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Post by ForRealTho on Aug 16, 2020 16:12:34 GMT -5
Went 13 miles with 230+ feet of elevation gain on Friday, been so hungry for the past few days and just can't stop eating. I think I ate a whole extra large pizza. I went biking the last 3 days, was gonna take today off but went anyway cuz its nice out. For the first time in years I went over my handlebars. I took a really hard turn and slammed into a rock. My disc breaks are also starting to squeak. They are the originals from when I got the bike in 2016. Need to bring it in and get looked at but apparently all the bike shops are super booked up. |
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Post by Coolverine on Aug 18, 2020 0:16:40 GMT -5
I haven't had a really bad fall since last year, I went OTB and hurt my ribs pretty badly. I remember I got very drowsy and had a fever when I got home after that, ended up sleeping all day then couldn't get out of bed when I woke up. It was 6 weeks until I could ride again, even then was still pretty sore. I think I underestimate myself a lot, one thing I've wanted to learn is how to take drops, I know I can do it but I still walk them or go around them. There's one part of this trail I frequent where the path to the right is off-camber and goes very close to a creek edge, probably a 20ft fall if I were to go over. I've gone that way but it always scares the sh*t outta me, so I always go left because it's much safer. There's still a very small optional drop there that I actually managed to make the last time I rode.  Landed evenly on both wheels too.
One way I like practicing drops is going off curbs and sidewalks.
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Post by ForRealTho on Aug 18, 2020 7:39:19 GMT -5
I messed with the rotor on and it looks like the front break needs to be looked at. I have the hydraulic disc brakes with actual break fluid inside them and I don't have any of the tools to work on it. I don't mind bringing it to a professional since bad brakes = fractured skull in the middle of the woods.
Sadly tho everything is crazy booked out here. I have called and left messages at a few bike places and nobody has called me back yet.
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Post by ForRealTho on Aug 19, 2020 13:06:21 GMT -5
So yesterday I dropped by the bike store and they have all the parts on hand to replace my brakes so instead of 2-3 weeks they said give them a couple days. Only $40 parts and labor.
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Post by Coolverine on Aug 20, 2020 0:38:34 GMT -5
That's good.
I've had my bike for 1 year now, it's probably due for some kind of maintenance but it's still riding really well. Someone helped me go tubeless and there's sealant in the tires, that might need to be changed out after a year. Still no punctures that I know of.
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Post by ForRealTho on Aug 20, 2020 9:19:52 GMT -5
I've thought about going tubeless but never got around too it. I have a spare tube in my Camelpak but with my current bike I have never got a flat tire. On my old bike I got a flat and made the mistake of getting a replacement tire at Walmart for $3.
I pumped it up and went for a ride the next day and 10 minutes into the ride it went flat again. After that I went to a bike shop and got a real replacement tube.
My old bike had the old school brake pads, I got in the habit of swapping them myself. Took 10 minutes. The hydraulic disc breaks also have little pads you have to replace I'm pretty sure I am on the original 2016 pads.
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Post by ForRealTho on Aug 20, 2020 9:20:34 GMT -5
Also if you don't have a Camelpak you should get one. Not having to stop and deal with bottled water makes life way easier. Plus you can carry way more water.
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Post by Coolverine on Aug 20, 2020 12:26:05 GMT -5
I have an Osprey Syncro 12 (this one), has a waterpack inside of it with a hose and all. It was slightly pricy but it holds plenty of water and has a ton of compartments, I've even found a few hidden ones. There's also a really nice compartment in the very top that's perfect for phone keeping. Haven't taken it with me in a while though, only if I go somewhere that's far away. There's plenty of room in it for tools, patchkit, mini pump, snacks, and anything else. Last time I did take it I filled it with 50/50 ice and water, it was great. If there is one thing I could criticize, sometimes the flap on the top compartment gets stuck in the zipper easily.
Saw a video on Youtube that said to occasionally squeeze lemon juice into it and fill it, freeze it, then let it thaw and dump it out. Supposed to keep it fresh.
The top of the waterpack where it opens up to fill was starting to turn a little yellow, same for the mouthpiece, I washed the whole thing out with a little bit of dishsoap and now it's not yellow anymore.
One thing that's kinda funny, my cat for some reason is always wanting to mess with this backpack whenever I have it out, I had to put it on the top shelf in my closet and he still tries to get to it. I don't think he'll damage it but he always pulls it down from wherever I put it and then tries to chew on the straps. One time he pulled it down and was just laying on it.
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Post by Coolverine on Aug 28, 2020 16:45:26 GMT -5
Just went for a ride, didn't realize that it was around 102-103F with a much higher heat index when I went (it's 105 now with 113F heat index), wore my pads too. Got very hot on the trail, at one point thirsty and lightheaded but I made it. I drank a bottle of water before but ended up sweating it all out. It was only 3 or 4 miles but with some good climbing that goes over tree roots, so it feels longer. I feel like I really should've taken my waterpack. I only saw 1 other biker and 1 hiker on the trail.
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Post by ForRealTho on Aug 28, 2020 17:36:03 GMT -5
Just went for a ride, didn't realize that it was around 102-103F with a much higher heat index when I went (it's 105 now with 113F heat index), wore my pads too. Got very hot on the trail, at one point thirsty and lightheaded but I made it. I drank a bottle of water before but ended up sweating it all out. It was only 3 or 4 miles but with some good climbing that goes over tree roots, so it feels longer. I feel like I really should've taken my waterpack. I only saw 1 other biker and 1 hiker on the trail. Yeah over 100 is crazy. In Alaska I would go biking when it was like 45f out I would just wear a long sleeve baselayer from REI and a windbreaker. Still cold but I managed. When I moved to Arizona I decided to go biking when it was 95f, my bike was black and my shirt and pants were black. Big mistake lol. I went home right after. I waited a couple months and acclimated to the heat before I went again. I've been biking when its over 90f here a couple times but its still pretty brutal. In Phoenix where it gets up to 120f every summer there would be some athlete who decided to go workout in that weather and die of heatstroke. Not worth it to me. |
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Post by Coolverine on Aug 28, 2020 19:16:15 GMT -5
Oh yeah 120F is a death wish. It normally gets 100F or close to it during this time of the year, lots of people still go out. It can get very cold here during the wintertime too but it usually stays above freezing. 10 years ago in February it suddenly snowed a whole foot all over the metroplex and no one saw it coming. It had been in the 70's all week, then suddenly on a Thursday or Friday the temperature dropped to 30's, started snowing heavily and didn't stop for a few days. I don't think anything like that will happen again for a long time if ever again, it was breathtaking. Snow is very rare here, when it does happen it melts very fast the next day like it was never there, or melts and refreezes into dangerous patches of ice.
I've lived in Texas all my life so I'm pretty used to the heat, I actually prefer it to the cold.
The bike I have has 2.8" wide tires, so it's somewhere between a fat bike and regular 2.3 or 2.4" width tire. Probably could handle snow decently. I've only been biking for 1 year now, but I went a lot during the wintertime. The humidity here causes this refrigerator effect kind of thing to happen when the temperature's in the 40's or colder and it's pretty miserable. I think it got down to 10-20 below 0F when I was in Alaska and it actually felt more tolerable because of the dry air. |
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Post by Coolverine on Aug 31, 2020 17:27:11 GMT -5
A few months ago I bought (or thought I bought) a pretty nice helmet from REI along with a lot of other stuff, the total was somewhere between $400-$500 at checkout. Was looking through my purchase history on their website and could not find it anywhere in there, the total's correct but it's actually missing the price of that helmet. I had the receipt emailed and not printed, never had the need to look at it so I never noticed.
Called their customer service line to tell them what happened and said I was willing to pay for it too, but they said not to worry about it. So I got a $140 helmet for free. They also said thanks for being a loyal customer. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2020 21:13:42 GMT -5
The top of the line RTX 3090 (just one card) takes up 3 sli slots. It's SLI ready too, so buy two and you'd need room for six sli slots in your case.
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Post by Coolverine on Sept 1, 2020 22:11:43 GMT -5
I'm still using a GTX 1070, thinking about upgrading to the RTX 3070 or even 3080 this year.
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Post by Coolverine on Sept 2, 2020 12:41:45 GMT -5
It's in the 70's today but it's been raining for over a day straight now and all the trails are closed. With the rain and overcast projected for the rest of the week, they'll probably be closed for at least 1 week.  There's a few other trails I could go to but they are at least a 1-2 hour drive. There's one place that will definitely be open even though it's muddy, not an approved trail but they allow bikes. It's a very easy flat trail with gravel and dirt, only a few miles long but some nice scenery. I rode there quite a few times while I was recovering from my rib injury. |
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Post by ForRealTho on Sept 2, 2020 12:52:27 GMT -5
It's in the 70's today but it's been raining for over a day straight now and all the trails are closed. With the rain and overcast projected for the rest of the week, they'll probably be closed for at least 1 week. There's a few other trails I could go to but they are at least a 1-2 hour drive. I went on a nice ride an hour and a half way a couple Saturdays ago. Great riding but spending 3 hours on the road is killer. I took the day off work yesterday to go to the Dentist then went riding after, good cuz its rainy today. Here we have trails covered in forest canopy so they can stay dry even if it rains. Its really bad form to go riding right after a torrential downpour tho. Also the Trek store sold me these foam handgrips that supposedly conform to your fingers but they aren't deep enough to do that. After less then a month they started to develop tears in them. After going on a hard ride I went to a different store and got some handgrips with an extra plastic piece sticking out to grip onto. This is the "modern" style. Noticed the difference right away. Feels a lot more solid. Wish I had switched to that style handgrip a long time ago. The bike store guy was not impressed with Trek he was like "we would never sell those foam handgrips here they are terrible" Also I got a new bladder for my Camelpak a while back and noticed even after washing it out with soap it still had a chemical taste. Then I read about denture cleaning tablets. I got some generic flavorless ones and filled up the bladder and threw in 2 tablets. Let them sit for 15 minutes. Rinsed it out really good and that did the trick. No more chemical taste at all. |
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Post by ForRealTho on Sept 2, 2020 15:48:21 GMT -5
I'm still using a GTX 1070, thinking about upgrading to the RTX 3070 or even 3080 this year. I'm curious how they will perform in laptops next year. I can't even imagine how expensive the 3090 would be in a laptop form factor. |
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Post by Coolverine on Sept 2, 2020 16:09:58 GMT -5
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Post by Coolverine on Sept 8, 2020 17:42:51 GMT -5
It's in the 70's today but it's been raining for over a day straight now and all the trails are closed. With the rain and overcast projected for the rest of the week, they'll probably be closed for at least 1 week. There's a few other trails I could go to but they are at least a 1-2 hour drive. I went on a nice ride an hour and a half way a couple Saturdays ago. Great riding but spending 3 hours on the road is killer. I took the day off work yesterday to go to the Dentist then went riding after, good cuz its rainy today. Here we have trails covered in forest canopy so they can stay dry even if it rains. Its really bad form to go riding right after a torrential downpour tho. Also the Trek store sold me these foam handgrips that supposedly conform to your fingers but they aren't deep enough to do that. After less then a month they started to develop tears in them. After going on a hard ride I went to a different store and got some handgrips with an extra plastic piece sticking out to grip onto. This is the "modern" style. Noticed the difference right away. Feels a lot more solid. Wish I had switched to that style handgrip a long time ago. The bike store guy was not impressed with Trek he was like "we would never sell those foam handgrips here they are terrible" Also I got a new bladder for my Camelpak a while back and noticed even after washing it out with soap it still had a chemical taste. Then I read about denture cleaning tablets. I got some generic flavorless ones and filled up the bladder and threw in 2 tablets. Let them sit for 15 minutes. Rinsed it out really good and that did the trick. No more chemical taste at all. I want to go to a real forest to bike someday, it looks amazing. One place I want to check out is Bandera Bike Park in south Texas, not a forest but the terrain is semi-desert with lots of hills, looks like an awesome place. I think for a while it was nothing but last year they did a lot to improve it. Only thing is, it gets very hot in that area.
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Post by ForRealTho on Sept 9, 2020 9:17:21 GMT -5
Also its funny how snobby the bike community can be. I had a blast on my $500 "starter" bike I got in 2006. It didn't even have disc brakes. My new bike is technically superior in every way but having a much nicer bike hasn't changed the base experience.
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Post by Coolverine on Sept 9, 2020 16:06:36 GMT -5
Nothing wrong with $500 starter bikes, I went for a $2000 mountain bike for my first though, just paid it off in July. It's still a starter bike just much better equipped and probably lighter than a cheaper bike. I remember reading about this bike called the Nishiki Colorado Comp that you can get at Dick's sporting goods, supposed to be a very decent starter MTB, I think normally it's $759 but people have gotten it for $450.
I noticed when I was adjusting my bike's shifter cable tension, if I press the downshift lever down further it clicks twice and the deraileur actually shifts down by 2 gears instead of one. Otherwise if I press it not so far, it only downshifts by 1 gear. I was afraid I'd messed something up but it appears to be by design, just never noticed it.
Does your bike do that too? I looked it up online, didn't find much but it appears that some deraileurs can downshift by up to 4 gears at a time.
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Post by ForRealTho on Sept 9, 2020 21:58:08 GMT -5
I haven't tried. I'll have to check next time I go biking.
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Post by ForRealTho on Sept 21, 2020 13:27:03 GMT -5
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Post by Babel-17 on Sept 21, 2020 17:52:12 GMT -5
Which is fine for most people, but if you overwhelm its cache, ouch. For read speeds it should be blazing fast, so it would be great for holding a huge C: drive, and all of your videogames. What's the warranty, one year? Five years if you register it.
For eight more hours they have the 1 TB TLC as a deal of the day for $159.98.
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Post by Coolverine on Sept 21, 2020 17:59:58 GMT -5
I bought one of those 4TB Samsung SSD's a while back, was expensive as sh*t, I think it's MLC.
I don't know why SLC SSD's are so hard to find, but I think that companies don't tend to make them because they're so expensive. I found a 256GB SLC on some site for $500, I hate to imagine how much a 4TB one would cost.
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Post by ForRealTho on Sept 22, 2020 9:13:58 GMT -5
Which is fine for most people, but if you overwhelm its cache, ouch. For read speeds it should be blazing fast, so it would be great for holding a huge C: drive, and all of your videogames. What's the warranty, one year? Five years if you register it. I had a Samsung 970 Pro 512 gig in before I upgraded and it did the whole clone in 7 minutes. I notice no difference in speed between the two day to day. Its been my only drive in my laptop since last summer and I have had no issues with speed. Windows updates and everything is fast. I have not had to reinstall Windows yet which I assume would overwhelm the cache but how often do you reinstall Windows anyway? I make small YouTube videos and have no issues with that either. I assume maybe a pro editor who is dealing with terabytes of data might have problems with the cache. For my use case which is just web browsing and gaming its crazy fast. |
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Post by ForRealTho on Sept 22, 2020 9:45:43 GMT -5
I read the tomshardware link you posted. They actually have load time benchmarks. The fastest intel optane drives only load games 4 seconds faster best case scenario. The more reasonably priced competitor SSDs are 1.5 - 2 seconds faster. I'm cool with not paying $200+ dollars to literally save 2 seconds of load time or a whole 4 seconds best case scenario.
Remember in the early 2000s when some games took over a minute to load and if you got a 10,000 RPM Raptor it was 40 seconds? lol.
At my old job we had a bunch of 10,000 RPM Raptors in a box. I shoulda taken one home to play around with it.
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Post by Babel-17 on Sept 22, 2020 12:17:58 GMT -5
Tom's was for the TLC version. QLC is only problematic when it has to handle irregular work loads. Sort of like how a HD would have thrashing. And there are workarounds to that if the drive uses spare space as a SLC cache. The one real caveat is that MLC lasts half as long as SLC, TLC lasts half as long as MLC, and QLC lasts half as long as TLC. So a two TB QLC should have as many writes as a 480 GB MLC, which is basically forever, even if downloading hundreds of gigabytes of data every day, for years and years and year. The new 3d stacking method is supposedly working out really well. www.tweaktown.com/reviews/9352/sabrent-rocket-nvme-2tb-pcie-gen3-0-x4-2-ssd/index.html"If you register your SSD with Sabrent within 90 days, your warranty period increases from one year to five years. Be sure to register." "To complement their NVMe SSDs, Sabrent has developed a full feature SSD Toolbox. Sabrent's toolbox allows monitoring of your SSDs health, temperature, and SMART details. With the toolbox, you can easily update firmware, secure erase, register your SSD, and download Sabrent's custom-tailored version of Acronis cloning software." "The first thing we notice is the Rocket Q's rated sequential speeds as they are by far the best we've seen to date for any consumer QLC product. We also notice that the Rocket Q has an endurance rating that is far better than Intel's 660P series QLC SSDs." The Phison controller is very good, this has me tempted, but my current PC is only a year or two away from becoming a backup. "Our write transfer is 100GB in size and composed of more than 62,000 files. Not an easy test to be sure. The Rocket Q delivers a jaw-dropping result of 755 MB/s. Totally unexpected and a testament to the effectiveness of Phison's QLC firmware. So far, we've seen the Rocket Q delivering the goods better than many current TLC based SSDs." I have a 480 GB NVMe PCIe M.2 with a Phison controller, a MLC one, which while older (three and a half years old) has done me very well for my C: drive, and with a partition I set up on it for games. |
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Post by ForRealTho on Sept 22, 2020 12:28:47 GMT -5
I registered with Sabrient but I haven't played around with the toolbox. I might have to download that later and see if there are firmware updates.
As I have posted about here before my first ever SSD died. The Samsung 850 Evo 1tb I got in 2015 for I think $335 shipped. It took 5 hours to clone from my 5400 rpm laptop drive to that.
That was rated as 150 tbw and sadly since it died I can't see exactly how much it took but I think the last time I checked it was >90 tbw.
The Sabrient 2 tb I am on now is rated at 3115 tbw so I am hopeful that it will last at least 5 years and when it is outclassed I will be able to upgrade with no issues.
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Post by ForRealTho on Sept 22, 2020 12:47:16 GMT -5
I'm still working from home, I ran upstairs and got on my laptop and download the Sabrient SSD toolkit...........lol. Very ugly application that looks like it was thrown together. Interestingly it says I am on the latest firmware. I have been on that SSD since last July or August and never updated the firmware.
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Landed evenly on both wheels too.
There's a few other trails I could go to but they are at least a 1-2 hour drive. There's one place that will definitely be open even though it's muddy, not an approved trail but they allow bikes. It's a very easy flat trail with gravel and dirt, only a few miles long but some nice scenery. I rode there quite a few times while I was recovering from my rib injury.
