Social Dick-Stancing

I'm still getting ready... for nothing.

I picked the perfect time to injure my left hand.  The trails (well, the ones a half mile from my house) have fallen victim to every other day deluges which have kept them closed since the day after I went and hurt myself.  Trail work options are limited as well... no sense trying to stack mud into a shitty jump. 

So instead of building "features" on shit trails in garbage woods or clearing fallen vegetation from the trail, I had no excuse to not finally deal with the rest of the... for lack of a better term... landscaped weeds around the house.

Hours spent stacking detritus in no greater than three feet by five feet city approved piles of discarded landscaped weeds to be picked up... someday.  I will never get a yard of the month award.  I don't care much about curb appeal in general... but I guess some house hygiene is in order from time to time.

But this is a bike blog and not a homes and gardens blog, so here goes.

I found out that Fox has discontinued the external option for their Transfer droopers for 2021.  I'd gotten a heads up that this was coming, but it still hurt my head part when I saw that it was official.  I've had great luck with mine... aside from that one time at Breck Epic... when it was probably overdue for servicing... and had I just a little knowledge, I mighta remedied the situation myself.

Anyhoo, I doubled down on my "outdated" bike cycle racing bike and bought a back up...

Which I went ahead and put on the bike, making the post that was just serviced in September my new/old backup (bought new June 2018).  I'd held onto my Thomson drooper (only 125mm of droop) as a backup, always knowing that if I had an issue at a stage race, it wasn't necessarily going to be a quick change-a-roo.  It would require a cable and housing swap... but now everything's pretty much plug and play.

And it can be a less-than-quick-swap backup for my Vassago Meatplow V.8... which is another story.

I decided to try the PNW Rainier 3 on it... a month ago?  Mebbe more?

In an attempt to be as ironic as possible, I wanted to find out just how much droop is too much droop at a time when I'm only riding locally and totally not at all in the much more droop-friendly Pisgah.  This PNW post is adjustable down from 200mm in 5mm increments so you can get as much droop as possible from your bike.  It took some fiddling (it's a tool-free affair), but I think I ended up with 180mm... I think.  Mebbe 185mm.  I futzed with it back and forth too many times to remember.

All this seems sorta nuts to a some years ago me who was handed a 150mm prototype Thomson drooper to mess with and see what's what.  I'd only had a 125mm drooper up until then, and after some amount of riding, I felt that 150mm was too much droop for a four apple tall man/woman hooman person.

Now?

Recently, Bill Nye sold me back my 27.2 125mm drooper so I could put it on my Stickel Meatplow V.6 beer fetcher...  because I can't stand not drooping... and it just feels like it's missing something.  My muscle memory can feel it stopping short, and I'm left wanting for more.

But at least I can do the Harley Shuffle at red lights, so I've got that going for me.

Did you know people are watching professional sports reruns on network TV?

And I'm all trying to figure out that while pro cycling is now being raced on Zwift, why isn't the NBA, PGA, MLB... NFL... whatever they all are... why aren't they shipping all their athletes an Xbox?

I mean, we're all watching the UCI teams race on Zwift, right?  I'm not, but... someone is?

Fuck it.  I'm going back to bed.  Wake me up when this is over.