How (and why) to Ramble on your goat sideways
I'm most irritated by the fact that these riders are typically riding on very busy main roads, despite there being nice, long, perfectly good riding roads all throughout the same area. They just choose to be all "look at me!" and ride in the middle of the goddamn main highway, clogging up hundreds or thousands of cars.
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I have occasionally been involved in rather interesting conversations with other cyclists, however that's more to do with the fact that they, being spandex-clad Lance Armstrong wannabees, felt that I was somehow cheating as I passed them and their carbon-fiber bikes while going up a steep hill on my own cheap, steel-framed mountain bike with a basket full of groceries in the back, simply because I happened to have the foresight to equip my bike with a 48 volt electric assist system and they didn't.
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From: Fake Virginia
And that's really what makes it funny- we're both gunning it up the hill, pedaling like hell, I just happen to be passing the spandex-clad folks on their $5k bikes while wearing ratty shorts and peddling a cheap, department-store mountain bike with fatty tires and a milk crate on the back.
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From: Chicago. (The less-murder part.)
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MT bro's, I need some ideas.
I bought a new CXracing ebay special intercooler. It's surprisingly decent and the dimensions are correct, however, the endtanks are 2" inlet/outlet and not 2.5" as advertised.
Option 1) send it back and wait gawd knows how long to see if they can get it right a second time.
Option 2) take intercooler to local fab guy and have him weld on new inlet/outlet pieces from scrap aluminum pipe I have in my garage.
I bought a new CXracing ebay special intercooler. It's surprisingly decent and the dimensions are correct, however, the endtanks are 2" inlet/outlet and not 2.5" as advertised.
Option 1) send it back and wait gawd knows how long to see if they can get it right a second time.
Option 2) take intercooler to local fab guy and have him weld on new inlet/outlet pieces from scrap aluminum pipe I have in my garage.
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More importantly, I measured it against the car and realized that I have more room than I thought (even with the a/c) and the next step up in size is only 13 bucks more.
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