that I don't have to worry so much how many spares I take on multi-day adventures, because they weigh nothing and don't take up much space. I bought like 6 of them at once and paid around €5 each, so for my case, they're actually about the same cost as butyl.
Great to know. I might give them another swing. I'm not being definitive, just relating my own brief experience. But given that I ride at least 2x a week long rides (200k+), I just don't feel confident with them on the rear tire. They roll and feel ok. It also depends on so much else. But given the material, I just think sharp "bangs", when you hit a sharp edge, drop, rock will pinch TPU much more often than butyl. This is just my common sense, working class bike rider take. TPU does seem so much easier to change - that's nice.
I have a lot of experience with TPU tubes. The ones that,weigh 36 g are good. But make sure they have white valve stems. Lighter ones and all of the ones with black valve stems are problematic. RideNow sells the 36 g ones. The 36 g recommendation is especially important for rim brakes.
I've heard about the heat issue. I don't ride a lot of steep descents so not problematic but heard heat buildup can be a problem for their use. I had the 36 g ones but not RideNow, another company XTiger. But they seem discontinued ... so maybe there was a reason?
i personally only use TPU on the back for emergency. daily ride i use butyl on the rear wheel. but for front wheel TPU is not a problem.
I think that is a great approach especially when doing long rides.
@@nakedandalive my hypothesis it because on the rear wheel we concentration the weight more plus we are pedaling on the rear drive wheel it got more force when we accelerate or do climbing. probably it cause the flat on TPU.
@@endtimeslips4660 Makes perfect sense. Also due to the thinness of the TPU material (though I'm no scientist, this too adds to the issue).
Hi! TPU material don't work with cement (glue) & vulcanizing patches for butyl tubes. For patching TPU tubes, you only need 'polyurethane glue'. It is a pretty simple item, and you can find it in every hardware store. Just ask for glue for soft plastics and double-check if it says polyurethane glue. It should cost just a few bucks. Here are some examples: TechnicQll Soft Plastic Glue Rema Tip-Top 5522208 Camplast Cement But there are many generic substitutes. I am using the first one, but I don't know if it is available worldwide. For patches, just cut an old sacrificial TPU tube. Such a repair is, in my experience, pretty much permanent.
Thanks for the reminder! Yes, I did use the right adhesive (got mine at the dollar store here - Daiso). But both the included patch with alcohol cleaning pad and my own patch didn't work. But the holes were snake bite large - that could be the problem. Good to know others do have success with patching TPU. I'll keep trying.
Sue the tech companies and turn internet platforms into egalitarian public utilities or continue to be moronic conditioned bitches of cointelpro.
I always ride with a bike computer.. It tells me my (breadcrumb) route and how long/far I have to go. It doesn't display other metrics.. Not so much because I decided that, but it just can't 🙂 (Garmin edge 200, cheapest gps navigation thingy I could find back then) It's so relaxing being able to ride everywhere without the feeling of being lost. As long as I am on (or even near) the track I uploaded I am exactly where I want to be. As for drinking.. I find I have to force myself to drink because my body doesn't tell me to. Only when it's too late (cramps, headaches...). That's one way my sugarwater helps, because at least there's water in there and I rinse my mouth after every drink or solid food. (from the other, plain water bottle or indeed my hydration bladder)
Yeah, if you can control your use of it, good. Myself, I just find I get too into "numbers" - it is something I guess I got trained on, through years of training, competition. Liquids - so key. Find a way to drink regularly, even over-hydrate. I feel so much better in recovery when drinking lots. Not just important for the ride.
@@nakedandalive Only last Sunday when I did my first 100 K this season. I really wanted to be back at 12:30 because my g/f had to leave by then. So the last 40K I was looking at the time and the distance all the time to make sure I would be back on time (made it with 1 minute to spare 🙂) But yeah I wouldn't want that stress every time.
This is not his voice
No. It's my own voice. But yes, should have made this clearer in the description, will edit.
taking it easy with 25 kph.. ouch that hurts. I have to really try to get that average. Anyways I like fueling with a big bidon filled with sugarwater. Plain table sugar, some salt, some syrup (lemon) and water. I aim for half of what I need ( which seems to be 50 gram per hour) in sugar and the other half in something like homemade oatmeal/yoghurt cake (or some cookies or muesli bars or whatever.. carb heaavy)
Good reminder for me. I have to stop looking at numbers. Used to ride with the computer a few times a week, now it is regular. Will adjust. the speed is what it is ... no matter what the number on a display. Yes, agree, sugar water, glucose tablets, it all works. No need for all the energy "stuff" etc ... And whatever you can keep down. I used to run with a guy who ate dates, it worked for him.
Apart from enjoying myself during a ride I also feel a sense of accomplishment. Plus every (long) ride is an adventure which starts with the planning. Even my usual short ride (1 hour).
Right on! Just patting yourself on the back, feeling good about where you are and what you did - it's pretty big stuff in a life. Earned self-love.
A lot of the same reasons. I do it because I love it. I’m happiest on the bike . Also cycling for mental and physical health . Like this channel. Thank you
That's the bottom line. Do what you love, enjoy. Intrinsic motivation - can't beat that, beat that drum enough!
I just found your channel. This is my fourth video to watch . I really like your channel. It is very relatable. ❤ 🚲 ❤️ 🚲 ❤
Welcome aboard! I've just started sharing some of my cycling life - I'm an amateur, learning as I do this but think I've some valuable cycling experiences to share. Mucking about!
We cycle very similarly. I think you do a little more distance than I . I’m 56. I love to cycle, walk, and hike . I have not had any alcohol in close to a decade. Thank you
One of my favorites... thank you! Still resonates today.
Mine too. Longer version on the channel. He got everything right, even the cadence.
I just ride.
Very zen. You are fortunate. But eat when hungry too!
Im doing the Norfolk epic sportive soon...I love long rides...its more of an adventure,than just exercise alone..😊
Good luck! Slow and steady for sure. You raise a good point, cycling is an ideal way to "venture. I'm reminded of Tom Petty's tune - Into The Great Wide Open ... we need more of that in our lives, the unpredictable, the new.
Very good... Tip#5 by you (mini goals) though is in conflict with well researched human and animal psychology. It is well proven that if there is intermediate goal of mini goal along longer task, its existence diminishes overall effort and ability. This is from deeply ingrained instincts which maybe some Navy Seals may train out of themselves but for most people it will hold. (Simple experiment on rats: there is food at the end of corridor, rat must pull resisting spring to reach it. If that is the only goal, rat provides constant effort up to the food. Now put one (or more) open doorways on the same way, "mini goals". Rat will pull with same effort at first but diminish as approaching each doorway, restarting after...)
Good point and I don't disagree, especially if you are aiming for your absolute limits. My background is ultrarunning, over days. I think what strong athletes do is hold both goals in their mind at the same time. It's not as easy as you think but can be imprinted subconsciously, deeply to control your effort and long haul success.
I agree with your 2 over Paul de Vivie’s 5 😅
Thanks! They are all good - just depends what you need to hear, the holes in your own armour. We all have some, even the best.
If being a genius is to see things as they are, not as they've been taught or told to be, and the boy has not yet been taught or told about the ocean, then how is he a genius?
He's self-taught. What did someone say, "the difficulty of life is to remain as a child?" Few do so. And then we have Illych's - School is the advertising agency that makes you believe you need the world as it appears to be.
Wow! So so so profound!!!!!!! Ya right….🤷🏻♂️
Wise advice. Great composition of b-roll, sagacious voiced narrator, and mellow Spanish flavored guitar music. Beautiful!
Thanks, I will get better and add more of my own footage. It's all a learning process. I'm kind of a 37 signals guy. Do it, get it out there and then go from there. Just got inspired and like a making a sandwich when super hungry, went pell mell at it.
Dross…great word that.
Appreciate a fellow word lover. See the comment above "sagacious" - good word too.
"This too shall pass"... gold.
If I write and say enough stuff, sometimes I luck out!
This video sums up exactly my ways and thoughts on cycling, although, due to the immense joy I feel whilst doing it I often forget to eat regularly. But I've just discovered that my Garmin has an "eat alert" alarm, so no more bonking due to happiness 😁🍌🥪🍰🍼
Thanks Tony. I'll get better producing stuff like this but glad it hit home. Eating / feeding is so important, as much as pushing our feet around in circles! Good solution, whatever works. I find tech like that good to train yourself like pavlov's dog - then ultimately, you don't need it.
@@nakedandalive Yes, too true! I'm in such a happy world of my own whilst cycling I need the Garmin alarm, but I'm slowly starting to remember to stop myself 🙂
Start before dawn. Ride with the wind. Recognize something special each hour. Be thankful as you arrive.
Word. Start early is a good one. So nice to see the sun come up with distance behind you. Plus, not busy, often you have the world to yourself.
Good tips! Nothing makes me feel more alive than cycling.
I wholeheartedly agree 🚲👍🙂
This is going down in a subway station I’m surprised xi allowed this to happen 😂
That was close! Great video, keep on biking & take care!
Yes, you just never know. Dedicated bike path and don't know what a post office delivery truck was doing there! Just lucky, only doing about 25 clicks. Happened so fast, slower watching the video. Going to experiment with a simple camera for longer, more beautiful rides. So much to learn - not just riding stuff but stuff like this camera/photography. Keeps it fun but I'll keep it simple. If I buy a drone - you have permission to push me off a cliff.
Entropy ....
Yep. It's a fascinating thing, governing almost everything. Understand that and you rule.
@@nakedandalive Me at the age of 80 years old..I know very little...battling to wipe my own back side..
As an ex pro motorcycle racer who’s had multiple concussions I NEVER ride my bicycle w a helmet. I know the stats and I’ve never crashed. Besides that 100+ years of TDF with ONLY 3 serious head injuries and 1 death with NO HELMETS.
Thanks for the perspective. Riding safely, within yourself is primary. It's a complicated, personal decision, in reality.
thats why Celibidache was a genius
I will have to google that!
@@nakedandalive google away
we did the montage slay so hard tho. you inspired me !
Inspiration is good when it is done naturally, comes naturally.
Nice setup. Love both the bike & the philosophy. Gearing is key, you know that most people only wear out the centre cogs on their cassettes, Hyperglide are everywhere, so just look in the scrap bin, & that you can easily unpin them, swap cogs out & in then simply re-assemble to your liking. by ditching your 11/12/13/14 tooth cogs, keeping & shifting your existing 21/23/25 to the outside & adding in the climbing 28/32/36 cogs from a worn out compact cassette. Cogs are pretty much all the same & will run on any "speed" type chain as they are all 1/2 inch x something. The really important part are the spacers, it is these that determine 8/9/10 speed shifting correctly. You can fit much bigger climbing cogs by using a long cage derailleur or by adding a hanger extension to your existing short cage, whether you buy it or make it. Similarly you can easily make & fit your own cage to your existing derailleur. A piece of flat stock, a saw, & file will shape the cheek plates. Stick to your 2x53/39 crank & derailleur set, as you can get these cheaply anywhere, not so 3x.....Aust. BTW, it may in your situation be prudent to carry a spare set of balls for your rear hub, which is the one that takes all the strain. That hub uses 9x3/16 for each side, & maybe just a few spare crank balls, these are 1/4 for that crank, & you can run loose balls or remove & replace them into the cage, unless you are using cartridge bearings, & if these start to run rough you can always wash them out & re-grease to keep you going until can replace them. & remember that you can still keep going with 1 or 2 less than the optimum number of balls, trick is to remove the damaged one or 2 before they infect the others & do all possible to limit damage to the bearing cups & cones to avoid having to replace hubs.
Thanks. Great advice and it is my next stage/fix. I still have what came with the bike 11-28t 8 speed. Though I manage the climbs, if they are longer than 10 minutes, I'm really not comfortable and need something bigger. So will opt for 34 or 36t but still need to get educated about all that, long/short derailleur, cranks etc ... It's a learning process. Appreciate the advice. Yes, 2x and 8 speed is fine enough.
For long distance, comfort and reliability is key. If you can hop off the bike without collapsing and be ready to do it again the next day, you are on a roll. Used, mechanical stuff from 20-30-40 years ago works perfectly well (60-70 years in case of my seat). Mixing that with new stuff straight from China is a great way to bike without breaking the bank. Good luck on your way around the globe. If you find yourself in a place with lots of fjords and man-eating tunnels, you are in Norway :)
Totally agree with those 2 priorities. Going to do a thought video about "comfort" on the bike, I have a few key principles. Yes - so many of us need to review and redo our throw away, new, new, new, buy, buy, buy ethos. I've been changing so much and my bike philosophy is just an extension of that. Lived out the pandemic in Nicaragua and there, you hardly ever buy new - you just fix and keep fixing forever whatever you have. Viking land - let's see! I love tunnels.
You should be the manager of the bike shop at sears Roebuck and Co. Thanks for more unsolicited advice.
I have a similar setup, with the addition of a frame bag made to fit the frame. I have a winged downtube bottle mount, which carries one bottle either side. I also use a 3l Camelback, as I lose a lot by perspiration. And yes, the sloping stem. The bike itself is a PlanetX Pickenflick titanium cyclocross bike, with SRAM Rival. It is my last bike, to do anything.
I will have to look your bike up - I am generally more convinced that a lot of the styles of bikes - road/gravel/mountain/touring/racing/bikepacking are kind of marketing tweaks. There are for people - do anything bikes like you suggest. Why not just put some drop bars on an mtb and call it gravel? Good on you for the camelback - you can't err wrong on the side of enough water/hydration. Stem is such a good tweak for comfort, for sure - even seen many adjustable angles but don't know how that quite works.
@@nakedandalive For the Tour Aotearoa (google it), I put on Jones bars and trigger shifters. Rather than change the rear derailleur and cassette, I put on a MTB chainset; 24 - 36. Looked unusual, but worked well (until I got atrial fibrillation).
Nice bike
Thanks ✌️ It does the job and I think that is the job description for our bikes, we all should follow.
Nice bike simple, cycling is not about having expensive one though its good to have a quality premium bike. The most important is getting most out of your bike, longer saddletime and enjoying your every ride with comfort. Have a safe ride.
Yes, good priorities. Comfort is paramount and I think I'd like to share soon how it took me the last year, full year to 1. get comfortable on the bike 2. become a cyclist. It's detective work, the comfort part. But a must, agreed.
Thanks for sharing but if you're not into competition riding, check out recumbents. Your ass, your back, your hands, your neck will thank you.
You are probably right. Biking long isn't like sitting on the couch. I will have to try a recumbent at some point. Love the guy with the KZread channel, traveling about (forget his name ...).
Excellent, good luck on your world tour
I can and it is the only way I can see maximizing the little time I have left. Sannyasa is the last part of life in the Hindu Asrama - renunciation of the world to receive all the world, not just a part.
Super video. Authentic, and as a newbie roadie really useful. Humble and inspiring. Thank you.
Thanks. I'll figure it all out. Don't know how the pros make their videos but like cycling, I'll keep learning. Appreciate the comment and motivation.
Bukowski, a story of self indulgent misery, he enjoyed misery and his scribblings are so depressing, if you pretend to like his work it's only because you want to be trendy.
Oh, I see where you are coming from but there is more to it than that. What of peeps like myself, reading Bukowski pamphlets on the shitter in te 70s? Were we just pretenders then too? A lot of joy in Bukowski, you just need to read him more.
@@nakedandalive Firstly, he was not a poet, his work lacked rhythm, rhyme and any sort of story unless it centered on misery and depression, his philosophy was basicly about his observations of life through a drunken haze. You see Sophists at art galleries all the time trying to explain their interpretations of a piece of abstract art, the wine buffs who waffle on about the attributes of one glass of wine over another, it's all ego driven fakery and it's the same with people who pretend to understand Bukowski. Anyone can write real poetry about misery E.G. here's one of mine. DIFFERENT EYES Lili The rat infested holes in which we Derros dwell Fighting for our daily bread with us as much as them For others looking at our lives perceived as living Hell If we can find an alley, with a corner safe and dry Then we are Kings for just a night and we don’t question why We’re creatures of the shadows from which existence stems. - The city is a cruel Lord and all we have is time There’ll be no hand to lift us up, no help to find a bed We waste our time wandering, with others of our kind Talking dreams, opportunity, reality and crime And those among us jackals, put their brothers on the spike Promise bliss for just a time, escape from life, sublime. - It’s all our fault we are told, by people who don’t know Just get a job and buy a house but none will ever employ A black who can’t afford to eat, a white who’s tired and slow For this is what the streets give us and Winter is the worst The frozen parks, incessant rain, back in our holes we go We try the subway, bus stations; move on, the middle class comes first. - Charity comes with a hook, the drone of pray to God We’ll give a little, not a lot, endeavour to change your life To one of fierce obedience to Jesus in the sky And if you let us take control for one small meal a day You’ll struggle on and on through life and then one day you’ll die A mansion awaits you in the clouds, if you pray and pray and pray. - But Spring brings hope, all Nature’s good, to creatures all awake Nature provides enough to eat, a nest a tree a cave But man must find their own abode and man exploits the poor So back into the tents on streets us Derros slink once more And every day it seems there’s more, one paycheck from the street This lucky country prosperous once, now greed’s a festering sore.
The Ego in children hasn't fully developed. As adults if we could conquer the Ego we would all be geniuses.
He added [and we both looked out the window at the ocean]
Beware the Genius of the crowd...
Great video
Thanks. So many had a connection with the man. Glad I could share my own message and tribute to him.
Gay
Dang nearly a year later and still good
How creative he was!!!!, Poetry is all about your feel, that's what he felt at that moment!!! He felt that the boy was genius, and true he was!!!
WRONG, Poetry is all about rhythm, rhyme and telling a story, Bukowski's work doesn't have any of those things, just negative misery.
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