Podcasts about tapered

In this episode, Chris and George Huang delve into the intricacies of the .204-class arrow and their impact on performance in archery. They discuss the evolution of arrow design, the importance of concentricity, and the challenges faced when working with smaller arrow sizes. The conversation also touches on the metric versus standard measurement debate in the archery industry, providing insights into how these factors influence arrow building and performance. In this segment of the conversation, Dorge Huang discusses various aspects of archery equipment, focusing on innovative materials, the design of E-nocks, the benefits and challenges of tapered arrows, and the intricacies of the HIT system. The discussion also delves into the importance of arrow nodes and how they affect performance, as well as the role of inserts in arrow construction. Throughout the conversation, Dorge emphasizes the significance of physics and geometry in understanding arrow dynamics and performance. In this conversation, Dorge and Chris delve into the intricacies of arrow dynamics, focusing on how arrow diameter, design, and construction impact performance and penetration. They discuss the importance of nocks and inserts, the science behind arrow building, and the future of arrow technology, emphasizing the need for precision and understanding in archery. Takeaways: Understanding arrow sizes is crucial for performance. Concentricity is more critical than straightness in arrow building. The diameter of an arrow affects its durability and performance. The metric system is more intuitive than the standard system. Smaller arrows require more precision in construction. The insert design plays a significant role in arrow performance. Arrow building requires attention to detail and quality materials. Different arrow sizes have unique benefits and drawbacks. The evolution of arrow design has led to more options for archers. Building arrows is a complex process that requires knowledge and skill.  Dealers appreciate the new neoprene table mats for their functionality. E-nocks are designed with a taller rib for better performance. Tapered arrows are beneficial for recurve bows but challenging to manufacture. The HIT system eliminates insert lips but can lead to alignment issues. Carbon powderization occurs upon impact, affecting arrow integrity. The node of the arrow is crucial for maintaining proper flex and performance. Using a half-out insert can complicate the gluing process and alignment. The choice of glue significantly impacts the durability of arrow components. Understanding the dynamics of arrow construction is essential for optimal performance. Physics plays a critical role in arrow design and functionality.  Every single half out I've seen is tapered a little bit. For testing purposes, we can shoot different diameters and they fly the same. The wind signature affects wind drift more than the diameter of the shaft. There's no measurable difference in performance between different arrow diameters in heavy winds. The arrow's memory effect increases with wall thickness, affecting its flight. Energy loss in flight is a critical factor in arrow performance. The broadhead's design plays a significant role in penetration, not just the arrow diameter. Precision in arrow building is crucial for optimal performance. Understanding the science behind arrows can lead to better archery outcomes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, host Alyssa Watson, DVM, is joined by fellow VetMedux colleague Jordy Waller, DVM, to discuss a recent Clinician's Brief article, “Top 7 Drug Classes to Be Tapered Before Discontinuation.” Dr. Watson and Dr. Waller dissect the article from top to bottom, pulling out their most valuable takeaways. They also share their own real world experiences with weaning drugs like steroids, prazosin, and fluoxetine.Resources:https://www.cliniciansbrief.com/article/drug-withdrawal-syndrome-opioids-veterinaryhttps://www.simparicatriodvm.com/Contact:podcast@vetmedux.comWhere To Find Us:Website: CliniciansBrief.com/PodcastsYouTube: Youtube.com/@clinicians_briefFacebook: Facebook.com/CliniciansBriefLinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/showcase/CliniciansBrief/Instagram: @Clinicians.BriefX: @CliniciansBriefThe Team:Alyssa Watson, DVM - HostAlexis Ussery - Producer & Multimedia Specialist

Veronika Chwieroth, Senior Sales Design Specialist for GAF, and Jennifer Keegan, Senior Director of Building & Roofing Science for GAF, chat with us as they preview what to expect during their webinar as they discuss successfully implementing tapered design into roof assemblies. Register now to join us July 30, 2024 at 2:00 PM EDT

  In this episode, Christian Bacasa interviews Jason Klass about Tenkara fishing. They discuss the advantages of Tenkara, how Jason transitioned to Tenkara, and dispel common myths about the method. They also explore the versatility of Tenkara and the different techniques used. Jason explains the different types of Tenkara rods and offers tips for choosing the right one. In this conversation, Jason Klass discusses various aspects of Tenkara fishing. He provides insights on choosing the right rod for beginners, the flexibility and preferences in rod action, fishing for big fish with Tenkara, different line lengths, connecting the line to the rod, using tapered lines and level fluorocarbon lines, the advantages of Tenkara rods, and approaching Tenkara with a beginner's mind. Takeaways Tenkara is a versatile method of fly fishing that offers many advantages, such as efficient pocket water fishing and a better connection to the river. Tenkara is not just for beginners or kids; it is a self-imposed challenge that appeals to experienced anglers seeking new challenges. Tenkara rods are telescopic and typically made of high-modulus graphite or a mix of graphite and fiberglass. They come in various lengths and flex patterns. There are different techniques specific to Tenkara, such as using flies with reverse hackle to create motion and enticing fish with repeated casting. When choosing a Tenkara rod, consider the length, flex, and your fishing conditions. Many companies offer a trial period for returns. Softer rods are recommended for beginners as they are easier to cast. Rod preferences can change as anglers become more experienced and learn to manage their weak points. Tenkara can be used to catch big fish, and specialized rods are available for this purpose. Line length in Tenkara can vary depending on the fishing conditions and personal preference. Connecting the line to the rod in Tenkara requires a specific knot or other DIY methods. Tapered lines and level fluorocarbon lines are commonly used in Tenkara fishing. Tenkara rods have the advantage of easy replacement of broken parts. Approaching Tenkara with a beginner's mind allows for open-mindedness and exploration of the method. Fly Fishing Insider Blog is taking off and I'm putting out tons of content weekly.  Join the Loyalty Club for updates and all kinds of discounts! www.ffipodcast.com The Fly Fisherman's Channel has become my favorite place lately. I work with them, so the podcast is on there now and without ads. What I like is that it is the most extensive collection of fly fishing-specific content on the web! Subscribe with my link and get 10% off your subscription by using code: FFIP10SPRING23 https://bit.ly/10PtsOffFlyFishermansChannel If you like the Fly Fisherman's Channel, it really helps cover the show's overhead. Anyone you share that link with can help. Thanks!!! A lot of you have been asking what I'm using these days. Specifically, I use products from these companies because they have been shown to last and be worth the money. They tend to last long and have good functionality. I'll try to add them to the podcasts from now on and keep the list up to date. Additionally, I'll be doing more reviews, but taking a look now is worthwhile. Grundéns Waders - https://bit.ly/grundénswaders  Simms Fishing - Packs, Boots, Accessories, Waders - https://bit.ly/simmsfishingmain Patagonia - Clothing, Shells, Packs - https://bit.ly/patagoniamainpage Gerber Gear - Fishing Tools, Nipper, Pliers - https://bit.ly/gerbergearfishing BD - Clothing, Jackets, Headlamps - https://bit.ly/bdmainpage Gryal 24 Oz Bottle - Water Purification - https://bit.ly/gryalwaterpurification

1st day at fertility clinic intern learns lesson in business..By thomas_dean. Subscribe & listen to the Podcast at Steamy Stories. When I arrived at the Western Avenue Fertility Clinic to begin my first shift at 4:30 AM, I was surprised to find the oversized closet that housed the locker room already abuzz. Although I, forewarned that I must undress and shower to enter the facility, had my auburn hair cut short, I was unprepared for the scene of women packed into the right side of the locker room. I was barely able to hear the security officer's directions over the din of high-pitched voices cackling. The dozen or so women, mostly 40ish or older, crammed in together, were busy undressing and stowing their clothes in lockers on their side of the room.Eek! I almost freaked out. I was a college intern in a fertility clinic. These women, paunches hanging, most of them twice my age, wouldn't their appearance discourage nubile young women from inseminating themselves? The ladies faced their lockers chatting among themselves oblivious to the naked men, on the other side of the room idly standing by. Game, I sighed, the game calls.Pushing my way through the bodies packed together, I nearly passed out from the bouquet of perfumes rising from half naked bodies before I reached my assigned locker. "The new girl?" asked the bare-chested lady to my right. "I'm `Rory, short for Aurora and that slut, she's," Rory pointed to the lady on my left who was bending over to remove her panties, "Astra short for Astarte."Forcing a smile, I tried not to stare at her shaven pubis.Smiling back at me, Astra explained, "My parents were into mythology. Astarte is the goddess of love. Appropriate for St Valentine's Day?" She paused. "As the daughter of the moon goddess, Astarte was granted the crescent moon for her symbol.""So," Rory exclaimed, "reporting in this early, you're caught between night and day." When I looked over my shoulder at the naked men, Rory assured me, "Oh, they're not in cock-blockers but still harmless."Shaking her head, Astra interjected, "It's the law. We have to live with.""During my time in school," I replied as I removed my top, "we needed accustom ourselves to undressing in front of drooling guys.""Ah, equality reigns," Rory sighed, "Allow me," Rory requested permission to unhook my bra, "Gender equality means the employer doesn't have to pay for separate locker rooms for men and women.""But, we can't fault our employer on that score," Astra interjected as she swept the unhooked bra off my shoulders and flung it in my locker, "You'll see Dr. Velour in here, bare to the bone, prancing to the showers before she does her rounds.""And you can feel her beady black eyes upon you whenever she's around," griped Rory."If you can't exclude men from the ladies' locker," I chuckled hobbled on one foot to remove my sneakers, "There is the hope real men might control the occasional perv."Raising her penciled eyebrows, Rory snickered, "Not to worry. These guys are more embarrassed than we are. We count on them remaining hypnotized by our beauty," she wiggled her body, "while we get ready for the herd to race, like cattle on the trail, for the shower.""Judging by swollen schlongs," I looked over my shoulder as I planted a hand on Rory's bare shoulder for balance to step out of my dungarees, "I might think not.""Actually, judging by their bulging eyes, we count on that," Rory snickered. Placing a hand on my bare shoulder, leaning into me to whisper, "We put a show in the shower for the guys. Just play along. It's fun to watch them react. Are you a-game?""A-game! Rub-A-Dub-Dub! Slinging soap in the shower," I nervously quipped, "should be good clean fun.""Huh!" Rory snorted, "just clean fun. Yeah.""Hurry, along," urged Astra, standing behind me, "the cleaning uniform, large frock and trousers, is the same for both—eh all sexes. We like to get the pants so that the guys are left in frocks sans culottes.""Think of it," Rory smiled, "it's the race for the pants in the battle of the sexes."Then Rory and Astra grabbed each of my arms. Out of the locker stepping onto the cold steel of the catwalk, I felt that same tingle that I felt earlier with Jerry. There's a certain excitement in racing naked stampeding like cattle. Could it be the exaltation of freedom, violating social norms? I wondered.On the passageway I melded into a herd of bare breasts bobbing and bare bubbly butts bouncing which bolted across the cold steel bridge toward the bright light radiating off the tiles of the shower.At the entrance to the shower, a tall thin girl named Doulchia in a two-piece reduced the stampeding cows to a line of contented calves, awaiting assignment to a spigot. "My task," Doulchia rang out an order in singsong as she arranged a line along the railing, "it is decreed, to corral the bare ass, make them pay heed."Running with the pack had an advantage. I didn't think. I didn't look at the others in the horde. Now, on edge, I nervously looked at the other women. All pubis were hairless.I restrained myself from shrieking when Rory grabbed my attention by gently rubbing my back. "Good," Rory told me, "you cut your hair short. It dries faster. Consider clipping your muff."Aghast, I struggled to thank her.Sorting out the dozens of naked women for use of a few showerheads, Doulchia rang out her rhyme, "The shower managed skillfully, for maximum efficiency, in planning activity, for rub-a-dub-dub with dignity, three heads fitted, under the same spigot."As I came up to Doulchia, Rory chided her, "putting your bottom in a thong took away two panels for ..""I lost two pockets," Doulchia cracked in a lyrical voice, "but I still have the sockets, to stow your deposits."I looked from Rory to Astra for a clue. "Ugh," Rory grunted, "Nurses and aides get first choice on the best customers anyway."I was pleased that Doulcia, the tall thin girl in charge of the shower, placed me under a spigot with my locker-mates, Rory and Astra. Pointing to a spigot, Doulchia intoned, "Rub-a-dub-dub, watch for the hubbub, three for a scrub."Three of us found ourselves under a spigot. "Hands up," Rory roared an order. Up to the mindless game of splashing around, I mechanically complied. As Rory lathered under my arms down my sides to my butt, she whispered, "We need to move quickly. We're caught between night and day. You have to handle Astra."Back turned to me, Astra raised her arms. Her shaven armpits had little nubbies where hair follicles had been removed. As I worked down her soft flesh, a sudden tingle up my spine inspired the remark, "electrostatic," I exclaimed, "yet so different from touching a man."I know what happened even though I can't explain why. My body took charge. I had never intended to have found my fingers roaming from the pillowy underside of her breasts down her stomach to the smooth flesh of her mound. In response, Astra, leaning backwards into my breasts, engaged me."Reverse," Rory abruptly ordered. We jumped in unison to about face. Snickering at the men, Rory muttered, "just watch the bouncing boobs."I tended to Rory as Astra caressed my breasts with a slick soapy fluid. Expanding circular motions probing downward from my nipples brought her fingers across my belly and lower abdomen to my vaginal lips. I moistened the ruby red rim of my mouth with my tongue. I had never been disloyal to Jerry from the time I met him. Why were my own greedy fingers probing Rory's vagina pulling her back into me? Was it just a game? I was close to cumming when Rory ordered, "Enough Rub-a-dub-dub. Show's over. Quick rinse off."With the sting of a swat on my wet butt, Rory assured me, "It's only a show." Invited to look over at the guys, I laughed. Their eyes transfixed, the guys stood by, schlongs effervescing. "Works all the time," Rory quipped as we passed by the guys to towel off, "Game set and match!"Claiming the cleaning uniform's pants, Astra chanted, "We get the pants," Astra laughed, "and the guys get the lacy underpants."Descending the long staircase into the sub-surface gym, Rory advised, "we usually don't have much in the gym besides spraying disinfectant, wiping down the equipment and mopping the floor.""Oops," Astra interjected, "not to forget cleaning Dr. Velour's office."As we wiped down the exercise equipment, Astra explained, "we usually don't find anything gross. Guys, whether employees or donors; must wear an athletic supporter in the gym. That should be sufficient to sop up any emissions.""Laundry," Rory smirked peering into a circular clothing bin and waiving off the stink, "has to deal with any ugh," her face contorted "man goo."Looking toward the pool with a look of disgust, Rory commented, "The guys swim nude in the pool. Fortunately, the guys in maintenance have to clean the slime over there."Returning to street level to pass through to clean the treatment rooms, we were required to strip and shower. "You may bemoan, Subject to inspection, at change of zone, More Rub-a-dub-dub, for your protection, crammed into the tub, to prevent infection.."Standing naked, shivering, arms criss-crossed over my breasts, I waited with Rory and Astra for assignment to a spigot. Ready to assign us to a spigot, Doulchia, pointing to a spigot, exclaimed, "to scrub, bacteria insidious, a good rub-a-dub-dub, fastidious."Rory held her palms out as if in question. To the unvoiced inquiry, Doulchia simply shook her head. A brazen look on her face, disbelief creeping into her voice, Rory pleaded, "nothin` on Valentine's Day?" Looking toward me, Doulchia nodded. Rory protested, "She's just got over the shock of a little rub-a-dub.""Damn!" Astra complained, "early bird men, cock unblocked, dangling free, are good tippers."Doulchia laughed, "Don't huff, some guys get a rush, from a muff, that is plush."After a quick shower, we donned frocks and thongs to enter the male treatment rooms. The room selected to begin looked like a normal medical treatment room, except Rory explained it had a hitching post, a simple pillar, 5' feet high by 2' feet wide in the center of the tiled floor instead of an examination table. "Fire plug shaped, the device simulates a man crunching a female against the wall. This is the Customer's prime choice of fantasy," Rory commented."Each room is equipped with a visor. Unlike the old-fashioned fertility clinics," Rory explained, "we don't hand out girly pictures. This shield," Rory held the visor, darkened like sunglasses as she wiped it with disinfectant, "draws the guy into the experience. It presents him with a vivid virtual sexual encounter.""Dr. Velour designed the device and scripted the fantasies herself," Astra interjected. "It's set for the introduction.""When the subject dons the visor, he's drawn into a different reality. His imagination overrides the intellect. The fantasy becomes a reality in his mind. Here try it out," Rory offered it to me. "We'll start cleaning up the room."As Rory nodded to Astra to begin spritzing the room with disinfectant, I hesitantly held the visor in my hands, undecided whether to put it on.Turning to me, Astra noted, "It's just like a video game, with the plus that you'll explore Dr. Velour's vision, a female spin on a male fantasy."I looked around the room. A pungent odor of disinfectant rose as Rory began to hum a gentle tune as pushed the mopped across the white tiled floor and Astra wiped down the table and cabinets."For the cause of research," I sighed as I tentatively donned the visor holding my hands at its edges ready to flip it off my head. The sounds of chatting passersby in the corridor faded away, along with Rory's sweet singsong and the swoosh of her mop and the pungent odor of an ammonia-based disinfectant.Veiled in the shield, I found myself alone in the examining room. On the visor I envisioned Doulchia. Her two-piece gone, a ghostly counterpart of Doulchia appeared in my vision clad in a starched white nurse's uniform enter the room with a tall carrot red topped naked male subject, thick red hair hung from almost every inch of the subject's body, except his freckled lower abdomen and butt. His schlong hung prominently against a fur free crotch and nuts.After securing the subject's feet to the floor in front of the post, then, donning gloves, Doulchia's ethereal presence reached into hitching post and pulled out a sleeve and secured the man's schlong. "A guy's imagination won't suffice," The specter of Doulchia's phantom explained, "to reach a level of excitation, requires a device, to provide physical stimulation."His schlong secured, Doulchia's spiritual presence, locking the red-haired man's arms around the pillar, noted "the pillar is a soft and rubbery, delightful to his touch, a cozy 91 degree,, tempting so much, drawing him into her clutch."The image in the visor of the subject hitched to the post faded away into swirls of green, yellow and red colors which settled into the apparition of a figure, a man perhaps, in an embrace with a fire-plug shaped pillar. Doulchia's voice as the swirling colors warmed from green to yellow and yellow to red and red to a deep crimson. "Thermographic images dazzle," Doulchia's illusion continued her lecture, "by the intensification, of the subject's arousal, with increasing stimulation."When the colors dissolved, the subject was gone. In front of me appeared Astra soft pale body bare but for a micro thong damming her love canal. The extra fat disappeared from her belly; her small breasts floated like globules on her chest; her nipples erect. To her right stood Rory, pendulous boobs, nude, her crotch hairless. On her left, were two males one with his genitalia wrapped up in the cock block; the other hanging free."But Rory and Astra shouldn't be here," I protested, "They're supposed to be cleaning."The apparition of Doulchia re-appeared in her nurse's uniform between Rory and Astra on her right and the men on her left. "Your co-workers about their task, Stand in contrast, to your fantasy, here we broadcast, only what you fancy.""What now?" I asked.Dulchia's phantasm smiled, "Sing a sweet song, for the pair you select, to entertain, playing ping pong, on the subject's brain.""Huh?" I was taken by surprise.The image of Doulchia chanted a clarification, "In your vision, time for a decision, a pair to cuddle, two by two division, your preference for a couple?"The question hung. I chose Rory and Astra—or the images of them to entertain the Red-haired subject.

"It's either that or my t*ts are out"In today's episode, the girls have a good old catch up. Beth calls out someone in a Facebook group that said she hates her LOL. From FAM trips to sad stories about a bride dying on her wedding day, Beth even accuses Georgie of wearing white to a wedding!The girls also walk through what they think is an appropriate amount to drink throughout a wedding.Top tip - Tapered candles aircon open doors, dont light your candles- ruins linen.Bitches from a bride - Is it okay to invite people to the ceremony and evening of a wedding, but not the wedding breakfast?***********************************This episode is sponsored by The Crafty Lab, the original home of the wedding newspaper!The Crafty Lab will help you add that personal touch to your wedding by adding your own personal story to your big day. A small company with a big heart.For 10% off, use code ‘UNFILTERED' at checkout!Be sure to check them out;Website - www.thecraftylab.co.ukInstagram - @thecraftylab.co.uk***************************************Make sure you follow us on Instagram & TikTok!The Unfiltered Bride - @the.unfiltered.brideGeorgie - @georgina.rose.eventsBeth - @etiquetteeventstyling Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Daniel Berry leads the discussion Tapered Spline Stems for Femoral Reconstruction. Drs. John Clohisy and Christopher Peters present their views in the table discussion followed by comments from attendees. To see the presentation while you listen, download the free ConveyMED App: Apple Store click here Google Play click here. Attend CCJR 2023 Dec 13-16 in Orlando. Visit CCJR.com for more information.

As the holiday season approaches, we find ourselves on the cusp of two major shopping events: Black Friday and Cyber Monday. While these days are typically associated with incredible deals on electronics, fashion, and more, it's essential not to overlook the significance of maintaining excellent oral health during this festive time. In this episode, we'll explore the intersection of holiday shopping and dental care, highlighting the importance of making informed choices about oral hygiene products and sharing exciting innovations in the world of dental care. We'll introduce you to BURST Oral Care, a company committed to providing high-quality, effective, and enjoyable-to-use dental products. As we explore BURST's innovative toothbrushes, including the Pro Sonic Toothbrush and the Curve Sonic Toothbrush, you'll discover how these devices have been developed in collaboration with dental professionals to ensure optimal oral hygiene. Remember to prioritize your oral health this holiday season, and consider BURST Oral Care's dental professional-approved products for a brighter smile. Use promo code "Healthy Mouth" for a professional discount on all items. Happy and healthy holidays! Key Takeaways: -As we approach Black Friday and Cyber Monday, it's essential to remember that maintaining oral hygiene is crucial, especially during a time when people indulge in holiday treats and sweets.-Consider incorporating oral care products as holiday gifts. BURST Oral Care offers innovative toothbrushes that can make for thoughtful and practical presents.-Dental professionals recommend soft bristles because they effectively clean teeth and gums without causing gum recession or increased tooth sensitivity. Soft bristles are gentler on oral tissue while removing plaque effectively.-Tapered bristles, with their pointed design, can penetrate below the gumline and between teeth, reaching tight spaces and crevices where plaque can hide.-BURST's toothbrushes, such as the Pro Sonic Toothbrush and the Curve Sonic Toothbrush, were developed in collaboration with dental professionals, ensuring their high quality and effectiveness.-Amid the holiday shopping frenzy, don't forget the importance of oral health. A healthy mouth contributes to overall well-being, and BURST's products can help you achieve that.-BURST offers membership plans that deliver essential oral care products monthly, making it convenient to maintain your oral hygiene routine.-BURST stands by the quality of its products, offering a 90-day money-back guarantee to ensure customer satisfaction. Book a consultation today:I am always here to help answer any question and schedule a 15 minute call with me. If I can not help, I can get you to a provider that can.https://shereewertz.com/15-min 

BE WARNED: It's LuAnna, and this podcast contains honest, upfront opinions, rants, bants and general explicit content. But you know you love it! It's time to get TOTALLY EXTRA. Extra chat, extra rants, extra bants, extra stories, nonsense and more.On this week's Totally Extra: Falling on a jam jar, hair in the bathtub, a decorative house, lunch for your birthday, a threesome with a dead grandad and panettone for christmas. Remember, if you want to get in touch you can:Email us at luannathepodcast@gmail.com OR drop us a WhatsApp on 07745 266947Please review Global's Privacy Policy: https://global.com/legal/privacy-policy/

From his palatial New York City estate, Rosenberg is joined by super-agent Diperstein for the standard combination of pro wrestling and nonsense you've come to expect from this program. Today, the guys discuss: (0:00) The LA Knight build and why Rosenberg is beginning to see Dip's point of view (20:32) The intertwining of social media and pro wrestling (32:56) Dom Mysterio heat (36:35) The holdup with Montez Ford and why Dip feels it's time to make him a major star (41:38) New Smackdown general manager Nick Aldis Plus, Andrew Goldstein talks LA Knight vs. Roman Reigns and Rosenberg teaches Instagram to his dad. Hosts: Peter Rosenberg, Dip Guest: Andrew Goldstein Producer: Troy Farkas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today’s Consumer Price Index data on inflation is out, and it showed something that will buoy the spirits of monetary policymakers everywhere — inflation again tapered, the tenth-straight month of decline. Susan Schmidt, Head of Public Equities at the State of Wisconsin Investment Board, helps us break down the latest report. Plus, the BBC spoke with an executive at the German carmaker BMW about the Inflation Reduction Act. And, the rising cost of food in Turkey, which is part of the country’s broader economic problems, is affecting voters’ opinions ahead of upcoming elections.

Today’s Consumer Price Index data on inflation is out, and it showed something that will buoy the spirits of monetary policymakers everywhere — inflation again tapered, the tenth-straight month of decline. Susan Schmidt, Head of Public Equities at the State of Wisconsin Investment Board, helps us break down the latest report. Plus, the BBC spoke with an executive at the German carmaker BMW about the Inflation Reduction Act. And, the rising cost of food in Turkey, which is part of the country’s broader economic problems, is affecting voters’ opinions ahead of upcoming elections.

On this week's episode, Stephen Frothingham, Editor in Chief of Bicycle Retailer & Industry News at Outside, Inc, joins Randall to share his unique perspective on bicycle industry dynamics in general and the bike shop and OEM ecosystem in particular. Steve is an industry veteran who approaches his work with a warmth and curiosity we've long appreciated, and his reporting continues to serve as an influential resource for all of us who work in the space. Episdoe sponsor: Dynamic Cyclist (Promo code THEGRAVELRIDE for 15% off) Support the Podcast Join The Ridership  Automated Transcription, please excuse the typos: [00:00:00] Craig Dalton: Hello, and welcome to the gravel ride podcast, where we go deep on the sport of gravel cycling through in-depth interviews with product designers, event organizers and athletes. Who are pioneering the sport I'm your host, Craig Dalton, a lifelong cyclist who discovered gravel cycling back in 2016 and made all the mistakes you don't need to make. I approach each episode as a beginner down, unlock all the knowledge you need to become a great gravel cyclist. This week on the podcast, I'm going to hand the microphone over to my co-host Randall Jacobs. Who's got Steven Frothingham editor and chief of bicycle retailer and industry news on the show to discuss his unique perspective on bicycle industry dynamics. The general bike shop and OEM ecosystem in particular, Steve is an industry veteran who approaches his work with warmth and curiosity that is so appreciated. His reporting continues to serve as an influential resource to everyone who works in the bicycle retail space. I think you'll get a lot out of this episode, learning a little bit more of the ins and outs of the industry as it all trickles down and has an effect. On us as riders. Before we jump in, I do need to thank this week. Sponsor, dynamic cyclist. The team over at dynamic cyclist has created a video library of stretching and strengthening techniques. Specifically designed around cyclists. The founders, cyclists themselves found a niche in developing this content as it didn't exist before their efforts. They've created hundreds and hundreds of different stretching routines to focus on different parts of the body that affect your performance as a cyclist. It's something for me that has become super important. I've been following the routine since around November last year, really specifically to work on lower back strengthening, but it found that I'm much more disciplined knowing that I've got these 15 to 20 minute episodes always available to me, both streaming from their website or also available from the app. I encourage you to give it a try. They've got a free one week trial, and if it works for you, They're offering gravel ride podcast listeners, a 15% discount off monthly or annual plans. It's quite affordable. I think it's less than a hundred dollars for an entire year's worth of programming. I expect like me I'll dip in and out of it with a heavier focus in the winter, but trying to stay on it, as I realized that stretching needs to be part of my routine. If I'm going to maintain my love and active cycling lifestyle, particularly on the gravel bike, where we all tend to get roughed up a bit. Use the code, the gravel ride to get that 15% off, just put it in the coupon code box@dynamiccyclists.com. When you check out, If that sounds like it's up your alley, I hope you give it a try again. They've got that free one week trial. So why the hell not. With that said, I'm going to hand the microphone off to my co-host Randall Jacobs. And jump right into this conversation with Steven Frothingham. [00:03:11] Randall: You're an old hand in the bike industry in the journalism space. Give us a little bit of background about that. [00:03:17] steve: , know, I started at Brain, I think I was the first editor hired back in think 92. And then I left and worked for the Associated Press twice and then came back into the bike industry to work for, be News for a few years. Uh, left them, went back to Brain, and then the company that owned Be News bought Brain. I ended up back in that same company again, which became outside. So it, yeah, it kind of feels like, uh, even though I don't work for ERs again, I feel like I'm back with the same crew. Uh, I literally was in the same, same desk, same office for a little while. So, uh, that, that seems to be, seems to be the pattern in my career here. [00:03:55] Randall: Just to clarify for our listeners, brain is bicycle retailer where you are currently, uh, editor-in-chief. Correct. [00:04:01] steve: Mm-hmm. [00:04:03] Randall: Tell us a little bit about the nature of that publication. So what role does it serve in the industry? [00:04:09] steve: well, when we started it in 92, you know, the full name is Bicycle Retailer and Industry News. And, uh, the, and was important back then because the, um, the other trade magazines, and believe it or not, there were three others back then were all print magazines. We were the fourth. Um, but they had this real focus on. Kind of this old school dealer thing, like, you know, we're gonna profile this retailer this month. We're gonna do a story on, know, uh, how to hire kids for the summer. We're gonna do a story about how to display your tires. Um, and we're not really gonna write about the industry, the supplier side. So we came along and we were bicycle retailer and industry news. And we used to kinda joke that what we're doing is reporting. We're telling the retailers what the, uh, suppliers are doing to them this month. Um, which is maybe a little bit too cynical, but we, we reported on what the industry was doing. We reported the news of what the supplier side was doing for the most part, which is what the retailers want to read. Um, most retailers, they might say that they'd like to read a story about how to merchandise their tires, but that's kind of broccoli. You know what they were, what really wanna, wanna have is the, uh, the steak and potatoes of, uh, finding out what one of their suppliers, uh, just bought another company or just went bankrupt or just switched factories in Taiwan or, or something like that. And that's the kinda stuff that the, uh, the other titles we're not doing back in the nineties, which is why, uh, this is gonna bring out the competitive bike racer jerk in me. But we, we put the other three out of business in three or four years, I think. Um, it wasn't very long before Brain was the only, uh, industry title in the US and, um, to some extent we're still doing the same thing. Obviously we've had to adapt to social media and the internet, which didn't exist when, when we started the magazine. But, um, we're still doing the same thing. We, we focus on news and, um, You know, we like to do some, we like to profile important retailers once in a while, but for the most part, uh, we still report on what the supplier side is doing with the knowledge that most of our readers are, uh, are retailers independent? [00:06:37] Randall: I actually hadn't appreciated that you were on the founding team for bicycle retailer. So can you share a little bit more about that and who else was involved and how that came to be? [00:06:47] steve: Well, I didn't have an investment unfortunately. Uh, I was, I think I was 22 years old or something, so I was just the first hired gun there. Uh, mark, who still writes for us, was the founding editor, uh, and a partner early on. There was another partner named Bill Sandler, who, uh, passed away quite a few years ago now. Uh, so Mark and Bill were, were really the founders um, Uh, I think they hired a, uh, an office lady named Kathy, and then they hired me. And, uh, that was kind of the start of the fun and, um, you know, and then the company went through various different ownerships, uh, some of which happened when, after I left, when I was, uh, outside the bike world for while. Uh, sometimes I forget it went through three or four different ownerships. Uh, when I came back it was owned by Nielsen of the famous Nielsen Ratings Nielsen, which, uh, owned, uh, trade shows including interbike. And, uh, we were actually operated by the National Bicycle Dealers Association, the nonprofit dealer trade group. Um, so we were owned by Nielsen, which was kind of renamed as Emerald Expositions. Uh, so I think my paycheck came from, now my paycheck came from the Mbda a you know, we went through quite a few years of being run by a very small nonprofit trade association. And then, and then it changed hands. Uh, M BDA a had some financial problems and, uh, we were not exactly helping things. So, uh, we got handed off to, uh, what was then called Pocket Outdoor Media, the company that owned Velo News. They owned Velo Press Draft, fleet Magazine. At that point, uh, Robin Thurston was a minority investor, I believe, in pocket outdoor media. And then, uh, you know, about a year or so after, uh, brain became part of that group, became the ceo, um, started raising money to buy a whole bunch of titles, which you've probably heard about, including Pink Bike Cycling Tips, um, some, uh, some bike events in Colorado. And then eventually the big purchase was raising the money to buy outside Magazine. And, um, company Pocket Outdoor Media was, I think, I think Robin had actually hired a marketing company to come up with a new name for Pocket Outdoor Media, because people thought Pocket Outdoor Media was a billboard company. Uh, and the sales reps didn't like that. Uh, so they were, you know, doing the marketing thing of, of bouncing all these ideas off the wall, coming, trying to come up with a new idea and a new name. And then after they bought Outside magazine, they're like, well, why don't we just, you know, renamed the company outside? we became outside, which things have been moving very quickly. It's, you know, it's a big change for me moving from for a very tiny, little underfunded non-profit trade association from bicycle shops N bda, to working for this multi billion dollar startup basically a tech company. Um, change. And that's why the, the time, you know, I mean, I think back it seems like, you know, a decade ago, but it's only been like two and half years. [00:10:23] Randall: So Robin Thurston is the current c e o of outside the group. And he previously founded is it, uh, map my. [00:10:31] steve: Map my ride, map my run my companies, sold to Under Armor. [00:10:35] Randall: I think that was like 160 million acquisition or something. I remember having this number offhand because it was part of my pitch deck for another company that I was trying to raise money for. It's like, oh here's a comparison point of this company that was acquired in the space. [00:10:50] steve: Yeah, I mean map where I was kind of ahead of the curve with doing some of the stuff that Strava's doing now, and uh, now and outside. We have Gaia, which is a, mapping app that's primarily used by hikers and skiers. And then trail Forks, which was developed by Pink Bike as a mapping app mostly for mountain bikers. [00:11:12] Randall: It's quite well regarded of, of seen in some of the forums. People are very keen on that particular application in the quality of the routes there [00:11:19] steve: are really good. They do have their niches. I use Gaia for backcountry skiing and it, it works really well. And it's, uh, uh, you know, we could go way down a rabbit hole, but you know, why I choose to use Gaia when I'm skiing and why I use trail forks when I'm mountain biking and why I use, don't know what else when I'm road biking. I don't know. But, you know, each has its own, uh, its own advantages in different spaces. So, yeah. Robin, made his fortune, I think, fair to say, selling that company to, uh, under Armour. And then he worked for Under Armour for a while. I think he was the Chief Technology Officer at Under Armor, uh, left and did some other stuff, and then eventually came back to this group. [00:12:02] Randall: So you started when you were 22, essentially first hire for bicycle retailer, this fledgling industry magazine with a particular point of view that resonated with dealers. What drew you to this particular space? You studied journalism in college. Were you an avid cyclist? [00:12:18] steve: Yeah. All that. Yeah. Uh, I was a cyclist. From day one, I started in B BMX when I was a little turd. Uh, I'm definitely, I'm totally of that age now where, you know, I'm 55 now and I go to the shows and I see these retro BMX bikes that some of the companies are doing. My light up, oh, there's that red that I wanted when I was, now I buy it. I've resisted so far, but yeah, I started in bmx. I did mountain bike races back in the eighties and road racing and, and, uh, and yeah, then I, I got a journalism degree and I did work completely outside the bike world for about 10 years, the Associated Press, covering presidential politics in New Hampshire where the presidential primary is a big deal. So that was really fun. I think I covered three or four primaries in New Hampshire. Plus the usual AP stuff of plane crashes and lost hikers and syrup and lost mooses and stuff like that. [00:13:18] Track 1: Standard, Northeast Fair. [00:13:19] steve: Yeah. Typical New Hampshire stuff. [00:13:21] Track 1: And remind me where you grew up. [00:13:24] steve: in New England. Uh, I was born just a little north of where you are in Salisbury, Massachusetts. And, uh, my family moved up into New Hampshire when I was a teenager. And then when I came back, when I worked for the Associated Press, I lived in Wolfborough, New Hampshire for about 10 years. [00:13:38] Track 1: So you and I when we chat tend to go off in various tangents so, where would you like to go? Or, or we can start with the email that you sent me yesterday about shaman cues. [00:13:49] steve: yeah. I could interview you on that. What do you know? [00:13:52] Track 1: Well, you're the one, the inside line. Yeah. You saw the press release. [00:13:56] steve: the inside line yet. You know, I'm just starting my research and I'm, I'm going to Taiwan next week, so hopefully I'll learn a lot more over there. But, it looks like a fairly significant development, this cues thing. I was sitting through a, I think it was an hour long video recording from Shaman about it yesterday. And, I got antsy halfway through and started calling people and emailing people, and, uh, video was moving too slowly. So like, I need some more need. I need to check in with some people around the industry here to see what they think. [00:14:27] Track 1: For those listening, shaman released a new, not just group set, but family of group sets on their kind of entry to entry, mid-level. And, it's significant for reasons that go beyond simply, here's some new parts. They have a reputation for using constantly varying standards and interfaces and pull ratios, which is the ratio of cable pull to, gear shifting. so how much cable pulls results in how much movement of the derailer constantly varying that, not just year to year, but from group to group in order to avoid cross compatibility with third party components and even within their own groups so that brands don't mix and match. Say you want a higher end quote unquote, set of levers connected to a lower injury derail because you don't see the value in the higher end derailer. Well, they preclude that by adjusting the pull ratios from group to group. And so what they've done with cues is make it such. The pull ratio is the same across all the groups, even with different speeds. And the thing that the major differentiator between the different levels is the number of years. the cog spacing in the back is the same. , and I think that that's quite significant. and it signals something too. I think it's very much in favor of riders. And it helps shops as well. I think it helps the industry more generally, but it's also indicative of a shift in the power dynamic in the bike industry. , in many ways is the new shaman, they're in the ascendant. They have, , a number of standards that they have put out there that have gotten adoption, that they have defended through patents and, in some cases, litigation and so I, I view it in the context of, innovation and competitiveness in the bike industry. [00:16:09] steve: Yeah, that makes sense. I think even Shaman used the word realistic, meaning that the new groups, they like to say that the technology that makes them special is in the cogs. Not in the chain. not so much in the crank set or the derailer. which allows mix and match so if somebody wants to spec a cassette, whether it's, Nine, 10 or 11 speed with a different crank, with a different chain, it'll still work okay, because there's nothing, it doesn't require any kind of special chain and the, the magic isn't in the chain. It's in the cassettes. So yeah, I think it's more realistic. I mean, obviously the development of this began before the pandemic and the part shortage that was through the pandemic. But, what happened in the pandemic with all these, new third party, fourth party parts coming up, getting a second look, people taking a second look at, whether it's micro shift or, uh, tetra breaks or whatever. Anything they can get. this really kind of seals the deal. This kind of tells you that, , For the next few years, we're probably gonna see more and more of these mixed groups, at least at the lower price. this is all below 1 0 5 on the road, below Dior, 12 speed or 11 speed on the mountain bike side. So everything that was cheaper than Dior and down on the mountain bike, everything that was cheaper than 1 0 5 is now queues [00:17:39] Randall: Which is to say en entry level to, uh, lower mid-level stuff, which is also good stuff. They have, clutch derails 11 speed. It does look to be quality components. [00:17:49] steve: Yep. [00:17:50] Track 1: Yeah. [00:17:50] steve: it's not the electric shifting, it's not the 12 speed. [00:17:52] Track 1: Oh, of course not. No. That, that stuff's still locked down. So, um, in fact, uh, [00:17:58] steve: is a di two group as part of this, as the, um, more, more for the mountain bike, E mountain bike group, there's a DI two. [00:18:06] Track 1: presumably sharing a battery, I haven't dived into that yet. Um, [00:18:11] steve: the one that has the uh, uh, the front freewheeling system and the antilock brakes that they launched at Eurobike last year. [00:18:18] Track 1: got it. [00:18:19] steve: Yeah. [00:18:20] Track 1: Yeah, it's, it's interesting. You, you'll, you may recall that in the past I was looking to, uh, create an open platform for bicycle electronics, and. And was trying to corral the support of that. Um, all those third parties that, that Taiwan vendor base that was shut out of the theam shaman duopoly. Um, I think, uh, probably a little bit before its time. Uh, certainly the, the appetite wasn't there for investments. Um, there was, there was interest, but not in, not any investment dollars coming in from the Taiwan side at that time. Uh, but since then we've seen, I mean, electronic is, well now you have a protocol that you can lock down and so you don't have to vary. It used to be that you vary pull ratios or some sort of mechanical, mechanical interface between components. Now you lock down the communication protocol and the power grid, and in that way you, you constrain interoperability between components from third parties. . Uh, and then you have a lot of patents around the grifter, which is, um, I would argue the, the center, the nexus of power in the bicycle industry, um, is arguably the road grifter, the road brake shift lever. And with it now, the, you know, the, the cas and, uh, you know, with electronic, the electronic protocol, power grid, things like that. Because if you control, you know, even if you just control all, you've patented every single way that you can make a lever swing, [00:19:47] steve: Right. [00:19:48] Track 1: and you know, and that, and then now you control this lever, well, that lever dictates that the caliper has to be from the same. Producer as well, because of safety reasons. You can't mix and match a caliper with a different hydraulic brake system. And then for the electronic, same deal, you know, it controls like you, you just have a closed protocol and nobody else can connect with that. And now you control the interfaces between the levers, the cas, the derails, um, and the bike itself. And now you can dictate, you know, we, we want this particular break interface. And so we see, you know, uh, flat mounts and so on. We see the new universal derail your hangar, uh, that STR introduced, which I haven't, I haven't gone deep on the patent yet, but I, I wonder, do you know if that precludes other companies from attaching a derailer in the same way if they, if they forego that universal hangar? [00:20:45] steve: No, I think Sharon's being pretty open with, with giving licenses to it, but I dunno about other third party. I mean, and at what point are we gonna have another, you know, swam shaman lawsuit, like from back in the eighties or nineties, whenever that was, that the bundling, you know? So at what point did the electronic, um, protocols become open source because of an antitrust law? The antitrust lawsuit? I think it's unlikely. Cause I don't know who would challenge 'em at this point. [00:21:18] Track 1: it's, uh, the bike co. [00:21:20] steve: you got something planned. [00:21:21] Track 1: Um, you know, we're, we're a tiny little blip on, on the grander, um, bike industry and, uh, you know, [00:21:29] steve: 1991. [00:21:30] Track 1: yeah. Well, so is it, is it true or, or answer this however you like? Um, I have, I wasn't around, um, for. At the time that that was happening. And so I get, I have second in hand information from people who were there or were adjacent to it. And then I have what I've read, but my understanding is, um, so was originally grip shift. Grip shift had a different way, uh, twisting the grip on a flat bar lever to shift a rear dera and Shao would try to preclude compatibility by again, changing the pull ratios so that Sam's grip shift wouldn't work with their deras. But then also by having these bundling deals where they go to a bike company, an o e m, uh, original equipment manufacturer. So in this case, like thesis is a, my company is an o e em specializes an no e em truck as no em, and would say, okay, you can buy these components individually, but if you buy the complete group set I e you don't buy's thing, then you get a 20% discount. I think is, is what it was. [00:22:35] steve: Could be. [00:22:36] Track 1: yeah, and there was an antitrust suit that STR filed against Shaman, um, and STR one. And as I understand it, that essentially funded Sam's early rise. That's the reason why we have STR in many ways. [00:22:51] steve: all. I mean, I think there's some other money behind [00:22:53] Track 1: Mm-hmm. [00:22:54] steve: uh, yeah, that's always been sort of the, uh, the, uh, the urban myth. I don't know the, the STR used that money to go out and, you know, buy all, all the things that they've bought. Rock shocks, true native, um, zip [00:23:11] Track 1: Mm-hmm. [00:23:12] steve: whatever. And, uh, sax, which nobody really remembers now, but that was a pretty significant purchase. Uhs, not Richard Sax the, uh, frame builder from Connecticut, but, uh, sax of Germany, which, uh, made all the internal hubs and also made derailers and stuff, [00:23:29] Track 1: And chains too. Right? Because I think. [00:23:31] steve: chains, um, became s chains, which became Ram chains. Um, [00:23:37] Track 1: are still made in Portugal, I believe. [00:23:39] steve: I think so, [00:23:40] Track 1: Yeah. [00:23:41] steve: so yeah, they, they acquired that factory. Haven't, you know, chain factory is no small thing. And, um, anyway, that's always been the, you know, um, the rumor Yeah. Is that they used that cash settlement or, or judgment from Shaman to fund those. Uh, I don't know how true that is. Like I said, I know that there is some other money behind Swam and there still is. Um, some of those companies that they bought were, uh, pretty distressed [00:24:12] Track 1: Mm-hmm. [00:24:13] steve: You know, rock Jocks had had an IPO that, uh, were living at the top of the world there for a couple years [00:24:19] Track 1: The mountain bike. The mountain bike. Boom. [00:24:22] steve: Yeah. And then that kind of crashed and that's about when, when into the Suspension Fork business. [00:24:28] Track 1: Yeah. [00:24:30] steve: So they've been pretty savvy about the, uh, the acquisitions they made Mo most of which were back, back in the nineties. Although, what have they bought recently? They bought, [00:24:40] Track 1: Hammerhead. [00:24:42] steve: hammerhead. [00:24:43] Track 1: Yeah. [00:24:44] steve: one. [00:24:44] Track 1: Yeah. [00:24:45] steve: Yeah. And, uh, and the Power Meter company. I don't, the power tab, which they kinda put [00:24:51] Track 1: cork. [00:24:52] steve: then, [00:24:52] Track 1: Cork, um, was power meters. Um, [00:24:55] steve: power Tap, which they bought from cs, [00:24:58] Track 1: oh, that's right. [00:24:59] steve: what was [00:25:00] Track 1: Uh, shocks. [00:25:02] steve: Jacquez [00:25:03] Track 1: Yeah. [00:25:04] steve: and uh, what was the other one I was gonna say they bought something else. Oh, time pedals. [00:25:14] Track 1: Hmm. So that really gives them, you know, a lot of different, um, components and IP that they can then, uh, interconnect through that. The access, uh, protocol, which is a closed, I believe, ZigBee based, um, protocol. Um, and so, you know, getting back to, you know, open versus closed standards and ecosystems and things like that, um, it seems to be the trend in the industry as, as always to, um, to have walled gardens. [00:25:41] steve: Yeah. And that's been fun. You know, it was fun to see when, when Hammerhead, was, had had some di I two integration that Shaman shut him down [00:25:53] Track 1: Yep. [00:25:54] steve: on after Bottom, which was, um, some pretty good industry gossip right there. Um, but yeah, I mean, everybody, it's been really fun speculating about what's gonna happen, you know, with RAM owning, uh, you know, the power meter company owning a pedal company, owning a, you know, power tap, which made, which used to make power meter pedals. Um, and then owning a, a head unit GPS company on top of that. And then, like you said, the whole integration with access and, uh, it's pretty fun. [00:26:26] Track 1: Yeah, it's the full stack in a way. I mean, [00:26:28] steve: them battling, you know, setting up this not only with Shaman, but with, with, uh, with Fox Factory also. [00:26:38] Track 1: I'm waiting to, for, it seems very natural that a next step for them would to be, would be to buy, say a, a company that makes home trainers or even a company that does training software that, um, they might not want to go direct head-to-head with Swift, cuz Wif has such a dominant position in that space and they don't want to alienate them or get shut off of that platform. But, um, it seems like a natural next step to get into this burgeoning home cycling, uh, space, which granted has. Tapered off a little bit since, you know, post pandemic, but I think is still, you're, you know, there's a whole, there's a whole range of cyclists who primarily ride at home and are doing competitions in virtual worlds, and I don't think that that's going to change as the technology gets better. [00:27:22] steve: Yeah. [00:27:24] Track 1: Yeah. [00:27:24] steve: Yeah, that would make sense. I'm sure there's been all sorts of conversations and there's been a couple brands that have come and gone, um, that, uh, you know, maybe, uh, ceramic has kind of hit its lip and said, no, we're, we're not gonna bid on that one. Or we're not gonna, we're not gonna overpay for that one. I don't know. But, you know, you can look at the, the number of indoor brands that have, uh, had financial problems in the last, uh, year and a half, and, uh, even once before that, that just disappeared. Um, have you seen a kinetic trainer on the market in a couple years? I. [00:28:02] Track 1: Yeah. So what else do you see happening in the bike industry? Um, so obviously parts shortages were the big story during the pandemic. Now we have, uh, parts being, you know, liquidated through various channels and presumably is that's going to accelerate, uh, post Taipei show coming up in, uh, in Taiwan in, uh, the end of March [00:28:25] steve: Yeah, I think so. I think there's still some, some shortages I hear on the road bike component side. I guess you'd know more about that than, than I would. Um, [00:28:34] Track 1: saying group sets or. [00:28:37] steve: yeah, and, and the bikes that those group sets. Hang on. You know, I think, um, know, if you talk to dealers, it's, uh, yeah, they have all the $900 mountain bikes. They can, they can eat, uh, or even I think the 1500, $1,900 bikes, but the, um, the mid to high price mountain bikes are, are a little bit harder to get. And I think also the, um, mid to high price road bikes are hard to get. And, um, and there's kind of a shortage of, there's kind of a dearth of, of. Of really affordable road bikes. [00:29:13] Track 1: Hmm. [00:29:14] steve: I think, uh, there's not a lot of groups there, you know, I mean, tram's got and then, you know, shaman hasn't been, had a real good road group, uh, below 1 0 5 for years. So, you know, it'd be interesting and see how cues affects, affects that. [00:29:34] Track 1: Well, and their, their transition to 12 speed too. Um, and they had a, a factory catch on fire just before the pandemic, right. [00:29:43] steve: Yeah. What was that? It was a, was it like an ANOT factory or something? I know they were making some real high end stuff. Like they were making like the xtr crank, you know, when, when Xtr went to 12 speed, I think they couldn't get a crank for it for like two years. Right. [00:29:59] Track 1: Hmm. [00:29:59] steve: they were like, relabeling, theor, xt cranks. people were pissed about and Uh, yeah, I don't know. It it's, yeah. Fires in the bike in factory fires in the bike industry. That's, that's been, uh, yeah, that's been a gossipy thing going back, you know, 50 years. I think you can get some old timers telling you about famous fires and how they couldn't get such and such for, for five years after that fire. And sometimes I wonder much of it's urban myth, you know, and people just blaming things on their inability to produce stuff. They blame it on a factory fire. Didn't you hear about that? Come on. Giant factory burned out last year. And uh, I think especially before the internet, who would check, you know, it's like, ah, I don't know. I heard that like the van sneaker factory burned down last year. Didn't you hear about that? That's why I can't get those van sneakers I've been looking for. before the internet it was pretty hard to look that up. Now it's a little bit easier, you know? [00:30:55] Randall: Now you've been, so I think probably both of us have been talking to a lot of dealers lately for different reasons. Um, with, with me, we've been building out our, our dealer network for our logo spiel program. Um, and I'm curious to hear, I'll share a little bit about what I've been hearing and I'm curious how that, um, relates to, you know, some of the things that you've been hearing from dealers. So some of the things I've heard is, um, well one, you have, uh, essentially you weren't able to get product for a long time. A lot of dealers over ordered or ordered the same thing from multiple sources, hoping to get it from somewhere, um, sooner rather than later. And then all of it got dumped on the, on dealers in the fall and over the winter at exactly the time when. you know, nothing is selling generally, it's, it's the, the doldrums of the, the bike, uh, selling season and cycling season in North America anyways. But then also, you know, people, uh, with, with the country opening up post covid, um, you know, the bike boom was, was coming to an end and it wasn't clear. You know, where things will, you know, how that will level off and how much lag there will be, where everyone who got a b wanted a bike, got a bike and you know, the, you know, at at what point and, and you know, the secondhand market will start coming down in price and that'll become more compelling. So how long will it take for this lag of, of certain types of components to work its way through the space? Um, and it's been interesting too, you see, um, an ex, am I right that there's an acceleration of the big brands buying shops? [00:32:27] steve: Uh, depends on what time scale you're looking at. I, you know, I don't, I think, um, I think that's slowed down in the last six months or, or nine months. There was a big acceleration, you know, in, in 21, especially, uh, I think it was 21 when, you know, track had been buying shops left and right. Uh, specialized had not. [00:32:50] Track 1: Yep. [00:32:51] steve: um, when Mike's bikes sold to, uh, to pawn in, I think, I wanna say that was 2021. [00:32:59] Track 1: Pawn being the owner of, uh, Cervelo Santa Cruz and a handful of other brands. And Mike Spikes being a big multi-store chain, mostly in, in the NorCal, um, you know, bay Area. Yeah, [00:33:12] steve: Yeah. And they were the, I think the single biggest specialized dealer in the country and one of the, or maybe the most important markets in the country, the [00:33:19] Track 1: I think, I think Eric's was their biggest, I think Mike's bikes was number two. [00:33:24] steve: could [00:33:24] Track 1: but certainly the Bay Area is huge and a lot of, um, you see a lot of. S works, you know, $15,000 bikes rolling around the Bay Area. [00:33:35] steve: Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot more of the high end stuff than, than Eric's sell, I'm sure. [00:33:40] Track 1: Yeah. [00:33:41] steve: Um, and it did, and it did kind of seem like Specialized had all their eggs in that basket. Um, they didn't have a lot of other dealers. It was just Eric. I mean, uh, Mike's just ruled the rot anyway, so Yeah. Specialized really woke up. Uh, that was, that was the wake up call for Mike Ard was, oh my God, we're, we're losing our distribution. Um, and it came on, they lost some other big dis uh, big retail distributions like, uh, um, ables in, in, uh, hill Abel down in Austin, Texas, which was a huge specialized dealer that Trek walked in and bought, um, all of a sudden specialized, lost its biggest dealer in Austin, Texas, which is another, you know, another one of the handful of very biggest markets in the country. [00:34:27] Track 1: And growing, growing rapidly with a lot of deep pocketed folks as well who tend to buy their, their high-end stuff. Yeah. [00:34:34] steve: So all of a sudden specialized, uh, said we've gotta get into buying shops. And, uh, they were running around buying a lot of shops. Um, I think they did not have the system set up that Trekk did for, uh, processing these shops once they had acquired 'em. Uh, so it was a little bit more chaotic, whereas I think Trekk had built up to it slowly and they had, you know, from what the stories I've heard of, you know, TREKK has these SWAT teams that come in when they buy a shop. You know, there's just woo uh, you know, 20, 20 people come down from Waterloo and, and fill up the hotel rooms and whatever town that they just bought the dealership in and just handle that transition. You know, they usually shut down for a week or so, pop up some new signs, change over the website, uh, make some people some offers, and, uh, and they're, you know, kick out all the other brands and, uh, they're up and running again in a couple weeks. And, um, They've got it down to a science now and uh, I don't think specialized ever quite got to that. It was more like, uh, yeah, okay, we bought you, um, keep running. We'll talk to you in a few months when we need something from you. Uh, that was some of the impression I got anyway. I think specialized also was overpaying for some of the shops from some of the stories I heard, but, um, but I think it all slowed down a lot last, last year, I think with the, um, you know, with the economy and I think, um, the cashflow for companies like Specialized Amtrak I think became harder. And there's been a handful of acquisitions in the last nine months, but it, it really slowed down a lot um, I haven't heard it very many recently. We don't hear about 'em all cuz both, both track and specialize. Uh, tend to be really quiet when they buy a, a shop or a chain of shops. Uh, but I haven't heard many rumors in the last three or four months. [00:36:26] Track 1: I've heard, granted, I don't know the, uh, the dates on these, but as I've been talking to dealers, I've heard about offers being made, but those offers may have been made, you know, six, nine months ago, a year ago or something like that. Um, but there's definitely been a lot of, um, a lot of conversations being had along those lines over the past year, year and a half or so. Um, and it's interesting, you know, there's this long standing conversation in the bike industry about, um, you know, the dynamic between, or the balance between, uh, direct to consumer sales over the internet, which is growing for obvious reasons. And the pivotal role that the bicycle shop, particularly independent shops play, um, as a hub for the cycling community. And how do you. You know, how do you maintain this critical bit of community infrastructure, um, in a, in a world where, you know, increasingly people can buy things very conveniently over the internet and have it delivered, um, you know, directly to them. Now there's, you know, service has for a long time, um, been the bread and butter of shops. And a lot of shops pre pandemic were at least telling me, um, that they, as much as they spent a lot of their money on having bikes on the floor, most of their income, most of their net profit was coming from, um, service and parts and accessories. Uh, which is in some ways, you know, supplemental to service. Cuz when you go in for maintenance, you're getting chains and, and other service parts. Um, but how do you, how do you see that evolving over time from your vantage point? [00:38:07] steve: It's been hard. I mean, uh, when you hear that, you think, well, why don't you do a service only place? And, [00:38:15] Track 1: of folks are [00:38:17] steve: a few folks are, I'm not finding a whole lot of great examples of people that have been raging successes doing that. Um, Uh, you know, the whole, the whole mobile service thing has been at best for the last two or three years. Um, you know, I know that, um, a few people that have gone that way in, um, in the Boulder area haven't been hugely successful. I think there might be a couple that are still running, but, um, the problem is that you just lose that volume. You know, whether you make a lot of money on a bike sale or not, it's still, you know, thousand, 2000, 3000, $5,000 bike sale. You know, for some shops in Boulders, I know you were and visited some of them, you know, they pretty regularly are selling 10,000 and [00:39:08] Track 1: sure. [00:39:09] steve: uh, bikes. And, you know, the profit margin on that not be huge. And you might say, well, why does that guy even, you know, still sell mo bikes? Um, he can make more money building a wheel or, you know, just charging someone a few hundred dollars to install a new campy group on a moot spring. Um, but he nee he needs that, that dollar volume, uh, from the bike sale to pay the rent. Um, so there, there haven't been as many examples of that as you would think. you know, going back five years, going back 20, 30 years, people have been talking about, well, hey, we make all our money in service. Why don't we just do service hasn't worked for many people. Um, I think people expect bike shops to have bikes and, uh, I think the bike shops need that, that volume to make it work. Um, you know, some shops have been, have found some supplemental income doing more different types of service, whether it's, you know, whether it's bike fits, whether it's click and collect fulfillment. Or, uh, doing warranty service. You know, I know I, I talked to a guy at Caba who does warranty service for one of the better known to consumer e-bike brands. And, uh, he makes a pretty significant, high margin chunk of money, uh, just from dealing with warranty service from people that buy these bikes online and then have, have whatever troubles and the, uh, the brand reimburses him, uh, pretty generously. [00:40:46] Track 1: Yeah. [00:40:47] steve: so there's all sorts of, uh, kind of ancillary things around the edges that people fill in, but that guy, he still sound a lot of bicycles. [00:40:55] Track 1: Mm-hmm. [00:40:56] steve: Uh, he still has a warehouse full of 'em, and, uh, um, [00:41:01] Track 1: as do a lot of people right now, especially as we, we were saying on the, on the more entry level, um, in particular, [00:41:09] steve: Yeah. So I don't know. I haven't seen, there's, there's examples here and there. Yeah. Of, of the people who are, who are focusing on the service or are looking into, you know, more of the showrooming, uh, fulfillment click and collect kind of models. And there, you know, there's a million different models as you know, [00:41:27] Track 1: Mm-hmm. Well and, and click and collect and, [00:41:31] steve: not, I'm not finding, but like wholesale, you know, all the bike shops going outta business and all of a sudden we have a whole bunch of just little fulfillment showrooms around. Um, is happening, but not on a huge scale, you know, I mean, what specializes do, I don't know how many of these fulfillment centers they have. Uh, that's one of the things they did up in Northern California where, um, after they lost Mikes was opening up these little fulfillment centers. They would just rent a warehouse space in the, you know, in the business park somewhere and hire a couple people to assemble bikes and give 'em a truck, and they would run around and deliver 'em. [00:42:10] Track 1: Oh, that wa that was basically, um, velo, fix's pitch to the OEMs in the day. Yeah. Uh, Veli fix, uh, being a van based service operator, [00:42:21] steve: Yeah. [00:42:21] Track 1: I know you know this [00:42:22] steve: to be doing a better job of that than, than maybe be, was, um, [00:42:29] Track 1: velo fix. I, [00:42:30] steve: model. [00:42:30] Track 1: yeah. I had spoken with Velix a couple of times, and not only could I not understand the value to us as an o e em as a brand, but I couldn't understand a, you know, they, they required a huge upfront and, uh, investment from their franchisees to not just buy a van but outfitted a particular way and have it beli, fixed, branded. Um, and then, you know, you're paying a, uh, I think an, um, it might have been an upfront fee and then a recurring fee, and then a percentage of your income. To this company and this company, uh, is supposed to drive business to your franchise, but really in a way, they're kind of intermediating you. And at the end of the day, you know, and the co I, I'm curious, what do you think about this? Um, I, I had always talked, uh, spoken to the van based folks that I knew and said like, you know, at the end of the day, your, your brand is yourself and the quality of service and your engagement with your local community. And, you know, there's no big, um, company, uh, I think can substitute for that. And I think the bike space is, is that might be more so the case than in other spaces. Like you have this particular mechanic, uh, because the difference between a good mechanic, a skilled mechanic, a mechanic who cares, uh, and, and does a good job, um, and is engaged in, in their community. The difference between that and. Somebody who doesn't, somebody who doesn't have the skills. Somebody who, you know, it could be the difference between a safe bike and an unsafe bike amongst other things. Yeah. Um, well, so another topic that you and I have touched on in the past is, uh, you. The supply chain and risks to the supply chain. Uh, I've seen a couple of articles, I believe in your publication, uh, talking about, um, the increasing concerns about exposure to, uh, growing hostilities between, uh, the US and China over, uh, Taiwan. And I'm curious, what have you been hearing, seeing, uh, with regards to, um, any sort of changes being made on the, uh, upstream for a lot of companies, um, both, um, OEMs who are sourcing in Asia, but then also say Taiwanese companies and so on, uh, who are producing, um, you know, what, what changes are you seeing? Are people, is that accelerating at all with the, uh, increasingly hostile rhetoric? [00:45:07] steve: Uh, yeah, but you know, slower than maybe I would've expected. Um, and that, you know, that might not be due to reluctance, but just the fact that it's, it's a hard task, um, [00:45:19] Track 1: Yeah. [00:45:20] steve: setting up a, a bike factory or, uh, in a new country and building the infrastructure around it, uh, to make that work, particularly during a pandemic. [00:45:30] Track 1: Yeah, yeah. [00:45:31] steve: so, you know, going back to stories I was writing two years ago, you know, I, I think I saw just recently that Velo Saddle opened their factory in Vietnam, I think it was, [00:45:44] Track 1: Makes sense. [00:45:45] steve: that they had been working on for like three years. Um, and then they just, they were ready to turn it on when the pandemic started, and then they just, um, sat on those plans for a couple years. But yeah, Velo moving outta Taiwan supplementing their Taiwan factory with uh, a Vietnam factory is a big deal. And, um, You know, and at Eurobike last year, I had a lot of talks with people about, them setting up different factories in Eastern Europe to serve the European market. Um, but, uh, you know, we just saw investing in a new factory in Taiwan, so, uh, there's not a, there's not a mess exodus yet, and I think people are, are finding it's, um, fairly hard to operate in some of these other countries. Cambodia, I think, turned out to be more of a challenge than some people thought. [00:46:44] Track 1: Sure [00:46:45] steve: Um, you know, there's stuff moving towards Malaysia and Singapore, I think. Um, [00:46:52] Track 1: in the. [00:46:53] steve: Vietnam has been up and down. They had more covid problems than, than some areas, I think. yeah, it's a very slow movement. I think, you know, um, you know, Trek hasn't broken ground on a giant new factory in, in Waterloo, as far as I know. Or, or, or in Mexico or in, uh, Bulgaria. You know, [00:47:16] Track 1: Well, that, that's a whole, I mean, it's a related conversation, um, and a whole other can of worms that we can crack open. Um, so one, you know, we, we have looked, um, at various times over the years at what it would take, um, both for us to do more production domestically, um, but then also, um, for more production to be done domestically in a general sense. And, uh, I'll give an example. Um, recently I was looking at, uh, you know, developing and sourcing a metal frame, either steel or titanium. Um, we'll, we'll stick with steel. It's an easier example. So, um, called, uh, a few different outfits and, uh, well one, there isn't really anyone who's mass producing steel frames in the US When I say mass producing, like doing, you know, thousand of units at a go. Um, with the exception of maybe Kent. [00:48:09] steve: Detroit. [00:48:11] Track 1: Uh, Detroit bikes [00:48:13] steve: Mm-hmm. [00:48:14] Track 1: they, and they're serving as a contract manufacturer? [00:48:17] steve: Mm-hmm. [00:48:20] Track 1: Might ask for an intro at some point. Um, [00:48:22] steve: That's Tony Kirklands, [00:48:24] Track 1: oh, okay. [00:48:25] steve: who bought, um, he and his partner bought time, [00:48:30] Track 1: Mm-hmm. [00:48:30] steve: is making carbon frames in Europe somewhere. Slovenia, [00:48:36] Track 1: Okay. [00:48:36] steve: of those European companies, [00:48:37] Track 1: Yeah, [00:48:38] steve: Um, and then that company car, it's called Cardinal Bicycle Works, I think, uh, also bought Detroit. Uh, they're, they claim to be the biggest steel frame maker in the US and uh, they're making stuff under their own. Name and they're doing a couple other contract [00:48:58] Track 1: that. [00:48:58] steve: some, they made some Schwinn Varsities a couple years ago. I mean, I think that was only a few hundred units or a or so. But they actually, they brought Backy made, made Detroit? [00:49:11] Track 1: Well, one of the, the things that's great to hear, and I'm gonna follow up on that, um, one of the things that kept coming up as I was having conversations here was there are essentially two primary, um, sources, uh, brands that are selling, uh, tube sets. Unless you're sourcing factory direct outta somewhere in Asia, uh, I think you have colo. You have, uh, what Columbus some in some Reynolds. And one of, one of them has been struggling with supply and both of them are, are quite expensive in the US vis-a-vis what you can get comparable tube sets for in Asia. And so when you combine those two factors of both more expensive raw stock and the fact that you can't, you don't know it's going to be available and you only have two supply, two primary suppliers versus if I want to make, uh, a frame somewhere in Asia, I have. Countless tube suppliers now don't necessarily want to use just any of them, but even the, the higher end ones, of which there may be a handful, they still have the, all these other factories kind of nipping at their heels. And that, you know, drives innovation. That drives, uh, you know, them to build this sort of, um, you know, production facilities that can handle scale, that are responsive. Uh, they know if they can't deliver on a tight timeframe for a reasonable price, that someone else is gonna develop that capacity to do so. Um, and that goes across every single thing that you could want to source for a bicycle, whether it's something like a carbon component you want to develop. You have any number of facilities where you could co-develop that, that component. And they'll even provide the engineering, in some cases, they'll latize the tooling over the, over the units, which is to say, like, spread the cost of the tooling over the units, the, the tooling costs. You know, my tooling costs for a frame is on the order of like 8,000 bucks a size. . Um, and I could have that built into the price if I do enough volume. That's, you know, you combine all of these factors and, you know, going back to the issue of, of Taiwan, yeah, it doesn't surprise me that you're not seeing moves and mass just because you have such deep and interconnected supply chains there. And even like when you get your goods quoted, they quote it, um, not out of the factory. They deliver it to your door. And that's just expected. And when they say they're gonna deliver it, generally they're pretty on time. Um, particularly, you know, the, the, the better vendors out there, the more professional ones, the velo, uh, you know, velo makes not just saddles, but bar tape and they do most of the high-end stuff in the industry. Uh, still there are a couple competitors, but, um, and it's because they just do such a great job. Um, and that efficiency. And, uh, another example, I was sourcing stems years ago. and I was like, oh, I'm, yeah. I lived in a, I lived in China for a number of years. Uh, I bet you I can find a better deal somewhere in China. I couldn't, Taiwan had better pricing on a superior product. Um, and it's because Taiwan had, um, invested in, you know, factories like, uh, jd, um, their trade name is Trans X. [00:52:15] steve: mm-hmm. [00:52:15] Track 1: they manufacture for any number of brands. They did all of our, uh, cockpit stuff, uh, for thesis, and they just have a very well run production facility in these huge forging machines and really high quality tooling. And they can just crank out high quality 3D forg stems all day with that high quality and without a, a huge, with a less and less human intervention in that process. Um, and, you know, do it at a price that makes it such that, you know, there's no point in going somewhere else. Um, because most of the cost is not associated with the labor. [00:52:52] steve: Yeah. [00:52:53] Track 1: Um, so yeah, that, that makes sense. It'll be interesting. Uh, you know, I'm, as you know, I did my, my graduate studies in US-China relations, and so it's a situation I've been following quite closely. Um, I guess, uh, if something does happen there, uh, the availability of bike parks, it will be the, the least of everybody's issues, [00:53:13] steve: Yeah. Yeah, that's a thing. I mean, there, there won't be many parts of the economy that won't be affected, um, if something happens there. But, um, bike industry will not be an exception, [00:53:24] Track 1: now, [00:53:25] steve: um, except for maybe on the service part. Right. Still, uh, we can still maybe [00:53:31] Track 1: secondhand stuff will be, um, the secondary market will be booming, [00:53:35] steve: Yeah. [00:53:35] Track 1: so, [00:53:36] steve: up now by your, uh, by your HP cassettes now. Yeah. [00:53:43] Track 1: well, so to, you know, to wrap up here, um, what do you see going forward, um, from, and, and very open-ended question, uh, what are you excited about from a technology standpoint? What are you seeing, um, in terms of, uh, you know, innovative business models or distribution models or, uh, just trends in the, in industry more generally. [00:54:10] steve: Well, there's one word that we haven't used so far in this call. You like, [00:54:16] Track 1: Sure. [00:54:17] steve: you know, there's still, there's still some growth there, I think. Um, [00:54:21] Track 1: What do those stats look like right now? [00:54:23] steve: it's not good stats. There aren't any, I don't know. You know, you can just read the T leaves and see that, you know, there's been some discounting and there. Um, even some of the low price brands that were scaring the hell out of everybody a year ago, um, are now blowing out prices, which is not good news, but still, um, kind of suggests that the, uh, the, uh, demand has, has slowed a little bit. [00:54:51] Track 1: Mm-hmm. [00:54:52] steve: but you know, it's exciting to see, uh, the growth and the cargo bikes, you know, um, you know, I know Specialized finally did their public launch of their globe. The Globe this week. [00:55:02] Track 1: Mm-hmm. [00:55:03] steve: launched the Ecar bike a month or two ago. I think. there's some others coming around. Turn seems to be kicking ass. Um, And, uh, not to mention rad power. Um, so, you know, that's, that's still exciting. There's still growth potential there. Uh, you know, I don't think you're gonna get to European numbers where, you know, like in the Netherlands where, I don't know, or 70% of the bikes sold, there are e-bikes. Now, you know, we're in the US it's probably 12% or something. I don't know. not gonna get there. I've been saying that for years, but, you know, even if we go from 12% to 18%, that's, uh, a lot of growth. And it's also, um, you know, a high average selling price of these things. You know, [00:55:53] Track 1: Mm-hmm. [00:55:53] steve: to talk about Kent selling $89, 20, 20 inch wheel bikes to Walmart. But when you're talking about somebody, you know, when you know the low price leader is selling bikes for 1400 bucks, uh, e-bikes. [00:56:07] Track 1: Yeah. [00:56:08] steve: You know, and then, you know, and, and specialized just brought out their, you know, their discounted, affordable e cargo bike, which I think starts at 2,500 bucks or something. It's a big, it's a big difference there. [00:56:20] Track 1: Well, [00:56:22] steve: so, you know, Turin is selling these, you know, these little electric mini band bikes, uh, you know, for three, four or $5,000 regularly then, then another thousand dollars in accessories on top of it. Um, so, uh, not to be too focused on the dollars and cents here, but I am, I am from a business magazine, [00:56:43] Track 1: Sure. Yeah. [00:56:44] steve: um, so yeah, there's exciting and, uh, you know, yeah, there's, there's, it's, it's fun to see the growth in the gravel bikes. and uh, and the activity around that, uh, the way the events are going and the competition is, is really interesting. Um, [00:57:05] Track 1: And the, and the community dynamics in the gravel space too, it seems to have remained a lot more accessible even as you have more elite level events and so on, showing, showing up. You still have, you know, lots of local events and it's a, it's a version of cycling that is, well, it's a very versatile machine and it gets you off the road. Which addresses, uh, the, the thing that comes up in survey after survey as the biggest limiter, uh, for people getting on bikes, which is fear of cars, you know, the safety concerns. [00:57:39] steve: yeah, yeah. And I'm not sure what I think about that. I think it is more accessible than, you know, old school, you know, USA cycling, road racing, um, I guess, uh, but you know, last night, I mean, for me, I don't have a whole lot of interest personally in doing a lot of the events. Maybe a couple a year, but, you know, mostly I, what I like about gravel writing is just being able to go out and explore and. Um, ride by myself or with a, a couple friends, but not necessarily pin a number on. Even if I do pin a number on, it's not really to raise, it's just, uh, you know, an excuse to ride with some people and have some rest areas where I can get free food along the way, [00:58:21] Track 1: Yeah. [00:58:22] steve: of having to fill up my water bottles in a creek somewhere. So, um, but I don't know. I went to a, I went to a big gravel race, um, last spring and. It, it didn't look very accessible to me. You know, I saw a lot of people pulling up in Sprinter vans with a couple, you know, $8,000 bikes on the back bumper and, you know, the carbon wheels and, you know, there was a nice dinner out and it was during Covid, so everybody was eating outside and they had the streets blocked off. We're all sitting out on the tables on the street. And, uh, it was, it was kind of fun. It reminded me of, you know, no racing from back in the day. But, uh, but then, but then, yeah, I'm looking around and I'm seeing a lot of pretty well-healed middle class [00:59:06] Track 1: Yep. [00:59:07] steve: people with nice cars and carbon bikes, with carbon wheels and a whole lot of money invested. And I'm like, I, [00:59:15] Track 1: Well, and [00:59:16] steve: accessibility of this. [00:59:17] Track 1: well, and, and yes, that absolutely exists. And that's a, that's a perfectly fine thing. Um, you know, there's, there's a place for everybody. I, I think what I'm referring to more is, well, one, what you're describing as like going out solo or with some friends and, you know, going out on the road, leaving from your back door and then going out on adventure and like experiencing your area from a different vantage point. Um, there's also kind of along those lines, uh, the bike packing phenomenon, which to some degree is a little bit like the s u V phenomenon, that people are buying bikes that they could go bike packing with, um, but not necessarily doing it, but you, but you see more and more of that people doing an overnight or a couple days or something. [00:59:57] steve: Mm. [00:59:58] Track 1: but then lots of just, uh, at least here in New England, I've been to a few very kind of small, intimate types of events. Maybe you have a, a couple hundred people show up and there's a, a, you know, a, a wood fired, um, uh, pizza oven going and, you know, local, uh, brewery supporting, and it's to support, uh, some local cause and maybe they have a podium. Um, but, but not really. It's like, that's not the point [01:00:26] steve: Yeah. Yeah, it's interesting. I think, uh, the whole, the way the competition goes, um, you know, I don't know how many people are interested in the, and even, uh, from a spectator point of view in the racers, I, I, a few people are, I mean, we [01:00:44] Track 1: It's, it's not, it's not super interesting [01:00:47] steve: right? I mean, I, I'm a nerd. I mean, I'll, I'll, man, I, last week was, I, I was watching Melan, I mean, not Melan. Perry Neese and Toreno Rko, you know, back to back every morning. I mean, I'm a total bike race nerd. I love it. You know, I did used to be the editor of T com, uh, and I couldn't even tell you who the top gravel racers are, you know, in the US and I don't know how many people care. I know, you know, we at outside@beonnews.com and cycling tips.com. We write a bit about that. Betsy Welch is doing a great job, but, I, I don't know how many, you know, I'm, I'm interested in doing gravel events. I'm interested in the gravel equipment. when I hear about an event, I think, oh, that might be nice to go to some year. I'd like to do that and see what it's like to ride in that part of the country on those kind of roads. Uh, but do I want to read, uh, a 2000 word interview with the guy that won the pro race? Uh, maybe not. I dunno. [01:01:55] Track 1: I'm, I'm with you. I think that the, um, the more interesting story is the, the story of your own experience of the events. You know, you go and you do something that is long and maybe has some technical sections, and you are, um, linking up with different groups along the way, unlike, say, a, a cross-country race. Um, so cross-country race, you tend to be, you know, it's a, it's a time trial in which you have some people in the way sometimes, um, and road, [01:02:20] steve: in the way. [01:02:21] Track 1: yeah. and then Ro [01:02:23] steve: usually the one that's in the way of some other people, but yeah. [01:02:26] Track 1: Yeah. Um, that, that was my discipline back in the day. Uh, but with gravel, you have, I mean, uh, I know quite a few people, myself included. At this point. I'm no longer. I no longer do these events to compete, I do it as a way of connecting with folks, like being out on a ride and you end up just, uh, linking up with different groups and having this kind of shared ordeal of slogging up that hill with a group or riding into the wind with another group and, you know, making friends along the way. And those are the types of dynamics that, you know, I have, I haven't done a ton of the, um, you know, the, the big, the big banner events for, you know, gravel series and so on. Uh, but those are the dynamics that I'm seeing at the, again, these more intimate, local types of events that I think when I talk about accessibility, that's, that's where, um, my heart is, you know, things that are much more about bringing people together and, and providing a shared experience, a platform for a shared experience that people, uh, find, um, meaningful and not just a competition. [01:03:28] steve: Yeah. And just from a, you know, from an event point of view, just the practicality of it now. I mean, we're, we're, we're losing paved roads where we can have a race. I mean, even just watching, watching the two races in Europe last week, how, how many of 'em they have to go through these damn traffic circles? I mean, the, the last 10 kilometers are scary now cause there's a, there's a traffic circle every five blocks. [01:03:51] Track 1: Yeah, [01:03:52] steve: uh, all these, you know, the road furniture is just getting worse and worse. And that's been happening in the for years. You know, there's all sorts that had to be canceled just because of all the development and the traffic and road designs make it impossible. The road there anymore. [01:04:08] Track 1: yeah, [01:04:09] steve: mogul Bismark circuit outside of Boulder is just unable now. Because of all the traffic circles [01:04:16] Track 1: yeah. Um, Boulder's a very, boulder's a very particular place. Um, you've been there for how many years now? [01:04:25] steve: Uh, about 15. [01:04:27] Track 1: Yeah, uh, I haven't been going there quite that long, but, um, I did do the whole kind of dirt bag, private tier pro thing at one point. Um, so got to ride at a bunch of different places and obviously for my work, I'm traveling a fair amount and the, um, the number of strong riders you have where you are is pretty outstanding. It's kind of hard to go out on a ride and not cross paths with some past or current national champion or Olympian. Um, and you also have, um, unique in the US is some of the best bike infrastructure anywhere. And that actually to maybe we close up the conversation with, um, you know, you had talked about how. you know, we could say modal share, uh, the share of, uh, trips taken by bike or the number of bikes being sold, um, not just for recreation, but for utility. You know, e-bikes primarily fall into a utility, uh, space with the exception of, you know, some performance mountain bikes and so on. But the, uh, you were saying how Europe has seen far more adoption. Uh, what do you see as the differences between the European and US markets and, you know, the, the things that would have to happen here, uh, to see greater adoption of bicycles as a modality for, you know, not just, uh, enthusiast riders, but recreation and, and, you know, more importantly as a, I

GM Backs down from On-Star as a "mandatory option" indicating they may've looked up the meaning of those two words. Car Spotting the 1988 Mercedes 300 CE: When is a brick beautiful? Tapered, tightened, but not lightened, this MB is a drivable classic that telegraphs taste and restraint. But boy was it expensive when new.   Supersize me. Not. Porsche goes all out with an upscale (with emphasis on ‘scale'), plus-sized “K1” SUV sure to sell well and to crack your driveway.   Guest Brett Williams - USAF Fighter Pilot, Cyber Security Pro, and Serial Porschephile answers the question we all want to know: How is an F15 like a Porsche 959? You won't believe the accuracy of his answer (and many more).  There may or may not be sarcasm and abuse delivered in this episode, so don't say you weren't warned. #carsoncallpodcast #f15pilot #mercedesw124 #porsche911

Building the iconic V-shaped body is something most lifters seek when they start lifting weights.In this video, I'll show you the Best Back Workout Exercises in gym to help you get a comprehensive back workout.The exercises below require gym equipment, dumbbells, or a pull-up bar depending on the exercise.If you want to watch the video, please click here

Rip answers questions from Starting Strength Network subscribers and fans. 02:41 Comments from the Haters! 18:51 Two things wrong with the program 37:35 The decline of Western civilization 54:36 Would Rip buy an electric car? 1:03:26 Spinal fusion surgery 1:06:40 Pressing with banged-up shoulders 1:10:03 Factory farming 1:31:23 Nuclear fusion 1:33:56 Sports massage 1:36:34 Tapered belts 1:38:04 Blood Meridian

Madge tries to figure out something about shit and then discusses it with Grizelda. Also side 2 of Rusty Warren and some mess.

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2022.09.02.505959v1?rss=1 Authors: Wang, Y., Sepers, M. D., Xiao, D., Raymond, L. A., Murphy, T. H. Abstract: Huntington Disease (HD), caused by dominantly inherited expansions of a CAG repeat results in characteristic motor dysfunction. Although gross motor and balance defects have been extensively characterized in multiple HD mouse models using tasks such as rotarod, beam walking and gait analysis, little is known about forelimb deficits. Here we use a high-throughput alternating reward/non-reward water-reaching task conducted daily over ~2 months to simultaneously monitor forelimb impairment and mesoscale cortical changes in GCaMP activity, comparing female zQ175 (HD) and wildtype (WT) littermate mice, starting at ~5.5 months of age. Behavioral analysis of the water-reaching task reveals that HD mice, despite learning the water-reaching task as proficiently as WT mice, take longer to learn the alternating event sequence. Although WT mice displayed no significant changes in cortical activity and reaching trajectory throughout the testing period, HD mice exhibited an increase in cortical activity - especially in the secondary motor and retrosplenial cortices - over time, as well as longer and more variable reaching trajectories by ~7 months of age. HD mice also experienced a progressive reduction in successful performance rates. Tapered beam and rotarod tests before and/or after water-reaching assessment confirmed these early and manifest stages of HD characterized by the absence and presence of failed water-reaching trials, respectively. Reduced DARPP-32 (marker for striatal medium spiny neurons) expression in HD mice further confirmed disease pathology. The water-reaching task can be used to inform HD and potentially other movement disorder onset, therapeutic intervention windows and test drug efficacy. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by PaperPlayer

In the natural hair community, it's typical for women to strive for the longest, healthiest hair possible. Tune into today's episode as Desiree (@themotleygirl) shares why she went from long curls to a tapered cut with no plans of turning back!About the Chatbox:Hey Funky Junky!  Uncle Funky's Daughter has a blog and podcast called ChatBox. The goal of ChatBox is to help you embrace your natural beauty! The conversation is about more than hair! The podcast highlights that we come in many different shapes and sizes, and our hair comes in various textures and curl patterns.  Listen in on candid conversations as our curly guests talk about hair how-tos and real lifestyle tips. Real talk, no jive.About the Host:Melinda Spaulding is an Emmy award-winning journalist, host, and speaker who loves to mentor and cheer on other women.  Whether it's behind the anchor desk or creating media strategies for companies, Melinda understands that the best communications plan begins with a good conversation.  A wife and mother of two, she is constantly investigating and researching the best ways to thrive and enjoy the journey.

Not going to lie, jargon does our heads in as much as it does yours. We set ourselves a challenge, could we explain what the bizarre words of pensions means in one sentence.To stop us from falling asleep we made it a bit competitive. Final scores:Michelle 996Catherine 40 + a pieJulie 12And be sure to listen to the end for a new regular feature – our favourite app of the week. Catherine kicks off with Tulipshare2.56 SIPP4.04 Lifetime Allowance5.22 Annual Allowance & MPAA6.39 UFPLS7.47 Money Purchase / DC8.54 Defined benefit (DB), final salary, CARE11.06 Salary sacrifice12.17 Flexible Access Drawdown (FAD)13,16 Carry forward14.18 AVC & FSAVC15.23 CETV17.21 Origo18.28 GAR19.57 Crystallised21.23 BCE22.53 GMP24.14 PCLS25.21 Protected Tax Free Cash26.48 Revaluation & Indexation28.13 Early & late retirement factors29.31 Net & Gross31.38 Triviality33.24 MVR / MVA37.26 Tapered annual allowance38.38 CommutationA comprehensive A - Z can be found here_____________________________________________________________________________________________YOUR HOSTS:Catherine Thomas-Humphreys is a qualified independent financial adviser, will writer and certified financial coach.  Catherine believes money is a force for good and when in the hands of good people can be used to do great things.  She loves working with purpose-led parents who are ready to change  their money habits & beliefs to achieve  financial success for themselves and their family.She founded #TheFinfluencer   as a safe space to coach and empower parents to influence, make, save, spend and grow money, consciously, ethically and positively.  Financial coaching - The FinfluencerMoney Membership FinfluenceCatherine's bitesize money wisdom - InstagramJulie Flynn is an experienced independent financial adviser and financial coach. Justice and equality drive Julie. Which is why she's spent years studying and researching how stress affects our financial decision making.She uses her years of experience and research to support women experiencing or planning significant change in their lives. Julie is best known for her work with women who have lost their partner and coaching financial services business who want to implement fair and transparent charges.Financial coaching - Ebb & Flow Financial CoachingFinancial advice - Bree Wealth & TaxJulie's inexpert social media antics - InstagramMichelle Lambell  started her career in financial services as a Stockbroker in 1999 undertaking both advisory and discretionary investment management. Following a career break where she spent time being a mum and running an arts and crafts business, Michelle returned to financial services in 2013 undertaking further study.Today she is a Chartered Financial Planner, specialising in retirement planning advice, pensions and investments and a Certified Financial Coach. Michelle has a passion for providing financial advice, guidance and education to everyone, regardless of their gender, age or current circumstances.Website | Instagram

Wat is een flared leg? Deze broek is aanpassend op heupen en billen en wordt breder vanaf de knieën. Onderaan heeft deze broek dus brede pijpen. Een bootcut is een goed voorbeeld. Een tapered leg is een broek die breder en ruim zit op heupen en billen maar smal wordt naar onderen toe. Smalle pijpen onderaan dus. Omdat deze broek smal is onderaan en breed op het onderlichaam krijg je een wortelpijp effect. Liftend en slank effect dus. Waarom is er dan toch een flared leg? Omdat het gewoon leuk is om dragen en omdat niet iedereen persé slanker en groter wilt tonen. Ieder bepaalt zelf wat hij of zij wilt. Toch is een flared leg ook interessant om slanker te tonen. Er is namelijk een slank effect op heupen en billen. Omdat de pijpen breed zijn gaan in verhouding je heupen en billen slanker tonen.

“If you're not out there competing, you're going to get exposed.”  - Dylan Rheault Today, we have Push OG/Former Pro Pitcher/Pitching Coach Dylan Rheault and Push Director of Throwing Andrew Amato join the show.  We cover:  Old school vs. new school of pitching and the importance of a blend.  How to not become obsessed with mechanics and remember to compete.  What Dylan's learned over the years as a pitching coach and player.  How to actually succeed on a remote throwing program. Don't forget to rate and subscribe to get new baseball development content weekly. Instagram/Twitter: @pushperformco *Disclaimer - we're not really sponsored by Jordan but would like to be.

With Jim and Jake unable to record this week, we take you back to the first full video episode from The Lab's YouTube page with episode 50 --- Creating Opportunities. In this episode, Jim and Jake discussed how players can create opportunities for themselves to push their careers forward. TO WATCH THE FULL VERSION OF THE SHOW, LOG ON TO THE LAB-EPSTEIN HITTING PODCAST YOUTUBE PAGE. Episode Notes: 3:00 – How young players, parents, and fans can watch a game from a strategic standpoint 7:00 – Former players as coaches 11:00 – Early season adjustments 13:00 – Efficient offensive innings 20:00 – Tapered bats 35:00 – Pro players who have created opportunities in their careers 45:00 – College players creating opportunities for themselves 50:00 – A Jake story from his college playing days 100:00 – Listener questions Subscribe and like the show- Apple | Google | Spotify | TuneIn | Pandora | YouTube Subscribe to the show's YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com Twitter/Instagram: @Jimtara, @epsteinhitting Why the Epstein Hitting System?: The Epstein Hitting system was created by 10-year Major League player, Mike Epstein. In addition to leading the 1972 World Series champion A's in home runs, Mike played for arguably the greatest hitter of all-time, Ted Williams…Using what he learned from his career and from Ted Williams, Mike built a system to identify and fix swing faults. Mike received the only letter of recommendation for hitting instruction Ted Williams ever gave out…After working closely with Mike to learn the craft of teaching hitting, Epstein Hitting is now led by Jake Epstein…Jake has perfected the use of video analysis to create a plan to maximize a player's swing. In addition to slow-motion video analysis, Jake has built a library of drills that he uses to address the unique needs of individual players. For more information, log on to www.epsteinhitting.com. www.thelabbcs.com... Training with a purpose.

Episode 25.2: New York City, Public Ball Cupping, 25th Amendment, and Tapered BM's

In this weeks flight, Jack & Sean talk through the recent move by the Federal Reserve and how it might impact your personal finances. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/craftadvice/message

In episode five, Natalie chats about the best ways to serve beer. She starts out with features commonly found in craft beer glassware and then moves on to talk about how to accomplish the perfect pour.Homework:At a brewery, observe the glasses around you and ask your brewer why your beer is being served in that particular glassAt home, drink the same beer out of a few different types of glasses and see if you can spot any differences. Time stamps:2:18 – Tapered lips3:25 – Bowls or bulbs4:53 – Stems5:56 – Sturdy glasses8:06 – The bulge9:01 – Tall & skinny glasses9:48 – The big glass13:34 – Stop freezing your glassware14:46 – Getting a perfect craft beer pour Links:Beer Feelings Teku GlassFREE Beer Feelings Tasting GuideBeer Feelings WebsiteBeer Feelings InstagramBeer Feelings FacebookThe Beer Feelings Podcast is the only show out there created specifically for women who are new to, a little intimidated by, or just curious about the craft beer industry. Welcome to the community!

Today's we have Lindsey Philpott (theknotguy.com), a legit knot expert. The kind that gets called in on big court cases to analyze knots and make recommendations to the judge. He's also written five books, one specifically on fishing knots.  We cover: Tapered steel Duct bills Needles Check out more from Cast & Spear: Subscribe to the Cast & Spear Podcast Check out our Weekly Fishing Newsletter Watch our YouTube videos Follow our Instagram Watch our TikTok videos Like our Facebook Page

ポリエステルでありながら自然素材のような風合い。横にも縦にもストレッチする素材で、膝を曲げたり、デスクワークで椅子に座るときも窮屈さを感じない着心地。オンでもオフでも着られて、いつのまにか毎日に馴染んでしまっている10YC Tapered Chino Pantsは、10YCが心から「履きたい」と思える渾身の一本です。 「どんなパンツなら、生活に馴染むのか」。その一心で、試行錯誤を繰り返し、開発に2年もの歳月をかけ作り上げました。 ここでは、着る人の豊かさをトコトン考え抜いた10YC Tapered Chino Pantsの制作の裏側をご紹介。知れば知るほど着たくなる、私たちの「こだわり」をお聴かせします！

In this episode Anne McClean and Dougie Cameron chat about the annual tapered allowance, as well as the annual allowance limits that can be saved into a pension each year, and the ability to carry forward unused annual allowance from the previous three tax years.In case you missed our lifetime annual allowance episode, have a listen here: https://bit.ly/360jywvArticles mentioned:The Annual Allowance - pension contributions 2020/21: https://bit.ly/3ysq8bgTapered annual allowance timebomb - https://bit.ly/3kdSm67Pension Planning (Tapered Annual Allowance): https://bit.ly/2TEWSQ3SUBSCRIBE:Stay up to date with our latest insights, subscribe to our mailing list here and choose the topics you're interested in: https://bit.ly/3ArrCoaGET IN TOUCH:Have any feedback? We're listening, email us at: podcast@smithandwilliamson.comFOLLOW US:Twitter - @SmithWilliamsonLinkedIn - @Smith&WilliamsonThis episode was recorded on 24/06/2021This S&W The Pulse podcast is of a general nature and is not a substitute for professional advice. No responsibility can be accepted for the consequences of any action taken or refrained from as a result of what is said. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the presenter or of Smith & Williamson or any of its affiliates. No reproduction of this podcast may be made in whole or in part for professional or recreational purposes. No action should be taken based on this podcast and we accept no liability if we change your views on any of the subjects mentioned.

Host: Jonathan D. Barlow, M.D. (@JonBarlowMD)   Guests: Matthew P. Abdel, M.D. Hip and knee arthroplasty specialist Matthew P. Abdel, M.D. joins host Jon Barlow (@JonBarlowMD) to discuss a workhorse technology in managing proximal femoral bone loss – modular fluted tapered stems. He reviews the @MayoClinic experience with these stems, as well as discussing his current indications and best practices for technical execution.

Episode 39 explores the question of whether to self-publish. I read from my upcoming book 'Acrobat' Here's the link to the indie book fair I'll be attending on August 7 at The Mills. www.hkoriginalonly.weebly.com

Have you ever wanted to know when to fish a tapered leader, and when to just fish a piece of straight tippet?Tapered leaders and level pieces of tippet both have their time and place, and knowing the when and why to fish them is incredibly important. This episode of the Fly Fish University Podcast is going to help you with just that... enjoy!

Anhelamos, como soñaba Galeano, un mundo donde que quepan muchos mundos. Y un poquito de ese mundo, en el que caben todas sus muchas músicas, son nuestras Mundofonías. Esta vez traemos sones con aires del este y el norte de Europa, con conexiones húngaras, turcas, finlandesas, belgas e irlandesas, y del norte y el Caribe americano, desde Quebec y Estados Unidos hasta México y la República Dominicana. We dream, as Galeano imagined, of a world where many worlds can fit. And a little bit of that world, in which all its many musics can fit, are our Mundofonías. On this occasion, we bring sounds with airs from Eastern and Northern Europe, with Hungarian, Turkish, Finnish, Belgian and Irish connections, and from the American North and Caribbean, from Quebec and the United States to Mexico and the Dominican Republic. · Kerekes Band - Tuz langja - Live: water · Jaakko Laitinen & Väärä Raha - Osman Aga - Suomi disco · Akkajee - Orpopojan valssi - Lastenkerääjä · Stringflip - Schottis 2.0 - Stringflip · Grosse Isle - Jack Caughlan's / Miss Langford's / Jack the lad - Le Bonhomme Sept Heures / The Bonesetter · Eli West - Ginny's little longhorn - Tapered point of stone · Andries Boone - 10 AM - T.I.M.E.L.A.P.S.E · Gustavo Cortiñas - XIV. Un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos - Desafío candente · Jonatan Piña Duluc - Secuencia III, confirmación - Sountrack, vol. I: Secuencia · (Jonatan Piña Duluc - Estalkeo y persecución en la Duarte - Sountrack, vol. I: Secuencia) Imagen : / Image: Stringflip, foto: / photo: Ebbe Bollen

It's the first episode with a full visual element on YouTube, and in Episode 50, Jim and Jake discuss how players can create opportunities for themselves to push their careers forward. TO WATCH THE FULL VERSION OF THE SHOW, LOG ON TO THE LAB-EPSTEIN HITTING PODCAST YOUTUBE PAGE. Episode Notes: 3:00 – How young players, parents, and fans can watch a game from a strategic standpoint 7:00 – Former players as coaches 11:00 – Early season adjustments 13:00 – Efficient offensive innings 20:00 – Tapered bats 35:00 – Pro players who have created opportunities in their careers 45:00 – College players creating opportunities for themselves 50:00 – A Jake story from his college playing days 100:00 – Listener questions Subscribe and like the show- Apple | Google | Spotify | TuneIn | Soundcloud | YouTube Subscribe to the show's YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com Twitter/Instagram: @Jimtara, @epsteinhitting Why the Epstein Hitting System?: The Epstein Hitting system was created by 10-year Major League player, Mike Epstein. In addition to leading the 1972 World Series champion A's in home runs, Mike played for arguably the greatest hitter of all-time, Ted Williams…Using what he learned from his career and from Ted Williams, Mike built a system to identify and fix swing faults. Mike received the only letter of recommendation for hitting instruction Ted Williams ever gave out…After working closely with Mike to learn the craft of teaching hitting, Epstein Hitting is now led by Jake Epstein…Jake has perfected the use of video analysis to create a plan to maximize a player's swing. In addition to slow-motion video analysis, Jake has built a library of drills that he uses to address the unique needs of individual players. For more information, log on to www.epsteinhitting.com. www.thelabbcs.com... Training with a purpose.

Catch me at the beach - skin fade high and tight, the tips of my tapered jorts crusted with sea salt pumping my arm in the air screaming "Free Skrillex". It truly is the White Boy Summer! You know this is a good ep because when I was editing it there is more audio of us saying 'No cut that out' than there is actual content! But to our defence we were both very sleepy....back with renewed vigour next week! beingmeanpodcast@gmail.com

Building your own tapered leaders is fun, rewarding and easier than you might think!If you've ever wanted to learn to build your own tapered leaders, then this episode is for you! First off, we need to look at 5 common mistakes that are too easy to make when it comes to your leader or tippet. The leader is too light, or too heavy (incorrect diameter)The leader is too short, or too long (incorrect length)The leader is improperly taperedLeader is not the most efficient material (fluorocarbon vs. monofilament)Leader has faulty connections, or is tied with the wrong knotsNow let's look at the actual taper of the leader, where we will use the 50/30/20 or 60/20/20 formula. This is the butt, middle and tip sections of the leader. Lastly, there are times which we will use 'level' leaders. Level leaders sink faster, and are used in situations in which turning over the leader isn't necessarily the most important factor. JOIN Fly Fish University before the doors close: https://www.flyfishuniversity.com/lifetime 

Oral naltrexone does not cause withdrawal symptoms and hence does not require the use of the tapering down method.https://recoverypartnernetwork.com/treatment/mat-medications/naltrexone-for-alcoholism-treatment

Brando checks in to wish everyone a Happy New Year, and to give his thoughts on a few gaming developments. Check out our linktree to subscribe and follow us! Buy Storm Eagle from Colbydude on iTunes! Check out Colby on Youtube

Dan didn't make it into the studio and also didn't do his parachute jump (but that's just the start of his mess-ups!)Also, what makes you mad as a hatter, could a parrot rat you out, and who's Kermit the Frog's gang?Think you could be our most famous listener or want to get your hands on a BIBSS badge? Email us now info@baffledpod.comFollow us on our Instagrams:@markusredhead@itsdansimpson@conorxknight---A Create Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Sooo I cut my hair again! **See the full Episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/lNz3sBUQvrw   I will be showing you how we DIY a subtle tapered cut on my natural hair. This more of a vlog because this was a trial and error process. If you are looking to cut your hair yourself or with someone you know the process might look like this, but its totally doable!   -----------------------------------------------------------------   Watch the Youtube version of this episode: https://youtu.be/lNz3sBUQvrw To automatically get new episodes, be sure to Subscribe to the podcast on YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/4hPqM4qBP9s Or Subscribe to the Podcast on: Apple Podcast: http://bit.ly/pnc-applepodcast Google Podcsat: http://bit.ly/pnc-goolgeplaymusic Spotify: http://bit.ly/pnc-spotify If you are looking for more Curly Content be sure to follow us on: Instagram: @proudncurly https://www.instagram.com/proudncurly/ or Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/proudncurly/   The music in this podcast is produced by Terrence "Esquire" Huggins. Website: http://www.esquireproductions.com Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/esquireprod... Follow him on social media @esquiremusic111    New Episodes on Sunday & Thursday, stay #proudncurly!   ----CONNECT WITH THE HOST---- Instagram: @sieeejohnson https://www.instagram.com/sieeejohnson/ Facebook Page: @sieeejohnson https://www.facebook.com/sieeejohnson 

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.07.31.226795v1?rss=1 Authors: Spagnolo, B., Peixoto, R., Sileo, L., Pisanello, M., Pisano, F., Assad, J. A., Sabatini, B. L., DeVittorio, m., Pisanello, F. Abstract: Recognizing the neural patterns underlying different brain functions is essential to achieve a more comprehensive view on how small sets of neurons organize in complex 3D networks to determine different behaviours. In this framework optogenetic techniques have been successfully proven as a powerful tool to control brain functions achieving millisecond temporal resolution and cell-type specificity, by combining the use of light-gated opsins and ad-hoc light delivery optoelectronic devices. However, targeting small brain volumes with simultaneous electrical recording results in the introduction of photoelectric artefacts, in particular when light emission and recoding sites are very close one to each other. In this work we take advantage of the photonic properties of tapered fibers to present a fully integrated fibertrode to target small brain volumes with abated photoelectric noise. The device hosts a light emitting window just below a recording pad, and exploits the angled light emission from the window to achieve simultaneous activation and electrical readout of small groups of cells with no photoelectric artifacts in vivo. Despite the highly non-planar surface of the fiber taper, window size, shape and the impedance of the electrode can be modulated by controlling the fabrication parameters during focused ion beam milling and deposition, thus resulting in a versatile, integrated and customizable optogenetic tool for neurobiology studies in closed-loop configuration over small brain volumes. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info

Hello Kings & Queens, Ladies & Gentleniggas. In this episode, Nico discusses his renewed appreciation for Black Jesus himself, Michael Jeffery Jordan. Episodes 9 & 10 of ESPN's (or Netflix depending upon which streaming service you're a slave to) 10 part documentary "The Last Dance" aired on Sunday and Nico gives his expert opinion on the final episodes. He discusses the wild 5-week ride we all went on revisiting the final season of the GOAT's 6th and final championship. So strap in a enjoy Nico's foray into the rabbit hole of pandemic content. All hail The GOAT *baah*

Your medical director states that over the next six months, all patients on opioids must be decreased below 90 morphine milligram equivalents as per the mandate of the CDC guideline. What does the CDC guideline say about a dosing threshold of 90 morphine milligram equivalents?

Guest: Tshepo Meyer - Owner of Tapered Tapas on 1st

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Mike and Dan talk with Chris Schnur of Beyond The Ears about arrow tuning and custom tuned arrows. Mike had Chris set up a new dozen for his new PSE Shootdown Forgiveness in an arrow Arrow stiffness affects Front weight and how it affects the arrow Speed vs Kinetic Energy The bow vs the arrow, which part should you put the most thought into? Putting more thought process into the arrow choice Aluminum shafts Easton Gamegetter XX75 Carbon shafts Stainless steel cores Parallel shafts Tapered shafts What is spine? How an arrow is manufactured affects spine deviance How broadhead air foil affects fletchings Trend now is going back to 3 or 4 inch vanes Blazer vanes developed for whisker biscuits Helical vs offset vanes Arrow components are often overlooked New technology Grouping 20 yards in a 8 inch pie plate Why custom vs boxed arrows Crossbow bolts Western Hunting Clinics How they got started at the shop What type of gear are they offering Workshops that teach them the gear they should consider Helps to prepare them for the extreme conditions they will endure Western hunts vs Mid-west hunts The elk calling academy Mike drew a Michigan Elk Tag! The Hunt, Hike, Train Podcast

Mike and Dan talk with Chris Schnur of Beyond The Ears about arrow tuning and custom tuned arrows. Mike had Chris set up a new dozen for his new PSE Shootdown Forgiveness in an arrow Arrow stiffness affects Front weight and how it affects the arrow Speed vs Kinetic Energy The bow vs the arrow, which part should you put the most thought into? Putting more thought process into the arrow choice Aluminum shafts Easton Gamegetter XX75 Carbon shafts Stainless steel cores Parallel shafts Tapered shafts What is spine? How an arrow is manufactured affects spine deviance How broadhead air foil affects fletchings Trend now is going back to 3 or 4 inch vanes Blazer vanes developed for whisker biscuits Helical vs offset vanes Arrow components are often overlooked New technology Grouping 20 yards in a 8 inch pie plate Why custom vs boxed arrows Crossbow bolts Western Hunting Clinics How they got started at the shop What type of gear are they offering Workshops that teach them the gear they should consider Helps to prepare them for the extreme conditions they will endure Western hunts vs Mid-west hunts The elk calling academy Mike drew a Michigan Elk Tag! The Hunt, Hike, Train Podcast  

That, and other chilling reveals, on the new Motor Mouths.

Doug and Dan take the wheel with Eric off and talk about how tough beating the top drivers and desperate moves in the inspection line. They also break down the Stenhouse Jr.-Busch spat and discuss NASCAR on dirt. Guests Tyler Head and Peyton Lewis also bring the millennial perspective to the show.

Dr. Jack Hahn earned his DDS from The Ohio State University College of Dentistry, and completed postgraduate coursework at Boston University, New York University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Kentucky. A pioneer in the field of implant dentistry, Dr. Hahn has been placing and restoring implants for 45 years. Dr. Hahn developed the NobelReplace® dental implant system for Nobel Biocare (Yorba Linda, Calif.), and oversaw the design of the Hahn™ Tapered Implant. Recipient of the Aaron Gershkoff Lifetime Achievement Award in implant dentistry and the Venue and LEAD magazine Healthcare Leadership Award, Dr. Hahn was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Implant Dentistry in June 2015. He lectures to dentists around the world and maintains a private practice in Cincinnati, Ohio.    Placed First Dental Implant-1970  Founded Midwest Implant Institute with Duke Heller-1980  Developed the Steri-Oss Dental Implant System (purchased by Nobel Biocare)-1986  Developed Replace Select (first tapered implant)-1996  Introduces Hahn Tapered Implant- 2015    1970- Placed First Dental Implant  1976- American Academy of Implant Dentistry- Credentialed (written and oral examination)  1980- Founded Midwest Implant Institute  1984- American Board of Oral Implantology and Dental Implantology (ABOI)- Diplomat  1986- Developed the Steri-Oss Dental Implant System for Denar (purchased by Nobel Biocare)  1987- American Academy of Implant Dentistry (AAID)- Fellow and Diplomat  1987- Began a 15-year Titanium Study  1989- Began a 12-year Hydroxyappetite Study  1996- Invented and Developed the REPLACE SELECT Dental Implant  1998- A.D.A. approved immediate extraction replacement and immediate loading based on Hahn’s Clinicals  2003- Nobel Direct one-piece Implant Clinical Study  2003- Appointed Board Examiner for the American Board of Oral Implantology and Implant Dentistry 2003- Academy of Ossiointegration (AO)- Fellowship  2004- Academy of General Dentistry (AGD)- Fellow  2004- Recipient of the Aaron Gershkoff Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Implant Dentistry (AAID), in New York City  2005- Appointed by the American Academy of General Dentistry (AGD) with the Perio Institute for Implant Dentistry  2006- Performed live surgical demonstration in India, as part of the Nobel Biocare World Tour  2007- Taught a three day Dental Implant course, with hands on training and live surgery in Moscow, Russia  2008- Participated as a Panelist and Presenter for Nobel Biocare Worldtour in San Palo, Brazil  2009- Taught a two day Dental Implant course, with live surgical demonstration, in Singapore  2010- Taught a two day, live surgical Dental Implant course in, Shanghai, China  2011- Lectured, with hands-on participation, in a Dental Implant Bone Grafting course in, St. Petersburg, Russia  2011- Began Clinical Studies of my updated “Replace” Dental Implant  2013- Relocated my Dental Implant Practice to Blue Ash, OH.  2014- Dr. Hahn was named Chief Editor of "Inclusive Dental Magazine"  2015- Developed the "HAHN IMPANT" and the "HAHN Surgical and Prosthetic Kits" 

Dr. Justin Willer interviews Dr. Lisa Hobson Webb about her Muscle and Nerve article on safely tapering mycophenolate mofetil in myasthenia gravis patients. MMF is frequently used to treat patients with MG but there is little information to guide clinicians on the safety of reducing the dose in well-controlled patients. Discussion includes standard dosages, determining clinical response to MMF and suggested goals in tapering MMF. Muscle Nerve. 2015 Aug;52:211-5. doi: 10.1002 mus.24694. Epub 2015 Jun 18.

Dr. Justin Willer interviews Dr. Lisa Hobson Webb about her Muscle and Nerve article on safely tapering mycophenolate mofetil in myasthenia gravis patients. MMF is frequently used to treat patients with MG but there is little information to guide clinicians on the safety of reducing the dose in well-controlled patients. Discussion includes standard dosages, determining clinical response to MMF and suggested goals in tapering MMF. Muscle Nerve. 2015 Aug;52:211-5. doi: 10.1002 mus.24694. Epub 2015 Jun 18.

Dr. Justin Willer interviews Dr. Lisa Hobson Webb about her Muscle and Nerve article on safely tapering mycophenolate mofetil in myasthenia gravis patients. MMF is frequently used to treat patients with MG but there is little information to guide clinicians on the safety of reducing the dose in well-controlled patients. Discussion includes standard dosages, determining clinical response to MMF and suggested goals in tapering MMF. Muscle Nerve. 2015 Aug;52:211-5. doi: 10.1002 mus.24694. Epub 2015 Jun 18.

You Tube Finance & Liberty host, Elijah Johnson, interviews Ann Barnhardt, and your host talks to Andy Hoffman and Greg Johnson. Johnson, host of “Finance & Liberty,” interviews commodity entrepreneur Ann Barnhardt. Barnhard will talk about blatant fraud in US financial markets, the recent IRS scandal, the financial enslavement of the American people, and how Obama is conspiring to collapse our economy! Andy Hoffman was not fooled by Fed tapering propaganda aimed at deceiving the general populace for the benefit of its banker shareholders. By cutting through central planners statistical lies, he knew tapering talk was only talk. In light of all the deceit outlined by Ann and Andy, we will ask Andy how citizens can best protect themselves. Greg Johnson CEO of the best evolving platinum mining project in the world, will update us one Prophecy Platinum's Wellgreen platinum group metals project that your host believes is by far the best evolving Platinum project in the world.

You Tube Finance & Liberty host, Elijah Johnson, interviews Ann Barnhardt, and your host talks to Andy Hoffman and Greg Johnson. Johnson, host of “Finance & Liberty,” interviews commodity entrepreneur Ann Barnhardt. Barnhard will talk about blatant fraud in US financial markets, the recent IRS scandal, the financial enslavement of the American people, and how Obama is conspiring to collapse our economy! Andy Hoffman was not fooled by Fed tapering propaganda aimed at deceiving the general populace for the benefit of its banker shareholders. By cutting through central planners statistical lies, he knew tapering talk was only talk. In light of all the deceit outlined by Ann and Andy, we will ask Andy how citizens can best protect themselves. Greg Johnson CEO of the best evolving platinum mining project in the world, will update us one Prophecy Platinum's Wellgreen platinum group metals project that your host believes is by far the best evolving Platinum project in the world.

And our food-focused shows continue with the ubiquitous Asian food utensil, chopsticks.

Creating tapered stopped flutes using a plunge router, edge guide and a wedge.