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I used to see basically that every day driving home in Pheonix in August in the 90's. Don't know if it's still like that, but it was pretty amazing back then. It's crazy driving into it, the sun dims and turns red, you have to switch A/C to internal air because otherwise sand comes in. If you're outside sand scrapes your face and gets in your eyes.

The motion where the sand meets the ground doesn't look right. Doesn't seem like the sort of thing someone would intentionally fake, maybe it's just the video compression, but anyways, it doesn't look right.

Perhaps you misunderstand me. I don't accuse her of taking anything from professionals, as I don't think they're competing. I only think, when making a claim of record bicycle speeds, if those speeds are not achieved without assistance it should be clearly noted. They didn't hide it, but the title slightly mislead me and left me disappointed it wasn't a human powered speed, because that speed would have more than doubled the previous record and that would be amazing.

This is a feat of skill and bravery. It simply is not a feat of purely human powered speed. Nothing wrong with that, as long as it's clear, imo.


Nice trip. 2500 miles is a good chunk of the distance coast to coast (depending on the route). Where did you ride to/from?
I've never done a long distance ride like that, I just rode to school and back daily...over 35 miles round trip...and around town. Up here in Humboldt, the roads are terrible so I don't ride much anymore, skinny racing tires don't do well in potholes. I'm getting too old and broken for serious mountain bike trail riding, which is sad considering the trails I have available.

I'm intrigued by the sand swap idea, but also concerned about the introduction of invasive species that may be living in that sand. Just a thought if you make the trip.

Again, SHE'S NOT A PRO! She doesn't take anything away from the pros but also gives them a chance to break her record. (If they got the guts)

Unrelated, this is me back in 2011 making a 2,500 mile bike trip which I did in 3 months. It was something I did to see if I actually wanted to bike across country. From Cape Canaveral beach to Vandenberg Air Force Base. I would carry a sample of sand from the east and then dump it on the beach in the west.

Due to circumstances beyond my control I still haven't been able to make that trip. But I loved every minute of the trip I did.

https://imgur.com/4LjMuiP

Actual intelligent scientists would say otherwise, get back to sticking your head in the sand.

Perhaps, they aren't perfect, but compared to the right they are paragons of virtue and truth. If there aren't enough gumballs in the world to count leftie lies, there aren't enough grains of sand for righties.

Deflect all you want, Trump is the biggest and most prolific liar ever in American political history, and his already dishonest party is scrambling to learn how to lie enough to keep up....and he's increased his record breaking lies by a factor of >4 since he was elected as the biggest and most prolific liar in election history. He lies so much that the right now claims ANY fact checking organization is fake news....which means unflattering news, not false....you guys even lie about what words mean.

Admit it Bob. To you, being a democrat very simply means being weak, a pussy, and dare I say, a fag.

You on the other hand are the opposite. Strong, brave, moral. A man's man. You have a line drawn in the sand and dare anyone to cross it. You have your troops and your weapons and booby traps all ready to protect yourself.

The only reason you hold onto your arsenal is because there is still this little nagging fear in you. You're not quite sure what it is but it's got something to do with what's wrong with the world.

You might have, at one time or another, caught a fleeting glimpse of what that fear is and had to deny it, look away or suffer the consequences. The consequence being that you would become what you fear. Weak, a pussy and dare I say, a fag?

You only have one fear Bob. Just one. You fear a broken heart. And you will do EVERYTHING to protect it.

Cowboy up.

I totally over thought that. Picturing you on break sitting at your desk in your white lab coat at some university watching videos on VS trying to calculate the erosion affect of sound and vibration on granules of sand to determine how long it would take before they would have to change the sand again and maybe offer a better quality and grade in the future.

Don't do that man. Although it wasn't your intent, you exposed me as a "duh."

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While I do like that theory, what I actually meant was, before sand and after sand. They didn't add the sand until 2012 after they did some sound testing. I would just like to hear the difference it made.

Are you suggesting that maybe the sand becomes finer after a period of time, perhaps becoming less effective?

Maybe it is hard to demonstrative over video, but I'm disappointed that the video didn't include any actual sand samples before and after.

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Assembly and sanding seemed pretty straight forward,.
I'm not sure about the math on the angles of the initial cut pieces. Pretty incredible that they all lined up fairly spot on - that's the skill of a mathematician!