BlazarNGC

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Get yourself a Brookseather saddle or something real nice. Two quality chamois shorts. Chamois or anti chafe cream. Get your bike fitted to you. And yes, build the “memory” of long days in the saddle.

Wear one chamois with the cream on your nice well fitting saddle (doesn’t have to be leather but they are nice for long days because they are smooth and low friction and they have suspension to them, plus you’re not dropping your soft bits into foam which can be hot and increase friction). Take a few breaks throw out the day and stretch a bit. Alternate days with different chamois shorts (nice $100 ones and don’t wear anything else) so they stay drier and don’t funk up. Make sure your bike fit is optimal, yes you can do this yourself but a quality fitter will set you up probably (hopefully) better than you can yourself.

Yes.👍

You found out about Nostr yet?

Most coffee brew has some type of pre infusion with the hot water, espresso, pour over, dripper…if you don’t bloom you miss out on all the volatile oils that pop off the surface of the fresh grounds.

Trust. And pre infuse 🙏

You’re doing pretty much everything right. The key is to zero in on the grind and getting consistent with that, keep the water temperature the same and brew with it right off the flame and personally I would “bloom” the grounds by getting them just wet enough to, well, they bloom you’ll see, then fill halfway, stir a bit with a spoon and then fill to the top and complete the brew.

Only really matters when racing competition.