u/Maximum-Face9536

i'm the original owner of my 600. It has 48k miles on it now, around 50% of those miles are hard riding on twisty roads I did 5 trackdays on it. but always been meticulous about maintenance and taking care of it which is why i'm shocked this happened.

bottom end failure, connecting rod bearing. pulled the oil and found gold bearing material in it, plus noticeable mechanical drag in the motor. engine is toast.

may eventually do a motor swap, in the meantime I’m going bikeless for a bit, which is rough. but it’s also got me rethinking my next bike. was pretty much dead set on a GSXR 1000R as my step up to a liter bike, but after watching a well-maintained bottom end grenade on me, I’m second guessing that. Been considering a Fireblade instead.

did i just get very unlucky? i was expecting my bike to last 100k.

I thought Fable 5 was amazing from the start, but when I came onto the subredddit it was split, half people thought it wasn't what it was hyped up to be, it just ate tokens, people saying it's not a step up over Opus.

Now that it's gone, it's exclusively people talking about how amazing Fable was, how they don't want to do work now without it, etc.

Where's the people who were shitting on Fable? Is this a perfect example for conformity bias?

Been using Venice AI Pro for a few months, really love it. Ive been wanting to get a Claude Pro sub. because they really serve different functions for me. Venice for the privacy, no message limits, etc. Claude for productivity and coding.

Claude I just pulled the trigger on, and Claude Code is incredible. literally so easy to use it figured everything out unlike when i was trying to use deepseek v4 to vibe code. I also use the chat models to talk sometimes too.

I'm torn because now im paying 38$ a month for a combined 2 AI subs. seems excessive, but I do genuinely use both, so maybe it's not that crazy? does anyone else have Venice + another AI Subscription ? Venice is non-negotiable, keeping that. But considering if I want to keep claude.

my main goal since starting the gym has been to get a 315 lb squat. I have been working so hard over 10 months.

today I did it for 1 rep, it was the most grindy rep I have ever experienced. I squeezed my eyes shut tight at the bottom and nothing existed in the world except blackness and me driving this bar up with every ounce of strength in my body. I have never felt anything like I did in that moment. I collapsed on the floor after i racked it and started crying. I felt the most accomplished I have about anything in my life. To a non-lifter that probably sounds crazy but some of you can understand. This has been my long term goal, it seemed unattainable. So much of my life is chaotic and uncontrollable and filled with imposter syndrome, the gym is one place I don't have that. All the days spent grinding alone, dialing in nutrition and recovery, seeing my progress slowly creep up. it all accumulated today and I just feel so overwhelmingly happy.

Keep pushing towards your goals.