Oh man! I thought we were friends?! It made sense to me and now circuits in my head are steaming. ![]()
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My wife keeps telling me we save an hour when we fall back. But my body feels like it’s losing an hour of sleep when I get up at 5am and it think it’s still 4am.
And just like Rogain, it only works on someone else’s lawn, and not yours.
It’s not too dark, you’re too far north! Move south, there’s more sun down there…
That’s spring. Fall means you get up at 4 and think it’s 5. And getting that last hour wrung out of the alarm clock (and your mind) is torture…
Only in the winter. In the summer we get extra hours of daylight compared to you southerners.
(I would gladly trade for it not being dark both when I start and end work in the winter).
‘We don’t have time for Starbucks!’
There was a sequel planned but no one would touch it after that one. I wonder what it would have been like/about.
Especially when the tradeoff for more sun is moving to places where it’s ‘moist’ throughout the year. They are nice places to visit, but…
I went on a 10 day getaway, and got back just in time for the weeks of below zero temps as winter finally got outta town. That was brutal. I probably looked pretty odd running around with a tan in ice sleet and snow. ![]()
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in the Netherlands, there is a new plague with fatbikes… but then another kind:
Easy to modify e-bike with a throttle and max speed of 40km/h or more… (The local law says no throttle and speed limit of 25km/h).
This all would not really be a problem, but this has gotten very popular for young kids. Now our already crowded bike lanes (we have more bikes then people in the Netherlands :D) have little kids on electric mopeds wreaking havoc…
Gone…
And how the studded Dillingers cost more than the tires on my SUV!
When I said that at the tire store (car tires) they were shocked. You paid HOW MUCH? Really? And you bought them? How many? Two! Bikes have two wheels…
I love the look of the special edition Specialized ‘Hell Of The North’ tires from years ago. Could I really tell the difference between them and a standard Specialized tire? (Well, one set of standard tires lost their tread, so sure, likely)
But studded v non-studded tires? After falling nearly on my face on ice, oh hell yes I could tell the difference. Oy, that was embarrassing and psychologically painful.
I just wish I had a video of that crash, and the one were I endoed a test ride full carbon fat bike. I was so horrified, I checked the bike over completely, but would have liked to have a third person video of that incident. I’m sure it would have been epic! ![]()








