New York October NYC Meet-Up

Phil,

PM me your snail-mail address.

It may take a while for me to round up all the stuff I want to send you that is all 8-speed related. Not that you’ll need a pickup truck, but I got a lot of stuff to send you that is all 8-speed related.

How about a pair of first generation XTR 8-speed shifters? How about Suntour 7-speed thumb shifters (of course has the extra click for 8-speed)? How about XC Pro cranks and derailleurs…?

Anyways, in life, those of us that struggle, these transitions mark out our character. Disruptions happen…

Cal
 
Cal, look up the Nitto M12 front rack. They are very cool. Can’t take a ton of weight but they are a bolt up solution. I want to get one for my touring bike so I can add a bag with snacks, maps, hold the cell phone, etc. Soma makes a more advanced one with struts to the dropouts that allows for more weight.
if you want to carry weight reliably though, it’s he only way is to really hook up a decent rear rack. One thing to keep in mind is that you are going to want to have some kind of padding to reduce road vibration going to your gear. Bike road noise is the kind of thing that causes screws to back out over the course of 20 miles. This happened to me up in Washington when I was in the Navy, biking around and carrying a camera in a bag on a rack.

Phil Forrest
 
Water weighs about 8 pounds a gallon and gasoline about 7 pounds a gallon.

So pretty much dropping a gas tank, especially a 23 gallon tank, requires some logistical planning. Pretty much you want to drop the tank when it is empty or near empty.

So when the “sender” in the gas tank goes south pretty much if you are a lazy-slacker the job gets put off. Pretty much because I’m a clever guy I used the odometer and recorded the mileage knowing that I could easily go 250 miles on a full tank (23 gallons).

So you got to know I got pretty good at this, and over the course of perhaps 2-3 years I drove without a working fuel gauge, and I only ran out of gas maybe 2 or 3 times over those years. Not really a big deal where I got really stuck, but I want to acknowledge that it did happen.

So pretty much I know from experience from doing a sustained 100 MPH in a raised Jeep Scrambler, a rather unstable vehicle, that was lifted, that I could empty a full tank of high test (23 gallons) in about an hour.

So I read in the Op-Ed of the New York Times, an opinion piece from Paul Krugman, the Economist. Pretty much he compares Putin and Powell because they are men who are at war (Ukrainian or Inflation) and also makes a point that they are also both at the same time have made a drastic shift in policy.

Then he takes credit that both he and Powell both got caught up in the surprise when inflation became a problem.

So with the energy crisis in Europe, and Germany suffering from said energy crisis, the word recession is not used. In my understanding is that if Germany is in a recession, that Europe becomes collateral damage and also goes into recession. Know that the Eurozone economy is as large as the U.S. economy. Know that 4 out of 5 recessions are due to high energy costs.

So imagine you are driving along, you have a working fuel gauge, it points toward “E,” you take notice, but you keep driving along anyways, and when the engine sputters, and you loose speed, somehow you are still surprised that you ran out of gas when it happens.

So am I really exaggerating if I compare my running out of gas to Fed policy and the surprise by someone who has a PhD in Economics? Will everyone be surprise when we learn we are in a recession?

Again Jerome Powell is a lawyer by profession and not a bankster or economist.

So how do the all the MBA’s not see the inevitable? Inflation is a surprise? How can that be?

Do you remember when Powell said inflation can be good and that FED policy would promote higher inflation.

So when Germany gets declared to be in a recession, and then in turn Europe, will everyone be surprised? How many interest rate inversions do we need? Where is the tipping point? And when will people realize that we are in a recession (a time of negative or slow growth)?

So maybe my analogy is not an exaggeration at all.

BTW I find all of this rather fascinating. Very basic economic theory is little understood. I think Jerome Powell with his “some prolonged inflation is good” policy had “entrenched” Wall Street to the extent that the inflation mindset has already been “entrenched” at least in Wall Street. Come-on, how did Paul Krugman get blind-sighted?

Anyways, a lot of dumb-thinking…

Cal
 
Phil_F_NM said:
Cal, look up the Nitto M12 front rack. They are very cool. Can’t take a ton of weight but they are a bolt up solution. I want to get one for my touring bike so I can add a bag with snacks, maps, hold the cell phone, etc. Soma makes a more advanced one with struts to the dropouts that allows for more weight.
if you want to carry weight reliably though, it’s he only way is to really hook up a decent rear rack. One thing to keep in mind is that you are going to want to have some kind of padding to reduce road vibration going to your gear. Bike road noise is the kind of thing that causes screws to back out over the course of 20 miles. This happened to me up in Washington when I was in the Navy, biking around and carrying a camera in a bag on a rack.

Phil Forrest
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Phil,

I looked at that rack and my Koski fork has no drilled hole.

Cal
 
Cal, I like almost everything you post
However, in the interest of clarity, do you think you could start a "Bike" thread, separate from "NYC Meet Up?"
 
Canyongazer said:
Cal, I like almost everything you post
However, in the interest of clarity, do you think you could start a "Bike" thread, separate from "NYC Meet Up?"
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CG,

Not a bad idea. If someone seconds that. I will do it.

BTW S&P 52 week low is 3636. We are pretty close at the close today, within striking range, and it is a matter of time before a new 52 week low is made. Pretty much look for a descending staircase to start to happen. Some banksters are saying the S&P will go to 3000.

30 year mortgage is now 6.29%, but we are not at the 10% yet need to deflate the housing market.

The glide path has started. Now Powell has the idea that he has to kill the stock market and the housing market. He finally figured out only recently that inflation is a problem.

Cal
 
So the Ti Basso Road bike, even with a different size chain ring and wheel size the gearing effectively will be almost the same 1x11as the Newsboy.

Difference is mostly limitations on the tire width on the road bike, but oh-well, still a nice bike, likely lighter than the Newsboy, and a whole different vibe.

I ended up just using what I have as wheelsets, and I’m cool with that. Money saved…

The Newsboy though will be the more versatile bike, and it could also have 2x11 capabilities using a White Industries VBC pair of chainrings. I would have to get a XTR 11-speed long cage derailleur though to promote wide gearing. The 2x11 capability was a good reason to get those new mucho loud polished cranks and polished chainrings, although the VBC chainrings only come in evil black.

Anyways the Newsboy is a “Crazy-Bike.”

Cal
 
jsrockit said:
Thank you. Very cool. I especially enjoyed https://www.aimlessphotos.com/50kw.html
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Thanks!
I'm slowly working on that. Have a good dozen more I haven't scanned. Been touring around finding 50kw am transmitters to shoot, or at least the sites when I can't get access inside. Aren't that many big transmitter sites left, and alot of them are ugly boring buildings, trying my best. :)
 
fiddle said:
Thanks!
I'm slowly working on that. Have a good dozen more I haven't scanned. Been touring around finding 50kw am transmitters to shoot, or at least the sites when I can't get access inside. Aren't that many big transmitter sites left, and alot of them are ugly boring buildings, trying my best. :)
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Just a thought, photograph the boring buildings too. It is a good project and if there is not much left, definitely photograph all of it.
 
jsrockit said:
Just a thought, photograph the boring buildings too. It is a good project and if there is not much left, definitely photograph all of it.
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Fidel,

Out on Long Island was a 500 acre site near or in Rocky Point that was called the RCA Grounds. Back in WWII it was a big antenna field for short wave communications during the war to Europe. Pretty much a secrete place and rather important.

The area became contaminated with PCB’s from the electronics, and then somehow it became public land somehow. Pretty much I believe a corporate entity unloaded the cleanup liability to the taxpayer as usual standard procedure.

Of course back in the day in this pine barren wilderness, we trespassed and covertly exploited hiking trails as our mountain bike trails. The ground tended to be soft and sandy, there were sections that were rocky and roots, but overall very fast trails.

Of interest to you would be the ruins that might not exist. Remnants of a building, the antenna field, and scattered littler of WWII equipment. Lots of history buried there.

Now I wonder how much is left?

Cal
 
So pretty much I go way off topic here. I rant a lot, but the idea is to engage and maintain friendships and keep communications going.

The bike excitement, my guitar craziness and other subjects like my Rat-Rod Chevy C-10 pickup are kinda invites for others to share and post.

Anyways I kinda like the openness here, but I also understand that I can take things into another universe, like in the world of economics or financial matters.

I kinda do this as a “Public Service” and pretty much I get back more than I give.

So in the realm of policy making I am no Jerome Powell or Putin. What say you?

This is our “Safe Place” and I would like to kinda keep it that way.

Cal
 
It doesn't preclude you or one of us from starting a NYC "off topic" thread here. I think it makes sense to keep threads related to scheduling meetings about the meeting schedule, since it can be hard for folks to actually find the dates and times within the tall weeds of the thread. It's all a safe place, and organization doesn't change that.

Phil Forrest
 
jsrockit said:
Just a thought, photograph the boring buildings too. It is a good project and if there is not much left, definitely photograph all of it.
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Yeah I plan on it, if I can venture around the country to get as many as I can.
By not alot I mean like 150 or so. Plenty here in this area, but again, more boring buildings.
From my research Detroit,Chicago,Baltimore has more interesting art deco ish style buildings that were built for the radio stations. I'll head down to Baltimore soonish to see if they are still around.
 
Phil_F_NM said:
It doesn't preclude you or one of us from starting a NYC "off topic" thread here. I think it makes sense to keep threads related to scheduling meetings about the meeting schedule, since it can be hard for folks to actually find the dates and times within the tall weeds of the thread. It's all a safe place, and organization doesn't change that.

Phil Forrest
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Phil,

This makes sense. We still have a “safe place” and we still can stay connected.

Not that this is AA, or CA (Cameras Anonymous), but I guess the idea here is to have a support group of sorts.

I’ll start a new thread.

Cal
 
fiddle said:
Yeah I plan on it, if I can venture around the country to get as many as I can.
By not alot I mean like 150 or so. Plenty here in this area, but again, more boring buildings.
From my research Detroit,Chicago,Baltimore has more interesting art deco ish style buildings that were built for the radio stations. I'll head down to Baltimore soonish to see if they are still around.
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Fidel,

”Maggie’s” grandfather was the architect who designed that Bell Telephone building in downtown Manhattan. I think it is Art Deco.

On the west side around Hudson Street is a building that are a bunch of artist residences. Pretty long waiting list to live in this kinda rent stabilized building for artists, but formally it was a WWII research lab that worked on the “Manhattan Project.”

Cal
 
October is not so far away.

Things are cooling down as far as temperatures, so perhaps earlier in the month is better than the later part of the month.

Someone pick a Sunday.

The idea here is to have our October Meet-Up at the Beer Garden in Astoria again.

Cal
 
It is October 3rd and no one has picked a date.

So in October I today remembered that I have to sign up for Medicare and the one pension I must start collecting at age 65.

Cal
 
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