If you think of distance in kilometers, houses in square feet, buying vegetables in kilograms, and your weight in pounds, you could be Canadian.
Nah, I didn't get to be a 67 year old cyclist by doing dumb things in downtown rush hour traffic. In any case, starting from all those intersections when the light turned green was great training for the velodrome. I was a mediocre track cyclist, but my standing start was pretty good, due to getting out of the saddle and getting up to speed as fast as possible every single commute.
Sometimes I will watch an instruction video on YouTube and say "Nope, that's worth paying a professional for". Other times it's very useful, such as when the flame sensor in my furnace needed to be cleaned. It's a wonderful resource, really.
The Ordovician period was 485.4 to 443.8 million years ago, so there may have been fossils in that layer that were long dead and turned to stone 400 millions years earlier than the slip, and then another 50 million years after that, there are modern humans speculating about the cause of this slippage.
I sort of get why some people are attracted to creationist beliefs about earth being only 6000 years old. Those time spans are dizzying to think about.
If the gearing is set up right, you can ride up mountains with old style freewheels. For 23 years I rode a mid 80s touring bike with a 13-30 six cog freewheel on the back and 28-44-48 chainrings. That kind of half step gearing gave me close ratios and only one or two duplicate gears. The bar end shifters could be operated even when I was out of the saddle.
Did a few tours in the rockies and rode it to work nearly all year 'round.
I loved Suntour components! I wish I still had some of them.
Does anyone else have a problem with glasses/ goggles fogging up whenever you stop on a cold day? Anti-fog solutions don't seem to work.
I was handed a pair of these on a site visit to a potash mill and was told to hand them back at the end. Oops, forgot.
I tried that one winter and couldn't get my helmet to sit right. The goggles pushed it up.
What if it demands to be picked up and perch on my shoulders?
Our two don't seem to go much for laser pointers, for whatever reason.
The cartoonist probably looked at some old family photos, saw his grandmother dressed up for a formal portrait, and thought it was everyday clothing. Early photographers used to keep nice clothes on hand for customers to pose in, so the clothes may not even have been hers.