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10" + of fresh bullshit this morning. All plans for cycling this weekend are clearly scrapped. It's actually still snowing at work now and I am officially ready for spring.

Yup, the wife is off today and now will be working into July.

Happy birthday!

Ah, that sucks. I didn't follow Mayberry that closely because it was too painful. At least I thought it was painful. Sounds like it was more painful for you!

I feel like I missed something here, Jeff, what happened?

Sweet ride, Justin.

Holy shit, Strech. I'm not sure I'd recognize you at that weight! My story - In good old 1998 I crested the 200lb barrier for the first time in my life. Also the year I stopped being a competitive athlete, i.e. I retired from Track anf Field officially due to a surgically repaired left ankle that prevented me from continuing to be a high jumper. I took up club volleyball to entertain me somewhat but the practice and workout routines were far less structured and therefore I did far less. Anyway, within 2yrs and subsequently graduating from college I balloned to over 230 (FAT BASTARD!). I realized that I needed to do something about that and started semi-reegular workouts at the gym which took me back down to around 210 which is more or less where I've stayed for the last decade. I've gone up a few pounds occassionally but rarely down. 5 years ago I decided I wanted to get into a little better shape and started running. I ended up randomly tearing some cartilage during a training run in 2010 and the ortho-doc suggested that runnnig was probably not a good sport for me. So I picked up cycling. For the latter half of 2010 and 2011 I didn't make much of that and my weight was simply holding steady. Last year I got the hairbrained idea from a co-worker to commute to work 1 day a week on the bike and found that I enjoyed the hell out of it. I dropped about 15lbs last year but lost a lot more fat than that. I finished the year at 199, my first trip under 200# in a long damn time. Over the winter I've put 3 or 4lbs back on but haven't completely lost last year's gains. The goal this year is to get down as close to 190 as possible by the end of the summer. Sadly, through all of the weight loss and increased fitness my high blood pressure has remained. I don't drink (average one to two drinks a week, seriously) and I don't smoke. I don't put salt on anything. I eat a reasonably well balanced diet. I know that I'm genetically predisposed but I was still hoping to avoid medication but it seems that without some sort of radical dietary change it's going to be unavoidable. Maybe I'll try minor adjustments to the diet and see if it helps...

I can't wait to hit the rocks again after mud season.

Yes, old news. http://www.frontpanelexpress.com/company/history-development/index.html

Craigslist the Vizio for a couple hundred and take the wife out to dinner.

I would have assumed that stems were measured from CTC.

Thanks everyone, it's been a great birthday weekend. Friday was quality time spent with the kids (and not at work!) and yesterday I got some alone time during the day and got my first rode ride of the season in. Last night the wife and I got to spend time without the kids and had a great dinner in Portsmouth. Unfortunately this morning the wife was not feeling great but we made the best of it and I just snuck in a workout during nap time since the snow returned today. Life is good. And Stretch, you're always up to something so I'm nervously curious what you're up to this time.

Nice JP, I'm looking forward to building the mileage base up and going for some longer rides this year.

2013 - ride #1 - a bit brisk out, but the roads were decently clean with only a few puddles from snow melt. Of course now that I'm back the sun is out and it's getting warmer. If daytime temps start regularly flirting with 50 I can start riding to work again.

HA @ Mike. I just sent the kids to Nana and Papa's till tomorrow morning.

Glad everything turned out ok, Steve.

Correct. I have a soft spot for the ECD-1.

Damn that's hot! I changed the stem angle on my Roubaix the other weekend and now need to adjust the angle of my bars, hopefully this afternoon.

Excellent news, Vicki!

Happy Birthday!

Well, I had a little time this weekend so I mounted my spring tires on my spare wheelset. I'm getting pretty fired up to get back out on the road when the weather improves. Unfortunately mother nature has seen fit to drop a decent amount of snow lately which isn't appreciated but not so much that a week's worth of decent weather can't dispatch it.

Thanks!

Wish they had the same deal on the 2TB version.

This. Sorry for your loss Knucks.

I get that the guy wants out but the odds of finding a buyer have got to be pretty remote. If he's asking $500k I'd expect there to be at least $2M in retail inventory and it doesn't sound like there's anywhere close to that but maybe I'm missing something.