60+ year old thread.

I'll probably get to my brother's place in Brooklyn (just east of Jackson) on or about the 7th of September; I'll probably work at least a few of the days that week from the Google offices in Ann Arbor, and then Friday and Saturday the reunion activities take place in the Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills area; heading back to Maryland on Sunday the 14th. I don't suppose any of those areas are near you.

 

Totally! Happy wife happy life my friend

 

My mower guy says he can take an old satellite dish off my roof. He used to work as a roofer. Been waiting for a while... hope he can get to it soon. He's very particular about his work. I have a couple new leftover shingles... maybe a good place to use them, IDK. I'll stay off the roof, as ordered.
Large coon on the deck yesterday in broad daylight. I'll set out a trap. They're not hard to catch, when they're hungry... which is 24/7.

 

Good morning. Went to the local farmers market yesterday and bought some produce for dinner. Gassed up the wifes car and then stayed home and cooked dinner. broke in my sisters new grill with the cook. Sorry I updated the phone and cannot find the rotation tool.

 

Morning kids , warm and humid, rain coming

 

That's our plan as well.

 

Good Morning everyone

Both of my Cats were bored this morning and they tried their best in trying to wake me up . They started making noise at 0445hrs . My 16 yr old Cat " Rascal" is very smart and knows how to activate one of my Ring security camera's

She knows that if she walks near the security camera's it will alert my my phone . She walked by the camera 10x'sthis morning


I was able to sleep in until 0700hrs

 

Good morning all. Need to rearrange my garage a little this morning. Need to put my Buell on the bike lift table for some maintenance.

 

F1

watch the sermon

sleep rest someone not far did July 5 fireworks past midnight pets fine me blurry dopey not enough coffee in the world

Huge USA V Mexico game 4 pm PST

 

Watched a lil Spain and Portugal match. Them wommins were focused !!

 

64 year old young'n here!
Driving a 2008 Tacoma V6.....currently has 297K miles.

Back in 2008, purchased brand new, drove it off the dealership lot and never looked back and still going strong in 2025!

 

Home from shopping

 

Welcome to the Porch @Tex-Tac .
That is one fine looking 2008 with that many miles. Enjoy the posts in the thread and jump on in with your posts.

 

I took the 1982 Trek out for a ride today and managed a very hilly 20.62 miles; my longest ride in 35 years! As I was riding down into a deep river cutting (a very wide creek in reality), I hit 37 mph indicated and I knew I was going to be hating life on the way back up.



And before you ask, yes, my legs are a big rubbery and I am saddle sore.

 

I've never understood the gearing on bikes... If I'm going up a hill and have to go to a gear so low that it's hard to balance on the bike and I could go faster getting off and pushing the bike... what good are those super low gears? And by the same token, if I get to the highest gear and have more push... why isn't there a taller gear?
I could probably live with a five speed bike if it was geared right.
I've never seen a tall enough gear on level ground...

 

My old touring bike only has 18-speeds (3x6), in the lowest gear I can ride faster than I can walk, especially when I'm carrying a lot of pack weight (I'm thinking climbing a mountain ridge on the south island of New Zealand in 1990); things got so steep on that climb I tried pushing the bike up the hill, nope, bad idea, I got back on and rode the rest of the way up. On the way down the other side, you're right, ain't no amount of gearing would have made me go any faster; I hit an indicated 75 mph, even with all of the wind resistance of the paniers.

For more normal rides, efficient gearing allows you to maintain an optimal pedal cadence (100-110 rpms) regardless of the incline; when riding my 3-speed it takes me about 12- to 14-minutes to get to the place where I had my radiation treatments last fall; on my old touring bike, which weights roughly the same amount, I do that distance in as little as 8-minutes.