I think he was saving his reserves for the climb at the end of the stage. The TdF is all about strategy.

...Because there was no timing anyplace between the Col D’Iseran and the finish. With the roads impassible and with riders still ascending, there was no other choice. The Tour de France (and the malliot jaune) is decided strictly on timing, not just who went past a place partway down the 19th stage on the second to…

Oh, about 2 to 2 1/2 lbs, depending on whether it’s a fryer or a broiler......

Just hope you’ve got a strong tow vehicle, that sled weighs over 5,000 lbs!

How many niles are there in a henweigh?

$3k (without anything for labor), and all you have to show for it is a rusty shitcan that never was or ever will be worth anything? You need psychiatric help.

Kudos for the most pedantic reply of the day!

Collins hated the thing so much, he didn’t take a dump until after splashdown. At least Armstrong and Aldrin had a bit of gravity on the lunar surface to make it less of a problem.

Well, at age 58, there are a few things which have become obsolete in my lifetime. Somebody mentioned the telegram, but you can still send them to some countries like Cuba. But here are a couple of things which are gone or nearly gone:

Upstate NY, especially in suburban areas. Although a lot of them are getting up there in mileage, so a lot of the 150,000+ mile versions are showing up in urban environments; saw one the other day that had been slightly ‘donked’ and had the colors of the Jamaican flag on the rear window.......

Look at the Gemini capsules: 2 forward facing bucket seats, long nose, split window.....sure reminds me of a Corvette.

Don’t forget, we spent something like 4% of our entire federal budget just on the Apollo program. When Apollo 11 went up, my father had been working for Martin on the Mariner project for the JPL. Designs were finished, engineers were laid-off, and he found that there were few job openings by then in aerospace, so he…

See: Teamsters union.......

First of all, Ron, the 4.0l six is NOT derived from the 4 cylinder, it’s the other way around. The 4.o is derived from the old 232/258 sixes, which all came from the mid 50's Nash 6, which actually won it’s class at LeMans sometime 60-ish years ago. The 4.0 is mostly a modern head put on the old iron lump 6 block. The…

I really think that pit stops should be a minimum of 5 seconds. That would severely reduce the number of unsafe releases with tires that aren’t completely on. Also, it would allow for a few extra safety checks, and would make planning on pit stop timing a lot more precise. Forget refueling, just have a red/green light…

In the NE snowbelts, if you do a lot of highway driving, you will get a buildup of salty-slushy snow on your tailgate. This salt rusts poorly painted metal (like a wiper arm). Those rust stains running down from the wiper shaft speak volumes as to a long exposure in this sort of climate. The plastic probably broke one…

Sorry, thought they were “Chelin” brand. You know, kinda like the “Coby” brand of electronics, or the “Shamino” brand of cycling components; sounds ALMOST like a known brand.

Would you believe that Gitanes started out as a ‘ladies cigarette’? Real men smoke Gauloises!

I’d like to point out that these dry-rotted tires are of a cheap, off-brand Chinese manufacturer. Perhaps a tire from a reputable major manufacturer would’ve had a couple more years in them?

My sister took the Ancestry DNA test, and found some distant cousins from my dad’s Irish grandfather, so now we have relatives there, in England, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.