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As long as it's not pie in your face or pie in the sky, it's all good. Especially if it's Key lime pie. YUM.
2 years agoI think this math purist would call it π/2 "radians".
2 years agoHeh heh heh... "rustic"... great choice of adjectives!
The tent gets a week-long field test the second week of April so I'll be well-informed as to how it performs. Hopefully I can string the tarp above the tent rather than draping it directly over, but we'll have to wait and see.
The Mark II version doesn't have the slots; I found that they really didn't work as intended. However, my front rack features a bolt-in cross member (you can see the end of the bolt slightly above and to the left of the left end of the prototype) that will keep the "production" model in place, along with the zip ties that will keep it from rotating.
The final product has been painted to (nearly) match the bike.
Heck you should be good....my MSR hubba bubba is rustic in the waterproofing too. I sealed the seams and had much more experience with it. I too, carry a tarp.
2 years agoThat should work great!
2 years agoLOOKS GOOD
2 years agoHi Steve-
I'm pleased you're enjoying the journal.
As far as the RWGPS embed goes, I made no comment simply because I had none to make. There was no hardship. No drama. Not, even, any tedium. In short, the process of capturing and subsequently adding the day's ride to any given page is so straightforward (*) that it leaves me little or nothing to moan about.
(*: Assuming, of course, that I have remembered to start the RWGPS app on my phone, and/or start recording the ride with my GPS, and that I have subsequently managed to tell either or both devices that I've begun riding and later that I've stopped for the day, and saved the data for later display in perpetuity to my myriad adoring followers... all of which I managed without incident on the day in question.
The real message of that day's track had already been spelled out: I didn't go very far. But getting the track posted afterward... well, that was the easy part.)
March 18/2022
Dodie re-called my attention to your blog today, because she was enjoying reading the chapter "This May Get Ugly". The genius of that chapter is that it goes through in great detail a problem that the reader may also have faced, making the text an interesting reflection of the reader's real life. This present page is similar, in that repairing a flat is also commonly rife with glitches and minor screw ups. We ourselves almost always find something to write about each flat repair.
So I'm a happy reader. But what then impels me to write this comment, which as you will see contains some sort of "complaint"? It's this: The guy who writes so entertainingly about repairing a front flat, and about taking photos off a camera SD card for upload to the blog, has on this page placed a RWGPS interactive map. Now even I could write a chapter on figuring out how to do that. There is the tracking program inside your smart phone or maybe Garmin, there is getting today's track out to something that can find RWGPS on the internet, loading the track to RWGPS, finding then its insertion code and bringing that back to Cycleblaze. But all this happened at your place today without comment. It seems out of character for the guy that wrote the other two pages. Are you fictionalizing those other travails, or do you possess a special RWGPS talent? Ok, maybe you were too beat after fixing the flat and riding the 3.5 miles to tackle this knotty subject?
Glad to have helped. I think mine may also serve as a tablecloth or cover for a damp picnic table bench when the need arises. I'm sure other uses will suggest themselves over time.
A small scrap could serve as a welcome mat so I don’t have to kneel or sit on the ground to enter and exit the tent.
Great idea Keith - serving multiple uses. We went out and bought 2 tarps today. An extra pound each on the bike. Well worth it I'm hoping.
2 years agoMy Google image search led me to the same conclusion. And yes, what an amazing life cycle those fungi have!
I will go past that tree again soon to see if I can spot some of the other stages. They should be fascinating.
I’m not sure, but I think it’s a mature cedar-apple rust gall. I’d never heard of this but found it scanning for galls and cedars or junipers. And whether I’m right or not, I’m glad I found it because it has one of the most astonishing life cycles I’ve ever heard of.
2 years agoThanks Mike! That did the trick. I've known the camera had a "Wi-Fi" mode since I got it, but never explored what it was all about until now.
I've now installed the app on my tablet and proven that it works to transfer photos as well as control the camera if I choose.
Now there's a whole new world to play in.
Keith has always been a humble guy and during yesterday's ride he was no different. It is true time has caught up to him and I, but for a man that is now at his 60's he is still that juggernaut he was in his 30's. There were a few Hills he showed me a glimpse of what he used to do to us with his bike fully loaded and on the hardest gear he could do Just to show off. but Just like he knew back then about us young kids that fatigue would catch us of guard so did I on yesterday's ride. I'm actually looking forward to see you Demolish the long trip I know you will
2 years agoNothing but love and admiration from the not so Yung protege. Still schooling us