Man, ... today I found out what was wrong with a Sh. Acera derailleur that I took apart and modded back in late April or early May. I had drilled a lower tension hole for the B spring in its B axle bushing casing, to get the jockey to track a road cassette better, which it does. But the thing continued to be plagued by shifting issues. The B axle assembly seemed a bit wobbly.

Today I popped the thing off the thing again, and ... oops! I realized that the C clamp (which is dished for a bit of spring tension) was backwards, concave side in! Flip the clamp over mount, reattach derailleur: less free play evident! Go for a ride: almost perfect shifting, doh!

@SuspendedUser, we're already a little over crowded with duplicates

and I still need to get them into CRS/TCX to get them onto my garmin

I use the KOM efforts to pace myself

pace/motivate

you can tell if it's an ebike or moped or whatever by HR and cadence usually

but there is a lot of cheating, drafting, digitaleop.com etc.

I could have sprung for a 520, but they're $250 or something and this was easy enough

@kaz: good spotting!

dance 44 trophies from that ride

/me skytes.

bicycles.stackexchange.com/help/badges/69/archaeologist woohoo, I am the archaeologist!

44 more edits and I get "copy editor" too :)

I am also tempted to chase the "longest answer" prize. Maybe when there's a decent question I can research.

shan't hold my breath @Móż :-)

I must admit, if I don't know something I figure either (a) someone else does, so let them answer it, or (b) nobody does, Either way, I'm not bothered enough to research stuff

Is there a badge for "longest question"? That would be more of a challenge!

bleh. its hot out

bats: we haven't had an overnight low temperature below 0 all month

considering its July now, middle of winter

that's not normal

@Batman be grateful you're not in Siberia - big chinks of there are seeing temperatures 20 degrees above average for this time of year.

In unreleated news, much of Siberia is on fire.

o_o