IcePrick

Excellent point, I just assume that anyone interested in eating well exercises also... but in reality, that isn't always the case.

I mentioned in another thread that I felt sorry for people who retired and lost their ability to do the things they hoped to do in retirement due to health issues. Heart disease, high cholesterol, diabetes, and even various cancers are mitigated on a plant-based diet. The top three killers in the US, plus one of the most dreaded, are mitigated - sometimes into statistically irrelevant ranges - on a plant-based diet. Take a moment and think of all the people you know who have died from these self-induced afflictions, and wonder what it would be like if they had simply eaten a better diet.

😆 Because we can all see the look on his face and hear his voice saying that.

I did that with the door seals a couple years ago, and wasn't satisfied so I just bought new seals. IIRC, they were too firm with the recommended size of hose installed. If you had good results, yeah, I'd love to replicate them. Going down the hill to PHX is (ob)noxious, low RPM coasting downhill doesn't get the exhaust gasses propelled outside of the vacuum envelope of the gate area, and some enters the cabin. Opening a window while descending into Phoenix is generally regarded as poor form in the air conditioning conservation world.

Expensive, but find a passable compact 12v pump and carry a LiFePo battery with? The only other feasable option I know of is a manual, and I don't know how good that option is. I carried a combo CO2/manual hand pump for tire "issues", and used it several times. After some of the rides I've had, I can't imagine going all day and then manually pumping up tires with a hand pump like that as a regular practice - we were usually pretty smoked after a day in the desert. If the foot pump is a quality one and you only need to get to 20-ish psi, it may work. How far is it to the trailhead for you? My normal spot was about 12 miles of street, nothing over 55mph. I'd ride there aired up, air down at the trailhead, ride all day, and just ride home on the aired-down tires (we weren't usually in any shape for on-road shenanigans after a long day). I was running *around* 14 front 12 rear, dependent on brand. Yeah, the back was a little squishy and I never pushed the front around, but it didn't feel dangerous. Then again, it wasn't heavy traffic or a lot of aggressive/dangerous drivers to deal with either.

Hmmm. Gate gaskets for the Excursion are old, and unobtainable.

Was working with a friend in his new shop yesterday, we were surprised that the welding he was doing was leaving little smoke in the enclosed space. I mentioned that we were probably filtering it out through our lungs. Those little plastic nanoparticles will be broken down in our digestive systems. It's a circle; the planet will be fine.

All I know is, if you're fat, I'm morbidly obese.

How long have you been on this diet? What was your diet previously? Did you have baseline bloodwork before starting? Any health issues you're trying to resolve with the new diet? I'm very curious about the effects.

Yes and no, I think. The science and math works, but introduce human variables into the equation and it alters the outcome - not the formula. He's introduced "feel" into the equation, and upped the caloric intake - arbitrarily changing the input values. The formula still stands, as he explains in his second paragraph. It's still calories in, calories out. Appetite shouldn't enter the scientific equation; it's basic biology. If the human psyche won't allow the subject to remain within the bounds of the equation, then they're changing the input numbers, not the science. It's a tidy explanation that lack of self-control is one reason diets fail, but it doesn't challenge the basic metabolic mathematics. Appetite can be overcome in a number of ways. If you're inevitably "driven to eat 500 more calories a day", you're destined to fail at any dietary alteration.

You don't know better than to open one of Carlos' links?

All this talk about carbs has me wondering about a friend of mine who doesn't eat particularly well. No fast food, but she doesn't shy away from bacon, eggs, beef, dairy, etc. - all the things that we're suspect of when critical of the standard American diet. I've seen her weight fluctuate prior to her infatuation with breadmaking - specifically, sourdough... which she has in the period of a couple years become a master of. She is now at a good weight (not slim, but at 63 and with a sedentary job) and has been stable there since about the time she started her bread obsession. She swears that she lost weight (27 pounds) in mere months by ADDING sourdough bread to her diet (not replacing anything other than the breads she used to eat. Maybe she reaches satiation with lower caloric intake due to the bread? It's not something I'm likely to try, but I love bread and there's no arguing with her weight loss.

At the recommendation of an acquaintance, I re-watched "The Magic Pill" (once it started, I recognized that I had seen it before) on Amazon. It recommends a high-fat, low-carb diet and shows examples of dramatic results in case studies using volunteers. I'm still unsold on the theory that one can eat "whatever I want" as long as it isn't carbs and sugars. One of the filmmaker's theories is that other carnivores in nature are able to self-regulate body weight while still feasting until satiation, yet he fails to consider that they also necessarily fast for extended periods and have irregular eating patterns due to the variable availability of prey and their physical ability to continue hunting beyond the point of satiation. And I imagine an obese predator in the wild either "self regulates" back to normal weight by being unable to successfully hunt, or becomes a feast itself for something else in the food chain. And those that can't maintain a healthy body weight on the other end of the spectrum are also cruelly absent from the sample pool. When allowed to work, natural selection is a motherfucker. Turns out that a critical review of the subjects in the video who experienced the diet had been on high-sugar, high-carb and low fat diets to begin with. And the research did not encompass longer term health effects of eating a high-fat diet involving things like lard-smeared broccoli, pancakes made with squash and ghee, or daily helpings of bacon and eggs. My takeaway, seemingly elusive to the filmmaker's eyes, is the elimination of added sugars, processed foods, and complex carbs is what resulted in weight loss, perceived health, and improved cognitive function - not the substitution of high-fat elements. Fat and protein are both critical to our bodies, but they don't need to come in daily overdose portions nor be the overwhelming basis of our diet.

Is there any other way to do a brake job? 😆

Oh, interesting. I used to have a split oven, but it had separate doors. I think I used the lower oven once, it was really only good for pizza or something fairly thin - maybe a cake or baking tray, cookie sheet. Big family gatherings, parties... I guess I never needed to bake that much, especially at different temps. I once had an electric warming drawer built into an island, I used the shit out of that. It would get to 245º F, I actually did brisket and pulled pork in it a couple times. Way more useful than I ever would have guessed.

So it's a tranny problem?

I've used silicone mats for grilling - specifically, camping, where there's a grill but the remnants on it are of dubious health risk. I've seen them advertised "for baking", but I didn't envision the purpose it would serve until now. I've used aluminum foil for that purpose, but it disturbs the natural convection in the oven and would probably wreak havoc on the forced convection when I use that. I'm guessing the silicone would do the same, but it appears that you are using it for broiling - where heat doesn't have to circulate and getting the thermostat to read and control temps accurately isn't a concern. Be careful pulling the rack out without protection - I've landed my fingers along the split in the tubing enough times to change my ways. This guy is useful, and it's in your favorite measurement standard.

Oh, give some others a chance.

He keeps *just* enough pressure on the brake pedal all the time to actuate the piston and run the pad onto the rotor, but not enough to cause the caliper to center.

Any unusual wear on the drive belt?

I'm guessing the worn pad is the piston side, but want to confirm.

I'd say the caliper is not centered and/or isn't floating. Incorrect caliper mount, caliper play obstruction, rotor location incorrect, rotor thickness incorrect, wheel not where it should be (spacers swapped?)... even though it was only working that pad, still seems a little premature unless it was under constant friction. I'd want to know if it was front or rear, and if the wheel has ever been off the bike or if it's still a factory install. I'm going with the wheel not being where it's supposed to be, spacers swapped as the first thing I'd check.

Good answer for use in UV-exposed settings. Added to my Amazon cart, thanks.

That too. My weekends were premium time, and the dealership was almost always closed before and after I got off work during the week. So, drop it off Saturday morning, pick it up NEXT Saturday ("You want it today? HAHAHAHAHA").