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The weather doesn't look perfect, but it looks like it might work. So it's happening. Fast Friends is going to give all participants a dollar off their first post ride beer. Hey, it's something.

Wear long socks.

A little fun in Northwest Arkansas. Today should be the last warm day here for the remainder of my trip. It has been warm and muggy but also crazy beautiful! Dogwoods and columbines are blooming.

Forecast for Saturday looks wet.

I just saw this on MTBR: This is an interesting take. I had not considered the "finesse" that you can get from a bike that is just not present with an e-bike. So much of my riding over the years has become much more about feeling the bike through tight obstacles, rock gardens, etc. My Orbea Occam is exceptionally adept at helping me finesse my way through features, to the point where I often tell people to give me a little space because I have the ability to slow a climb to insanely low speed to slips through the appropriate line instead of just getting a head of steam and trying to power up something. The singlespeed really taught me this skill but the Occam lets me literally track stand in the middle of a climb or a rock garden and sneak through with the least effort.

We used Klock Electric in Austin when we had a lightning strike to fix some issues in the house, they were fast, did good work, and as I recall, pretty reasonably priced. Also, Mark Bedell who posted on the old Mojo site as "silverback" is an electrician: https://www.facebook.com/mark.bedell1/ I think he works for a solar company these days so I don't know if he is in the service market but if you are friends with him you may want to reach out to him.

I've got a GCFI curcuit in my guest bathroom that keeps getting thrown. I've replaced the receptical and a few other outlets that seem old or maybe problematic. I've unplugged everything I know of from that curcuit and still can't get it all to come back to life. I've reached the end of my troublshooting ability. Anyone have suggestions on an electrician recommendation? I contacted a few already, but they want $300 just to show up. I have a hard time swallowing that number, I just don't think I have a $300 problem. I'm open to suggestions. Thanks CJB 512-694-1319

Damianita and Annual Pennyroyal for those keeping score at home.

Almost looks like Warda

I checked it out yesterday. Pretty great for what it is ~ 9 mile xc race loop with basically zero rocks. You can get super fast on some of the straightaways. lots of nice turns. And plenty of challenging berms. On the back side there is a section built by KOM with some pretty cool features, but i found it hard to carry speed through. i would need to session it before i really trusted those berms. This seems to be Todd Eric's baby for now. He said its his buddy's property. It is not generally open. He's been opening it up Saturday morning's when Todd can make it out there to supervise. They need to get more tires on the dirt to help bed in the trails. There is a group on the facebook that seems to have the most up-to-date info.

when I worked at REI, every Diamondback bike we assembled came with a "fork direction" sticker, but it was not affixed to anything. I started collecting them and now I have a decent stack. I like to keep one in my pocket and stick it to forks at Target, Walmart, Academy, etc. There was a fat bike at Target with a backwards fork to which I adhered one of these stickers, and I came back to check on it every few months. it was still there, with the backwards fork, for several months.

🤡 Their first ride will be intense.

The real mystery is why I always choose to explore some half promising looking possible trail when I am on a tight schedule. Like bum trails that just lead to a campsite. This was a rocky jeep road I scoped out a few years ago that led to a very tiny bit of trail. The jeep road is getting a lot more traffic, apparently from power line crews and people looking for places to dump stuff. One of those where by the time you drop way down some rocky chunk and find something that looks like a trail and bushwhack a bit you are pretty much mentally committed to not backtracking. I did come out where I thought I would but 100% not worth it. Mystery solved. 👎

I got a bad case of poison ivy at the first trail I was paid to build, and the rash required a steroid shot. When I was building trail in Wisconsin around 12 +/- years ago, I was made aware of wild parsnip and what it does to skin after getting on skin and then being exposed to UV rays. Don't google for images; it can be pretty gross, as it casues a chemical burn. Anyway, my arm brushed up against some, and to this day I get a spot on my arm that itches then bleeds pretty much from spring to fall. The weird thing is that the spot has moved upmy arm from my wrist toward my elbow by about four inches.

They pulled the mask off and it was poison ivy. And he would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling kids.

Gotta take care of our peeps.

Kudos to @St.Bernardo!!!

was the mystery trail solved?

Success.

For sale- Sender core skills trainer. Designed to train for manuals and front wheel lifts. Here is a link to the newer version; https://sender-rampsusa.com/products/2021-pro-core-skills-trainer The one for sale is the older version with spacers. In very good shape with little use. $125 Text only please Dustin 720-two one zero- 8511 Thanks!

Yep. That's the one.

Here is the post, I'm still waiting for him to reply.