I’ve always gotten boring white helmets so it’s fun having one with my favorite colors!

Yup. I think those two spikes are probably brief afib episodes.

That looks like a concerning ECG reading

Looks good on her.

I have known the correct pronunciation for some time, but always forget to use it. Thanks for the reminder!

We stayed there one time but didn't see the license plate collection. Next time!!

That’s a magical recording alright. Thanks - I don’t think I’ve ever heard it.

It was a great visit! I’m glad you liked the video.

A fantastic visit and a great write up about Boise! Love the video Rachael! This could be a great advertisement for Boise. Until we meet again!

Many years ago, probably mid to late 90s riding my "new to me" 10 speed with QR to work, (my first qr bike) I hopped up a curb and the front wheel dropped out... Fortunate to have been nearly stopped! After that, I always kept the skewer locked pointing back so it would not catch on brush and accidentally open... ever... again.

I can see the point for mountain bikes, especially since Rachael’s handlebar stem came loose when unloaded from the truck last week. It’s easy to imagine a QR skewer catching on some brush and getting flipped open. Pretty remote occurrence on a road bike though.

John Lee Hooker's magic recording came to mind...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUVw2MpnrLk

I have a longtime friend whose situation is akin to Shelby's: he's legally blind and heavily dependent on others for navigational assistance. He's got only a vague (and weirdly associative) sense of geography and distance, often suggesting that we could go visit X because it's more-or-less in the direction that we're heading but not realizing that it's dozens- or in some cases hundreds- of miles out of the way.

On our most recent ride he too had a flat tire, and we had a similar experience in getting it fixed. In the end we resorted to putting in his spare tube rather than continue hunting for what must've been a pinhole leak. Happily for us, though, not only was he carrying all of the necessaries, we discovered the problem right at the ride start as we were unloading the car.

Yet for all that he takes amazingly good photographs. They enable him to examine and experience in detail events and scenes that would otherwise have passed fleetingly and without is full appreciation.

"First, it takes me awhile just figuring out how to remove the wheel. It doesn’t use a skewer, but some sort of tube through the hub loosened with an Allen wrench. That puzzles me at first, but I have the right sized Allen wrench and eventually figure it out."

You've encountered a "through-axle", introduced (as I understand it) as a safety measure to help prevent wheels falling off mountain bikes as the rider catches air while bounding over and off of boulders and logs.

They've since become the hot new trend in road bikes as well, for reasons my hidebound, tradition-minded brain cannot comprehend.

Don't. Look. Into. The. Light...