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    The "Official" Watch Thread and all Things Horological

    I have a Citizen hybrid smartwatch I use occasionally. Does steps, workouts, heartrate and blood oxygen. Best thing about it is it uses e-ink for the display, so the battery lasts about two weeks between charges, as the daily charge is a dealbreaker for me with most regular smartwatches. It's...
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    2026 MotoGP (spoilers allowed)

    Me for the second half of this season watching Aprilia self-destruct in a thousand different ways. God, I hate Tardozzi, Gigi, and Marc. So good, so insufferable. And the MotoGP subreddit might as well be called r/marcmarquezcirclejerk at this point. Unbearable. I really hope the Japanese...
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    Pro 6 Cycle closing the storefront

    Tough time to be in powersports retail. Busted national parts and accessories distribution system, impossible balance for techs with trying to keep them and pay them while work is inconsistent and seasonal plus manufacturers who insist on all sorts of one-off tools plus customers who don't want...
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    Soccer/football thread 2022

    There were rumours of a punishment in short order, but they fizzled. Those rumours were a 128 point deduction, and no possibility of promotion next year, so some like two enforced years in the championship. If that's accurate, it's woefully inadequate. If the UAE threats to pull funding etc show...
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    I don't know how y'all city slickers do it...

    Spent some time out around Charleston Lake and environs this summer. If I was retired and wanted to ride more and better, but stay in Ontario, I'd be headed out that way. Some very nice roads just to the north, and very little traffic. Napanee, Brockville, Gananoque, one of those medium towns so...
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    TV shows currently watching

    Haven't watched yet, but I enjoy the Throttle House channel, so will give it a shot. I'm in the minority, I know, but I was long done with the Clarkson/Hammond/May trio. The staged nature of it all started to feel a bit much. I actually really liked the rebooted Top Gear once they settled on...
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    Ever been denied service at Tim's drive thru while on your bike?

    Once upon a time used to regularly take either a forklift of skidsteer through a Timmy's drive-through that was near the jobsite we were working on. They didn't have an issue with that at all, even if paying and collecting from the caged skidsteer was a bit of a pain...
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    Hindle Exhaust

    The Hindle shop is an amazing place. I took my RC51 track bike up to them, and they fabricated and installed my half-system, tuned the PCV on their dyno and I had a bonus fun chat with Lang about his time working with the CSBK RC51s from the early 00s. Finding systems that fit older bikes can be...
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    The year of music for me (so far)

    Dingwall > Bergantino > AccuGroove is just about the ultimate TalkBass setup! That AccuGroove is a beast, curious whether the super flat response is actually beneficial in a band setting (I've always been a bit skeptical of trying to chase hifi sound when you are just playing one part). I had...
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    Favorite Beatles Song

    I Want You (She's So Heavy) Totally off-piste for the Beatles, anti-pop, yet still somehow hooky and undeniable. I'm mostly a Harrison guy, but this is undeniably Lennon. Also massively influential for some of the heavy rock to follow into the end of '69 and through the '70s.
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    Soccer/football thread 2022

    I have to admit, for a thousand reasons, I thought the Premier League would sweep this under the rug. Massive credit to them for not only dealing with this head on, but coming out swinging. The report is incredible, simultaneously brutal and verging on sarcastic. The word 'sham' is really having...
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    Soccer/football thread 2022

    Not World Cup, but soccer related, sadly. RIP Kevin Keegan. He was before my time, but his shadow was a long one. The first true English league superstar, and by all accounts a gent. He was never the King to me, that crown is Kenny's, but a huge figure in both Liverpool and Newcastle.
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    "Mind ya damn b'ness."

    I hate to break it to you, friend, but 2006 is 20 years ago. I know. I perennially feel like it can't be more than a few years ago, too. My 2001 Honda is just a few years old, right? Right?! It's not an antique, that would be crazy...
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    Soccer/football thread 2022

    What a relief. That game was such agony to watch I actually turned it off at halftime when a bag of Botox that vaguely resembled Madonna appeared, and didn't come back until extra time. What I don't understand about that embarrassing display is it looked similar to the England game, where...
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    Soccer/football thread 2022

    They're both back, though it's unlikely both stay. Tsimikas went to Roma last year on a loan with an option to buy but was so bad he was run out of town on a rail. They couldn't not activate the option fast enough. Elliot is a more interesting one. He went to Villa because he wanted to start...
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