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• Post #4449400

  For the #BikeTooter crowd of the road/gravel/cyclocross persuasion (because of combo brake/shifter levers on drop bars): Do you ever use your ring finger to shift to a harder gear? Most of the time I use my middle finger. However, I can say that I definitely do this when accelerating from a stop, especially at the start of a cyclocross race, because of grabbing the hoods so hard while sprinting.

• Post #4129267

  This is definitely a question more for road/gravel riders, but how often do you ride in the drops? #BikeTooter #cycling

• Post #2096142

  I see lots of new #FreeCAD users expressing frustration about the process of importing and converting mesh files (like STLs) to be inconvenient and/or unintuitive. While I have my own opinions about whether you should be trying to modify STL files in the first place, I have found myself doing it from time to time because of the nature of the #3dprinting file-sharing ecosystem. That said, even though I don’t particularly find the process of conversion to be particularly difficult, I decided to t...

• Post #664074

  Glad to have this bike back in action. It hasn’t seen much use since #cyclocross season, mostly due weather and darkness, but it also needed a new cassette, chain, and chainring. For the time until next CX season, I put some new Kenda gravel tires on it because I’ll occasionally take it on some trails or rough roads. It’s nice to have options. This is probably my favorite bike that I own. (I call it the 17-pound Wonder) #Cycling #BikeTooter

• Post #660550

  I think my lunch today was a challenge to see how many ways I could eat chickpeas: there were whole chickpeas, hummus, and falafel. A delicious challenge, gladly accepted.

• Post #660547

  Even though this is Mastodon, I’m willing to bet that most of you were not kept awake last night because your brain wouldn’t stop thinking about tensegrity structures.