Manatee Mentors 2014 v.2 thread2 CLOSED (Poptart/pet pic bribes?) (Page 11)

I won't be watching it but I'll be following it closely on VeloNews.  The Pro Challenge is here in a couple weeks and I can't wait.  The final day here in Denver is always so cool.  It's a chance to see big-name riders and racing up close - like literally just a few feet away!!

Can you make groups in Instragram?

Yeahhhhh, I was REALLY hoping that Jens would be at the Pro Challenge this year since it's his final year. I would have liked to try to get an autograph. Since he's doing Utah I don't know that he'll do Colorado in a couple weeks. I'd love to watch them climb Monarch pass. Not once, not twice, but THREE times!!!! Insanity!

Some riders do both races.  I'm betting he will.  They haven't announced final rosters yet though.  Monach 3x - wow!

I leave for a few hours and come back to this!!!! Four new pages??? On a Monday, no less! 

Kids and treadmill are calling, but will catch up in a bit.

I haven't found it yet if there is. I bow to Salty's superior Instagram knowledge.

And here is the Manatee glossary that was mentioned earlier:

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_xyfZBSmx9ZNI7YRi8dKjOoP604WTVEjvsd0dXS_4hs/edit?usp=sharing

She made my day Stacey, she's a cutie.

Probably from when Emmadog broke your head that's perfectly reasonable too ... wait, you were that way already.

AAAAAAARGH I can't stop Mutti feeding Scooter stuff from the table (as I said earlier) ... talk about a fart-a-rama, I mean also audible ones that wake me up first with the sound and then REALLY wake me up ... I should make him sleep with Mutti!

Stacey, I'd need to do more research, so I'll look when I'm taking lunch, but here is what struck me about your question. You mention that you think that the fit is what is "biting" you on your current bike. If you want to make the best long term decision on the bike, I would say that you should see what is available for a fitting. Some LBS's will do a fit and then refund some of that if you buy a bike from them (or some variation of that). I do know this as well, if you like the bike, you ride the bike, so get one that you like. If color is part of the equation for you, than don't compromise.

I don't think that you can.  I think that we've done OK finding each other.  We can create something in G+ with links to our Instagram accounts if it becomes a problem.

Jazz apparently snacks on mastiff-sized dog beds!

How many does that make?  Five?

A roadie should be perfect then! 

Chris just went to bike mechanic school so I'll defer to him on the specifics.  At a glace, I do think that you'll be happy with the 105 groupset.  I'm a little less sure about the wheels.

ETA, do the bike fit!

Originally posted by StaceyK

Originally posted by jmkizer

Originally posted by StaceyK OK just to brighten everyone's day, I thought that I would share this. This is Jazz she is coming to join our motley bunch on Friday.

Jazz apparently snacks on mastiff-sized dog beds!

How many does that make?  Five?

I've stopped counting but you need more than one hand

You about made me snort my coffee!  :-)

In other news, Kevin is now on Strava.  Chris found him already.  Feel free to stalk him:  http://www.strava.com/athletes/5897100

Janyne, I'm on Twitter too.  You can add me to the manatee list: @TriGirlJ

I'm not as up on road bike fitting, but you still do want a fit. Road bikes tend to be more flexible or have wider tolerance for fitting, but it still does matter. As Chris said, shops can have the costs rolled into a bike purchase. The ones by me will have different percents of the fit cost included in the purchase price depending on how much the bike cost. Like half of your fit cost might go into the bike cost. And a bike twice as much may have the entire fit included. I'd also be curious if they do different levels of fitting. Especially if they carry various levels of bikes, not everyone is really doing to need or want the precision of a Retul fit. Where my brother works they do this as they have a lot of more casual riders come in too. This tends to be less difficult to do outside of a tri fit.

ETA: And generally 105 or better should be fine. I've heard Tiagra from the last few years can do well, but have no experience there.

Got it!

Originally posted by jmkizer

Originally posted by StaceyK

Originally posted by jmkizer

Originally posted by StaceyK OK just to brighten everyone's day, I thought that I would share this. This is Jazz she is coming to join our motley bunch on Friday.

Jazz apparently snacks on mastiff-sized dog beds!

How many does that make?  Five?

I've stopped counting but you need more than one hand

You about made me snort my coffee!  :-)

If you need more than one hand to count the number of dogs, how many hands do you need to count the # of pounds of dogs?  You've got to be getting close to a ton there...

ETA:  Oh, forgot to mention, she's awfully cute.  Those ears!! 

Wow, he really grew from a cute little furball to a handsome fellow!

Loving the surge of doggie pics!  The greyhounds are just gorgeous (and funny!) and Jazz is adorable!

On the dog front, my dear Coco, the dog who is already missing a lot of hair due to a genetic thing, started stress-chewing a patch on her hip from me being away so long.  I feel horrible.  What's worse is I leave again from Thurs-Sun.    The poor dear...I bought her some foam (rather than spray, she hates sprays) that both treats any hot spot issues and tastes bad if the dog tries to chew/lick there.  I don't think it's a true hot spot since she's never had any before, but I figured it might help her from messing with it.  The point is the semi-bald dog now has another bald patch.  Poor Bald Beanie Butt (Coco Bean is one of her nicknames, Beanie is derived from that.  I'm a nicknamer).