u/Top_Objective9877
▲ 12 r/FixedGearBicycle
Tracklocross
I’ve been keeping seperate gravel wheelset, and road wheelset for this bike for a long time and I’ve decided to just go back to a middle of the road do it all setup. Running 35c slicks with decent water shedding abilities, otherwise 44/16 right at 75 gear inches which is the same as everyone’s favorite 48/17 with 28c tires.
I’m still keeping road only wheels with 25c tires and that’s got a fixed gear cog of 15.
I’m probably going to ditch the dropper post and convert back to my weird saddle mount if I wanna do some commuting.
I’m still reserving the right to run a 20 tooth cog in the rear with a freewheel for easier commuting so give me a break on the brake levers
u/Top_Objective9877 — 4 days ago
▲ 20 r/Surlybikefans
Preamble max tires+ fenders
Been using stock 35c tires + 45mm fenders for a few years now but I’m considering maxing out the tire size and still having permanent fenders. I know website says it’ll fit 700x42 with fenders. Has anyone done this? What fender tire combo did you use?
Thanks so much, any info would be super helpful!
u/Top_Objective9877 — 4 days ago
▲ 72 r/fender
Been putting a lot of work into this one, I’ve rewired the whole thing at this point. Duncan custom stack plus in the bridge, vintage hot stack in the neck. 3 way switch is normal, and I’ve got the 2 way toggle set to give me the pickups in series for a nice fat lead tone.
I’ve got 500k pots on the way, and it’ll be wired 50’s spec for a nice roll off on the volume without getting muffled. I want just a little extra brightness where needed and a bit more headroom.
Yesterday I went through and did a fret radius sanding and recrown that put the fretboard dialed in perfectly with low action.
The last thing to do is enjoy!
It’s a little less gained out than a Les Paul, had the character of maybe a p90 without so much low end bass. It’s much less bright in comparison to a typical strat pickup so it’s super versatile.
I am quite surprised how great the 9.5 radius feels after playing a strat with the 7.25 radius for years. Chording is so much easier.
It
u/Top_Objective9877 — 22 days ago
▲ 18 r/DaveRamsey
Not a debt free scream, but for the first time in nearly 10 months I will NOT be over budget due to wreckless spending linked to debt and buy now pay later types of accounts.
The mental win came after I spoke with a loan company on the phone for over an hour, they were like yeah yeah we can get you a consolidation loan that’ll help you manage all your monthly bills and get you squared away. It wasn’t until he said, yeah and your absolute best route is debt settlement! I realized I was in one of those long winded sales pitches similar to Dave talking about time shares, and I kindly said hey I gotta get the kid to bed and I’ll sleep on it. The next morning I emailed back and said thanks for your time, but I HAVE to solve this myself and I can’t let anyone else fix it for me. This is my mess I am going to clean it up.
I felt like a total loser who couldnt even figure this out on his own, debt settlement while working well for some just feels like an I quit type of program, and for some the quitting part is mandatory not optional. For me it was completely optional and I have chosen to beat this head on, tackling it the way I should!
I sold a few things within a week, immediately returned a couple others and paid my stupid taxes on those. One credit card is not longer at 111% utilization, but 98%. I’m on a mission to pay it off asap and close it. I feel the sprint and I’m 2-3 months away from being able to declare that win.
Most calculators still put me almost 4 years away from debt free but I know that it can be done sooner, I have lots of plans to get there and also for once feel motivated to stop overspending and stick to the plan.
I closed 3 accounts, and plan to change passwords to unknown random digits, locking myself out, deleting apps, triggering myself to put the phone down when I have certain thoughts.
It’s been really hard for me, and being addicted to online shopping is a real thing. It’s so easy to spend all day looking at things online that are interesting to me.
Thanks for reading, I know I could do better and I’ve turned the ship around to head back in the right direction and it was a ton of work!
Hoping anything I’ve said could help out someone else in a similar situation.
u/Top_Objective9877 — 26 days ago
▲ 22 r/MesaBoogie
I’ve been trying to dial in a high gain rhythm tone for channel 2 and leads on channel 3, anyone else with a triple crown and a mark that can share EQ settings that seem to match JP’s typical rhythm tone?
I’m going off memory of what my Jp2c sounded like when I did have one, lower treble and high presence seems to get me pretty close on both channels. For overall sound I’d say I’m going for his tone on the distance over time album. I haven’t gotten much chance to play at louder volumes but I feel like I’m pretty close. Channel 3 could use some tweaking at the super loud rip your head off volumes in regards to the presence and treble settings.
I realize a huge part of his sound is also from the post production microphone techniques but if anyone has apples to oranges settings for the EQ that would be super cool. Im trying to get it dialed in with no boost pedals, and I like the tighter more dry sound I’m getting on channel 2, even if it’s a little more British in the upper mids.
I haven’t tried 6l6 yet, but I feel it might make the amp respond too stiff and loose a little bit of the magic.
u/Top_Objective9877 — 1 month ago